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1.10P Extra Heat, Just When You. Need It W rH a Perfection Smokeless Oil Heater in the house you are safeguarded when accidents happen to your heating system. PERF TION SMOKELE B-EATERS Cold sn have no terror for you, for the Perfection supplies 'ust the extra hi nAieeded to make bedroom, bathroom or sitting room w n and comfortatle. Burns kerosene-easy to handle and inexpensive. Perfection Heaters are portable, heat quickly and are smokel ss nd odorless. At hardware, furniture dealers and general stores everywher Look fot the Triangle Trade-Mark. STANDARD OIL COMPANY Washington, D. c. (NEW JERSEY) Charlotte, N. C. Norfolk1 Va. Charleston, W. Va. Richmond, Va. BALTIMORE Charleston, S. C. No. 10652, TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 'Office of Comptroller of the Currency. Washington, D. C., Oct 27, 1914. WHEREAS, by satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned it has been -made to appear that "THE LAU RIENS NATrIONAL BANK" in the CITY You cannot afford to trust valuable Car of LAURENS, in the county of LAU RENS, and State of SOUTH CARO- pets and Rugs for leaningto methpds that LINA, haa -complied- with all the pro visions of the Statutes of the United are incorrect and uTafe. Our methods are States, required to be complied with before an association shall be author- safest an Ized to commence the business of banking; revival o , them NOW. THEREFORE, I, JOHN SKEL- new and damage the TON WILLIAMS. Comptroller of the - "'11HE LAURENS NATIONAL BANK" in the CITY of LAURENS, in tl)e coun- w possible ty of LAUTENS and State of SOUTH CAROLINA, is autho~re to com OA0 ~~tris~dtoa po schemes. mence the business of og as pro vided in Section Fif no hundred and sixty-nine of the lsed Statutes Foo of the United States. CONVERSION of The Bank of Lau I'N TICSTIMONY WHECREOF witness Awy aetadBs my hand and Seal of offlde (Seal) this 27th day of OCTOBER,- CubradM. Comptollerofsth Currncugs --for leaning - met dstha LareAL. inorc an0nae u ehd r StteofSot soinaf Es andELense the T roghutwiho revy fLarne Ival' ORetclr, mkn hmlk neaadgitotiamgettte ins fabrics.VWealsomDyegretfenndaRug in theeabovesstated casenIzwilltselllat Publc otcr tothe ighsteiddrsa Laui'es C.ooter'sCyon sorkda hours for suhlsalesStfefollowdngedo 1914. seribedCumberlandtoMdi Comtroie of ladiutlinen burengy in SuLAND onli~ ALEnscuny state afouthjld continin, .hn ,C1 diedundety thLaree nds. -hl 'acr es 19 1-)F r rle ss , n and bournde oadreo therhb curant hnteaoesae ae Iisth atAfiSA. thbe nofWry t i;o the hgetbdeas aI Ibyureedy H. e.C onsaedyn llrDCeebkn, aen d Mona the 7th ub dayenville monthsduring Ah. lurel lihos fo uch ln t he olsin de ascri ndpesy, t he fokit:ai Aof thatoverti tract piubect o par eed ofve land sBtaldre, Crek and n statow asf oreticonann ofe .hun-P dredo Pool Plet ty-hree aesl aserent to9 overflo tore or lessand the lancdt of Welvtkne mon the eoast RSMSGFII H RS N RWSYUCN byeed of sae ceipton thsout byo NTACMLS HT O EIE H O U mortgae rekfdo the miest sold wpub- NGVEYUTEGEAETCR NDATNIN crenvlper an n, wit leve howevre SALIGElSBSlASEE.OU AEO andsi landsn the puchsrk oyfo a-d prs.d Ivhersi orsae re anotd Hac Pomle withace. prptytoree are-sL w14. K~lK old the ae rctoms subenta easemsday ton saeo tem samt risk fLnS.C forme ofurchvasoerCmay Temsof.a On-Af POWsh, bal Dared thsyt bond of Nov. purc14./An mvlortg o the Pemte sold wi7.th W ol iet Iv ~ urN x cetpranub witleve hoev rdeo O R 4 IO -o piesrIftetrm 'Vof aleare not sol ongae or somusubsquen BATTLE BULWARK IS BLOWN UP Another of Large English Fightiug Ma. chines Goes Unier the Waves. In. ternal Explosion. London' NoV. 27.-It was officially announced here that the British bat tieship Bulwark ad been blown up off Sheerness. Only twelve men out of the 700 or 800 on board the Bul wark were saved. According to the admiralty, the ex plosion which resulted in the destruc tion of the Bulwark, is believed to have originated in her own magazine. The -announcement of the disaster to the Buywark was made by Winston .Spencer Churchill, first lord of the ad niralty, shortly before 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The explosion which destroyed the Bulwark occurred at 7:56 a. m. A vice admiral and a real admiral who were at Sheerness reported that they were convinIced tlt the disaster was caus ed by a 'magazine explosion. There was no upheaval of the water. When the smoke had cleared the ship. had entirely disappeared. An inquiry will be held today and the admiralty believes that it may :hrow some light on tWe occurrence. Mr. Churchill, speaking in the house of comnons eoncerning the dis aster, saild: "The loss of the ship does not sensibly