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i CORTRIGHTsM? Fon?lDlN'Ci Roofs Put on 26 Years Ago are as good as new, and have never needed repairs?never need attention of any kind, ex cept an occasional coat of paint. Ulli"?' '.,,ittiii"i""i .."i ' "".'.',,?uhiiu'""":'./ ^JJ'j Mil I in | - Storm-proof Fire-proof lightning-proof Don't buy that roof for the new buuding,or re-roof the old* Wk B* unnl you neve examined the Coftrighi M*i*S SUagUa, For sale by Local Dealers or Cortright Metal Roofing Company 50 N. 23rd, St., Philadelphia, Pa. "Spend where it will count. Be sure it will count before you spend. Just figure ahead a lit tle." THE BANK3^ LAU RENS LAURENS, S.C. IfyROLLlSN? STOW GATHERS NO MOSS WHY-BE!K- TlMfiN T? Buy A Home With Rent Money! The average tenter pays for his place every eight years hut the laud lord still owns it. Why Pay Rent? YOU PAY AS RENT ,????? 178 Acres near Ml. Olive Clinch.' Cheap and on easy terms. One-half interest in one of the linest lime quarries in the South. Four miles of Ware Shoals. Cheap on easy terms. At $120.00 per year in 10 years. $1,581.6? At $120.00 per year in 25 yearn. $6,583.72 At $240.00 per year in 10 years..... $3,163..% At $210.00 per year in 25 years. 13,167.43 We will cut any of the following into such size tracts as you desire. We buy at wholesale and-retail land out to suit the small buyer : Sr endid farm and Kinnory at Kkom, containing 100 acres, and good uwelling, outhouses, otc, 20-horseengine and 10-horse boilor, two 60 saw gin, all In good shape on easy terms or all cash. About 100 Acres near Watts Mill, known as the Hadgett Land. 552 Acres located near Heody River Power Company, on Reedy s River, and known as the Horroh Place. Price, 812.50 to $20.00 por acre, depending on number of acres and location. 200 seres three miles east of Laurcns. High state ^cultivation. Terms easy. 23 acres at Anil's cross roads, cheap for quick sale. 10 acres near Watts Mills, all improved, for $l,500,?half cash. 105 acres, a part of J. N. Clardy tract, $8.00 per acre. (Jet the bar gain now. Several houses and lots near Watta Mill. 93 acres near Ora, level and good Improved land, $60 per acre. 400 acres near Stomp Springs, $11.60 per acre. We also have for sale about Twenty-two Acres of land within the Corporate limits of the City of Laurens, known ss Qrays Hill, which we will sell in small building lots, at reasonable prices. A good many of these lots have cottages on them. Remember that we cut off any number of acres de sired by purchaser and give any reasonable time in which to pay. We want to make it possible for every white farmer in Laurens County to own his home. Laurens Trust Company R. A. Cooper, President. C. W. Tunk, Sec. & Treas. Anderson k Blakeley, Managers Real Batate Sales. MAYOR GRACE TAPS GOVERNOR BLEASE A Hrrc/j Interview on the Charleston Campaign Meeting, Where Blease Threatened Metropolitan Police. Charleoton, July 8.?"Of course it was anticipated by mo that Gover nor Blease would be compelled at the Charleston meeting to take no tice of and. If he-could, answer the charges which I have so publicly made against him," said Mayor Grace Saturday night, in a statement replying to the attack made upon htm by the Governor In his speech at the State campaign meeting held Friday evening at the Hibernian Hall. It will be remembered that Governor Blease, when he had finished his attack on Judge Ira B. Jones spoke of the breach between Mayor Grace and himself, which grew out of his appointment over Mr. Grace's protest, of whiskey constables in Charleston. This led up to charges by the Mayor that graft could be traced practically up to the Governor, which accusation was followed by the dispensary In vestigating committee of the Legis lature coming to Charleston and hold ing an Investigation. The Governor denounced any man accusing him of having received graft through the whiskey consta bles as a malicious character-thief and cowardly liar. He read a letter from Mayor Grace asking him not to dismiss a local notary who was a negro. The feature of this address which made the deepest impression, was that If Charleston voted for Jones, he would do all In his power to place the metropolitan police here and govern Charleston by injunction, lie referred lightly to the results of the recent investigation held by the legislative investigation committee, and said that if any one would say to Chief Constable StOthart's face that he had received graft, furnish ing the proof, lie would discharge him. Mayor Grace was in I lie audience at the Hibernian Hall when Gover nor Blease attacked him so severely, but he held his peace and made no reply. Saturday night he gave out the following statement: The Mayors Stu 1 einen!. "Of course it was anticipated by me that Governor Blease would be compelled at the Charleston meet ing to take notice of. and if he could, answer the charges which 1 have so publicly made against him. There was no escape from this necessity. The only matter over which I had any doubts was whether or not I should attend the meeting, and witli my own ears hear what he had to say. My friends practically unani mously advised me against it. As it happened, I was on the Isle of Palms at the State Bankers' Convention, and had I cared to lend plausibility to my absence I could have readily evaded it. Hut I determined that come what might, it was my duty to go to the meeting. As ii demo crat, I have never missed any of these meetings, and the only thing that could have kept me away would have been, whether others might have thought of it, cowardice on my part. "Having mud" up my mind, thcre j fo'ro, to go the next thing which ' bothered me was what attitude I should assume toward Governor Blease, however personal and bit ter he might become. As I had de liberately gone to the meeting l was equally as deliberate about what my course should he. I remembered that I was Mayor of Charleston: that the hall was packed with men Who at the slighted threat of per sonal Injury, would spring to my side through devotion that is unex celled anywhere. The police force, while composed largely of inen loy al to me. I Would have myself re quired to do its duty, and under the orders of the chairman. 1 ami even my most devoted friends, might have been summarily removed from the hall, to which extremity I would have bowed in obidence ko law. With these mere outlines of a riot ous situation flooding my mind there was but one view for me to take? to swallow anything.. I did it with complacency, and I think the public, from what I hear, approves of my course. The Beer Incident. "Moreover, what did It matter, what Blease said? Did he not in the very speech in which he so violently by indirection, denounced men, also give utterance to the rankest Inde cencies and anarchy? Think of a governor replying as to how he stood on the beer question by shout ing that if his questioner (In violation of the law) would bring him up to the stage a drink of beer he would be bet ter able to answer the question. Of course, it was grilling for me to have to sit and listen to Blease's lies. The Idea of his making In it appear that tho beginning of our troubles was when he refused to appoint a negro notary public, whose appointment, by the way, I had asked only as a favor to gentlemen in Charleston who were not then nor have ever been, my political friends. Are MeBsrs. Nathans and Sin kler also negro lovers? And do they believe In social equality? Certainly not. It Is almost sickening to have to answer such tommy-rot. The Dispensary Constables. "There was but one cauBC. and that was ins I said In a published article recently,) Dlease had broken his pub lic promise and his private word. I expected him to be governor of South Carolina, and when he was elected I was happy. Any intimation by him that I wiBhed to usurp those functions Is more than absurd. In the presence of many others he ask ed me If I would name a man for chief constable, and In their pres ence, I denounced the whole proposi tion, and said that I would hold him to his word not to appoint any, as I knew und had told him in writing that they would be grafters. They have since demonstrated it. What more proof docs he need? "Talk about facing Stothart! Wit ness after witness under oath faced Stothart. and then finally Stothart faced himself, and looking himself and his own guilt, (and, I believe, Dlease mountainous guilt) in the eye, he refused to answer on the grounds that It might Incriminate himself. Why didn't Dlease read the constable letter?the letter of pro phetic warning which I wrote htm. and In which I told him that he had broken his word, rather than switch off on the Irrelative tangent of al leged social equality? HIcusc's Threnr. ( "Of course, his nasty threat about I the metropolitan police Is in keeping with the rest of his character but It is ir> no way disquieting. If It means ar thing it means simply this: Up to August 27th. no matter what the people of Charleston do, the con stables will stay here as graft agents. On August 28th, If by their votes, the people of Charleston have resented his dirty administration, he will take It as a sufficient crisis in the history of the state to justify his resort to whatever extraordinary power he can stretch the laws to mean. The metropolitan po lice hill has been repealed, but he refers to some vague, obsolete power whereunder a sort of martial law might he foisted upon us?a power, of course, under our constitution nec essarily lodging in our executive, if upon any rare occasion a city held itself in open rebellion against State authority. "That such conditions in Charles ton could suddenly spring up over night upon his defeat could only ap peal to his diseased and lawless mind, and were he even so disposed, he would llnd that the Courts of South Carolina, for which he professes such Utter contempt, would stay his venge ful hand. "We know that Charleston also too long has bent under the fear of usur pation, but I believe that there Is still pride, and resentment left, and from j now until election day I expect to call ' upon her people by their unanimous vote to spurn the price of peace at the price of independence, and I ask them now In tho language of Tat rick Henry. 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Are showing special value in White dotted Dress Swiss from 10 to 25c the yd Broken Checks in nice Sheer Goods only 10 cts a ard. A full line White Dimity Checks from lOcts to 15cts. Linene and Linen finished Lawns at lOcts. Wash Silks in the most desirable shades 25cts. Shirting Percales and Hadras Cloth fast colors. A complete line of Silk and Silk Lisle Hose. Embroideries in all widths and weight at IW. G. WILSON & CO. I to return until Tuesday mid night following. For any information, call on F. J. NELSON, T. C. WHITE, Ticket Agent. Qen. Pas. Agent Wilmington, N. C. CHARLESTON The Isle of Palms \ Is calling you, the Surf, the Music, all cry out $ for you to follow tho crowd. The Atlantic Coast Line ; has provided the schedules and Rates; beginning | < Saturday, June 1st., ? and to continue during the season. TO For all trains of Saturday, and v morning trains of Sunday, limited $6.00