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Big Land Sale! House and lot. on East Main street containing 17 acres with tine barn and other improvements on easy terms * House and lot on Darlington -treet. cheap for quick sale.. 400 acres near Stomp Springs in fne state of cultivation, 5 tenant hous es. Price $ 11 .r?0 per acre, one half cash, balance in 12 months. 125 acres 1 V4 miles of public square, electric lights and one of the best farms in the county. $12r,. per acre, one half cash, balance on easy terms. Several lots qA South Harper street. House and lot j& E. Main street. 8 1-2 acres and 15 ro]|? concrete dwelling; finest place in "tf>per South Carolina. On easy terms. 321 acres near Garlington station. $10 per aere. Two elegant residences on Sullivan street on easy terms. One bun .'.red acres tillable land within corporate limits of city, very reasonable and easy terms. Two elegant farms near McDaniel's mill, well improved. 72 acres and 62 acres, fine neighborhood, schools and churches. A number of farms and other prop, erty for sale, see us before you pur chase or sell your property. BLAKELY. Todd Building Laurens, S. C. f The.New Year I Should be started right by doing business with us. We have always been known as Despen sers of PURE DRUGS and medicines, and dur- J ing the csming year you J will find us "with the best quality of goods and the best service for handling them. , Dr. Posey's Drug | Store "Purity at Posey's" Laurens, S. C. k. Don't Become Bent and Ugly Any woman who desires to do so mny easily overcome any tendency to round shoulders by giving the matter proper, attention. Wc have the sole agency for a shoulder brace that corrects any Buch tendency without discomfort to the wearer. It is constructed entirely of cloth, will not bind or chafe and may be worn at all times without inconvenience. SHOULDER BRACE? compel deep breathing and by so dofag insure the general pood health of ?l?e wearer. For men, women and childr, n, Price. SI.OG Laurens Drug Co., Laurons, S. C o ?J> :;~?\ X -/*?? - ^ Sor.f3tl.o MAKING PLAINS . FOR CORN SHOW Delegation From State Mill Fight for Columbia?Much Money Is Xow Pledged?Meeting This Year at Co Iambus, Ohio.?Would Brlug Many From the West Here. A united effort hj being made to brlug the National Corn show to Co lumbia next year. The exposition j will be held this year In Columbus Ohio, and a delegation from the Caro linas will attend to press the Invita ? tion of the South. The Invitation will 1 be extended by the Columbia Cham ber oi Commerce, the state depart ment of agriculture and will be in dorsed by the general assembly of South Carolina. The delegation from South Carolina will be headed by A. I). Hudson of Newberry who Is the president of the South Atlantic States Corn exposition i and also at the head of Corn Breeders' association. About $8,not) has been pledged so far for the second corn exposition to be held in Columbia. , This amount would be used for the national corn show should it be se. ; cured for this city. Last year there were- 100,000 in at : tendance oil the National Corn show. ! Over $50,000 was given in prizes. There were 22,00 exhibits. Should the National Corn show be held in Columbia it would mean that several thousand Western farmers would come to this city. The ex position men Id mean much to South Carolina and to tho South. ?i ?* * fc* HPfl I :J ???' ?*'* it :i ?4 k -a '? ? f I PETER TOWNS AND WIFE % * I ? ***** ** * * ** ************ *.**?* ; Trey wen? Chester countv people who moved over into Laurens county. They brought with them a little boy who had been given to them lo raise. : Aft< r a time some of his kindred came over alter the boy. armed with a inar ! rani to take him back with them. They called at the Towns home and found I that the husband >vas in the held at work. They demanded the boy oi ' Mrs Towns who flatly refused to give i him up, as she had kept him until he t was nearly grown and was now able to work for her. V:id now they wanted him returned. I They attempted to seize tho boy and 'ale him off. Mrs. Towns was a : woman who knew her rights and, i when necessary, would fight for them. She sailed into the party, put one of 'them to llight and had the other one down and was beating him when Peter ran up and pulled her off of him. The upshot of the matter was that Peter and his wife were indicted for assault j Peter went over to Chester and got 1 no eflldavltp, showing Dial he was a good and peaceable citizen of Chester when he resided there He employed "oi.? lames Irby to defend him. When the case was called in court he stood UP beside Col. Irby wit!) a hie. leathei I pocket hook in his hand lie would pass up a certificate of character for Col. Irby to read to the court. In ea-s'ev up Ihe paper.? he unintention ally handed to Col. Irby his licoiuu I to preach from llnbuns ( reek church, i vh: i< the Colonel was reading lo the ? |n''"c and, jury, when Mr To Whs lold him to stop as he had given him tin wrong paper, .lud-.;.' O'Neal requested thai the pa per lie read through and made this cominonl on it: "Mr Town, this paper is worth more than iil your other affidavits. No church \.ould give a man the right to pleach the gospel unless they thought him worthy to fill tl"- place." On another occasion several of the farmers wore assembled in the store el the Shoal:;, when (he Kllbj !Cl ' i the fine corn crop was being dlsoti ? d. Due man had made a hundred bushels of corn, another seventy-live bushels ami so on. Peter was present ami thought that he was overlooked in the corn contest. ? ( b ni lernen, you have not asked me. the si/.e of my corn crop. I made sixty loads." 