affect our military position, .ut I regret the loss of life, which was very heavy. Only twelve men .were iaved. All Yhe officers and the rest of the crew, which, I suppose, amount ed to 700 or 800 perished." The force of the explosion aboard the boat was so great that houses In Sheerness and even in Southend, sov en' miles away, and on the other side of the Medway, were violently shaken. The people fled into the streets in alarm. When the great ship blew up dense clouds of smoke and flame shot into the air. The vessel disapperaed beneath the waves in three minutes. So terribly was the Bulwark rent that It was impossible to render her any assisrance. Immediately after the ex plosion the vessel was blotted out by smoke, and as the veil slowly lifted a handful of men were seen strugg ig In the water. Small craft rushed to their aid and picked them up Someu of the crew were badly mutilated. A touch of the dramatic was added to the catastrophe by the fact that the band of the Bulwark was playing when the explosion came. The disaster occurred while the Bul wark was lying at anchor off the naval port of Sheerness, neath the mouth r-f the Thames, but the officers of the port scout the public impression that the vessel was the victim of a German submarine. This seems to be support ed by the absence of an upheavel in the water, as the first lord of the ad miralty explained. Although only fifteen years old and no longer ol the first fighting line, the Bulwark still was a usef;,l unit. The loss of the ship, howeve'r, was nothing comp~ared wIth the fieavy loss In trained oficers and men with whose relatives Mr. Chiurchill expressed in the house of commons his deep) symp)a thy and sorrow. The Bulwark, in her early career, was quIte a favored ship. F'or a long tIme she was the fiag3hip of Admiral Charles Beresford in the Mediterranean. The British battleship Bulwark, 1.3 000 tons displacement, was laIid do-i in 1899 and completed in 1902. Sh~e was -i11 feet long, 75 feet wide and dIrew 19 feet of water. 11er armfamlernt consIsted of four 12-inch, twelve 6-inch gnums, sixteen 12-pounders, sIx 3-pound er's and four submerged torpedo tubes. She had a complement of 750 men. Sheerness Is on the Thames, at the mouth of the estuary of the Medway. It is 35 mIles down the river from fAnmdon. The loss of the Hulwark, accordling to a Central News dispatch received todhay from Chatham, was due to an accidental explosfon while ammu nition was being loaded on the war ship. SOFTI FL~UFFlY HAIR IS FIRST A ID TO BE AUTY ,If your hair is not fluffy, soft and lustrous, is falling out, streaked, fad ed, brittle, or full of dan tuff, and if the scalp itches, do not Ink it must always be that way, for retty hair is only a matter of care nd the use of the proper halr dros ng. Your hair is like a plant-Vif eglected it soon dlies, whmile wit tlittle attention it keeps fresh and eautiful. Parisian Sage is a scientific prepa.. ration that supplies just the elements needed to invigorate the hair roots and stimulate your hair to grow long, thick, fluffy, soft and lustrous. It re moves all dandruff with one applica tionm and quickly stops itching head andl falling, hair, It is the ideal hair tonic and scalp treatment--contalns nothing injurious and is delicately per fumed. Tle Laurens Drug Co. or any drug gist{( can supply you with Parisian Sage--it is inexpensive. You cannot he disappointed with this delightful and helpful toilet necessity, for it will surely givo your hair the beauty and charm ot youth, Gas. Who first used the word "gas" and why? Merely because of the supposed resemblance of the product of burn ing carbon to the "chaos" of the Greeks. "This spirit, hitherto un known," wrote the experimenter Van Helmont in 1648, "1 call by the new name gas, and I call it so because, being untamable, it is scarcely distin guisbable from the chaos of the an cients." A glimpse at modern gas do vces will show how far removed from untamability is the gas of today. Pleasures of the Table. "Then I commended mirth, because a man bath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry."-Ecclesiastes, 8: 15. "And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many ybars; take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry."-Luke 12:19. "What advan tageth it me if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."-I. Corinthians 15:32. "Let us eat and drink, for- tomorrow we shall die."