Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NOW is the Time -AND WE are the Place "Bread In the Staff of Life" There, fere have It good. We hare it in an extra fancy high Patent Floor, 100 per cent pnro. Henry Slay Flour. Call on us for Fertilizer. We sell Bradley's Uunno and Acid- Sea Fowl brand (Juane our speciality. To buy Beardless Spring Barley at $2.00 per bushel to sow and grow. Bed Bust Proof Seed Oats at 60 cents per bushel for spring sowing. Full stock of flour, corn, meal, molas ses, bacon, sngar, coffee, lard, tobacco, feed oats and hay, cotton seed meal on hand, and Uie prices arc right to meet your views. Wo sell the well-known line of Blonnts Turn Plows and Middle Bus ter Plows and points?no better plow made?a trial will convince the most skeptical that Blounts is Uie best plow on the market. Yours for business J. H. Sullivan LAURKNS, S. C. Too Late, Too Late, to think about taking out a policy on your house if it is already burning. We take a risk but not a certainty. If you have taken time by the forelock, and insured your property against fire, you have the Absolute Certainty that the company Will pay all your losses. The race is to the swift, and you owe it to your family to protect them from all troubles. Do not be a laggard. E.H.WILKES&SON Stocks - Bonds - Insurance Enterprise Bank Building You'll be Dead a Lorxgf Time so you had better keep alive and well no long an you can. Thct mcana you want to get rid of that cough cr cold that's been hanging on for weeks, and pet rid of ;'t right away. i:c!l many good cough re:r.c('.;c3. Tlcxc.ll Chorrj Juice Cottgh Syrup will cure the mo:;t stubborn cough, hoarse ness or c:>re throat, lias a de lightful flavor,;': meat palatable, and giver, Immcdiato relief. If one bottl- tlosoa't completely euro your cou^h fcrir.^' back the empty bottlo find we'll return your moncv. Threo ci~C3, t!:e> larger ? rcor.orrJcal to be id C1.C3. Laurens Drug Company Laurens, S. C. Stop Scratching Par-a-sit-i-cide cures itch and nintiKc in 30 minutes. Pimples and Ringworms quickly. Price 50c at LAURENS DRUG CO. 60c by mail or express from Dr. h. J- S' ftrp & Co., Commerce, Ga. Guaranteea. "Take no substitute." THE COTTON MARKET IS LOOKING UP Bolls and Bears are Preparing* for a Strong Campaign Jn the Spring. New Orleans, Feb. 5.?The cotton market this week promises to be a little more exciting than it has been for some time oast. For one thing the bulls and the bears are more ag gressively lined up than they have been since the holidays and outside speculation, especially in the new crop positions, appear to be about to increase. At the end of the last week the trade was still very uncertain over the sit uation in Europe in general, in the Liverpool market in particular. Con tinental mills were credited with hav ing checked the decline in Liverpool by buying large quantities of spot cotton. Hulks predict that any fur ther declines this week will stimulate the buying of spots by continental spinners who are known to be very bare of supplies and that this buying will act as an automatic support to the market. Bears, however, claim large stocks of yarns In England. Plague Situation. The bubonic plague in the Far Fast has been given rather a prominent place among the features of the mar ket, because, if health conditions there become worse, they would ef fect .Manchester's business in cotton cloths. For this reason news from the Fast will be eagerly looked for and one way or the other will be used With effect. To some extent the long Interest was liquidated last week, but there still remains a large speculative long interest in the market which bears are generally supposed to be working to dislodge. If further liquidation is forced it will cause lower prices on the old crops and because of the danger of it the market letters from commission houses that will be read Monday morning will unite generally advise outside traders to let the old crop months severely alone until con ditions are more settled und in the meantime turn their attention to the new crops. Straddling Anticipated. October and December this week will assume considerable importance on accoutn of the nearness of the planting season and the growing d sire to discount new conditions. Another