'Surely. Mr, TowhH, you are mis taken in saying sixty loads?" ?.No Sir. I made the sixty loads and looted every one of them in a hamper basket on my back to the house." Peter had a piec- of humor in his makeup. His family moved to Franklin coun ty, Georgia, w. D. s. Wll VTIIKV A ILK I). .Most Pile llemedies Miss The Cause of Piles. Disagreeable treatment with oint ments or suppositories usually fails io cure piles and cutting them off won't remove the cause. Such treat, men! only moderates the outside ef fects of ihe disease and fails to reme dy the inside cause. The up-to-date doctors now use internal medicine, to ir... ?' e ch'CUlMien !n '.!? hitter bow el, and so remove the disease. Dr. Leonharde? flom-Bold ihe fust ami only guaranteed internal pilo cure in tin' form of tablets cur? - any bind of plies, Sold by LntU'euS Drug Co. *! for large box. ! >??. Leonhai d I Co station H.. Buffalo, N. V. LUCKY SWISS HOUSEWIFE. She Lets the Rain Do All the Family Washing For Her. Swiss methods of laundering nre orig inal, practical and labor saving. The women there have learned well bow to make the best use of their opportun! j ties with the least exertion. How thej QS6 the tourists every one who has traveled in' the country of the Alps knows. They also know how to make ' nature do their housework. In most of tfoA towns everything that Is washed or v leaned Is washed or cleaned in one of the big watering troughs that stand at regular Intervals along the main thoroughfares. Into It goes everything from potatoes to hu man beings, and the only sanitary regulation existent is that it must be cleaned ?\it with a large broom made of hush or twigs after the potatoes have bad their hath. Hut when It rains then everything else gives way to the family wash, no matter If it is Thursday or Sunday or Saturday or Wednesday, for in Switzerland they seek the rainy days for wash days. In stead of deploring n cloudy Monday. The steady downpour provides run ning water in the village washlub. Into the sweeping current the family linen goes, and there it is whirled and twirled about until every speck of dirt is thoroughly rinsed away. The scrub bing board is not put into commission at all. Occasionally the good housewife, protected under the family umbrella held over her head by one of her youngsters, who is allowed t<> enjoy the drip* from that same umbrella, takes n look at her wash anil encour ages it with a gentle poke with her husband's best cane. Hut the rest of the day she enjoys to the full in her snug chalet, while the elements do her work, in fact, with her conselem e nl rest that her day's tasks will be done, she can spend her time gossiping with her neighbor, whoso conscience is also at peace. On the next day the wash goes through :? process of bluing and starch ing-all in thai same basin and I'm ally, when the sun shines, it is laid out on the wonderful green grass of the Swiss matten and is there bleach cd to a snowy whiteness. If the gla ciers and the landslides were to ac commodate her by rolling down over her wash and ironing it out without soiling the Swiss housewife would not be at all surprised. In fact, it is not to be doubted that she now regards as an oversight the failure of I?ante Na ture to provide an Ironing beard. New York Tost. LOST HIS LINEN JOB. The Salesman Who Made a Caricature of A. T. Stewart. A. T. Stewart was shown one day by one of his confidential employees an amusing caricature of himself done in pencil. "Good, good!" he laughed. "That's excellent. Who did it?" "A young salesman at the linen coun ter. He scratched it Off as you pass ed tin- oile r morning. I managed to get it from him. and now he's seared stiff for fear you'll see it,"' was the laughing reply. "Seared stiff, is he?" said Mr. stew art. with a twinkle in his eye. ".lust sent him to me. will you?" A little Inter a <\im youth entered Mr. Stewart's private olllcn and said he Understood h< had been sent for. "Yes." said Mr. Stewart gravely and. holding up the sketch asked. "Did you do this?" The lad grew pale and stammered: "I beg your pardon, sir; it was only a bit of fun. I meant ho offense." "That's nil very well, but you'll have to give up your job hero," The youth humbly protested, when Mr. Stewart burst out laughing and said: "Don't say any more, my