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fcatherstone of lams will do "Daughter of Confederate" Recalls Opinion of Her Father. Bdltor The Advertiser: First lot mo tulmit that ordinarily I am of the opinion that women in political affairs should bo "hands off", lint I think nil win agree w'th ine thnt in a time liko tills -when the "logical candi date" In a cause for which the women Of the State have so long labored "in season and out"?for which we have sung and tolled and prayed lias been no severely attacked it is time for n voice among us to he heard. The oili er two candidates who bear aloft the , "white banner" are doubtless good men and true. I do not know either but as It seems to me that tt Is at the head of our neighbor and friend "the ?fiercest bolts are sped" i wish to tell the voters of South Carolina one lit tle Incident?that the spirit prompts me to tell (and this much of a Quaker am I when the spirit moves I write.) First let me say that when C. C. Featherstone entered the race for governor no one expected that lie would have easy sailing, others have opinions different from his and it is their privilege and right to oppose him. When I saw however in a re cent "State" that he had been attacked by Mr. Joel 10. Hrunson, with blows so at variance with facts that I could but exclaim with so many others, "And thou too, Brutus." Laurens county offers to the voters of the State a son of whom any Palmetto citizen can be proud. He is no two by four politician that, veers with every mind that blows but a man?that stands four square to the winds, a Christian gentleman, that has his own convic tions, his own ideas and principles? "and knowing dare maintain." And now to the Incident. Distinctly do 1 remember that years ago when Mr. Featherstone, then a young man had first come to Laurens to cast his lot with us. One afternoon my father, my dear old Confederate father, who now sleeps the last long sleep, had returned from Laurens and as was his habit after the evening duties were over, in the cool of the evening, he would sit on the old piazza and discuss the news and hnppcniugs of the day. Turning to my mother, he remarked, "I met the young lawyer, Featherstone today." "And what do you think of him?" was my mother's query. My father was a man of few words, and of decided opinions, and it was re markable the insight lie had In regard to the character of those with whom he came In contact. When once bo clasped one by the hand, looked into 1he eye. we who knew and loved him, were a little curious to know his opinion1, especially If the one just met; was a stranger. His verdict was ex pressed in the homely phrase "He will do" or " he won't do". On this occasion ?ft little curiosity as to what lie would say. The pipe Was removed from his mouth, and with an ompimsis that has lingered with me all those years, he replied with his characteristic smile and in Iiis usual words "Depend upon It that young fellow Featherstone will do." I ?Vears have shown how true the ver dict was. Mr. Featherstone came to Laurens years ago without money. He Is not what you'd call a rich man and yet he is beyond the reach of want. A poor boy yet he has worked himself up?he is a factor in his home town, and in his church. Those of you who read these lines who have heard him in the campaign, have doubtless been impressed with his personality. Those of you who have only formed your opinions through garbled newspaper reports. I come to you with only this message of my father. Von voters of South Carolina, ye old Confederates who fought on my father's side, you younger men hi whom my father had such abiding confidence, I can only repeat what all his friends and neigh bors know to he trUjJ, that when on the .'tOth of August you cast your ballot for governor of our proud old Palmetto State that "Featherstone ol Laurens will do." A Confederate Daughter. Madden, Aug. 1910. DANDRUFF MEANS BALDNESS. Dandruff is caused by a germ?a vicious, persistent, tenacious germ,? that up to the discovery of r no of the world's greatest scaenti&rs. was sup posed to be unklllable./ That discov ery is called Parisian/Sage, and the Laurens Drug Co. .the' druggist, guar antees it to kill dandruff germs, to remove all traces of dandruff, to stop falling hair or itching scalp in two weeks, or money back. It contains just enough of sago properly combined with other Ingredi ents to make any woman's or man's .ail- grow luxuriantly. It makes ev erybody's harsh, lusterless hair change to soft, lustrous and beautiful hair. r,0 cents a large bottle at the Laurens Drug Co., try it. I.n buying a cough medicine, don't bo afraid to get Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. There is no danger from it, and relief Is sure to follow. Especial ly recommended for coughs, colds and