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Subscription Price Is $1.00 per Year Payable In Adrancc. Published by ABVERTISEH PRINTING COMPANY Laurens, S. C. Advertising Bates on Application. Obituaries and Card of thanks: One cent a word. Entered at tb* postofflce at Laurens, 8. C. as second class mall matter. LACHENS, S. C AUGUST 84, 1910. AN IMITATION TO STRIP. Now comes the Charleston News and Courier (we reprint Its article) mak ing much of the advocacy of Feather stone by an antl-prohlbitlonlst who believes him the strongest, ablest, best man by odds for governor, and says we have "stripped him of bis plat form". Who made us keeper of Fea therstone's platform. Sirrah, and when did you s?e us with it? But speaking of "stripping" (don't get excited?we Shall not be Immodest), lot's both of us strip and tell the stark, naked truth. Your man McLeod is no "local op tionist"?lie is a Carey-Cothran law man; he excludes license, and license is constitutional, so he is a prohibi tionist as to license. Isn't that true? Since it is a choice between prohibi tionists, why shouldn't we support the best? That's Foatberstono. Now the blind tlgei'8 ?f Charleston and their friends will resist the en forcement of any liquor law that does not permit them, as individuals. In dependent of the county and State. u> sell liquor by the drink. You must know that, and that McLeod doesn't favor. That's not his pledge. He'll keep his pledge lie is not trying to fool the people of South Carolina, We say and say it openly that Char leston should have a license system. These are not Featherstone's views but they are ours (he Is not 'he k leper of our platform) and we are ready to advocate that Charleston have; the only kind of liquor legislation that will give Charleston peace. Hut .McLeod isn't - he is for "local option"- save the mark?between county dispensaries and prohibition. You can't hope to get under a Mc Leod administration anything else without accusing him of clandestine dealing with Charleston, without im pugning his good faith, without charg ing him with duplicity?with an un derground contract. Of that hetwlll not be guilty. Your attitude justitles suspicion that you are banking on MeLeod's weakness?it is possible that wo hold him in higher estimation than do you. Charleston has no firmer friend. In or out, than this newspaper. We be lieve Charleston should have a license system call It bar-room system if you like, we are not afraid of the term? and Charleston will get It quickest by going before the people and asking for it. Why Juggle. Do you favor high licensed liquor stores and the abolition of the coun ty dispensary law for Charleston? We do. Nothing else, under the constitu tion, may be possible new, but do you favor amending the constitution so that Charleston shall have the liquor traffic law that suits a town of ?10,000 people? We do. We favor It now and are ready to help Charleston get It. McLeod won't say that he will any more than will Foatberstono. Will you ? It's now twelve and time to unmask. Strip! What do you expect to get out of McLeod? Will you answer this by a lot of trumpery that Featherstone is an ( a' my ol Charleston because he Is no friend of blind tige-:* anywhere? Don't run away, don't dodge, you've forced the Issue?now strip down to the bones, aye, to the marrow, of the truth and all the truth?lay your cards on the tnble. as ours are laid, If yours will bear the light. Are you ready to second The Adver tiser In asking for a liquor system that will allow whiskey to be sold in Charleston, by the drink, or a licensed store system tii'st and do yon expect aid from McLeod, the Carey-Cothran law candidate, in that undertaking and if so. why? Would his election further It? Will you strip? H. 1'. S. Of course you will not try by innuendo or otherwise to make capi tal against Featherstone by saying that his friend favors a bar-room sys-1 tern for Charleston. I^et us leave that to scrub newspapers?Journals of the baser sort, you and we may have a gentlemen's understanding. But strip?nobody's looking! And nobody will bo shocked anyway if you Speak plainly, Without reservation? and without waiting until the day be. foro the primary. 0.00 j CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM. In the opinion of The Advertiser, Mr. Featherstone is easily the most capable man in the contest for gover nor. Mr. Featherstono's administration would bo progressive. The Stute would huvo in the executive chair a l governor who would bo conspicuous | for ability among the governors of American statos. I Mr. McLeod is an excel'vnt gentle J man. a popular man a "Jolly, good ! fellow " If bis career has boon mark ed by any achievement that has glv en him a reputation for unusual abll j !ty In the State. It has not been widely advertised by his supporters?unless , to be elected lieutenant governor, without opposition, on a .State dlspeh {sary platform, was an achievement. Mr. Featherstone has been a rec ognized leader In South Carolina for ' twolvo years. Time and again he has I been called