-Isaiah, 22:13. When You Sneeze. The custom of saying "God bless you" to a person when he sneezes originated among tho ancients, who, fearing danger from it, after sneezing made a short prayer to the gods, as "Juiter, help me." The custom is mentioned by Homer, the Jewish rab bis and others. Polydore Vergil says it took its rise at the time of the plague in 558, %.hen the infected fell dead, sneezing, though apparently in good health. Wagon With Sails. In 1622 one of the wonders to be seen at The Hague was a wagon or a ship or a combination of both. A traveler of that time wrote: "This engine hath wheels and sails, will hold above twenty people and goes with the wind, being drawn or moved by nothing else, and will run, the wind being good, above fifteen miles an hour upon the even hard sands." Couldn't Fool Him. The farmer had bought a pair of shoes in the city shop. "Now, can't I sell you a pair of shoe trees!" sug gested the clerk. "Don't 'git fresh with me, sonny!" replied the farmer, bristling up; "I don't believe shoes kin be raised on trees any mor'n I be lieve rubbers grow on rubber trees or oysters on oyster plants, b'gosh!" Right Sort of Schoolmarm. "Too much sympathy is mi'placed," says the Atchison Globe. 'An Atchi son man lately expressed concern be cause a young lady school teacher had as many as forty little pupils in her room to disciplino and worry over. 'Why, I wouldn't part with a single one, was her indignant answer, and her eyes were actually tearful." British Fish Harvest. Sixty-two varieties of fish, including great white flat fish, red shell fish, tiny freshwater crayfish, silvery sal mon, dark skinned eels, and yellow dried haddocks were ranged in the aisle of the Church of St. Magnus the Martyr, Billingsgate, E. C., the other Sunday, at the harvest thanksgiving serviCe. Had His Number. The newly accepted young man was "making up" to his sweetheart's im pish small brother. Willie, evinicing a desire to inspect his watch charm, the visitor lifted Willie to his lap. In a pause of general conversation \Villio piped, shriliy: "Am I as heavy - as sister Mabel?" What She Meant. "My second husband is no more like my first one was than day is like night." "But remember that you should never speak ill of the dead." "Oh, I had no intention of doing that. On the contrary."-Houson Post. Oratorio Popular in Germany. Oratorio, ever since the (lays of Handel, has enjoyed extensivo culti vation in Germany. E0very city of im portance has its oratorio society, and many of these choirs have become justly celebrated, British ColumbIa's Timber. With the exception of Siberia, Bra zil a:4 the northwestern United States, British Columbia's timber weal~Ji is reported to be unparalleled in any other country. As a Rule, Willle-"Paw, what does argument pro and con moan?" Paw--"Trhe pro is your convincing statement, and the con is what the other fellow uses, my son." Truth and LIfe. Where the seeking of truth begins, always the life commences, tee; so aeon as the seeking of truth is aban doned life ceases.-John Rtuskin, Her Good Wishes. A woman prisoner's greeting to an English mag,istrato: "Good luck to you, old sport! May you never want for a shilling or a shirti" Daily Thought. Every man's life is a fairy tale writ ten by God's flngers.-Iians Christian Andarann. 10%W ""a~ VA J3.61 Mr. Phillips had Stoma ach Trouble for More than Five Years. . ......... M r. W. R. Phillips, Jr.. 139 More land Ave., Atlanta, GeorgIa, writes: "I had the catarrh and jtonach trouble for more than five, years, and I faithrully trie4 all the medicines I saw advertised, and found they all failed to cure fue. I then heard of P'eruia. I purchased six bottles, and after their use I soon discovered that I was well, safe and sound. I now weiglh two hundred and ten pounds. Iad have never been sick since I took Peruia. It surely is tho best medicine for colds, stomach trouble and catarrlx that I ever heard of." CHRISIMAS PICTUR[S The Kind You Want At the Price You Want to Pay. Picture Fraining Neatly and Reasonably Done. NICH18 STUDIO Laurens, S. C. Make your hens and put lets lay.now and keep them laying all win~ by giving them Poultry Regulator Makes the loafers lay and gives you lots of eggs now. All your br~ik keep healthy and require less feed. It actual ly saves its cost. Guard against Roup 'or u.ng Pratie Roup Rernedy-Tabieie or Powder.Guar. nteed to preveni as well as to eur. J. C. SHELL & Co. J. A. FRANKS TODD, SIMPSON & GO. A. L. MAHAFFEY 654 Jno. W. Fergeon C. C,. F'eathese W. 5. Enight PERGhser, PBATEMMYW4N & 1M? Attorneys at Law '" Laures, B, C, Proinpt andtl~.lreful attention glin to all business. Offiee over Palmetto Bank Augustus G. Hart, Attorney at Law BA NK OF L AURENS BL1DO. In offiee (fcently occupied by John-M. Cannon, deceased. Prompt attention given to all business Practice in all State Courts. B. R. TODD Englnep4g and Contracting Lanr Surveys a Specialty ancrete Work Skillfully done or in spected. Drawings and estimates of all 11n. Telephone Noq 346