boy. I'm only joking. Your sketch is excel lent, and a^ it would be a sin to keep a man of your artistic talent behind a linen counter I propose to supply you with the means to study art." Mr. Stewart's proposition was grate fully accepted, and it was thus that John R, Rogers, (he sculptor, began his artistic career. - New York Press. His Littlo Joke. A well known German who is son thing of u Wag walked Into 0110 of t public ofllces In Cincinnati the other day. and from the nolso It was plain that ho was wearing a pair of new shoos or ones that bad recently been repaired. One of (he clerks remarked about the shoes, niid the German said: "I comes pretty near selling des? shoes the other day." "How b that?" asked the clerk "I had 'em half soled," said the Oer man as bo walked out of the office. A deep groan was heard as he slip ped through the door.-Cincinnati Com mereial Tribune. Not His Fault. Vicar's Wlfo I'm sorry to see you COnllng away from the public house so often, PrlggS. Blacksmith- Yos'm. They won't let me stay there two minutes.- As soon as I get set down comfortable like somebody's sure to want a job done, and out I has to come again.?London Punch, The Congenial Pair. Purchaser -Please give me the (WO seats that have a post between 'em. Bex Office Sorry, sir, but the married couple pairs arc ??!! sold. Cleveland Leader. A Maxim. To i e candid, speak of the present :.s though they were absent. To be charitable, speak of the absent as though they were present.?LI ppln roll's. MILITARY ACCURACY. Exactness In Keeping Tab on the Movementa of Soldiers. We hoar much of the perfection of military organization abroad, but it Is doubtful whether any foreign war of flee follows with an accuracy greater than that displayed by our own war department the movements of its of ficers. The following Is au interesting case In point: A young army officer who hns seen service In this country and In the east was once with a scouting party In Ari zona. After two weeks In the desert his squad came to tho railway near a small station. Within ten minutes a telegram from Washington was brought to him by tho station agent. It asked if the officer wished to be transferred to one of the new artillery regiments then forming. He answered by telegraph thai he would be glad to enter oithe; of them. Then with his squad he set ?.:. again acre s the desert. It was six days later when they again struck the railway, this time eighty miles front the point at which they had previously crossed It, but the Officer's reply from the war depart incut was awaiting bill), It had been telegraphed to every station within 200 miles. A more striking Instance of accuracy occurred after the same officer's trans fer to the east. Ho was traveling home on leave, and, as the regulations require, he had noli lied the department of the day. hour und probable route of his journey. After he had been Oil . the train for eight hours nt a small station Hu? porter entered with a tele gram, asking if any one of his mime was present. On opening the tele gram the officer found thai ii ordered him to detached duly. Exactness of detail could not be car ried much further, 't he war depart ment knew the whereabouts of an in significant second I lent em.'n I even when he was traveling on loave of ab sence. N ew York 11 era 1.1. A SNAKE STORY. , The Roptilcs Were Frozen Stiff, but That Didn't Harm Them. A naturalist once told how in a thicket on a mountain side In. saw a man kill a rattlesnake. He beat the life out of it with a club and colli ill ued ihe pounding nil it was mangled beyond recognition. When the mil uralist remonstrated the man said. "Doss, you can't kill a rattlesnake to,, dead." On one occasion a boat bound for the United States from Kio de Janeiro touched at Pernumbuco, where the mate drove a bargain with a snake , dealer for a half dozen reptiles of Varl j ous sizes. The male had them in a cage on deck and charged a sailor with the duty of washing it out with sea wa ter every evening. All went well as long as the weather was mild, but on the night before the gulf stream was crossed the sailor left a quantity of Water in the enge, mid about thirty hour< from port a biting gale struck the ship. All hands were busy with Ihe storm, and the snakes were forgotten. W hen the mate thought of them ami went to look aller their condition be found them frozen stiff ami apparently as dead us Hm proverbial doornail. The dealer for whom the male had brought them ennui on board tin- fol low im day. lb- professed greal ills appointment over the loss of his in tended purchase, bin offered i<> take the snakes away as a kindness I?) the mate. II? gathered them in his nr.u like so much liroWood and carried them home. Hm ii rival denier after ward told lie" officer thai plenty of warm water had resuscitated the snakes and thai they had been sold to various museums not Id! the Worse for their '?death'* by freezing. ?liar per's Weekly. Ths Ambulant B.irber. Paris, like Peking, has its ambulant barber. Armed with a little box. con taining the necessary apparatus, razor, ?badger brush, soap, H h sors and sorvl etle. he exercises hi- calling on ihe banks of Hie Seine. All the bargee-. navvies and piny laborers are bis ell cuts. "Figaro" scat.-, his patient on the pavement, covers his knees with u newspaper and for ;i sou -haves, cuts his hair and gives n bithiiih appear anco to the tramps and otherij who intrust i hetnselves io hl i care. Odds and Ends. , Uncle Jim. an old negro driver in Richmond) Va., had some ladles to drive through tho cemetery. Ho look' them round and mowed ibein thonota blo graves and monuments and then drove to that part of dm cemetery Where (lie derelicts were Interred, "Who are burled here'/" asked a lady In the party, "I don't think I ever was hero before.-' "Oh," replied Uncle Jim, ''odds and ends, missus, odds and ends!"- Pitts burg Press. How She Knew. "Will you have some fresh mush rooms V" asked the hostess sweetly, "Yes." faltered the guest, "if you're quite sure they're inn-brooms ami not toadstools." "Ob, I'm qulle litre," replied the hostess, "f opened the can myself." Detroit Free Pre-.. Tho B.g Bill. Little H?h (just Marled in school. Undo Harry. Whal is Ihe bird with the biggest idiiv Unct ? n irry (who is still thinking of the night before. .\ quail, lily hoy; a quail on loast. .Judge. In general, pride i?: at Ihe bottom o** all great mistakes, Iluskln. STATELY COLUMNS or umall headstones receive I he name careful attention from our exj>crt workmen. Wo buy carefully at the quarries and watch every detail of designing flnixhing and pettlnx of memo rials. Don't buy from travel ing- asrents or catahus. Wo can ahow you the material, wheth er it he Kranite <.< marble, und are Kind to ndvisi with you a bout Improving your cemetery lots. Lot us show > ou the dif ferent granites Bnd marbles und tell y? u ?l< Ut th? m. W. B. KNIGHT ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW LAU RUNS, S. C. Office up-svair.s In Barksdalc Building noxt door to Palmetto Hunk. Wood's Seeds For The Farm and Garden have an established reputation extending over thirty years, br ing planted and used extensively by the best Farmers and Garden ers throughout the Middle nnd Southern States, Wood's New for 1911 will Seed Catalog you to ^ determine as to what crops nnd seeds to plant for success and profit. Our pub lications have long been, noted for the full and complete infor mation which they give. Catalog mailed free on request. Write for it. T. W. WOOD ? SONS, Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. *= - ntucklen's Arnica Salve The Dest Salve In The World. ( t / t Every year our farmers arc robbed ol thousands 01 v -: ' 1 ' ? ' dollars worth of fertilizer, which is leeched away in the ^wtfSL^ ' d: linage. Such heavy losses are absolutely unneccssaij . IwWwfS^ ^' Thomas Phosphate%$>r positively cannot be washed away. The inaxinuun pet \ '/' ' , cent of plant food which it contains leasts the heaviest ?'?<' downpour, neither can its high degree of l'hosphoi;i v.. Acid revert, 01 go back, to insoluble forms. Thoimc \ \, Phosphate is recognized as The Best Source of Phosphoric Acid f->' agricultural put poses. Besides, the lime it contain) in cii special value in reclaiming exhausted acid soil'. Thomas Phosphate contains no filler. Every pound in a ton has its value. Our fue booklet "Thomas Phosphate ami its l;ses" explains how magnificent Crops ol cotton, com truck, fruit and grain have been produced by it. Wine for it to-day. The Coe-Mortimer Company Special Importers NEW YORK. s Phone 202 Dentistry a Specialty EARL C. OWENS Veterinary Surgeon At Bolt & Hud^ens' Sale Stable. LAUREN8, S. C. In Bad Fix "I had a mishap al (he age of 41, which k it me in bad fix," writes Mrs. Qeorgia Usher, of Conyers, Oa. "I was unconscious lor three clays, and niter that I would have fainting spells, dizziness, nervousness, sick headache, heart palpitation and many strange feelings. *'l suffered greatly with ailments due to Hie change of life and hail A doctors, but they did no good, so I concluded U) Iry Cardui. 'Since taking Cardui, I am so much better can do all my housework." Take J 41 The Woman's Tonic Do not allow yourself to get into a bad fix. You might get in so bad you would find it hard to get out. Belter take Cardui while there is lime, while you arc still in moderately good health, just to conserve your strength and keep you in tip top condition. In this way your troubles, whatever they are. will grad ually grow smaller instead of larger you will be on Ihc up-grade instead of the down and by and bye you will arrive at the north pole of perfect health, (jet a bottle at your druggists' today. ?I FOR SALE j One second-hand LicJdell Saw Mill andj[ai \ unlimited amount of f'OUgh lumber. f . l I am prepared to do good work and give go d ? service to any one wanting sawing done. % William P. LJN^e I g t Landford Station, Soufn '( ': ' : v,