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ANNUAL MEETING OF THREE COMPANIES Surrlrors of the "Brlurs" and Two Other Commands Hold Keiinlou at Uurbln April 16. The survivors of three Confederate commands will hold their annual re union Jointly at Durbln Creek church on Saturday. April 16. Th? call for the meeting 1b Issued by Judge 0. (1. Thompson and Is as follows: The annual reunion of companies, "K", 14th Regiment. Copt. Joseph N. Brown; "E" 3rd Battalion, Capt NV. W. Hunter; "Q" (Briars) 3rd Regiment Capt It. P. Todd. will be held at Dur bln church on Saturday. April ICth. Prominent survivors uro expected to speak on this occasion. Turn out, hoys and let us take one duy around the camp lire. The winter campaign has been se vere, and rations mighty scarce, so everybody better bring something to est. We have not onco failed to have a big crowd and a good time; we will not rail at ?urbin. The following compose the commit tee on arrangements: T. J. Hughes, W. B. Parson, .Ino. H. Jones, T. Y. Henderson, W. W. Crumbles. Ji. V. Oarrett, S. T. Stewart. ?****?#***?*->#************* J THR SHERIFF. J J By W. D. S. StraiiKe things huppen in this world. The first boarding school that I was sent to was Minerul Spring academy, taught by one of the best linguists then In South Carolina. Below the little village there was a log cabin on the creek. The N? family got posses sion of It. The father was a large red faced man who pulled down the scales at 2f>0 lbs. and had eyes red as fire couls. He was a goldsmith by trade. Their conduct soon became distasteful to the community and they were ordered to leave tho state. Six years after this, I was traveling on the stage In a neighboring state Passing a bar room by tho side of tht road, I saw a large man standing ii the door. On turning his face to tht highway I saw his red eyes, and im mediately recognized him. Passing on seven miles to tho county seat 1 read this sign over a groocry store: "li tt Sons, grocery." Making some in qulrry about the family, I found the old man was high sheriff of that coun ty. One of his sons rose to be a travel, ing preacher In the Methodist confer ence. Sometimes it does folks good to move. If these people hnd remained here, they would have ever remained under a cloud. New associations and sur roundings often put new life Into a man. It makes a big difference when a man gots to a place where he has to depend upon self and has to build him self up a name. An Awful Eruption. of a vocano excites brief Interest, and your interest in skin eruptions will he as short, If you use Rucklen's Arnica Salve, their quickest cure. Even the worst bolls, ulcers, or fever sores are soon healed by It. Best for Hums, Cuts Bruises. Sore Dips. Chapped Hands, Chilblains and Piles. It gives instant relief. 2Gc at Laurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. Causes 95 Per Cent of Diseases Advice Concerning Stomach Troubles and How it> Remedy Them Do not neglect indigestion which leads to all sorts of ills and com plications. An eminent doctor once said that ninety-five per cent of all the ills of tho human body have their origin in a disordered stomach. A physician who made a specialty of stomach troubles, particularly dyspepsia, after years of study per fected the formula from which Kexall Dyspepsia Tablets are made. Our experience with Kexall Dyspepsia Tablets leads us to be lieve them to be the greatest remedy known for the relief of acute in digestion and chronic dyspepsia. Their ingredients are soothing and healing to the inflamed membranes of the stomach. They arc rich in pepsin, one of the greatest digestivo aids known to medicine. The re lief thoy afford is almost immediate. Their use with persistency and regularity for a short time brings about a cessation of the pains caused by stomach disorders. ?Axnll Dyspepsia Tablets will insure healthy appetite, aid diges tion and promote nutrition. As evidence of our sincere faith in lien a!! Qyspopxla. Tablets, v.*c ask you to try them at our risk. If they do not give you entire satis faction, we will return you tho money you paid us for them, with out question or formality. They come in three sizes, prices 25 cents, 60 cents and $1.00. Remember you can obtain them only at?The Kexall Store. Laura?? Drug Co., Laurent, 8. C. THE BETURN OF HALLEY'S COMET. This Wanderer Has Visited us Periodi cally for Twenty Centuries. In years agone when a hairy star With a lery head and long, bright tall suddenly appeared In the evening sky. Its visits was looked upon with dread, for famine and pestilence were its companion?at least so the people be lieved. They watched It with anxiety and balled its departure with relief. > On account of the dread which such visitors inspired, it is not strange that comets, or hairy stars, as they are called, should be looked Upon with such fear, nor is It surprising that they received the closest attention. It is to the superstition of the past that we of the present are Indebted for much of our knowledge of these celes tial wanderers, some of which come to us only once in two or three gen erations. There is no nation