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tKlje iHbuertt?er fyabscrlpfJon Price Is *LOO per Year Payable In Advance. Published by ADTEBTISEB PRUTTING COMPANY Laurons, S. C ALISON LiBE W. G. LANCASTER ARTHUR USE President vlce-PreH. Sec. and Treas. Advertising Rates on Application. Obituaries and Card of thanks: One cent a word. Entered at th? postofhee at Laurens, S. C. as second class mail matter. LATHENS, S. ('? JANUARY 24, 1012. Tho Advertiser will be glad to recelTO the local news of nil tho communities in the county. Cor respondents are requested to sign their name to the conlrl* butions Letters should not be mailed later than .Monday morn ing'. Tho Advertiser ndmits that it got tired of reading Hit use messages and let slip that one on the hosiery mill. We'll have t<> give that to Tho Daily Mail. However. WO had already "sworn off." Wo are just a little cranky oil tho hosiery mill subject anyhow. For aeme months wo have been publishing extracts from Dun's Woek 1> Heview. We hope that they have proved of value to some of our read ers. Wo have no way of Unding out, however, hut we would like to know just how many of our subscribers read this column. We hardly know how better to place before our readers the market conditions as they exist than by these extracts. We hope that they are followed closely by all of our readers, especially our cotton raisers. ? ? ? WILL HE BE PARDONED? What Is the motive behind the pub licity given the conversation between W. It. Avant and his attorney at the State penitentiary? Or, more proper ly, what Is the motive of the prisoner and his attorney? In other words "What are they after?" Some thing must be behind the story given out by the prisoner or be most proba bly would not have given it out. If nothing tangible is to bo gained, what reason has he got to be telling the gruesome story at this late day? Why has be not told it before? IiOt's look at the situation. Avant is in the penitentiary with bis sen tence staring him in the face, a par don being a last resort. Ringham, the man who now Is to shoulder all the blame, is free. He has eluded ar rest until now and It is natural to sup pose that he will continue to do so. He occupies just such a position as a dead witness: he cannot deny a charge nor can he suffer any penalty. Not only is be unable to defend himself but, were he guilty, no harm can come to him since be cannot be found. Therefore, lor Avant to place all blame on Blgham and go free himself appears to be the object in view. Witness the insinuating charge of Avant: thai Dlgham had been at him constantly during the day "that some one was intent upon doing him bodily harm, and then, "he does not know wind her hlfl friend (Ringham) had any purpose in view in these stories or not ; he does not think it is likely." Hut why docs he make this suggestion unless he wants the reader to gath er from it that Ringham really bad Homo purhose in view? We are really to believe that blgham had a sinister object in vi. w when be kept warning bim during the day. It appears to us as if Avant is liv ing to place the moral responsibility fortbe crime upon his friend, who is out of reach of the law, with the ob ject seekinf^ a pardon. The story is not at all plausible. in this connection, it might be well to ask, has any real effort been put forth to natch Dr. Ringham? Is the forfeited bond, which by law Is to be used for this purpose, being used for this purposo of has It been placed somowhere else. Something Is behind this tragedy which has never come out. Both of these men should be made to suffer for their crime. ? ? ? ON GOOD AND BAD ROADS. "'Citizen" comes out strong on the road proposition in this Issue of The Advertiser. "Citizen" calls for help. Ho calls on the supervisor for help, lie calls on "Mr..Editor" for help and he seenis to be willing to call on most anybody for help. He fails to call on oae person, though, who could help If he would, and that person Is him ?elf. Whon we say "Citizen" should call on himself, we take ''Citizen'' collectively nnd mean that all the cit izens should call on themselves. If the people who travel tho roads are not willing to cooperate to work the) roads themselves', by doing a little personal work in' the way of using the split log drag, they should be willing to afford the supervisor tho means