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If you have not nlread) purchased one or more of our Mounts' True Bine Turn Plows or Middle Brenkers hurry up and do so. the Besl Fanners all over the South are using them each and ever) plon is f nil j guaran teed to please, do the work and to last (Thai more could you ask.' We are headquarters for Meal, Ba ron, hard. Hams, Hour, I urn, Oats and other feed stuff?We carry the stock ami can deliver the '.'.N. J. H. SULLIVAN Laurens, S. C. Easter Jewelry Latest Designs ?-?- ??? m Finest Quality AT William Solomon RELIABLE JEWELER WILLIAMS' KIDNEY PILLS Have you overworked your nervous sys iem and caused trouble with your kid ney* and bladder? Have you pain* In loins, aide, back and blndder? Have you a flabby appearance of the fare, and un der the eyes? A frequent desire to pass urine? If so, William?' Khlpey Pills will euro you?Druggist, Price 60c. WILLIAMS MFG. CO.. Prop*.. Cleveland, Ohia LAURENS DRUG CO. Laurens, S. C CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON TALKS PARCEL POST Gives Iiis Views to a Constituent who had Written hlin About the Pending Hill. Washington, March 23.?Represent ative Johnson has been receiving a number of letters protesting against ? the enactment of the limited parcels post bill, which is now pending in Congress. Mr. Johnson is strongly in favor of a much more extensive parcels post system than that which is now proposed, which applies only within the radius of iura! free deliv ery routes, and does not hesitate to express his views on the subject. To one of his constituents who had asked him to oppose the parcels post because it was feared that It would injure the small merchants in com paratively rural sections, Mr. Johnson last night wrote as follows: i "My Dear Sir : "I have your very interesting letter j protesting against the passage of the j parcels post bill. I always deal In i perfect can?or with everybody. I do not agree with you. I am heartily In favor of the parcels post. If the rail i roads and the express companies were to reduce their rates, do you think It would Injure you or any other mer chant In your country? Would not you. and all the other mrehants of jyour county and all the people be I benefited by the reduction of freight and express rates? Did it ever occur to you that the United States is the only civilized country in the world where there is no cheap and proper method of transporting packages weishing less than 100 pounds? The railroads will not accept packages for shipment that weigh less than 100 pounds, and if they do accept pack ages of less weight, they nevertheless charge for 100 pounds. This gives the j express companies a monopoly of all packages weighing less than 100 pounds. There Is one slight limita tion. The United States permits packages weighing not exceeding four pounds to go through the malls at the irate of 16 cents per pound, or $320 per ton. Did you ever try to think what influence was powerful enough to bring about such a monstrus or der of things? The average freight rate In this country is $1.90 per ton, and the average express rate $27.Ol. This makes the average for trans porting express 14.53 to 1. Taking ten countries of the old world, the average express rate is 5.23 to 1. Those foreign countries not only have the benefit of an express rate in comparably lower than our express rate, but they also have the parcels post for the transportation of small packages. Retail Merchants Safe. "Right here is a very good. place to disabuse your mind of the appre hension that the parcels post would drive the retail merchants out of bus iness. In countries having the par cels post the small towns have not dried up. the grass is not growing in the streets, and the merchants have not closed their doors, nor gone into bankruptcy. These merchants are do ing business successfully, although they are handicapped, as you would think, by the existence of a parcels post, and also by very cheap express rates. For instance, the express ra?es in Germany average $3.SO per ton, as compared with the average charge in the United States of $27.01 per ton. In countries having the parcels post the mail order houses not only have not driven the retail merchants out of business, but the mail ordo.' houses themselves have not developed to anything like the same oxr.uit they have in the United States. If the mail order houses have grown to greater proportion in the L'nltod States without a parcels post than they have in foreign countries with j the parcels post, it follow.-, that the , parcels post system is not the one thing needed to build them up. 1 do not think the adoption of the nnrcels post would increase the business of the mail order houses. I do not 'ulnk that people make anything by buying goods away from home. Taking in to consideration quality, quantity, price, delivery, etc., a person can ordinarily do Just as well, or better, by purchasing from his home mer chants. Hut notwithstanding this fact, there has always been an ele ment of our population who believe in ordering goods. There is an ele ment of our population that believe In It now, and If the parcels post were adopted that elemont would not be materially Increased. The mall order houses have little interest in a parcels post. I think they are per fectly satisfied with present condl Hons. At any rate, they are doing marvelously well. Small Freight Shipments. "We need In this country a syatem of transportation which will take care of freight In small quantities. The high cost of living has become a se rious and burning question to people of moderate means In towns and cit ies. Vegetables enough to make a dinner for a small family cost 50 or 75 cents or $1. while thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of those vegetables are going to waste In the country. If the farm er could sell these things for one third of what they now cost the man in the city, he would find it exceeding ly profitable?and yet the reduced cost would bo a blessing to the poor man In the city. But these things cannot be until we get some system of trans portation for small packages that will bring the producers and the con\ Burners Closer together. If we had a parcels post it would be utilized for carrying things to eat from country to