espec ially, whose superstition and intelli gence were In such sharp contrast that while they ascribed to the comet's Influence all the evils of the genera tion in Nv'uicii iis OCOUl lew, thOJ at the same time recorded its appear ance and position so methodically that we are now able to trace our present visitor back for 2.mm years. The Chi nese historians were most careful in their work, and so notably exact that It does not surprise us that a Chinese emperor once struck off the beads of two of his astronomers for failing to predict an eclipse of the sun. especially 1 as the eclipse found the emperor with no preparations made to receive the i visit of the Dark Cod with sufficient pomp and solemnity. For Its last two returns our present visitor had had a . name of Its own, for it is called i Halley's comet. Edmund Hal ley was a young man of . 2(5 In London when his eyes first saw . this comet. His father was a soap i maker, who appreciated so greatly the ? value of education that he gave his son . all the advantages which the time af > forded. Young Hal ley became astron omer royal of England, a position r which gave full scope to his remark . ? able mathematical powers. He also i became the warm friend of the still l abler mathematician. Sir Isaac New > ton, and to Halley's energetic admlra . tlon of Newton's genius, the world ! owes the publication of Newton's great I laws of gravitation, for Halley not only . urged Newton to prepare the manu , script, but he also bore all the ox. , pense of the publication. And when Newton promulgated the theory that some comets possibly move , in a closed curve and so really belong, after all, to the family of our sun, it was Halley who at once undertook the laborious computation to prove wheth er this might be true. Halley found that the comets of 1531, 1G07 and 1632 were very much alike. Each had a fiery head and long tall, each traveled in a path which had the same inclina tion to our own earth's path, each reaching the same point In Its journey nround the sun, and the comet of 1C07 came about 7"> years after the comet of 1631, and the comet of 1682 was about 7f> years later than that of H507. Thus Halley made one of the most brilliant discoveries In the history of astronoin I leal science, although he himself could ! not verify bis results, for long before the return of the comet, which bears j his name, Halley himself had been j called away from the scenes of his earthly activities. Hut so thoroughly had he done his work that when the year 17f>s approached, astronomers prepared to welcome the return of Halley's comet. .Meanwhile Clairault. another astronomer, had worked out I the disturbing influence which the j plnnets would exert on the comet as It passed them an announced that the comet would be a little late. This proved to be the case, but Halley's Comet was seen In January, 1759, has tening onward in Its journey around ? the sun. Since then the comet appeared in 1835 and Is now once again hastening ': Its approach to our luminary. It Is ; still far away, but is faintly visible ' with a good opera glass In the west after sunset and Is rapidly growing brighter. It will probably be visible i to the naked eye by the middle of April, but It will then be in the morn ing sky and one must look for it In the 1 east about two hours before sunrise. On May 14 the comet will pass di rectly botween the earth and the sun j ami will be only 13,000.000 miles from' I the earth. This will bo its closet date the comet will move rapidly away from the earth and sun and will soon be lost to view. On account of Its rapid motion it will be seen In the west in the evening, from May 20 until tho early part of June, when it will fade rapidly as it hastens onward along Its outward path. For some days before and after May If the prognasllcatlons of astrono mers are correct, the comet will be a ! mngnlficlent object. Its head Is already over 190,000 miles In dlnmcter and Its tail Is more than G.000,000 miles in length and constantly growing. With out doubt the brilliant tall will extend fully one-third tho distance from the horizon to tho zenith during Its close approach to tho earth, and the earth may be enveloped in the tail as it I sweeps past us, on the 18th of May. ? Hut as a comet's tall Is exceedingly i flimsy, being nothing more than tiny ', particles of gas or Heeks or dust, Its ' visit to us win cause us no Incon venience. The pressure of the sun's light on the comet causes the tall to form when the comet Is near the sun. As light moves straight onward in tiny waves, each wave exerts some pressure on the particles of the comet. The amount the pressure Slid if the particle is very proportion to its surface and as the weight of the particle decreases as the cube of Its diameter, and the pressure decreases as the square of the dlnm : eter. the weight decreases faster than ; the pressue and if the particle Is very small and also very near the sun, the pressure which pushes the particle buck will overbalance the attraction of gravity which pulls It toward the sun and the result will be that the particles will he pushed hack from