to, work them with. Beautiful plans for working roads do not amount to much so long as. the money is not forth-com ing with which to put tho plans into execution. The plain facts about the road business Is that the county has not at its disposal enough money to mako any permanont improvements with. So long as this money is not forthcoming, Just so long will we havo to put up with bad roads after each successive severe wet spell. Tho split log drag is an excellent road Instrument if it is used. Its not of much value as a subject of conver sation. Mr. Humbert has not at his command enough money to drag every road in the county arter each rain, although he docs drag some of them. He hasn't enough money to make such improvements as would do away with the necessity of dragging the roads after each rain. Therefore, what is to be done? Wither enough money must he voted him (in the way of bonds) to make permanent improve ments, or enough money must be fur nished him yearly to work all the roads after and during each muddy spell or the people living along the roads must assist In keeping them up. Thoso three alternatives stare us in the face and they cannot be dodged. What is to bo done? Let "Citizen" or someone else make a suggestion! Whatever Is to ho done will require cooperation ami an expenditure of some money. Wo believe that the properous and broad-minded people of Laurona county are willing to do what can be done in this matter. A Mail Order Deal. Down in Oklahoma the other day a man went into a store to buy a saw. He saw the kind he wanted and asked the price, it was $1.66, the dealer said. "Good" gracious" said the man. "I can get the same thing from Sears. Roebuck & Co. for $1.36." "That's less than it cost me." said the dealer, "but I'll sell it on the same , terms as the mail order house just the same." "All right." said the customer. "You can send it along and charge it to my account." "Not on your life," the dealer re plied. "N'o charge accounts. You can't ihi business with the mail order house that way. Kork over the cash." The customer complied. "Now 2 cents for postage and 5 cents for a money order." "What-" "Certainly, you have to send a let ter and a money order to a mail order house, you know." The customer, Inwardly raving, kept to his agreement and paid the nickel. "Now 2.", cents expressive." "Well. I'll be-," he said, hut paid It. saying "Now hand me that saw and I'll take It home myself and be rid of this foplory." "Hand it to you? Where do you think you are? You're in Oklahoma and I'm In Chicago, and you'll have to wait two weeks for that saw." Whereupon the dealer bung the saw on a peg and put the money In his cash drawer. "That makes $1.07," he said. "It has cost you 2 cents more and taken you two weeks longer to get it than If you had paid my price in the first place." LETTER FROM "CITIZEN." * ? * *************** Editor Advertiser: I havo been thinking for some time of writing something relative to our country roads. In almost every sec tion of tho county they are well-nigh impassible. Ruts and . tches and wash-outs I find on all the roads and what we want Is a remedy for these conditions. Farmers can't go to town only with difficulty, mail carriers can't make their rounds, doctors can't go to sot their patients, children can't go to school?all because of the rough roads. The only good thing wo can possibly see about the rough roads is they won't let the automobiles run. Now Mr. Editor wo want you to help us secure bettor roads. Our supervisor Is not to blame, he has his hands full and Just can't get around and scrape all tho roads?Now we have one sug gestion nnd to put it briefly it is this: , Let tho supervisor employ a man .In every township or community to go over the roads with a split-log drag and ..moothe the rough places and ruts down. This cortalnly would help mat torn. Mr. Editor can't you help us out with this road campaign? We need help. Citizen. LaurenH, S. C, R. F. D. No. A. Constipation is the cause of many ailments and disorders that make life miserable. Take Chamberlain's Stom ach and Liver Tablets, keep your bowels regular and you will avoid these diseases. For sale by all deal ers. 8889888888888 8 8 $888 8 8 8 8 STATE PBESS COMMENT. 