thing, the new crop months are trad ing at such a great discount under the old crop that much staddling trade will be attracted to them. The chief feature of interest cen tred with the new crop deliveries will be Texas and Oklahoma, and tele grams said that plowing was being stopped in some sections because the grounds is so bard. With the middle of February approaching the question of winter rains will be of vital im portance this week and the course of the new crop prices will depend greatly upon the weather map. Weath ei' an Aged Imdj. Mrs. Laurissy Bolt, uged years, .lied February 2 at the home of hoi' nephew. Mr. .lames Suilierel, near Hickory Tavern, Suiiivnil 'township, after an illness of several woi ks, The funeral and burial services were held at Rablin Creek Baptist church on the following day. (10 RIGHT AT IT. Friends ami Neighbors in I.aureus Will SltOYI You Hon. (let at the root of the trouble. Rubbing an aching back may rol eve It. But it won't cure it. You must reach the root of it the k Idneys, I loan's Kidney Pills go right at it: Beach the cause; relieve the pain. They cure. too. so Lnurcns people say. .1. V. Nabors. dOS Sullivan St., Lau rens. S. C, says: ?"About three months ago I was suddenly attacked by se VOI'O pains in the small ol my back. I COtlld not sleep well and often bad to sit in a chair to obtain a comforta ble position. I finally became so bad off that I was unable to leave the house and could do no work whatever. My kidneys were sluggish and failed to remove the impurities lion, my system. I obtained no relief from the various remedies I tried and when I heard of Doan's Kidney i'?is. P pro cured a box at the Palmetto Drug Store. I began taking them and in three days I was back at work, with out a symptom of kidney trouble. 1 Consider Doan's Kidney Pills to be a most valuable remedy for disordered kidneys." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Mil burn Co.. Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's and lake no other. Not Always to the Swift. "Tho automobile race is not always to tho swift," says the Philosopher of Folly. "Sometimes it's to the hos pital." If troubled with Indigestion, con stipation, no appetite or feel bilious, give Chnmbe ;.. i's Stomach and Liv er Tablets a 'rial and you will be pleased With, the result. These tab. lets invigorate he stomach and liver ami Strengthen tho digestion. Sold by Laurens Drug Co. DENOUNCES DIVORCE. "More Blighting and More Destructive of Family Life Than Mornionlsni," Says Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore, Md., Feb. &.?In his ser mon delivered at the cathedral this morning Cardinal Gibbons spoke strongly against tho evils of divorce, saying in part: "If Christianity is the highest type of civilization?and who can deny It? and then is it not true that wo are retrograding instead of advancing on certain lines? "There Is a social scourge more blighting and more destructive of family life than Mornionlsni. It is the fearfully increasing number of divorces throughout the United States. The mills, like the mills of the gods, are slowing but surely grinding to powder the domestic altars of the na tion. Husbands and wives are sepa rated on tin? most flimsy pretexts. And as if the different States of the Union were not sufficiently accom modating in this respect, one State has the unenviable distinction of granting a bill of divorce for the mere asking of it on the sole condi tion of a brief sojourn within her border. "A lady, high in society life, once said to me in Newport: T do not rec ognize any law. human or divine, that can deprive a husband or wife of the right to separate and to enter fresh espousals when they do not live in harmony together.' " You speak," 1 replied, 'of your rights, your privileges. Mut you have not a word to say of your duties and obi igat ions.' "Ah, my brethren, If nu n and wo. men had due consideration for their duties and responsibilities, their rights would take care of themselves. There can be no rights where there 'are no corresponding obligations. There are no rights against the law of (Sod." Spring Weather in Winter. Tho gerater pan of .laiiuarj this year has been verv remarkable. Oon erally at this season we have our worst winter