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igJbbertteer ?Subscription Price Is $1.00 Per Year Payable In Advance. m_ Published by ADVERTISER PRINTING COMPANY Laurens, S. C. 'ALISON LEE W. G. LANCASTER ARTHUR LEE Pre^'dcnt vice Pres. Sec. and Treas. 'Advertising Rates on Application. Obituaries and Card of Thanks: One cent a word. Entered at tho postoOlce at Laurens, S. C, as second class mall matter. LAUBENS, S. C. JULY 2, 1913. The Advertiser will bo glad to receive tho local nevfs of all the communities in the county. Cor respondents are requested to sign their names to tho contri butions.. Letters should not be mailed later than Monday morn ing. Our regular linotype operator Is away taking his vocation this week : and his assistant is in Ids place. While the young man has stood by the ma-J chine manfully for several days, he has not been able to keep up with the rocord of the "veteran", so in order to give hin* some relief wo are omit ting today aj few of those sclntlllatng j Tomarks so often found la this column, ?they will keep for our admiring read they will koon fr our admiring read ers until next week when wo might >:i\ I .'. double dose. KxwShorlff Ballen Dead. ?P. II. Hallow sheriff of Laurons county immediately proceeding .M,r. Geo. S. NUK'ravy, died at his home in Wynona, Miss, Thursday ond was buried in Jackson, Miss., tho following day. Mr. Hallow was a vrotninont fig ure in Laucrna county a number of years ngo ail dwas a very popular man. A few years ogo ho moved to Jackson, IMI8S., whore ho made his home until he moved to Wynona, wllOl'O his son is in business. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. William Franks and Miss Jnnie Hallow, of this city, and hy~ a son, Mr. Frank Hallow, of Wynona, Miss. Mr. Hallow served in the Con federate army, having enlisted at the age of sixteen toward the end of the war. He served two terms as sheriff of Laurens County. ****?****??*.***., * * SPARKING SUNDAY NIGHT. ? By Wm. l). S. Editor The Advertiser: I send you, for the edification of the boys, this 57-year old poetry. Sitting in the corner On a Sunday night "With a taper finger Resting on your sleeve; Star-lit eyes arc casting On your face their light. Uless mo! This i? pleasant ? Sparking Sunday night. Now your heart is thumping 'Gainst your Sunday vest ; Now wickedly 'tis working On this day of rest. Hours seem hut minutes A? they take their flight Bless me! ain't it pleasant. Sparking Sunday night. iDad and Mam are sleeping On their peaceful bod !Droaming of the things? Tho folks in meeting said: "Low ye one another" Mi:.isters recite; Hies- me' don't we do It. Sparking Sunday night. Due arm with gentle pressure 1 Lingors around her waist, ,You squeeze her dimpled hand, Her pouting lips you taste; She freely slaps your face Rut more in love than spite; O thunder! ain't it pleasant, Sparking Sunday night. But hark! the clock Is striking - It's two o'clock I swum As sure as I'm a sinner The hour to go has come You ask wltn spiteful accents If "that old clock is right" And wonder if it ever Sparked on a Sunday night. One, two, Uirec sweet kisses Flour, dive, elx, you hook, But, thinking that you rob her Give hor back those you took Then, as forth you hurry Prom the fair oner's eight Don't you wish each day was Only Sunday night! WAR DEPARTMENT WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FROM N. 0. OF S. C. (Continued from page 1.) his money, the Cuban go back home and the Adjutant General can be a general without anything to general over. "The white people of South Carolina have always taken care of themselves, and they can and will do so again If necessary. Whether we have a State militia or not we win protect our white supremacy and the vlrture of our womanhood, even if it is necessary to close every cotton mill and to stop every plow in the State. "Cole l>. Hlease." Gen Mo?re's Comment. When shown Governor Mease's statement, AdJ Gen W. W. Moore said: "In the second paragraph of his statoment Governor Hlease gives the names of certain ollleers who voted in favor of the distribution of some mili tary funds. 1 voted against distribut ing the funds to certain companies, because these companies had failed to measure up to the standard required of thorn. Section 1."? of the .Military Voile of South Carolina provides "that no company, battery, etc, shall par ticipate in the annual allotment ot such apropriations unless the e has been an average attendance of at lest GO per cent of its enlisted strength present at such drills or other instruc tion.' Gen Moore denied that he had re ported the matter of the distribution of the funds to the war department hi Washington. Governor Bleaso says in his statement that he presumes den Moore reported the matter to the Govornmt nt. HLEASE STILL EXPLAINING. Says He has Nothing Further to Saj ami Plunges Into Length) Interview, Columbia, June L's. In a statement issued today, bearing upon Me mili ar ty Btituatlon, Governor Bleaso says that he is willing for the Adjutant General, Secretary of War Garrison, or anybody else who has authority, to set a limit, say Mo days or tl mouths, on and give the military companies that were recommended to be muster ed out time to put themselves in thor ough condition, and at the end of that time for them to go through the prop er inspection and if they fall to meas ure up to the standard required that they be mustered out of service. In a paragraph of his statement Gover nor Hlease assails t'ae Dick military law. G?i ernor's Statement. "I have nothing further nt present to say in reference to the military mat ter. "However, 1 am standing firm in my position, and will not muster out any of those companies until they are giv en a proper showing. I am perfectly willing for the Adjutant General, Bri gadier General Jones, Secretary of War Garrison or anybody else Who has the authority, to set a limit, say 90 days or six months, and give these companies that long to put themselves in thorough condition and at t'ae end of that time for them to go through the propor inspection and in case they or any of them should at that time fail to have the proper number of men wUhjnThelr ranks or fail otherwise toj come up to the technical requirements that they then be mustered out of the service. Or I am willing for the en campments to proceed, these compa nies to be allowed to take their places In their regiments and on the last day of the encampment let the proper In spection official be present and inspect these com pantos, and if they or any of them should then fail to come up. to the requirements* that they be ntus tered out. Hut I do not propose to| muster out without giving them the, pr?p?r notice and opportunity of a hearing. 1 know of my own personal OUt than any of those and nothing was .-aid about it. I do no: know that the present Adjutant General has done that because I have not been sufici onlly i?ti : e>trd in him to follow him that closely, but I know that it had; been done many times and I am sat-, Igflod if the captains of these com panies bad been notified that they1 were going to be held up to strict red tape rerpilrements, that on the day. the Adjutant General Was present they would have been thoroughly prepared, and all would have been well. Hut the leniency heretofore shown, I am satisfied, had much to do with these young men not having the proper number of their enlisted men present and failing to come up to the require ments in possibly some other technical matter. Hut they should not and can not be expected, as I have heretofore said to come up to the same strict re quirements as the paid soldiers who have nothing else to do. Objects to Dick Law. "I could state my objections to the Dick law, but I see no use now in burdening the people of the State with that. All that can be taken care of : companies have been voro much more del! : properly at another time. But there are provisions In the law which are iniquitous, and which no free State should ever have submitted to. I am In favor of State's rights and I believe in State sovereignty, and I think any State makes a serious mistake that turns any part of her government over to the I'nitcd States or to any other government, and especially her war department?those upon whom we are to dopend for the safety of our lives, our rights and our property. "I ropeat, however, that If the Na tional Guard is mustered out of ser vice my friend swill take care of no in any ctnei gency. "In addition to the giving of these young men another chance, I have not heretofore stated a very strong rea son which I had, but I would have no hesitation In placing It upon this ground. A close inspecton will show that the companies which the Adjutant General is asking to be mustered out are located in the black belt of this Stale, where it is absolutely necessary that we should have armed white men, and if the United States Government withdraws her entire support South Carolina will keep up these companies, because it is absolutely essential for the protection of our State. For in stance, Barnwoll, Elloree, Walterboro, Georgetown, Mount Pleasant. Look where they arc located, and you will Bee what condition the isolated white families of those counties will be in if I should muster out those compa nies. And if the United States Gov ernment should disarm them South Carolina will reinstate them and re arm them, irrespective of cost, for we are compelled to have companies in those sections of our State, and I am surprised at the Adjutant General endeavoring to disarm companies in this section, even if they had been greatly deficient, instead of very lit tle. "Another thing: It has been said, that If the United States Government muster these companies out what a brent hardship it would be to throw these old companies out of service; yet the Adjutant General is asking me to muster out the Bichland Volunteers, of Columbia, and the Irish Volunteers of Charleston?the very oldest of these companies: The Rlchland Volunteers will celebrate its one hundredth an niversary on August 1. Now, if it is such a hardship for the United States) Government to muster out these old companies why Is it that the Adjutant General is asking me to muster them out? The man who wrote that edito rlval evidently wrote behind a bottle of c orn whiskey or through ignorance. Cole L. Please." OFFICERS UPHOLD BLEASE. Commanding Officers of Three South Carolina Regiments Say that the Governor Did Right. Columbia, June 2S.?Following a conference held here this morning between Gen. Willie Jones and the commanding officers of the three South Carolina regiments, relative to the situation created as a result of the war department withdrawing all sup port from the State militia, the officers issued a statement addressed to Gov ernor Please, in which they take sides with the Governor in the controversey. The officers held a conference with Governor Please this afternoon, and following the meeting it was announc ed that Gen Jones and Col Julius K. Cogswell would go to Washington in regard to the military situation. Gov ernor Please at the request of the of ficers mailed copies of their communi cation to the South Carolina Con gressmen In Washington. CONDUCTING GOSPEL SERVICES. Evangelist A, II. Brers Delivering In? foresting Lectures in hi> Tent On Irhj Avenue. Evangelist a. H. Evcrs. who has erected a large ond comfortable tent, on the corner of Irby Avenue and Far! Streets began a series of servi ces Sunday night, delivering a very Inten -ting lecture on "The Voice of the Metal Man" or the "Great Empire of the Bible." The eVnngollist took the Second Chapter of the Hook of Daniel, pointing out that God outlined the full history of this world from the days of Nobudohadnezzar, King of Babylon, down to tho present time. The services will be continued at the gospel tent for some time. Evan gelist Evers delivering lectures each evening beginning at 8 o'clock. A feature of the service is the song and prayer service Which preceeds each lecture. The public Is cordially in vited. HIS subject tonight will bo Christ's Great Prophecy. Putting on Big Sale. Minter Company, the dry goods and clothing dealers, are to begin their annual summer sale next week, be ginning Thursday, the 10th. They are making big preparations for this event and ore getting busier every day marking down the goods. The an nual event will doubtless attract 0 large number of customers from all over the county. PARCELS POST LOBBY. New "Breed" of Lobbysts Show their Heads at Washington. Washington, June 24.?So silently and lnsldously that the great nubile Is as yet almost unaware of its pres ence, a new trust is extending its ton aoles out over the country, it is the mail order trust. Already Its strang ling grip Is tightening about the mil lion small town and country merch ants who are the backbone of nation al prosperity. The mail order trust has captilized ?women and child labor. It has capi talized prison labor. It has capital ized misfortune. It has capitalized vice. It ha3 turned all these things Into dollars?dollars which should have found their way into the tills of the country merchant, instead of (lowing into the trust's Wall street boa rd. Ono mail order house recently in creased its capital stock from $500, 000 to $40,000,000. A new $10,000, 000 merger of mall order houses has been formed. Wall street financiers, including the Morgan banking linn, has had charge of both these finan cial operations. Still another mail order house, with 63 acres of lloor space, made a neat profit of $17,000, 000 last year. It is evident that the greedy eyes of the great mail order financiers are turned upon the entire retail business of thr United States outside of the great cities. It Is also plain! that a gigantic trust is rapidly forming. The small retail merchant1 is facing ruin. That the grip of* the octopus is already being felt is shown by the population statis tics. Nearly 7,000 small towns lost population in the census of 1010. li Is declared that something must be done by immediate legislation, or the parcel post will not be the com plete blessing it ought to be. It is asserted the solution of the problem will be In the form of a heavy lax on mall order buianess. This te-x would, it Is contended .tend to stop' the expansion of the mail business,I and to reduce Its present formidable j size. The money thus collected would be spent for road building orj other local Improvements in the dis tricts which contributed to the mail order houses. The small retail merchant Is the prop of distributed prosperity, and the growth of the mail order trust serves no common good. Here is a principle which works out: "If you spend your money wliere you get it, you will be nble to get it where y ou spend It." Through a systematic advertising campaign, the mail order capitalists have sought to poison the public mind against the small merchant. The peo ple have been told that there are too many merchants, and that their re tail methods are wasteful and costly. But I would point out the other side of the question. The Chicago vice Investigation showed that ?O.OOO women employees of mall order houses are existing on starvation wages, many of them being driven by poverty to lives of shame. The mail order houses are the great distributors of prison-made gods. They are the exploiters of misfortune, buying much of?their goods at bank rupts' sales. But who takes an interest in local affairs and has a hand In the up-j building of communities? Whose goods are assessed for taxes to pay for local improvement? Who, when the crops have failed or the strike is on, and there is no cash to send away, extends the credit which enables the community to live? The local merchant and not the Wall street owned mail order house. As a eongers.sman says: "We want cheapness, a lower cost of living: that Is what we are all working for. But we do not want it at the expense of the women wage slaves of Chicago and of the million llttlo merchants of this country." SURE OF IT The Country Deacon?There mutt have b*>en a stranger In church this morning. Tho Parson?Did you see him? The Country Deacon?No; but I found a five-dollar note In the colleo? tlon. 88888888888888888888 8 8 EDEN .NOTES. 8 8 8 fl 888888888888888888 Eden, June 30.?Mrs. Fate Crisp of Enoreo spent the latter part of the week with Mr. C. V. Hipp and family. .Miss Kathleen Sulli'van or Laurens visited her grandmother, Mrs. L. R. Brooks last week. Mr. and M. W. Cray attended the Union meeting at Princeton Saturday. Dr. J, W. Beason and wife were in Greenville T.uesda y. Booth Cray spent Saturday night with Qrady Babb. Mrs. C. V. Hipp and Mrs. Emma Reeves attended the Woman's Mis sionary mooting at Laurens Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Mahaffey spent Friday with Mr. M. W. Gray and fami ly. Misses Mary Bell and Sarah Babb, of Laurens visited Mrs. L. R. Brooks last week. Mr. Solomon Mahaffey has returned home after a pleasant visit with his brother Mr. Shaw Mahaffey of Ander son. 1 full size umbrella for 26 cents at .1. C. Burns & Co. LAST COTTON CROP SECOND ON RECORD. ( Continued from page 1.) cent more than the estimate for 1911. notwithstanding the fact that the quanitlty of line cotton was 12.7 per Cent less While the crop of 1911 was the largest ever produced, and that of 1912 second in size, the' crop of 191? was the most valuable. The estimated value of the cotton crops Of the live-year period ending with 1912 is $4,230,970,000, while cor responding with 1S99 was $l,r>29..100, 000. During the last flvc years the price of upland lint cotton has aver aged about 11.7 cents per pound, or nearly $(50 per bale. The crop of 1912 graded "middling to strict middling." The average price of upland cotton, which has been computed from the New Orleans market reports, has ranged from S.20 cents in 1002 to 14.69 In 1010. For tbocrop of 1012 it was 12.03 cents, which is 2.32 cents more than the av erage or 1011 and 2.64 cents less than for 1010. Leaves for Mulllns. Mr. ('ail D. Roper, who has been with the Bed Iron Backet for sever al years, will leave in a few days for Mulllns, where he lias accepted a po sition with the firm of Clardy & Basor. Mr. Roper makes the second Laurens boy to accept a position with this firm, Mr. T. R. Simpson having left a few days ago to be with them . Mr. Simpson is now in the North assisting in the purchase of goods ifor the company. They have hundreds of friends over the county who regret to see them leave but wish for them much successs in their new field. SPECIAL NOTICES. ee ^om auu, i # 11 19-2t cow half -V > r , fresh in./iilk. >ns, S. ( .,Mt. P. rer at 150 Hampton strcet.V'- Hamel. L;? rens, S. C. 49-1 t-Pd. ?Grinding Days This week and,next I will grind on Friday and Saturday, iii inning on the 16th I v/H/grind every day both wheat andvprn. Rear of Red Iron Hacket. B. B. Martin Laurens, S. C. 19-2t. For Sale One milk shire and half Jersey W. N. Austin, Lauren D. No. For Kent My house on Avenue. May be bad at oner. J Also the five acres of ..iiid with i\ If de : Irod. B. P. Mitchell, R. F. D\No. 5, Laurens. S. C. 40-1L Wanted -One 15 lallon barrel or swinging churn, In good condition] and J. Wade Anderson, Lairons, S. ('. 48-St-pd For Sale?Cow Peas bought and Cure Georgia Cane Syrup, gal lon cans, :..i cents. W. H, Davis.vAu gusta, Ga. 4$-it Lookout Mountain Irish Potatoes for July planting. Price $1.60 per bu. Jfne delivery. .*l.7."> for July. Writejfor prices for 10 bushels or more. \% P, Harris, Owings, S. C. 47-5t-pd Pens, Pens Peas?For sale, pnlce and sample sent on application. Hattaway & Co., Spartanburg, SV c. 33-tf Jno. W. Ferguson C, C. Feathoretone W. B. Knight FERO?SON, PEATHBRSTONE & KNKUfT Attorneys at Law Laurens, C. Prompt and carsfu! attention giro* toall businaafi. Office Over Palmetto Bonk. Shafting. Pulley*. Belt*. Repairs and Files, Tooth, Locks, Etc. LOMBARD IRON WORKS, AUGUSTA, OA. (.'??/ out circular before you buy The Best Hot Weather Tonic GROVK'STVVSTKI.JiSS chill TONIC enriches the blood, biKldp UP the whole system and will won derfully strengthen ami lortify you to withstand the depressing effect of the hot summer. 50c. 1785 1913 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON South Carolina's Oldest College 129th year begins September 26th Entrance examinations at all the county-scats on Friday, July 11th, at 9 a. m. Full four year courses lead to the B. A. and P. S. degrees. A free tuition scholarship is assign ed to each county of the State. Spacious buildings and athletic grounds, well equipped laboratories, unexcelled library facilities, and the finest Musenur'of Natural History in the South. <S Expenses reasonable. For terms and catalogue, address HARRISON RANDOLPH, 44-tf President. Asthma! Asthma! POPHAM'S ASTHMA REMEDY rivcs instant relief and an absoluta cure in all cases of Asthma, Bronchitis, and Hay Fevor. Sold by druggists; mail on receipt o? price $i.oo. Trlnl Package by mall 1a rents. WILLIAMS MFG. CO., Prop... Cleveland. Oliio ? LAURENS DRUG CO. I.Hiircns, S. Cj DH. CLIFTON JONES Dentist Office in Simmons Building Phone: Office No. 8G; Residence 219. WILLIAMS' KIDNEY PILLS Have you overworked your nervous sys tem ana caused trouble with your kid neys and bladder7 Have you pains In loii s. side. back and'bladder? Have you a flabby appearance of the face, and un der the eyfs' A frequent desire to pass [urine? If so, Williams' Kidney IMIlo will cure you?Druggist, Price OOo. WILLIAMS MFG. CQ., Propi.. Cleveland. Ohij LAURENS DRUG CO. I.a iii-ens, S. C. B. R. TODD Engineering and Contracting I ?nd Surreys a Specialty C'oncret Work Skillfully done or In spected. Drawings and estimates of all Kind. Telephone No. 346 Laurens. S. C. 26-tf NOTICE OF ELECTION. State of South 'Carolina, county of Laurens. Whereas, petitions signed by a legal number of the qualified electors and free-holders residing in Cross Hill school district No. :?. Laurens county, South Carolina, asking for an election upon the question of voting 2 mill tax upon the property in said school dis trict to be use! for school purposes, have beeen filed with tho county board of education, an election is hereby ordered upon ffald question, said elec tion to be howl on the 12 day of July 1913, at Tho School House in said district. / Only suclf electors rs return real or personal hiroporty Tor taxation and who oxhilnt thoir tax receipts and reg istration certificates ns required in the general election shall be allowed to vote. Those voring the 2 mill tax shall vote a tott containing the word "YES" written or printed thereon. Those against the 2 mill tax shall vote a ballot containing the word "NO" written or printed ereon. Polls shall open at the hour ,f 8 o'clock In the forenoon and shall remain open until the hour of I o'clock in the afternoon when they shall bo closed, and the ballots counted. The trustees shall report the result Of the election to the countv auditor and county superintendent of educa tion within ton days thereafter. Goo. I.. Pitts 19-2t. Py order of County Board. ft Certain Quick RelieMor Indigestion or Up-Set Stomachs Why suff?r the tortures of I ndU-op tion. Sour Stomach, Gas, Belehlnn ot other stomach up-sets? There is a cttaln quick relief and perm an M ie3'dy for these disorders?Brown's Digestif tablets will plve relief al mo*t instantly One dose makes your stomach fr>o| fine It stops fermenia tlon, prevents distress, digests all the (OOd and rcptoies your tired w?>*n-o?ii ?rornsch to ? healthful condition Di gestif It perfectly harmless?even a httlo child ran take It without fear of bad after effects Don't wait until yon have another attack of indigestion, but get n pneknge today. Try It after eating, and Just roe (or vourRolf how It helps your stomach. We are so con fident that Pluostit Is a perfect rem edy for stomach up-acts that wo ?nnrantec It to plenne you In every ?vav?eel * pnekage nnrt if you don't ii'? it we will give vour money back. Laurens Drug Co.. Laurens, S. C.