towns and cities. That would be a blessing to the producers of those things and to the consumers as well. This matter of providing a system of transportation for small packages, which will bring the producers and consumers of this country closer to gether to the great benellt of bo'.h, Is too broad and too deep and \oo im portant to be longer postponed, while the express companies, by exorbitant rates, are reaping a golden harvest. In 1S98 the Adams Express company declared a s'.ock dividend of 100 pet cent, and in 1907 they declared anoth er one of 200 per cent. In 1910 the Wells-Fargo Express company paid an extra cash dividend of 30 per cent and a stock dividend of 300 per cent. Economic Movement. "We should not perirut the fear of losing a few dollars worth of trade to cause us to oppose a great econo mic movement in the Interest of man kind. I remember well 30 years ago there were some merchants at Lau rens who feared that if tho railroads were to establish stations over the county, it would injure their trade. The railroads completed and they es tablished stations at Waterloo. Cross Hill, Mountvllle, Gray Court, Owlngs, Ora, a Lanford and Enoree. Prosper ous little villages grew up at all these places and stores were opened In these towns. Yet business activities grew, and the merchants of Laurens went on doing more business than ever before. There was a time in the history of South Carolina when mer chandise was hauled In wagons from Charleston to the up-country. The building of railroads changed that condition. Men who had before that time made their livllhood by hauling goods were not injured: there were other business activities to command ! their attention, and they, in common I with all of the people, were benefited I by the coming of the railroad^ j There are as many men making a liv ing now draying goods as there were j before, but they are draying them ? from the depot to the stores and from the stores to the consumers' res idences and not taking long trips to Charleston. Men who raised stock thought that the coming of the rail roads would injure their business be cause not so many horses would be needed, but their fears were without foundation. The coming of the rail roads multiplied business activities in all lines, and the people needed more horses than they ever had before, though there were slight changes in conditions as to the manner in which the horses were used. Only tine Step. "Unfortunately, my friend, the bi!l that Is pending in congress is no: a parcels post bill. It is only a step in that direction. It reduces tho rate on parcels from 16 cents a pouuo to 12 cents a pound, or from ? a ton to $210 a ton. It does not amount to anything. No commodity will I oar that kind of a charge for transporta tion. This bill simply provides that merchants living in a town where a rural route starts may mail a pack age to any person who lives on .the I route, and any person living on the route may mail a package back to tho postolllce from which tho rural route emanates. That's all. The farmer cannot send a package be yond the place where the route stops, nor can any person from another place send him a package. The nail order houses are not In it. The/ ?re not concerned about it. and cannot use It. The bill will simple permit merchants in small towns to send packages out on rural routes, and will permit patrons of the rural routes to send packages to their postofflce towns. A more extensive system is Inevitable within the next few years. Working By Zones. "I have said In this letter that I am heartily In favor of the parcels i ost. But I am not In favor of trans porting a package from New York to San Francisco for the samo postago that I would transport it from New York to Jersey City. The rate ought to be made low within zones of 100, 300 or 500 miles, and increased as the distance increases. Thre is no more reason why the United State?, If It adopts the parcels post, should trans port a package from your postofflce to San Francisco for the same price that It would transport It from your postofflce to Clinton, than thero Is for you to carry a drummer from your place to Charleston for the same price that you would carry him from your place to Gray Court. "When you want anything, write me. Whenever you desire to express your views upon public questions, I shall be glad to hear from you."?The Spartanburg Herald. 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Ross Dorrou j Deceased in the otlice of the Judge of ? Probate of Laurens county, at 1'. o - j clock, a. in., and on the same day will I apply for a final discharge from our ; trust as Administrators, j Any persons indebted to said estate are notified and required to make pay j tnent on that date; and all persons ! having claims against said estate will ; present them on or before said dato, duly proven or be forever barred. S. IT. Dorroh, J. B. Owlngs. Administrators. March 20. 1'.' 113.-1 mo._ CHICHESTER S PILLS Jk?fyrr->. THE DIAMOND Ult.YND. a J^V*t>?V I,?01<e! Auk your Uru.jl.i f r A\ * Mvhc?.t<T'? UUmonjTlnui.l/AX {jHtiffGx?ki. I'lll. la Ilrd an.l Onl.l ? - .. \V/ <t\?1 ??*< Bin? ki^ttn. \/ v*S "WS* ?rVJ T?Le no i.ih -. .tu, of your " I'l ~ (T Uru(?1?(. A - f r< Ill.< IIKx-Tim S I C lg UIAMON? IIKAND 1 11.I 4, f , ?5 IVV O yean known v.r.. t, SaCMt, Always R? ? ? ??^?r SOLD BY DRUGGISTS FYERVWHCRE FINAL SETTLEMENT. Take notice that on the 15th day of April, I will render a linal account of my acts and doings as Admin istrator of the estate of T. R. Simpson, j deceased, in the office of the Judge of I I'robato of Laurens county, at 11 o' clock, a. in., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administrator. Any persons indebted to said estate are notified and required to make pay ment on that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said dato duly proven, or be forever barred. I). R. Simpson. Administrator. March 13. 1012.?1 Mo. NOTICE. Executors, Administrators, Trustees and Guardians are reminded that the period for filing their annual returns commences on the first day of Janu ary every year. O. G. Thompson, Nov. 20. 1911.?tf. Judge of Probate. FORD THE OLD RELIABLE The cost of an automobile is not what you pay for it, but what you keep on paying. 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