weather, but so far the weather has been mild and spring like. There being only one more winter month, the probability is that we shall have a continuation of just BUCh weather as we have had for the past thirty days or more The chief danger to be apprehended is the de struction of nil kinds of fruits, al though there is as yet no putting forth of fruit blossoms. We notice in our exchanges from all parts of the State that considerable outdoor work has beer: done prepara tory to the approaching planting sen sou. Perhaps never before in the his tory of -lie Stute has more headway been made on farms than has marked the present month. A great deal of plo.iching b u!rea,?y be< u done, many farmers having advanced such 'werk to about what it is -he first | week in April. A Lnurcns corre spondent of Ihn News und CMirier (Charlestoni ??>'' in Ruoakinst of this preparatory |?1 "ugb.iiic; thai <: "is be ing done on n uh re thorough scale than usual: the ploughing is dcepei and better, terracing., and ditching more extensive, end. upon the whole the entire :,ystein of farm operation appears to have in< veil up several weeks." This forwardness in farm work throughout the State will tohd to put our farmer- In a position lo eugag in other work needed on the fa mm. but which, for the* want of time and opportunity th v have heret< fore had to neglect More attention may be glvop to stock, to Improved tarn: inn chlnery, to tho selection of the besl seeds, to tho mixing of fertilizers, and to the study of tho liest methods of cultivating both corn and cotton, it particularly behooves tin farmer t> pay ludi'o attention to his vegetable garden, to Ills fruit trees, If ho hi ; any: to Iii? dairy and Ills poultry yard, and see to Hi" proper feeding of his chickens nil(1 cattle. All these things, in view of the advanced work on the farm, lie HOW llflfl lime to look after, r.irne r.i I'nlOll Sun. Fulls Victim to Thieves. S. W. Bends, of Coal City. Ala., lull a jusliflcnble grievance. Two thieves stole his health for twelve years. Tin > were a llvor and kidney trouble. Then Dr. King's New Life Pills throttled them. He's well now. Unrivaled for constipation, Mainria, elladache. Dys. pepsla. LT)c at I.aureus Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. Ar.7f.nn??n4lng ft Akctr-ri nn.t f1r>ir-rlt>tlnn nir.? oulokir n.io'.Ttuni Our opinion fno irnotlicr mi Inrniitlnn I* pr.ihnl.lv pitlontitlilo, Commntilrii. Il<>;mmrlc(lyf'.iiIIiIim II ,1. HANDBOOK ?* nmoiiui ?cut froo. i.Mcit nuoiirv for (??'?'mini? patent*. I'montu taken tlironuh Miinii Jt Co. rcculve tptttalnoUct, wiiliout olinrgo, in tho Scientific American. A h?n<1?omplT llluMrntoil wr-r-ktr. I.nrvo.it rlr riiliillim of nur rclfiititle l'.iiiiiul. Tonni. f:> n yi'iir : (mir timiitlia, f I. Hold by Rli nowadonlor? MUNN & Co.381B'oad?a>- New York . Iltanch Odli ,\ tri V .?(., Wnnhliiiiluii. I?. C. II men Burglars Ii Met Patricia Weldon held the receiver to her ear and listened to her chum's Totce. "Pat, dear, do you mind running over to our house to put a few shov els of coal In our furnace? Tom wants me to star la town for dinner. We will be out on the ntne-fourteen. It's an awful thing to ask you to do, dear, but we don't want the Are to go out on auch a cold night. You don't mind? You are a darling, Pat, and don't forget that when you go lu by tho cellar door to close It gently? Bometlmcs the lock slips nad locks Itself. He careful. Good-by, dear." Patriclu hung up tho receiver. She decided to go over to tho house her self and attend to Uie fire. The Stone home was Just across a sruull lot. She slipped her long fur coat over her toa gown and after locking her own door she went over to the houso of her friend. She found no difficulty lu opening the cellar door and removed hor heavy coat and left It on the smooth, white stairs beforo venturing to the blackness of tho cellar. Patricia wont bravely on toward the furnaco and began to shovel the coal. In tho big living room abovo a man sprang quickly to his feet. "Dy Jove! There's somebody prowling about In tho cellar!" Ho tiptoed over to a huge bag lying on the couch and took out a large, ugly looking shotgun. "I'll just surprise him at bis own game?even if the gun Isn't loaded." The man crept cautiously down the cellar