8 88888888888888888888 Friends of the Newspapers. A supporter of Hon. Kolell Blease sends us,a 35 cents subscription, ac companied by the following letter: . I will wach your paper for the next 30 days. You have got grate room for improvement to sute me, but 1 hope you will do so. Gov. Blease has not been treeted fair by your paper, but of course much beter than by some others, they wool hat boys only Wants fair play and fair play we must have. All right, wool hat boys, the Journal Will give Blease fair play. We havo never done otherwise. In fact, the Journal is one of lllease's favorite newspapers. We think this because be has never called any member of our staff "an infamous liar" or a "half-bred negro." In fact, "dirty coward" is about as far as the gover nor has ever been referring to any member of the Journal staff and this. In comparison with the epithets he burls at other newspaper men. must bo considered a sort of compliment. Therefore we are trying to give the governor a square deal. We print only the truth about him and a little of that goes a long ways. As a matter of fact, we are enjoying the reign of the Honorable Blease. From a newspaper standpoint he is the greatest governor who ever gov erned. The newspapers want news and Blease supplies it in steady, startling, undhninlshod and uninter rupted volumes. He Is tho best friend the newspa pers have with the exception of those Who send along their subscriptions In cash like the author of the above letter. With Blease to furnish the news and bis supporters to furnish the sinews of war we feel that the Journal is singularly fortunate.? Spartanburg Journal. Bat Why is it that every time Editor Bill Gardner gtts off an extra stinger on some of Iiis friends that they come back by wondering what kind of "mean liquor" .he has been drinking. Everybody knows that Bill never touches a "drap." People will begin to think after a while that be does take/a little "nip" every now and then. We can certify to the fact that he never has taken a little one yet.? Laurens Advertiser. This doesn't count for much. We never knew Charlie Hearon to take a "little" one, but? ?{Gaffnoy Ledger. Gone to the Bnd. A Charleston merchant is still ad vertising Christmas hams In The News and Courier. The Laurens Ad vertiser remarks that they must be pretty stale by this time. We can't see that that is any of The Adver tiser's business. If the Charleston people want to buy and eat stale ham that's their business. Now we would not blame Tho Advertiser for rais ing a howl if auch a thing was at tempted In Laurens or anywhere In this section of the country but why worry about Charleston any more? Those people down there don't ap preciate It. -Greenville Piedmont. If? If The Laurens Advertiser should succeed in regulating the age of the bams the people of Charleston eat. after a while it would try to drive the blind tigers out or some other equally foolish stunt.?Greenville Piedmont. Even The Intelligencer. There seems to be little doing in the general assembly this week except the consideration of tho vetoes of the governor and It does look as If the general assembly has really gone wild on Ihe subject of these vetoes. If the governor is for anything, It Is gener ally the case that the general assem bly will think that there is something wrong with It and will light It, even though bev might have previously sup ported it. It Is a most remarkable? situation, end thee seems really to be none so poor as to \o him honor. Such a remarkable lo?'s of Influence and support has never before been shown In the state, It Is safe to wagor. ?Anderson fntelllgcnccr. Ave, Farewell, Goodbye. Our good flrend, the Laurens Ad vertiser, says In qoutlng a recent edi torial from The Daily Mail, "The Dally Mall has. gotton off the track again In this hosiery mill matter," We fear that tho Advertiser does It self an injustice for The Dally Mail and the Laurens paper have been to gether all the time, and if wo were off the truck, so was our neighbor. But this time The Advertiser is either off the track or Is asleep at the switch. Does it not know that the governor's office sent to the gen eral assembly a special message mak ing charges against tho penitentiary management? That Is the reason why we say there should be an in vestigation of the affairs of the pen itentiary. One of the substantial "men of Anderson county, W. H. Glenn, Is a director of that Institu tion and his