upon to act as special I judge. Ho is recognized throughout ' South Carolina as a loader of the I bar. He Is po recognized by the juMg I es. He has had experience In busi ness. He enjoys the confidence of his j people. Thoro was never a doubt as I to his position on any public question. Ho has not feared to be with a minor ity when ho bolloved the minority was right. He has never supported the, State dispensary. ? * ? LAUBENS AMI THE BACK. Two dally newspapers In South Carolina have a large circulation and influence in South Carolina, Both are fighting Featherstone. Among the dailies Mr. Featherstone lias one out spoken friend, the Anderson Dally Mail, published In the home of his boy hood. Among the weeklies, he has more supporters than any other can didate. The two big dailies are published in cities. They have always been op posed to prohibition. They have the right to oppose Featherstone and thej are fighting him hard. Wf appeal to all classes of voters to support Feathernton ? because he is the strongest and bes' man. McLeod is not a local optionist except in a narrow sense -he would deny to a community the option of a license sys tem. Our I,aureus man Islendlllg the race, we blicve lie will be elected, in spite of the powerful array of n< wspapers against him. The combined opposi tion is a fair opposition, these news papers are honest In their attitude, but that the Laureil8 candidate has so much to combat, that he Is doing it in a manly, clean fashion, ought to rally the people of his home county solidly to his support. Of course Featherstone will carry the county but we want him to get three thousand votes in Laurens. We want Lnurens to show South Carolina that she is going to be reckoned with, | that she is going to count, that Lnu rens men will stand together the more firmly, when the light on a worthy Laurons man Is determined. That Featherstone will be in the second primary is settled. That he will lead it hy ten thousand votes Is our prediction. Every vote that he gets In the first primary will make easier his chances in the second race. The rnce is between Featherstone and McLeod. Let us show South Caro lina what Laurens men can do for their neighbor and friend. ? ? * DOVT OVERDRAW. At a recent meeting of the officers of the banks of Laurens Itw as de termined that no checks would he paid unless the drawer had funds to his credit, unless arrangements had been previously made to have the same protected. The position of the banks is entire ly reasonable. No one has n right to force a loan from nn individual or! bank, and ?bis is what it amounts to. No matter how sound you are finan- , (dally or how unassailable youi credit may be. it is possible that the bank has already extended all the credits that good business, or the law fori that matter, will warrant. If a customer desires to over draw his account his request is not unrea sonable and we dare say that he can nearly always get the accomldatlon. It is the person who assumes this as his inalienable right that is going to get Into trouble. ? ? ? "What it cost to run" will probably not be fully appreciated until the morning after?by a few. ? * * Fight Citizens of Laurens desire to represent the county in the legis lature halls of South Carolina. They have stated their respective platforms at a dozen campaign nicotines and none of them advocate the return of the dispensary to Laurens; indeed sev eral of them have declared that thoy trust I-miens will never again have a dispensary shop within her borders. ? ? ? I Twelve thousand dollars annually eliminated from the school funds of Lauron? COtinty WOS one of the icsuits of voting out of the dispensary In November, 1908. little over twenty-one months ago. It was pointed out that the schools of the county would be badly handicapped by thojoss of this revenue. Within the "Hast twenty months twenty-Jive districts have vot ed a special school levy, eight new school houses have been completed with fourteen others now In process of erection and the average school j term has been Increased from six and a half to Boven and a half months the year. ? ? ? Tho Spnrtanburg Herald contribut |ed Its full share to the success of the reunion of tho Confederate veterans, held last week In the Spartan city, and the Issuance of tho Veteran's edi tion, containing thirty eight pages. wub an exceptionally line piece of journalistic enterprise. The Herald, la to be congratulated. Stripped of His Platform. (From the News and (.'ourler.) "Ii" in an editorial article In the Laurens Advertiser argues earnost.lv with the men of that county to lay aside all personal likes and dislikes and cast their bnllots for a Laurens I man Tor governor, the same being Mr. : Featherstone. "If you are convinced that prohibi tion is wrong and that the question is one of profound Importance this year, you should vote against Fenther stone," they are told, but In the very h?Xi breath iney are urged to believe that the passage of a prohibition law would really amount to nothing at all. "Tho enactment <?f a state prohibi tion law would scarcely bo felt, you would never know It," says The Ad vertiser. In that event, where, pray, does Candidate Featherstone stand? He is the man who has injected the liquor 1 issue Into the present campaign. He , lias declared on a dozen platforms that i ho had no apology to make for having done so. Upon the necessity, as he sees it. for a State-wide prohibition law has his campaign Tic on based. Yet here comes his foremost news paper champion and declares, albeit sotto voce to the voters of Its own county, that "there is no practical im portance in the issue" Verily, The Advertiser has stripped its candidate of his platform. Lditor Wallace Positive. (Editorial In Newberry Observer.) Mr. Joel ID. Brunson, of Sumter, in a communication to The State, which we produce in another column, attacks Mr. Featherstone In a juuhlc of words out of which it is impossible to make beads or tails, the only thing apparent being that Mr. Brunson has ft In for Mr. Featherstone. The fact is, Mr. Brunson does not seem to know him self what he it talking about. l Men who were with Mr. Feather stone In 1905, and since, know very well that he had no Idea of ' disband ing the prohibitionists" at the meeting at the Jerome hotel, nor at tiny other time. And the '"prohibition commit tee" that met during fair week knew that he had no such purpose; for they agreed with him, and adopted the reso lution offered by him that it would be unwise then to put a state prohibition ticket in the Held. As one who participated with Mr. Featherstone in the meeting at the Je rome hotel we can sny very positively that neither then nor since have we j ever seen any indication that Mr. Featherstone was ever lacking in loy alty to the cause of prohibition. What Mr. Brunson means by "a meeting to put in the fheld a state ticket on a prohibition-license plat fonn" will ever remain "? dark and bloody mystery," unless Mr. Brunson choose to explain it; for no one who attended that meeting has the slight, est notion of what he Is talking about. Nothing of the kind was mentioned at that meeting by Mr. Featherstone nor bj any one else. Money in Raising .?nies. There are several advantages which the breeding of mules, the draft ani mal of the South, offers over horse breeding, These reasons are in part those which make the breeding oi draft horses the most profitable for the Northern farmer. Heavy horses are not popular in the South and pos sibly there are certain climatic rea sons for this; and, therefore, we must either breed light harne?? or saddle horses or go to the mule. The breed ing of these classes of horses requires greater skill and care, a larger Invest ment for breeding stock and heavier expense in training and fitting for market. In mule breeding a cheaper grade of mares may be used, while at the same time they are tho best type of farm work horses and tho young ani mals are more easily raised, go on to the market at an ealier age and re quire no special fitting or education to render them salable. We do not agree that n mule con ^o raised as cheaply as a steer, nor that mule raising is likely to be the most profitable on rough cheap lands, with out abundance of feed nnd good Intel, ligent care; but on good lands which will produce good pasture and with liberal feeding, the raising of mules at present prices, offers profits no less attractive than 15-cent cotton and 75 cent corn. Counting the work which the brood mares and tho young mules will do, and which 1s so much needed on our farms in order to cultivate thom economically, the average cost of raising a mule need not be more than onehalf the aveiage Selling price, in recent years. Counting the depreciation in the value of a mare and the interest cn tlio money Invested in her at $20 a year, allowing $10 as the service fee of the jack and calculating one mule colt to two mares, we have $">0 as the cost of the mule colt. If to tills we add $2? a year for bis breeding, we have a two-year-old mule at a cost of $100; or a three-year-old mule at a cost of $125. Of course, It will cost more than $25 to properly grow a mule from 2 to 3 years of age, but during this time he may be broken and earn in work performed a good share of his keep. Even on this liber al estimate a profit of from $75 to $100 may be made on each 3-year-old mule. This alone, even though there were no other reasons why we should grow more, should be sufllclent to in duce any farmer to consider the di rect profits of mule raising most fa vorably.?Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer and Gazette. Be sure and take a bottle of Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with you when starting on your trip this summer. It cannot be obtained on hoard the trains or steam ers. Cfanges of water and climate often cause sudden attacks of diar rhoea, and it is best to be prepared. Sold by Laurens Drug Co. FASCINATING HAIR. ' Every Woman Who usos Parisian Suff? Has Plenty ef It. Parisian Sago Will greatly Improve the attractiveness of fti'ly person's hair in a few days. It will do iiiore; It will rid the scalp of every particle of dis gusting dandruff; it will stop falling hair and Itching scalp, or money back. Parisian Sage is a daintily perfumed preparation, delightfully refreshing, and free from grease or stickiness. It will make hair grow. Sold and guaranteed by Laurens Drug Co. for 50 cents a largo bottle. The girl with the Auburn hair is on every bottle. CHARLESTON AND WESTERN CARO LINA RAILROAD. Arrival and Departure of Trains, Laurens, South Carolina. EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, .190?. WEST BOUND. No. 1. Leave Augusta.10:10 am No. 1. Leave Laurens. 2:32 p m No. 1. Arrive Spartanlmrg.. 4:05 pm No. 5. Leave Greenwood.... 6:50 a m No. 5. Leave Laurens. 7:55 a m No. 5. Arrive Sparenburg.. 9.30 a m No. 53. Leave Greenville_,12:20 p m , No. 53. Arrive Laurens. 1:45 p m No.?86. Leave Greenville_4:30 p m! No.*86. Arrive Laurens. 6:25 p m SOUTH BOUND. No. 2. Leave Spartanburg .. .12:20 p rn No. 2. Leave Laurens. 2:32 p m No, 2, Arrive Augusta. 6:15 p m No. 6. Leave Spartanburg ... 5:10 p m No. 6. Leave Laurens. 6:45 p m No. 6. Arrive Greenwood .... 7:50 p m No.*87. Leave Laurens. 8:10 a m No. ?87. Arrive Greenville_10:20 a m No. 52. Leave Laurens. 2:35 p m No. 52. Arrive Greenville_4:00 p m Trains ?86 and *87 daily except Sunday. Tri-weekly through Pullman Parlor Car service between Augusta and Asheviile on trains Nos. 1 and 2; North bound, Tuesdays, Saturdays; Southbound, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. C. H. GASQUE, Agent, Laurens, S. C. G. T. BRYAN. Oen. Agt., Greenville, S. C. A. W. ANDERSON. Gen. Supt. ERNEST WILLIAMS, G. P. A* Augusta, Ga. Watch Repairing None Better in the United States When your watch or clock is in need of repair the safest place to bring it, for sure satisfaction, is to me. All my work is strictly guaran teed. If you need a pair of Glasses, call on me, I am a graduate Optician. There will be no charges for exam ination. A trial will convince you of the truth of my statement. William Solomon, Expert Watch Maker and Optician Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Diamonds at Lowest Prices Barksdale Building. T q r* Next to Gray's Hotel l?aurenS,b. O. ? CANDIDATES' ANNOUNCEMENTS, j For The Lcirlslature. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the legislature from Laurens county, pledging myself to abide by tho rules and regulations of the Dem ocratic primary. Dr. M. EDWARDS. At the request of friends I hereby announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives and promise l to abide by tho result of tho Demo , cratic primary election. W. R. RIOHBY I am a candidate for reelection to ! the house of representatives from Lau i Tens county, and hereby pledge my i self to abide the result of tho Demo cratic primary. JARED D. SULLIVAN. I hereby announce myself as a can dldate for reelection to the legislature I from Laurens county, pledging myself to abide the rules and regulations gov erning the Democratic primary elec tions. R. DUNK BOYD. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the House of Representatives, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. J. ARCHIE WILLIS I hereby announce myself a candl | date for the House of Representatives from Laurens county; subject to the results of Lh?j Democratic primary election. J. H. MILLER M. D. I hereby announce myself a candi date from Laurens county for the House of Representatives subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. CLARENCE Cl'NINGHAM. For County Treasurer. I respectfully announce my candi dacy for the Ofncrt elf county treasurer, ' my nomination being subject to the ' rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary. W. B. WASHINGTON I respectfully announce myself as ! a candidate for reelection to the ollice of county treasurer, pledging myself to abide by the result of the Demo cratic primary election. J. D. MOCK. I hereby announce myself as a can didate f'# nomination to the ollice of county treasurer, subject to the rules governing the Democratic primary election. ROSS D. YOUNG. For Supervisor. 1 hereby announce myself as a can didate for reelection to tho office of I supervisor of Laurens county, subject | to all the rules and regulations of the Democratic! primary. If elected 1 shall endeavor to render faithful ser ; vice. Respectfully H. B. HUMBERT. : For County Commissioner. I announce myself a candidate for the office of County Commissioner for Laurens county subject to all the rules : of the Democratic primary election. : If elected will try to do my honest : duty. W. B. FULLER. I hereby announce my candidacy for j reelection as a member of the board of i < county commissioners, subject to tUe rules of the Democratic primary. T. Me. ROPER. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of county commissioner for Laurens county subject to rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary. W. F. it AI LEY. For County Andltor. I am a candidate for the office of I auditor for Laurens county, my nomi nation being subject to the rules of| the Democratic primary election. W. T. DORROH. For Snperlntendent of Education. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for reelection to the ofllce of ] county superintendent of education of 1 .aureus county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. GEO. L. PITTS. At the solicitation of friends, I here by announce myself a candidate for the ofllce of superintendent of educa-1 tion of Laurens county, subject to the| rules of tho Democratic primary. J. CLARENCE BURDETTE. For Probate Judge. We are authorized to announce the I name of O. G. Thompson as a candi date for the office of Probate Judge, subject to tho rules of tho Democratic primary. For Magistrate. I am a candidate for renomnination to the office of magistrate for Laurens township, In the Democratic primary election, pledging myself to abide the results of the same. JOHN M. HUDGENS. The friends of Mr. R. W. Nichols respectfully announce him as a can didate for the ollice of magistrate for Laurens township. Laurens county, South Carolina, and pledge him to abide the result of tho Democratic primary. FRIENDS. How to Gel Rid of Mosquitoes. The first thing to do is to see thai thero are no unnecessary pools of water, to otter breeding places, near the premises. An interesting ami hope ful fact connected with malarial mos? qultoes is that they do not fly for great distances. Many mosquito scourges have resulted from the care less disposal of water about the back premises. If It is Impossible to drain and fill breeding places, the only recourse Is to thoroughly screen the house and promptly kill all insocts that find their way Into the house. This may bo done, If numbers Justify It, by burn ing pyrethruro powder in the infected room. Persons suffering from malaria should be protected from the bites of the malaria-bearing mosquito, for In this way tho Infection is sprend. So far as present knowledge goes this is the only way by which people become malarious.?Mrs. F. L Stevens. In Ra. lolgh (N. 0.) Progressive Farmer and Gazette. I OUR SPECIAL NOTICES. | For Salle?Cabbage plants, sure beads 20 cents per J00. Ajjirty to W. L. Stone, East Main sfkfet, Laurens, S. C. 4-lt For ShIp?Seed oats, genuine pure Red Rust Proof, free from smut. Un mixed with other Aped. Better known as the Werts OaWf $1.00 per bushel. J. W. Matthews, Mouutville, S. C. 4-lt For Sale?Fight-room house on 3 acre lot In town ,of Waterloo. Good water, orchard, pan/ and outhouse. Price $2,500; teipiS easy. Apply to Mrs. Henrietta Wllcutt, Waterloo, S. S. / 2-5t Notice?-Byrdvtlle Dairy and Stock Farm Jack is still,! in/ fine condition. The season is right fOr fall colts. We also have 20 pigs for sale. W. D. Byrd & Son, prop. Phone No. 10. Laurens, . C. i-tt For Sale?One General Electric Comany's IV2 K. W. Generator. Very fine condition. Will sell cheap. Apply to Advertiser Printing Co., Laurens, S. c. i-tc For Sale?One Llddell & Tomklns ?5 11. P. engine, 30 fl-J^. boiler. Good as new. J. H. Da*?, Clinton, S. C, R. F. D. No 3. 3-tf Wanted?The voters of Youngs township to know that 1 am a can didate for Magistrat,? and ask your support. Geo. T. gook. 4-lt Notice?I will serve a I jecuo din ner at my restaurnntfon/L rena street next Friday, August gffth. E, R. Blafce iy, Laurens, S. C. 4-U For Sale?Plnson Apple trees for fall delivery. Anyone desiring these excellent apple trees please send mo their order. Will be In Laurens first Monday in November making delivery. .AlSO have Arkansas Black \pple. Ad [ dress David A. Madden, R. F. D. No. 1, Waterloo, S. C. -a-r-. ,"r'' - . - . . _,_^ v ? j * a t HndorsOlhefil of the Candidacy of Col. Wiliam W. Moore. Knowing the" imminent equalifioa lions and undoubrVu fitness of Col. W, W. Moore, of Ka/nwell, for the office of Adjutant General, we, the of ficers and members of the Trayriham Guards do hereby /endorse hls^ can didacy for said offtcf and heai tlTy'com mend him to the voters of the entire State. Officers and Members, Traynham Guards, Laurens, S. C. Why Many Ha hies Die. A baby cannot digest any kind of starchy food until after he is six months old, and it is better to give him nothing but milk until toward the end of the first year, and the mother or grandmother?and I make special mention of grandmothers, because i have seen many offending ones?who puts into the baby's mouth a morsel of solid food before tlie baby is six months old, endangers the life of that same baby.?Mrs. F. L. Stevens in Ra leigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer ami Gazette. PHOTOGRAPHS the McCord Studio will copy any Photo, en large any picture and make High Grade Pho- > tographs for you at the | very lowest prices. No photographer can do more nor offer any more special inducement than the HcCord Studio | I has always doiK. The HcCord Studio's motto is "Best Pictures, Lowest Prices" Come to see us. Simpson, Cooper & Babb, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all State Courts, prompt attention given to all business. Dr. T. L. Timmerman Dentist Dial-Oray Block Laurens, S. C. 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