stairs, the noise of shaking down tho tire drowning his footfalls. Patricia Weldop took one last look Into the fire and, turning suddenly, found herself looking Into the muzzle of a shotgun. She promptly did the first thing that entered her head. Sho fell In a faint to tho floor. The man's gun fell almost before the girl dropped. Ho rushed to her side and with something very much llko a swear word on his lips picked up tho huddled mass of unconscious beauty and with shaking heart but steady arms carried It up tho stairs. When he stopped, half-way up, to kick the fur coat out of his way, Pa tricia found her senses. She felt her seif being rather reluctantly put d:<wn on the couch In tho living room. The man sat down beside her then and with a man's awkwardness began to fan her with a magazine. "Wako up, girl! For goodness' Bake wake up!" Patrjcla felt instinctively that his next move would be for water, and as she had no deslro to bo soaked she opened her eyes slowly and effec tively. "Who are you and how do you hap pen to be In Mrs. Stone's houso?" she asked. "Who are you and how do you come to be In my sister's house?" The man laughed. Patricia Jumped up. "Alice stone's brother! She has never even men llonod that si e has a brother!" "Nor has Bho mentioned to mo that she has a new chum!" If the light ol muh : landing dawned 1 In both minds at the same time neither spuko of it. "I have Jusl come, in from a hunt I Ing trip and beforo t-hat I had about circled the globo." "I suppose the gun you were about to shoot me "Was not loaded. I can't loll yon how sorry I am to have frightened you so. I couldn't see any one until you fell?tho turn was sudden." "It was stupid of mo to faint, I bad come over to fix the fire for Alice." "If you feel equal to It now, I will get. your coat and take you home." The man leaned forward In bis chair. Patricia looked up. Arc you mar ried?" she asked suddenly. "No. Are you?" "No." Then they both laughed. "Hecnuse," Patricia continued, "I prefer, in this Instance, to bo sensible rather than strictly proper. There Is no one home at my houso and there Is no one hero to g< t your dinner. Now, I am not much of a cook but I Intend to get your dinner for you." i The girl looked him squarely in the oyOS. "There is not a bit of 801)30 in your sitting alone here and mo alone there, especially when ??" "When what?'" A light had come info Dick's eyes "When I?when you are my best friend's brother." She turned quickly toward tho kitchen. "Alleo said there was a nice little steak and somo lettuce--" "Alleo!" Pat turned swiftly toward him. her cheeks scarlet. "What does Alice know about this affair ??-" she looked suspiciously at Dick Parel. "Did sho know you were here?" "Sure; I saw her in town and she told mo how to get In and to make myself perfectly at homo." Patricia was looking at him accus ingly. "I wouldn't have frightened you out of your wits with a gun If I had known ?about you," hO put Iff, defending himself." Then Pat smiled. "Alleo Is not ve ry particular about whom she sends to you for a cook." "Sis knows I am not looking for?a cook." Dick looked Into the girl's eyes. HOME 5WEET HOME can only be for | those who Regularly deposit in the bank g a part of their incomes and save enough j to buy|a home. i Make OUR Hank YOUR Hank. We pay liberal interest consistent with safety. Enterprise Bank | Laurens, S. C. j N. B. Dial, President C. H. Roper, Cashier j Don't Wait One Hundred Boxes of Paper, ruled and plain, sold for 25 cents, which we are offering for lOcts a box. When stock sold out can't duplicate. Come at once. ^ $ To Country Merchants! ^ 1 listen! We have a job in Pencil and Pen ^> Tablets. When in Town ask to see them. ^ Don't forget to see our large size bottles of flj Castor oil and Turpentine. % Palmetto Drug* Co. | ^ W. II. WASHINGTON, Manager. ^> tu Wl: BUY AND SELL my a REAL ESTATE! m List your property with us. Wo JMjj think wo know values in City and County Property. ^c act/ as Executors, Adminis- yYj trators and Guardian for Estates. ?^ Business entrusted to ua will re ceive expert and careful attention. jjS & ?__B h'fi N. K. DIAL, C II. ROPICR, fej^ Pre ident. Sec & Treas. f | | $| Home Trust Co. $ 03 LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA