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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

100 piece dinner set, "Ursula"
brand with quantity of gold around
the edges, gold handles, hand
painted. Sells for $1,000; our
price $500.
S. M. IL e. II. Wilkes 81 Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

Your attention is called to a
carpet sweeper at $500 and $3.50
in S. M. q e. H. Wilkes & Co.
ad. this week.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

"Hope deferred maketh the
heart sick" Don't defer the hope
of some day identifying your
home with pictures. Come and
see our beautiful stock and all so
cheap now.
Laurens Drug Go.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

"What's in a name?" Every
thing, when you come to medicine.
When you get Hoods Sarsaparilla
you get the best money can buy.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
Bluestone in any quantity at
Laurens Drug Co.

These nights are a little COOL
You have to have some fire. There
is nothing nicer than n good COM
Portable Golden Rocking Chair to
sit and rock while you read your
paper. Nc. 845 at $1.95 is just the
thing.
s. M. & e, II. Wilkes a. Co,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

Beautiful line OF children and
infants capes, sacques and cloaks
at low prices. AT Mrs. Adams.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
UNION MEETING.

The next Union Meeting Of the Sec
ond Section Of Laurens Association wifi
meet with Bulah church on Saturday
before the fifth Sunday in October.
w. L. McCuen to preach the into
ductory sermon; j. A. Martin to preach
the Missionary
lst Query: What is the Importance
OF the holy spirit in the pulpit and in
the pew.
I'd Query: What should be the def
mite aim in protracted meetings.
Sd Query: Have deacons more au-
thoriiy than the private members? and
shonld they be elected annually or in
definitely?
l.. MARTIN, Mod.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
one Evidence

D the prosperity of any town is in
lnizing hobe enterprises, home tall
Ind homelndustry. This Is what
lhear all bur successful business
preach, all it is true ~ gospel"
Anch advtSN with equal force
most inieN:fcant business. Those
count tht thousands, as well az
SlacksmiW who spend their in
and frui}Jbf their labor with u
sasaeoplev ire alike entitled to the
3eIr fellow-citizens. So,
ht f.. H. CREWS, the
will do your work in
It prices that will COM
west, FOR same quality
de of stock used.
Il. III. CREWS,
She JOB PRINTER.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
DIR, ROlfe r.. Hughes.

omces-Todd building, Phone IS; and
Cotton Nj b Store, Phone 100.
Specially prepared for Examin-
ing and Treating diseases Of Eye,
Ear. Throat and Nose.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
Fertilizers.

I desfSe to state to my friends and
the publi& that l am in a position to
fill all orders for fertilizers.
AUGUSTUS HUFF.
Sept, 9Th l8b9-6t.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

N0TICE.-On September 1st. r~eceiv-
ed three carloads First-Lime that
Is fresh, strong and white. Second
Rosendale and Portland cement and
Plaster Paris. Third-Shingles, first
and second class.
IA, f., GRAY.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
New Oyster House.

!, / have arhnged for the season a
Restaurant al my business place. Will
be glad to see and serve all friends and
will endeavor 20 please.
B. G. CRISP.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

New hats in every week. Some
ones just arrived---prices right at
Mrs. Adams
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
f.. NJ. SEXT

One of III celebrated Steel
Ranges + doing the honors in
the kitchen Of the Clinton Coll
lege. To use their expression "we
are much pleased with the Range"
bought of
s.. M. q e. H. Wilkes 81 Co.
Iaurens. s. c..
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
n Sharp

~ fashionable young lady not long
ago drove up in n handsome carriage
to a private lunatic asylum, situated a
few miles from Paris, and requested to
see the proprietor. Her wish being
acceded to, she informed the doctor
that she desired to place her husband
under his care to see IL n cruel mania,
under which he laborcd-viz, that he
had lost n large quantity Of JEWELS
could not be removed.
Ate some hesitation the doctor con
sented, and the lady drove away d.
rectly to Il jewelers. In Paris and Sc
lected jewels to the value Of several
thousand francs and requested one of
the shopmen to go with her in her car
riagc to procure the money for the
goods she had AIKEN. She drove with
him to the asylum, and, arriving there,
he was shown into n room.
The lady then sought the doctor, told
him Of the arrival Of her husband, and
getting into her carriage again drove
away. The rest may be imagined, but
the poor fellow was confined several
days before it was found they both had
been sold" The lady was never heard
Of after.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

Trash-movers knock out bile
That's all.
The Laureps Drug 90.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
''Decds arc Fruits,

bccuS arc fruits,
Words are but leaves" 1t is
not what we say, but what Hoods
Sarsaparilla does that tells the
story. The many wonderful cures
effected by this medicine are the
fruits by which it should be
judged. These prove it to be the
great, unequallcd remedy for dys-
pepsla, rheumatism, scrofula, salt
rheum, catarrh and all other all
ments due to impure or impover-
ished blood.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

We keep on hand fresh vaccine
points and tubes of antitoxin.
Palmetto Drug Go.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

Have Your Pianos Attended To.
Mr.. II, Fl. McCracken, the accom-
plished Plano tuner, well known In
Laurens, is present In the city pre-
pared to do any work in his line.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

Laurens did great things at the
Woodruffs fair. Mr.. Warren Bolts
trotting horse carried off two purses
and Mr.. Eugene Hudgen's racer out
distanced every competitor and proved
herself the leetest footed animal seen
on the track in this section OF the
state. Both Of these horses will prob
ably show their speed at the State Fair
next month
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09
(Star Correspondence.

(Staf Correspondence.)
Raleigh, N. c., June 5.
At Southern Pines last Thursday ev-
ening the delegates to the state con-
yention OF the Kings Daughters were
charmingly entertained by the local
members Of the order in the hall Of
the latter, which IS. by the way, the
only one Of the kind in the state. Friday
the third business session Of the con-
Mentioned was opened by Rev. DR..
Gregory. Mrs. r. n. Sweet, as state
secretary, introduced John T. Patrick,
industrial agent Of the Seaboard Air
Line, who made a talk. Reports were
made by circles at Wilmington, Chapel
Hill, Southern Pines. Raleigh, Wood
land, Salisbury, Charlotte, Green's
boro, Hillsboro, Goldsboro, Winston,
Reidsville, Southport, New Bern, Dur
ham,, Burlington, Monroe, Asheville,
annual election of officers was held,
the following being chosen: Mrs.
Fred. Hill, of Henderson, state secre-
tary; Mrs. G.. Cheathem, OF Henderson,
recording secretary; Mrs. II. T. Smith.
of Raleigh, treasurer; Mrs. NJ. s. Will
lard, Mrs. r. n. Sweet n Miss Sc
rena Chadbourn, Of Wilmington; Mrs.
u. Nj. 1OuUS Oh SoullcIh 1iuSS, anu
Mrs. r. J.. Corbett, Of Henderson, exc
cutive committee. Invitations to meet
next year at Henderson and Salisbury
were received and it was unanimously
decided to meet at Henderson. Mrs.
Isabella Davis, of New York, delivered
the annual address to the convention,
her theme being: The Love of Christ"
She urged hat the spiritual work of
the order be not forgotten in the zeal
for caring for temporal needs.
Saturday Rev. Mr.. Ransom conduct
ed the opening exercises. A letter from
Miss Abbie Chadbourn was read, in
which she expressed her regret at being
unable by reason of illness, to comply
with the invitation of the last conven-
ton and read a paper on THE Kings
Treasury and How to Fill It." A vote
Of sympathy was taken and she was
requested to read the paper next year
when special papers by Mrs. George
Rountree, Mrs. James G.. Cherry and
Mrs. T. J.. Jarvis will also be read. Mrs.
Sweet, the retiring state secretary,
and thanked the order for constant
kindnesses and courtesies to her.
The committee on resolutions, Mrs
Gregory, Mrs. Young and Miss DeRos-
sett, submitted resolutions, which were
adopted, thanking the people Of the
town Of Southern Pines for manifold
kindnesses and Inequalities; the min.
listers for their ready services, and the
use of their churches, and also tht
manager of the model town of Pine.
hurst for special courtesies.
The convention sang Mrs. Dickinson's
hymn, IF We Had But a Day." an6
adjourned to meet at Henderson il
May. 1900.
F. A. OLDS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09
THE LINE
1t Is to be Extended to the Seaboard
Air Line Depot Right Away

The people of Wilmington and tray
cling people generally will be gratifed
to learn that the Wilmington Street
Railway is to be extended to the Sea-
board Air Line depot. A switch and
turnout is to be put in at Fourth and
Brunrwick streets and the extension
is to be constructed down Brunswick
street to the depot, a distance of three
squares. This will prove quite a con-
yenience, and has been a want long
felt.
Yesterday at the meeting of the board
Of aldermen Mr.. A. B. SHIELDING, gen.
eral manager of the street railway, ap-
piled for permission to use Brunswick
street for the extension. The matter
was referred to the streets and wharves
committee, and they acted promptly,
granting the privilege asked for.
General Manager Shielding will COM
mence to build the line on Thursday,
and will have it completed by the goth
instant.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09
Splendid Schedule to Carolina Beach

The best schedule ever run to that
popular seaside resort, Carolina Beach,
will 50 into effect today.
Captain John w. Harper, general
manager, in his schedule
today that the steamers Wilmington
and Southport will make five trips a
day to the beach, and three trips to
Southport.
The boats will leave for the beach at
6 a. M, 9:15 a. m, 8 p. M, Sis Q. m.
n 1880 p. m. The train will leave the
a at z a. NJ, l p. m, 3:45 D.. m, 6
p. m. and $3.50 p. m.
The boats for Southport will leave
the city at 9:15 a. M, 1915 a.. m. and
3 p. m. They will leave Southport at
$50 a. M, II M. and 2:30 p. N.
On Sundays, boats will leave the city
for the beach at 10 a. m. and 2:30 D.. m.
and 1880 o.. m. The train will leave the
beach at 1890 p. m, 6 p. m. and $50
p. n.
The fare for the round trip to the pier
on the 5:15 and 1880 p. m. boats will be
only Is cents.
Both the steamers will have a COM
plement of capable and courteous Off
GERS all of whom are exceedingly pop
uIar With the public. The gallant Cap
lain harper will command the steamer
wilmington, Mr.. George Warren will
oe ms mate, Mr.. r. c. Banks purcer,
ana Mr. Phillip Plat engineer. The
crew OF the Southport will be Captain
1et1 oorgensen, Mr.. Tom Taylor
mate ana Mr.. Tom Platt engineer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09
Men Who Win

Bless the discontented men! They
have blazed the pathway of civiliza-
ton. They are the salt Of the earth.
Poets sing Of the joys of contentment
and the human heart yearns for peace
and quiet and a home for the body and
soul; but the hope Of the world is in the
~ceaselessly active throng, never rest
ing, never satisfied, hoping for and de
handing something different, better.
Their homes do not decay. They keep
alive the noble asp;r Itions of a race.
They are leaders. Nothing Is right
simply because of p~recedents. The dis
contented men abhor precedents. They
make them. Discomfort is active; con.
tentment is passive. Bless the discor-
tented men!-Sioux Falls Press.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09

In spite Of Advancement the Millens
nium 10 Not Near.
(The Pafhfnder.1

lime dlAAAArA-t
A man would have to have something
more than human knowledge TO say
what progress is. Orators get into a
frenzy Of enthusiasm dwelling on the
great achievements Of the last few de-
cades and prophesying those Of the next
few; statisticians cloud themselves in
their W figures on the development
in store for US; whole books are writ
ten to bolster up the theory that the
millennium, and altogether it is a N
tInuous love feast. It has doubtless
always been SO, however. IL you dip
into old books you will find that the
enthusiasts of nearly all times thought
their age an era of culmination-in
which all the forces of the universe
were TO unite in one supreme effort.
When You are riding in the cars q
nearby chicken coop looks bigger than
the distant capitol, and it appears to
move more rapidly. Many people who
have not cultivated the sense Of the
perspective thus deceive themselvs by
taking an apparence for the reality.
Moreover, granted hat no age has
ever equaled ours in material progress,
in the spread OF education. in the dis
~semination OF literature, in invention,
in the cheapening of luxuries, ETC.,
who is to say that this is true progress?
Books have been ~cheapened in two
senses Literature is in no sense priced
as it once was. and while its influence
now is more widespread, it may be the
less potent in its ultimate bearing on
the salvation Of the world. So with
the creature comforts that are now
within the reach Of the most lowly;
they tend to efeminate and in the end
possibly to weaken the moral fiber.
All we can do is to work on like true
men and women, resolutely and hope
fully-but not carried away with any
| dream of the immediate apotheosis Of
| our world. The end will come in the
| fulness of time. We most of us be-
lieve that our evolution is toward bet
| ter things in the long run but it is idle
to argue to finalties from any assumed
progress of the immediate present. Our
base line is too short. II it took mil
lions of years to develop the lowest
of animals, we need hardly expect that
long steps toward the goal OF our eter-
/ nal career will be taken in the span OF
a few short years. MOI is this a pessi-
| mistic view; it is only a more adequate
| estimate of the vast task We have be-
| fore us.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09
1t Was a a

Sunday afternoon a. gentleman stand
ing at the foot of Market street anus
ed himself by having his cclly dog go
into the river and bring back to him
some missile, thrown in for that ex-
press purpose. Upon one of these ex-
petitions the dog mistook for the mis-
sile thrown out by his master what ap-
peared to be a knot out Of a plank and
which was floating down the river. He
grabbed the object, which turned out
to be a water moccasin, which i'm
medlately uncoied itself and bit the dog
on the mouth. The canine SWAN
ashore. with bleeding mouth, while sew
eral people on the wharf made unsuc-
cessful attempts to kill the reptile.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09
A College for the Higher Education of
Women

The Messenger acknowledges the re-
| ceipt of the second annual catalogue
| Of Elizabeth College, Charlotte, N. c.. It
| is a neal publication, replete with par
ticulars about the institution, and con-
tains handsome cuts of the college
building and it's various departments,
together with a full and interesting de-
scription of the building and it's ap-
pOintmentS.
The building has a frontage of 172
| feet, a depth of 143 feet, and is four
| stories in height. It is constructed Of
pressed brick, and is trimmed with
granite and indiana Oolitic limestone.
The walls are from II to 81 inches
thick, and the building is rooted with
slate and has 40 exposures. The build
| ing is thoroughly modern i'm all it's ap-
pOintments, and the facilities are I'M
surpassed for college work. 1t is stu
ated in a beautiful and healthfui lCca-
ton, and from it there is a beautiful
| view of the enterpriSing and growing
! city of Charlotte. There is no finer
! climate in the United States than that
| around Charlotte, and that city, with
it's culture, it's churches and all it's
surroundings is an deal location for
such an institution of learning. The
| location is 760 feet above the level of
the sea, and all h advantages of the
\ situation and the college would fill col
| umns to mention them in detail.
| The aim and scope of EliZabth Col
lege is to afford a broad n liberal cul-
| ture for women. The range of studies
is comprehensive and up to the highest
standard Of modern collegiate educa-
| ton. The curriculum is up to hat of
the best colleges, and the facilities are
such as to give young women the high
, est moral, intellectual and physical
training, the Christian faith being the
main element in the foundation for the
perfection of the characteristics of a
complete Womanhood.
The high scope of the college makes
it necessary for a faculty of most
superior ability to be in control and
such of corps of teachers has been pro-
q; vided in all the departments. The Rev.
Charles B. King, A. NJ, is president
and professor of moral science, and he
is surrounded by a corps of sixteen of
the most able and experienced eachers
to be had in this and other countries.
Only such teachers are employed as are
graduates of institutions of high repu-
tation and who have engaged in sub
stantial post graduate work in h best
Conservatives and have won success
in college work.
The present term of this college has
| just concluded with a brilliant and suc-
cessful commencement, and the next
term begins September 18th.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09

Authorities OF Florence Send Over q
Colored Man VINO Identifies Creaeh

The negro, John Creach, has been
positively identified as being the alleged
murderer wanted in Florence, s. c.,
and will soon be taken back to the
scene of the crime.
The Identification was co~nclusively
made yesterday by a colored man, Caro-
lima Smith, who was sent by the au-
thorities of Florence for this purpose.
Smith arrived in the city on the after
noon incoming Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta railroad train and i'm
mediately went to the station house
and viewed the prisoner.
Creach still positively denies that he
been in South Carolina. He says ne
does not know Smith, but he showed
a decided reluctance to have the latter
see him. While on the contrary Smith
says he knows Creach to be the man
accused Of murder in South Carolina,
as he was closely associated with him
in Florence, where Creach went by the
name of Joe Pretty.
Chief of Police Parmele, after smith
identified the alleged murderer, tele-
! graphed the news to the authorities Of
Florence and stated that Creach will be
held for their disposition. 1t will be
| several days before Creach or Pretty is
taken back to Florence, as requisition
| papers will first have to be obtained
| from the governor before the accused
J can be taken out of the state.
| A Messenger representative last night
| saw Smith and learned the following
| facts from him about the murder with
| the commission Of which Creach stands
! charged.
, The murder occurred last November.
! At that time Pretty was working in
Florence as a stemmer in a tobacco
factory. One night he visited the house
of a lewd negro woman and a row en-
sued between the two. Pretty shot the
woman and then made his escape.
Smith and Pretty were fellow board
ers in Florence.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09
Glorious News

Comes from DR.. D. B.. Cargile, of
Washita, I. T.. He writes: -Four bot
ties Of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs.
Brewer Of scrofula, which had caused
her great suffering for years. Terrible
sores would break out on her head
and face, and the best doctors could
give no help; but ner cur Is complete
and her health is excellent" This
shows what thousands have proved
that Electric Bitters is the best blood
purifier known. It's the supreme RENE
dy for eczema, letter, salt rheum, ul-
GERS, boils and running sores. It slim
ulates liver. kidney and bowels, ex-
pels poisons, helps digestion, builds up
the strength. Only 80 cents. Sold by
R. r Bellamv.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09
Would Not Suffer So Again for Fifty
Times Its Price.

I awoke last night with severe pains
in my stomach. I never felt so badly
in all my life. When I came down to
work this morning I felt so weak I
could hardly work. I went to Miller
& McCurdy's drug store and they re-
commended Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy. 1t worked
like magic and one dose fixed me all
right. 1t certainly is the finest thing
I ever used for stomach trouble. I shall
not be without it in my home here
after, for I should not care to endure
the sufferings of last night again for
fifty times it's price.-G. H. Wilson, Liv-
eryman, Burgettstown, Washington
Co., Pa. This remedy is for sale by r.
r. Bellamy, Druggist.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09

In Europe the authorities " now
much s~tricter on the subject Of ladies
removing their hats in theatres than
here in America. At Athens a lady
who declined to remove her hat at the
Court theatre was sentenced to a fort
nights imprisonment, although the
wife of n of the leading bankers of
the great metropolis, while the other
day at Paris, Nine. Casimir- Perier,
wife of the former president of the
French republic, and who was escorted
by him, was requested by the door
keeper of the Coincide Franchise to re-
move her hat before taking her place
in the orchestra seats. AS she declined
to comply with this request, she was
denied admission, and returned to her
carriage. Her husband, however, took
matters more quietly, and permitting
his wife to return home alone, remain
ed to see the play.-Washington Post.