the head of the comet and ti tail will be formed. This is a theory of scientists as to the manner in which the tail is really formed, nut so certain are they of its truth that the necessary conditions have been reproduced in the laboratory and a comet's tail has actually been formed artificially. As the particles are pushed back from the head to Excursion Hates Yin Snuhtern Railway to Atlanta, On. Account of Atlanta Music Festival, Atlanta, ('.a. May 1st to 9th, the South ern Railway announce reduced rates to Atlanta and return. Tickets on sale May 1st to 7th inclusive with final limit returning not later than mid night May 9th, 1910. Children half fare. For further information, call on Southern Railway Ticket Agents, or. .1. I.. Meek, A. (5. P. A.. Atlanta. Ca. Alex. II. Acker. T. I\ A.. Augusta, Ga. Big Land Sale! Two elegant residences on Sullivan street on easy terms. Two eight room dwellings and one four room dwelling on North Harper street, on easy terms. One hundred acres Itllable land within corporate limits of city, very reasonable and easy terms. Three lots on South Harper street well located and cheap. Two elegant farms near McDanlel'S mill, well Improved, 72 acres and 02 acres, line neighborhood, schools and churches. One dwelling and one lot on Qarl ington street, well located and cheap. ? let them while they are hot. One line lot on Chestnut street. 8-10 of acre, convenient to business part I of city. A number of farms and other prop erty for sale, see us before? you pur ; chase or sell your property. ANDERSON & BLAKELY. Todd Building I>aurens, S. C. Eye Opened You Know Good Things, Snap These Up. 3 cans good Salmons for.25c 3 3 lb. cans Monogram Tomatoes 25c 3 cans best Corn for.25c 3 !{ lb. cans Van Camps Big Har mony for.25c 3 cans Van Camps Pork & Beans 25c First Family of Virginia Hams, per pound.20c Parched Coffee, 7 lbs. for.$1.00 Pure Georgia Caine Syrup, per gallon .fiOc A Gentleman Smoke, 10 for. ...25c Water-ground Com Meal, fresh in stock. Store full of best second and first patent Flour. Plant Irish Potatoes now, we have them. Sow Beardless Barley and Cane Seed. Corn, Oats nnd Hay for Stock. Rice Flour for your Hog. Hen Feed for the Chickens. Cotton Seed Meal for the Cow. Bradley's and Armour's Fertilizers to feed the crops. Good Weights and Honest Measures Yours for business J. H. SULLIVAN Laurens, S. C. ? spring time baby's outing time And we've just the little cab that you'll want for Baby's Outing. A spick and span brand new line and, of course, the newest things the season offers. The quality the very best, and the prices truly more than reasonable. Let us then supply your Go-Cart for Baby's Cuting. We are showing a full line of h Pullman Sleepers, Pullman Runabouts, Reclining; and Collapsible Qo-Carts Pullman Sleeper like cut $11.50 Wood body, varnished, dark green or carmine, up holstered in fine leather cloth, steel gear, 14-inch rubber tire wheels, anti-friction wheel fastener, foot brake, enameled push bar?and remember our price IS ONLY $11.50 LAURENS, S. C. form the tail, tho head gradually de creases In size ;.nd at each return to the sun the comet is smaller than on Its previous journey. Thus In the course of many journeys llalley's com i et Is smaller than on Its previous journey. Thus in the course of many journeys llalley's comet will cease to he the brilliant object which wo are now expecting, and may indeed be fln* , ally reduced to meterolc dust. On April Itl It will rise at 4 a. m. On April 24 it risen nt 3:80 ? m After May 20 it will be seen in the ; west after sunset. On May 20 it sets nt 7:45 p. m. On May 25 it sets at 10: HO p. in. On May HO It sets at 10 p. m. After the 1st of June the comet will be faint and will soon disappear from Bight.?The State, March 22. Delayed Attention Costs Money. Your house wears out If not painted. It costs more to repair It than It costs to paint it. It don't cost much to paint with the L. & M. I'nlnt, because 1 gallons of L. & M. Paint and H gallons . of Linseed Oil makes seven gallons of l ready-for-use paint at a coat of about $1.H0 per gallon. You can mix your i self. Tblrty-flve years use in every part of the United States proves it. Atlantic City & Plttshurg Fence Tests, ! made by the Master Painters Assocla '. tion, proves It. , Sold by J. H. & M. L. Nash, Laurens, I J. W. Copeland & Co., Clinton. Excursion Kates via Southern Hallway. Account South Atlantic States Mus ic Festival, Spartanburg, S. C, April 13, 14, If), 1910, tho Southern Hallway , announces reduced rates to Spartan 1 burg and return. Tickets on sale April 12, 13, M and for trains BOhed , uled to arrive at Spartanburg before noon April 16, 1910, with final limit , returning not later than midnight I April i? I?10. Children half fare. For further Information, call on Southern Hallway Ticket Agents or, J. L. Meek, A. O. P. A., Atlanta, Ca. Alex. H. Acker, T. P. A.. Augusta, Oa. We are showing a line line of Ham mered Brass Jardlnlers, and our prices are 2f> to 40 per cent, less than you will buy them elsewhere. M. & iv H. Wlikes & Co. ?Remember? 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