friends here would like to see this whole matter settled once and for all. Now, how does the Ad vertiser call that being "off the track." As to the hosiery mill, the Adver tiser and The Dally Mall have agreed. Dr. Robert Wilson, chair man of the state board of health has practically sustained What The' Dally Mall has presented?that the board of health has not made charges of vlthy and foul conditions at the hosiery mill. Tho clasB of work or environment is what the board of health has criticised. The Daily Mall has never disputed the finding of the state board of health, but the position of this paper has merely been that there was no occasion for such hysterical denunciation of the hosiery mill as has been heard In sonic parts of the state. That's all, and that ought to bo plain enough, for anv one. And wo will add this?that while tho hosiery mill may be unhealthy as a place in which to work it is? lose majeste be hanged?a deal more tidy than some doctor's offices we have seen.?Anderson Daily Mail. A Girl's Wild Midnight Hide. To warn people of a fearful for? st fire in the Catskills a young girl rode horseback at midnight and saved many lives. Her deed was glorious but lives are often saved by Dr. IKng's New Dis covery in curing lung trouble, coughs and colds, which might have ended in Consumption or pneumonia. "It cured me of a dreadful cough and lung dis ease." writes W. R. Patterson, Wel lington, Tex., "after four in our fam ily bad died with consumption, and I gained ST pounds." Nothing so sure ami safe for all throat and hint; trou bles. Price ."ilic ami $1.(10. Trial bot tle free. Guaranteed by I.aurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. Hack in the Toils. BroadU8 Workman, an ox-convict who has only been out of tho peni tentiary for a few months, was again arrested on the place of Mr. Wess W. Madden, near Mountville. last week charged with general rowdyism and carrying concealed weapons. He lias been placed in jail to await trial. When given as soon as the croupy Cough appears Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will ward off an attack of croup and prevent all danger" and cause of anxiety. Thousands of moth ers use it successfully. Sold by all dealers. EYE, EAII, NOSE AND THROAT SPK CIA LIST, M. R. Faville, M. D., wishes to an nounce that be has offices on the third floor of tho Grier & Pi rk building. Greenwood, and is equipped to fit glasses, and treat diseases of the eye, ear. nose and throat. Phone -!06. Olfico hours?0 to 1 and 2 to 1. Sundays my appointment. ? SPECIAL NOTICES. Mules for Sale?One pair of mules for Bale, cash or on time. Fine bar gain. See me at once. H. Douglas Cray, Laurens. S. C. 26-3t For Sale?One Number 6 Remington Typewriter, In good condition, for $2f>.00. Harris Llthla Springs Co., Har ris Springs, S. C. 2G-4t For Sale?Two nice residences in the city of Laurens, well located in a popular neighborhood and fitted with modern conveniences. Large corner fots. Apply to Dr. W. H; Dial. 26-tf For Sale -Two mules and one mare, cheap for ensh. Apply at W. H, Hud gens & Co.. or to Dr. W. H. Dial 26-tf For Rent?One small cottage on Simpson street. Also suite of office rooms in Dial building. Apply to Dr. W. H. Dial. 26-t.f Lost One setter dog. white with lemon ticked bead and ears. Answers to name "Joe". Suitable reward If returned to Thos. I. Swygert, Watts Mill. 26-21 For Rent?-1 two horse farm and 1 one horse farm, at Witte place. .New bluldingSj rich land Apply to E, P. Minter, Laurens. S. C. 26-tf Lost?A gold scarf pin with moon stone set, enclosed In envelope from Win. Solomon's Jewory store. A rea sonable reward will'be paid upon re turn of the pin to Jno. ?ugt. Marks dale. 26-lt-pd Notice- All persons are forbidden to biro or harbor one .lohn Jacks, who is under contract to me for the year MH2. P. M. Bailey, Laurens, S. C. ' 26-lt-pd For Sale One 12 horse power Ajax Engine on cornlsh boiler and ono Lid dell Saw Mill with Heacock feed in good condition. J. H. Tumblln Broth ers, Hickory Tavern, Gray Court, R. F. I). 4. 