whooping cugh. Sold by Laurens Drug Co. COL. ROBT. THOMPSON LIVED IN LAURENS Only Survl' or of .Secession Convention Once Connected With News? paper in Tills Town. In Its Bpeclal edition for veterans The Spartanburg Herald of August 17 carried a Complete and very Itnor osting Bketch of Robert A. Thompson of Walhalla, the sole survivor of the Secession convention of I860. The story was written by Mr. P. H. Kike, a native of Laurens, and from the sketch the following extracts are tak en: Serving his four years, and get tint; his advance from "devil" to journey man printer. Itobert Anderson Thomp son went to Laurens, S. C, and work ed on a paper owned by Bailey Bros., ! and edited by a Yankee named Clink. This editor afterwards married a sis ter of Col. .las. II. Irby, the father of the late United States Senator J. L. M. Irby. One of the Baileys was a physician and the oth^.r ran a drug store. They were Charlestonlans. One day Dr. Bailey drove up in his buggy | in front of the printing ollice, and af- | tor going in for a while, returned to his seat in the vehicle and started ; to drive off. His horse became fright eued and ran away, throwing the bug- j gy against a brick wall near the store J of Mills & Robertson, on west side; of the Laurens court house square. I The doctor was hurled against the j wall and killed outright. . Colonel Thompson was a spectator of this! tragedy. After a stay of two years1 in Laurens, Colonel Thompson went to Columbia to work on the first daily paper ever started in the state capital, which had for its editor Dr. Bibbos. While in Columbia he boarded with a Baptist minister whose name he could not recall. Emphasizing the integrity and character of this preach er, who. he said, was deputy treasurer of the Baptist convention of the State. This Baptist wiis active in organizing a Sons of Temperance Society, and Colonel Thompson became one of its members. He Loved Laurens. Throughout the talk Colonel Thomp son's mind would ever and again re-! vert to Laurens and his two years' stay in that town. He loved Its peo ple, > and related many incidents of the place and Its people. Speaking of Col. Henry Young, of Laurens, who also sat In the Secession Convention with him, Colonel Thompson said he was one of the most noted lawyers of upper Carolina. On one occasion Colonel Young came to Bickens to at tend court, and at the time Colonel Thompson decided to buy a piece of land at Laurens, the purchase price being $100. He sent the money to Lau rens my Colonel Young. Subsequent ly Colonel Thompson sold this land for $1,500. His First Vote. It was In Laurens county that Col. Thompson, in the year 1S17, cast his first ballot. Col. .1. L. Orr and Qov. B. F. Berry were running for cyngress: he voted for Orr, who won out in that race, While In Laurens. Colonel Thomp son attended a big baptizing at War rior Creek Baptist church, which is located on Warrior Creek, about ten miles from Laurens court house. One hundred persons were baptized there that day. "The Baptists were mighty strong down there in those days," he said. Bring Country Homes Closer Together At the bottom of most of our rural problems Is the fundamental trouble of rural isolation. If we can bring farmers nearer together, we shall do more than we can do in any other way to stop the drift to towns where living is twice as bard as It is in the country. Only yesterday a professor in Chicago University, whose special study is improving the conditions of poverty-stricken people declared that poverty is solely a city problem. Com pared with the vast number of city destitute and half-starving the num ber of hopelessly poor in the country is Insignificant, Our problem, then, is to see if we cannot provide in the country better advantages for social contact as well as better financial returns. Out hero in Wisconsin one of the most Impor tant factors has been the rural tele phone. The women chat with each other at nicht, after the dav's work is done. No mntter how bad the roads or how busy the horses, Mrs Farmer Jones can talk with her sister ten or twenty miles away just as if they were face to face. The farmers, too, own the lines in most cases?putting up their own poles and stringing their own wire, a co-operative company controlling the system. Usually each farmer lias one share of stock for each 'phono bo uses, and the average cost per 'phone on these party lines is only about $5 a year.?Clarence j Foe, In Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive j Farmer and Gazette. See our line of Agate Iron Ware for kitchen. Our stock is complete and prices reasonable. 