Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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14 The Furni tur Our Ma * Beautiful K Most Mat $50300 Sul - only corn SCHULTZ This week will inclu Pianos, $600 Pianc for $350, balance all $250 This is a grea you should not overl Newspaper RmnsecsEc eew Ithsbeen a good long time since Pike's weenjoyed the rest, recreation and lables <: youth renewal of an attendance at a ers. W~ mneeting of the State Press Associa- at the: ~don. - wet to Our younger ini the cause breth- school i ren of the fourtlj estate ?have' not downi ti: forgotten us, for time and again the seco they have assigned us a place and -ents. T part in the programme of- papers and ery of t speeches, to which we have not an- The n swered by word of mouth or spread were all of ha-nd writing, was the There is an old and almost for got-' They we ten saying that "silence is golden,, -hand p almost forgotten in this strenuous, icountry bustling time. Perhaps it would be to court better for us to keep our rush light were fev candle under a bushel or smallerj of Justu measure, but having more leism - and I calledi larger space to fill than usual we iron hor yield our judgment to 'she opillion of Piedmon Ex-President Elbert H. Aull as ex- the mails pressed in his Pythian visit to our ried by old fashion.ed sanctum. And our lines of plain, unvarnished tale of the fading week roi days may, if they have no other effect, back rid give some amusement to our junior wr r ,brethren and add to their satisfaction in the rc that they play their parts in the and rive: luminous beginning of the twentieth Thei century. thought -The first newspapers of wI.eh we even dre have r'emembranee were the Laurens- invention ville Herald and the Union Times, all this -.and we rather think that Col. T. B., ties the Crews, the veteran editor of the to their firs:. above named, was then taking scarcer 1: his first lessons in the art preserva- the horiz tive, and from those two journals we own homn probably caught the newspaper fever,J htill u that continues to the present time. cared mu -They were brought by the country Asia, Af~ postmaster's children to the little jthe seas. log school house in whieh we and a then ju core of other more or less hopefuls) clothes, a IDDA Great rhis is a Great 0 e,S(ovoes, ERE. NE Ltting Sales have beet Squares just rece 5 piece Parlor Suits 1 velous Prices on Bed its for $33.50... Iron I e ands see what we a: PIANOS de our great Schulz Cul s for $400. $500 the way down to the s Lt opportunity that Art C ok. giver L1..BO restling with the problems of but there were nc Arithmetic and the polysyl- sues to worry tt f Grigg and Elliott's Read- servants or distux e first learned to read them the agrieultural p noon recess when it was too .Many of the e< play on tof doors, and when had young and was out, well towards sun mastheaded as te dispersing children carried were liberal in n~d hand papers to their par- I Weig'hty commin hat was the rural free deliv- quent from such 21 he old times. I respondents as Ju ewspapers of our boyhood Fair Play, etc. four page publications. That More attention fashion in town -and ceit.y. all classes of rea ~re all home print and the it was the genera ess was every where. The each issue some ai papers were then confined women and others house towns, in facf there terest the younger r places away from the seats try paper was thi :e sufficiently large to be sionary 'and teach :owns. The whistle of the come corner to the se had not yet waked up the scri;bers. The new t section .of the State and have been weeks o: ;, at best one a day, were car- 'food to its subser ;tage coaches along the main constant element travel, while the once a possible in the eag ites were supplied by horse ern dailies to giv ers. The mail schedules ahead of rival c quently interrupted by mud fact there was the >ads and water in the creeks ibetween the modet .' and the sensational :elegraph had not been] er. Tellow journal of then, nor had any one the unabridged d amed of such a wonderful and the country pi as the telephone. Yet with arch of all :he sur' lack of news getting facili- The printers th papers were full of interest holding their case subscribers. Books were behavior and beii a those dIays than now, and positors after serv on of every man nearer his prenticeships. e. Much of the world was .The subscription apped and no one knew or ed was uniform. $: .eh about the affairs of eream-bwir-a etaoii iea or the far off islands of v-ariably~ 'n advane The United States was if tha rule was sti wtell out of swaddling the inference is in lusty yongster it is tre, fact that there wam iYS Over S pportunity, Don3t Roqiges, Ru~ VER SO Ienormous. New shij: ived.. They will all go a for $25.00 and $30.00, Room Suits. Just thin 3eds $1.98 and up. Yc re doing. FREE! t this coupon out.and bring to tore and get one of- our finie ale dars. Most beautiful ever i away in Newberry. WLES t so many great is-' complaint of the delinquent subs< e brains of public Ier, and the editor's travels were b the even lives of ited to fishing holidays and pienit opulation. tendances. Every paper then rar >urt house journals its merits or. demerits. There , ambitious lawyers no clubbing rates with other publ ditors, and they tions, nor voting contests, no pi their use of ink. offered to win subscri,bers in iieations were fre- ways of this latter day dispensat om de plumed, cor- JWith the.exception of a few in aus, States Rights, cine notices the advertisements that time were mostly of near by was then given to ritory. They were moderate in lers than now and and formal in language, noti rule to have in thrilling being said. Cuts were 'ticles to please the and far between. The horse, flag to amuse and in- eagle were the .largest used, w people. The coun- advertisements of . runaway si mn a constant mis- were emphasized by pictures of er, alwvays a wel- man or woman, with a stick homes of its sub- bundle attached on the shoulder; s they carried-may the position of one making hast4 .d, but it was fresh All in all the old time publis bers, and had the was a person of some donsequence of correctness -im- the range of his .eirculation. He 'er rivalry of mod- ceived about as many donations e the most news fruits, vegetables, sausage and hc ntemporaries .In head cheese as did the preacher. n no competition rarely if ever got rich, but he hia< n country paper mighty good average time and fr city daily scream- his split bottomed easy chair wiel< ism was unknown, an influence that was all unselfish a ily had not come for the publie good. When he d tblisher was mon- there was no ill word said of him, -eyed. was there any law suit over his en were fixtures, t:ate and effects. luring life or good .That these old time journals wi ig accurate corn- inferior in some particulars to. i ng t.heir long ap- newspapers of this later period is true as that in others .they were b price as publish-. ter. 'The influence of their coura per annum. ''in- self reliance and independence 1 i etaoin etaoi ets icome down as a blessed heritage a 3.'' It is doubtful -inspiration, and runs as a leav ietly observed but: through every editorial .column ts favor, from the South Carolina. And when the pe rare published duhum of business devotion Swit IOF took Fail to Use It Is, Ijotti I HE ment of Rugs. a .t Cut Prices. were $35.00 an( k $100 Suits for iu can't help but STRICTL All these prices ai makes your cotton w Let us show you whe Leaders ih ~rib- backward toward journalism lim- fprofession the newspaper of the Sat- Iture will combine thre virtues ion jeliminate the weakness of both vere tems. .ica-f The poet is born anid so is 1zes Ieditor. To one having that nai the bent of mijid the journalism of ion, future will give a most inviting:i edi- Great crops of wealth may not of ,made therein, but usefulness to ter- manty?isiworthDanore to the h san.th.e liype than the riehes Ling take wtngs and fly away. In doin; few one best can tehat work for whiel a,nd has the love that lasts from fir3 rile the final work hours of one's spai .es existence there is a happiness a can neither, be lost nor taken aw mnd 'But~ the interests and achievem ied of to-day are of larger interest t -the traditions of yesterday ,and her great expectation of tomorrow. in before again taking a back seat re-. will recite briefly the lesson lear of slowly through nearly a th'ird o gs- century of editorial schooling. He An.d we pay our respects first I a that much misunderstood and: om quently scolded person, the del led quent subscriber. He or she is nd very numerous individual in ied IState excepting in the counties ior jYork, Spartanburg, Newberry es- Bamberg, where he and she have b converted to a different way ~re Ethought and conduct. he The existence of the delinqu as Isubscriber as a constant epidemic tlargely chargeable, in this ultra .et ge, 1mercial period, to the attempted c .as bination of business and professi ad fthat will no more mix than oil a en water, for no man or woman < in serve two masters. There has be n-a long, lasting and wide spread a gse unfortnately true, pro term. ther Sale nd Art $4OO. $65.00. buy if you ,Y CASH. e for CASH. *This orth 25c per pound. ther you buy or not. 'N ilflouse Furnishings 1318 Main Street.i as a rhat the newspaper must rely Won fu- advertising patronage for subient and revenue to pay its expenses sa ig sys- the wolf from the door, 'while al scription. payments may .be counted thie on to furnish pocket sghange. .The -ural Jadvertiser makes the quantity and not the the quality of the circulation the leldl. Jmeasure of patronage and\ standard beJ of price, and the publisher too of J:u- [ten: knows, giving the merchant or eart. medicine maker the best display, .po that sition and pri.ee. The delinquent as Isuibscriber, though he may never i he Jhave set foot in a print shop, recog.. t to nizes in the ''make up'' the littleness 2 of of .consideration for him or herself that Iand the largeness .of the esteem in y. which Col. Merchant Prince Adver-. mnts tiser is.-held. han I So through this misunderstanding the I of their proper relations the, sub-. so I scriber and publisher, who should be we to each other as Davids and Jona dthans may have only a surface regard abteen them. ''"Cut out'' that feeling. Give the to Iaverage subscriber equal considera fre- :tion and value received and -he will lin- prove as honest as the 'newspaper a worker. For love provokes love and :his the man is rare who consents to be of always treated by :somebody else md without eirer settling up in return. een Let your. subscriber kn&ow that his of annual due and constant friendship a better asset than the occasional~ job ent furnished by an advertiser and he is will make good. m-A woman can look at a man in a on, way tha.t makes :him feel like a plug nd ged nickel !-then she spoils the ef ~an Ifeet by saying .things.. ~en i nd' In a man's life the greatest neces