25-3t-pd We Want--you as a customer. I now have in charge the Whltlock shop, have excellent blacksmith and wood workman. Will also grind corn Tues days, Thursday and Saturdays. Do business with us. We'll endeavor to please you. 8. N. Crisp, Mountville, S. C. 25-tf HORSES FOR SALE: -I have a young bay horse for Bale. Any lady can drive him. He is perfectly safe, not afraid of automobiles ner trains and will work to anything. S. W. I/)WE, Cross Hill, S. G._24?4t IP FOR "RENT*:?Five room cottage, splendid neighborhood, comer Sullivan and Martin streets. Apply to W. G. Lancaster, 24 3t Enterprise Bank. For Sale?A scholarship In a lead ing business school not many miles] from this place. Will soil at dis count. For Information apply at this office. M-tf ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pur* The only Baking Powder made from Reya I Crape Cream of Tartar '_NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE IIA IIIIN NEWS. ? * *************** Rabun, Jan. 23.?Mrs. Rebecca Ow ens and daughter, Miss Edna, spent last Wednesday with Mr. Lewis Ma haffoy and family ot Eden and with Mr. and Mrs. Boardie Owens Wednes day night. Mr. Houston Babb spent Tuesday night at the home of Mr. ('. A. Boll of Eden, and Wednesday night at the home of Wright Martin of Eden. Mr. 1.aureus Mahon was in Laurons Saturday on business. Messrs Earl Bnbb and Stewart Ma hon were In Laurens Saturday. Miss Mae Babb spent several days last week with Mrs. Nancy Owens. Mrs. Solomon Mahaffey of Eden sec tion spent Saturday night with Mrs. Nancy Owens and son Dennis, and Sunday with Mrs. Rebecca Owens. Misses Bettle Weeks and Alllo Babb were Visb?rs of Miss Vivian Owons of Eden community Saturday night. Miss Bettle Weeks was the visitor Of Mr. Walter Baldwin and family Sat urday night and Sunday. Mr. .lohn Boyd of Greenville spent Friday night with Mr. T. F. Mahb. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Wasson and little daughter Nellie of Friendship spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Markus Owens. The snow left us last Friday, hope it will be some time oeforo we have another one as the llrst one Stayed with us so long. Mr. W. D. Owens killed a hog Fri day ,and ho thought it weigh . 500 pounds. BlOOdine Cough Checker will quick ly allay that hacking irritation ac companying a severe cough or cold. The safest and surest remedy for chil dren. Keep a bottle constantly at hand. Laurens Drug Co.. Laurens, S. C. * FHO.YI A NEGRO TENANT. ? ************ ?** Editor The Advertiser. 1 want to say right here that as long as we negroes have to plant nothing hut cotton that we can never pay our debts. Wo ought to try to work out living out at home. We can do this by raising corn, peas, wheat, potatoes, pumpkins, hogs, chickens and all that goes for food and then wc will not have the^e things to buy and then our debts will be small and we can make a little cotton and pay a small debt. I have tried both and when I raised all of these things I got along alright.' lust as potn as I quit and planted nothing but cotton I failed to pay my debts. We can raise mote than we can cat In one year, but we can buy more than we can pay for out of noth ing but. cotton. If you want to sink fiist, just raise nothing but cotton. A Negro. Medicines that aid nature arc al ways most, effectual. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy nets on this plan. It allays the cough, relieves the lungs, opens the secretions and aids nature in restoring the system to a healthy condition. Thousands have tostlfled to Iis superior excellence. Sold by all dealers. MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETING. Profitable Monthly Meeting Hold In the Ofllce of Dr. Holfo K. Hughe* .Monday Morning. The county .Medical Society mot Monday morning hi the office of Dr. It. K. Hughes. Quito a large number of the members were present and a profitable mooting was held. Dr. Isi dore Schayer read a most excellent pa per, which was freely commented up on by all those who were present. Dr. Prod Klugh, of Cross Hill, was appointed as a delegate to represent the society at the meeting of the Tri State Medical Society which is to be hold in Columbia, Dr. .1. L. Fenneii was appointed alternate. At the recent election for officers fot the coming year the following were elected: Dr. T. l.. W. Ualloy, of Clinton, President. Dr. .1. l.. Fcnnoll, Wntorloo, 1st vlco Presldont. Dr. \V. II. Dial. I aureus, 2nd vico Prosident. Dr. Prod Klugh, doss Hill, 3rd vicc^Prcsidont. Dr. .1. li. Tongue, Laurcns, Sccrc tary. Dr. A. .1. Christopher, Lauren . Treasurer. 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