8. M. & B. H. Wllkcs & Co. When Von Hire Help. When you employ men, employ on ly good ones, when you can. Care ful, honest, conscientious men are treasures. A man so slow that he nev er makes mistakes is simply N\ Q. and equally as bad is the rushing man who makes only mistakes and does nothing or little right. Stick to the man who works his brains some, and his hands some, too. Fire the man at once who is fiery in temper, yells and storms about the feed lot and barn, storms or clubs the stock and kicks the dog from sheer 111 nature. There are far more balky drivers than balky horses; more kicking milk ers than kicking cows. When you see a man of 50 or GO who had worked everywhere, at near ly everything, and is still rolling mossless, you may as well let him roll by, for all the good he will do you. He is wrong somewhere, you may be sure. I have known many a man to lose a good place or throw away the fruits of a long time of industry and kick himself out of a good job by a single lapse of control. A kind disposition and even temper are absolutely neces sary among stock for success, as well as among help. And If a firm, even temper is es sential to the man who does the work, it is even more so to any man who directs other men's work. A. M. Wor den, in Raleigh (X.C.) Progressive Farmer and Gazette. How to Prevent Mold. Interesting experiments have re cently been carried on in various schools of cookery in this country to determine the amount of sugar and boiling required in jelly making with the following conclusions: First, that the amount of boiling necessary , to secure a perfect product vario. somewhat with each fruit; but is practically uniform with the same fruit. Second, that the smaller the amount of sugar the longer boiling is necessary, with th ? result that a long period of boiling produces a darker product. Equal parts of fruit juice and sugar is perhaps the safest proportion, although a fruit Juice with a high amount of sugar naturally would require a trifle less than this proportion. Too much sugar will cause jelly to candy. Too little, which requires long boiling, will also produce an un desirable product. Too rapid boil ing will cause particles of sugar to he thrown upon the sides of the ket tle, which, if stirred back into the kettle, which often happens, will cause the whole mass to crystalize. Stir the sugar and juice until the sugar is dissolved, place over the fire, watching closely until it boils, draw to the hack of the stove, skim, return to tire again, boil, and skim again, repeating the process n third time. Pour into heated glasses, fresh ly sterilized in hot water. Remove the glasses carefully to a sunny window, free from dust and cover with strips of glass or cardboard, until the jelly is "set."?Mrs. F. L, Stevens, in Ra leighN f. C.) Progressive Farmer and Gazette. A GOOD REASON. I.aureus People Can Toll You Why It Is So. Doan's Kidney Pifls cure the cause of disease, and that is why the cures are always lasting. This remedy strengthen^ an/ft tones up the kidneys, helping thoaiyio drive out of the body the liquid (Jfoisons that cause hack ache, headache and distressing kidi ey and urinary complaints. I.aurens peo ple testify to permanent cures. J. II. Nash, 225 Main St.. Lnurens. S. C, says: "I am recommending Doan's Kidney Pills in the hope that a few of the many persons who suffer from kidney trouble will read my statement and be bneflted. My kidneys were disordered and I was caused much suffering by a pain in the small of my back. I was told that Doan's Kidney Pills were good for such trou bles, and deciding to try them, I pro cured a box at the Palmetto Drug Store. I had taken them bUt a short time before the pain had disappeared and my kidneys were Strengthened. Prom the results I received, I can say thai Doan's Kidney Pills are a most reliable kidney remedy." For sale by all dealors. Price 50 cents. FOSter-Mil burn, Co., Ruffalo. New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other. LAURENS MAX ADDS SPICE TO MEETING. (Continued from page one.) or drinking. Mr. McLeod explained that the whiskey question should be taken out of South Carolina politics, and said that the local option situa tion will remove it from politics. He said that the sentiment of the citizens means enforcement of local option or prohibition. He stressed the fact with all the emphasis of which ho was capable, that ho advocated earnestly the enforcement of every law on the statute books, or those that may be placed there in all and every part of South Carolina, without regard to county or section. If elect ed he will be governor of the whole State. He was loudly applauded. Mr. Richards Speaks. .1. G. Richards was next. Mr. Rich ards reviewed his years of office hold ing as a member of the legislature and reminded the voters that he has never been refused an office in Kershuw county and has never been forced to enter a second primary, lie hits stood for regulation in taxation, but has never been willing to sacrifice educa tional advantages to gain such an end. lie spoke of his work for education. Mr. Richards concluded with a state ment of his advocacy of prohibition. He recalled that he was the first to de mand an investigation of the State dis pensary. He was applauded. Attacks Preachers. C. L. Please opened with a claim of being a son-in-law of Anderson county and twitted Mr. Featherstone with having left the county. He dis cussed education and said denomina tional colleges are doing more elllcient work at less cost than State institu tions. He attacked the newspapers, saying the newspapers do not give an idea of the receptions accorded the andidates except their pets, lie sug gested that "preachers" should give more of their time to preaching the gospel and less to dabbling In politics. He was applauded. Deplores Kxfnnnguiieo. F. II. Hyatt at the outset announced ?"a business man's platform," and gave an earnest and impressive talk on business conditions. He deplored the extravagance of the age. Mr. Hyatt touched lightly in passing on the whiskey question and told that he was a prohibitionist. He recalled his activity in behalf of educational in stitutions. Although the crowd was Inclined to leave for refreshments] before Mr. Hyatt finished, lie was heartily applauded. By a vote of the audience it was decided to adjourn for dinner and finish the meeting later. This plan was duly executed. J. T. Duncan spoke. B. B. Evan8 made his usual charges. J. F. Lyon, attorney general, said he thought after a week in Columbia this man and those who furnish him his speeches would have secured new data to use, but he now makes the same old charges. Even this shifty crowd are at their row's end. said Mr. Lyon. The attorney general replied to | the Charges, as he has already done before, and was applauded at Iiis con clusion. The candidates are scattering around this large and extensively populated county tonigh', for tomorrow is an off day and many candidates will meet a considerable portion of the 8,000 Anderson county voters tomorrow. Ihne a Sink In Your Kitchen. A sink could he placed in the kitch en with trap connection to a tile drain, thus saving many steps, much hard lifting and an untidy yard. The drain should bo large enough to permit the washing of vegetables in the sink. Four-inch tile can be had at 7 cents a foot, and the drain should extend 25 feet or more from the house, depending upon the slope and location of the well. The expense of the drain is slight: 25 fee., glazed tile.$1.75 An Iron sink.1.25 Pipe and extra connections .... 1.00 The drain can be dug by the farm er at odd times and the actual cost, then, will be $4 for a permanent moans of carrying off waste water from the kitchen?Miss Lulu S. Wolford, in Raleigh iX'. C) Progressive Farmer and Gazette. Dysentery Is a dangerous disease but can be cured. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has been successfully used In nine epi demics of dysentery. it has never been known to fall. It Is equally valuable for children and adults, and when reduced with water and sweet ened, it is pleasant to take. Suid by Laurens Dm;; Co. New line of Rugs just received, new patterns, beautiful colorings, they are cheap too. o. IW. & B. II. WUkes &. Co. W. B7KNIGHT A.TTOKNE\ AN? COUNSELLOR AT LAW LvATOENS, S. C. Office up-stairs in Barks lale Building next door to Palmetto ?arik. ?r King's Nev, i.i f ePliiils The best in the world. The success of a man in business depends on his attention to little things. i A thousand get rich by f saving, where one gets rich by speculating. That person is wise wl/b in youth makes provision for old^ age. A dollar saved todsty may be the foundation of your fortune. Begin saving tb-'day, tomorrow you may forget it. Saving like spending is a habit. 1 he Place to Put Your Savings is Enterprise Bank Laurens, S. C. N. Ii. Dial, President C. H. Roper, Cashier "DO IT NOW!" Many Bargains Await You at 0. B. Simmons&Son RIGHT OVER WOOD SHINGLES COBTRIGHT?? ?SHINGLES1 can be laid without fuss or bother right over the old wood shingles, clmngl top of your building instantly from a fire catcher to A FIREPROOF ROOF . will last as long as the building itself and never needs repairs, For further detailed Information, prices, etc., apply to ng the 1 ?F that \ Local Dealer or Cortrignt Metal Roofing Co., Philadelphia, Pa \ For Salads and Cooking ' I kHE fine flavor and wholesomeness of ?*? food shortened with Wesson Snow drift Oil is the final test of its unrivaled quality and uniform purity. Odorless, taste less, convenient ana economical, it has a wider range of usefulness than any salad oil or\ shortening known to dietetic science. Use^hree-fourths the amount of oil as of butter.'' % Refined by the Exclusive Wesson Process, and is the height of quality which defies competition.