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* BATES BIJRG ADVOCATE A Tri-County Paper. N. ROGERS BAYLY, ED. AND PROP. ' BATESBURQ, S C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY TKRMH OF 8UB.SCBIPTION. One Tear $1 uu 81* Months SO cent* No throe month subHcriptioti* tuken, Kentered at the P. O.. at Batoeburg. 8. t.. a? ecoud-claw* matter. Fob. 14, 1001. II Copy Mint bj mutt be written on oue side only. When cbADKinK address always give old |x at office, otherwise chnngu will not be made. ADVERTISING RATES. One Inch One Year ... - - $.'..00 One Inch Si* Months .... | Ouo inch Three Months .... 1,1 First patfc double the above uuiouute. Local Insertions ??ots por inch. First Puk? Readers torts per line. Readers to take run t paper Sets per line. FRIDAY, May 14. 11.09 j The voice of the bleacher is heard in the land. I A cutting of freight rates will sound something like an uplift to the farmers. The weather Bureau claims to be 85 per cent correct?but then it keep its own score. Some counterfeit $100 bills are reported to be in circulation. So, you see, the predatory rich have their troubles, also. Several towns which have been looking for Carnegie libraries will have to give up their aspirations if the income tax becomes effective. . ..? Discussion is under way as to why Col. Roosevelt never paironized the national game in Washington. Possibly he did not care to see the batter handling the big stick. Our Batesburg boys put up a good game of ball on Tuesday. Pitcher Matthews of Leesville did not been . >i ... v . ; scene might have beer: d':. ? oiar accuses Mark Twain of trying to levive the Shakespeare-Bacon c o n t rovcrsy. Our contemporary should always be wary about taking a humorist seriously. OUR MAYOR In the news columns of this issue we publish a letter from a gentleman who signs himself "Public Spirit." We are thoroughly in accord with his ideas for the reason that he advances are facts and not fiction, for while they are very complimentary the writer has adhered strictly to the truth, and furthermore if we are not very much mistaken he has cast no reflection whatsoever on Batesburg's past executives. He is a man that does not beiieve in the pulling down of some, for the building up of others. Our present mayor, W. C. Bates, has it is true done more for Batesburg and its people siace he has held office than has 1 been done in all the past administra- J tions within the past ten years.' Our roads are better, our streets are better, our laws are kept, our whole town has felt his influence for betterment and we, asapeople making up what is rapidly growing to be a centre of business and industry should uphold a man who has governed our affairs in such a praiseworthy manner. If it were not for the rev'val of the old convention days, we would suggest that he be not f>nly elected but elected by acclamation. As this cannot be done why not each and every one of us pull together and elect him back into the office, which he has so faithfully and conscientiously filled. MenORIAL DAY, May 11, 1909 marks a day to be recalled with delight by all who were piesent. No holiday in our political calendar possesses t h e Ir charm of Memorial Day. Its spirit and purpose appeal with mighty emphasis to the deepest and tenderest feelings of the human heart. Men. women and children turn with glad, sad hearts away from everything else and for the while give themselves to exercises in commemi oration of the character and courage ' the daring and deeds of those who, 1 nearly fifty years ago, were proved be known as Confederate soldiers. I And, at the same t'me the ofttold i story is told again of the principles ! which made the Southern soldier a'l he was and did. It is a most significant fact that while the victtors, north and south of Mason < nd : Dixon's line are doing honor to the men who wore the blue, the vanquished at the same time and on the same soil are telling of the patriotic spirit and the heroic deeds of those who wore the gray. Possibly nowhere in all the world can this be done except in the United S'ates. This fact speaks volumes. It is an object lesson to all the world, as it does, the priceless lesson of political freedom and the generous spirit of our country. Tobel known as a Roman Citizen was at one time, regarded as a most honorable distinction. But citizenship in Rome was slavery as compared with the liberty of the humblest dweller within our shores. Every I man of us ought to feel his bosom swell with grateful pride in the fact that he is an American. Memorial Day, this year, was a success to a degree possibly never ; attained in any previous year in the history of Batesburg. The day was perfect, the attendance was large and practically everybody entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion. Batesburg has set a most j worthy example to her sisier towns n that all places of business were closed from 11a. m. iu o p. in. nn ' unusually good program had been - ?':s r4 childre oi" ; ;r ^?j?n.?.vaciaie veterans all had a place ; in the beautiful pictoric. Patriotic and devotional songs were sung by teachers and children, the band furnished soulstirring music and one feature of the exercises, a new one, deserving of especial mention, was an original poem written by Rev. Joab Edwards and read by him in connection with the decoration of the graves. "Loved and Remembered" was its title. The address of i welcome to the veterans and their I friends was by Mayor, W. C. Bates. It was short, but sweet. The greetings of the Daughters of the Confederacy were presented in a model I speech, in a model way, by Mrs. F. E. Cullum. The address by Mr. W. i M. Carter for the Sons of Veterans I in matter and spirit did honor to him and the occasion. By way of preeminence Hon. Mendel L. Smith of Camden was regarded as "the orator of the day." His fame as an orator had preceded him. Our people naturally expected something uncommonly good. They were by no means disappointed. Mr Smith's address was large- t ly historical and for that reason was \ not of a popular order yet the en- f thusiastic reception accorded him is * an index to the charm and power of r a his oratory. It may seem a triflle f ungracious to criticise, but it is un- c fortunate that addresses like this, ^ intended to instruct the young and c to inspire in all a spirit of generous a forbearance, should be marred by ^ the suggestion that northern people ^ were actuated by naught but un- a worthy motives in their opposition d to r.he south. We dislike for the 1 people of the north to misrepresent p us. Let us give to them the gen- p erous treatment we desire and demand from them. Nothing said or done on Mem- ri orial Day met with more generous w THE BAT rHE GUIGNARD The best brick Orders filled ' COLUMBIA, A KING'S POCKETS. 'f?| Someone Has Ascertained Precisely What He Carries in Them. Like every man who carries the look of his clothes King Edward carries very little in his pockets besides a handkerchief. his waistcoat, pocket he carries a gold pencil ease, a cigar cutter, a little pass key, a gold watch, carefully regulated by Greenwich time, and a half a dozen sovereigns. In his coat pocket no carries a tin> notebook and in tlio winter he puts his gloves in the pocaet of his topcoat. This king never carries a cigar-case, except a gold case which holds one cigar, but ho always has a small box of lozenges. Unlike his nephew, the Kaiser, he never carries i fountain pen in his pocket. Hearing Both Sides. Last summer there died at Washington a lawyer who for many years had shocked a large numoer of his friends by his rather liberal views touching religion. A friend 01 the deceased, who cut short a Canadian trip to hurry back to Washington for the purpose of attending the last rites of his colleague, entered the late lawyer's home some minutes after tho beginning of the service. "What part of the service is this?" he inquired in a whisper of another legal friend standing in the crowded nail way. "I've just come myself,'' said the other, "but I believe they've opened for the defense."?Harper's Weekly. Oldest Congregational Pastor. The oldest Congregational pastor in England is the Rev. Thomas Ixml, of Horncastle, Lincolnshire. Although he completed his ninety-ninth year on April 22 last. Mr- Lord still trices active part in religious work. Recently he preached his five thousandth sermon on the seventy-third anniversary of his ordination. Owing to failing eyesight the veteran pastor has to trust entirely to hi3 memory, which is so clear that he can recite entire chapters of scripture. Farthest Point North. Point Barrow. Alasku. is Uncle Sam's farthest point north. A letter from Detroit to Point Barrow goes first by train to Seattle, 2,r>00 miles; then by ocean steamer to Valdez, 1.G00 miles farther north and west; then dog sleds, over Ice and snow 2,700 miles more to the north and west. The letter travels in one direction over G.8U0 miles?all the distance in American terrt ? ?! the stumbling block that lies in the correct pronunciation of the word chauffeur. I always write "shuvver" muu iry uuu pronounce 11 accordingly with humorous smile. This i.- a very good way of getting out ol' the duiiculty, and avoids all the various "sliofur," "shefoor," and "showfewor," and the hundred other wrong ways possible.?Owen John in Autocar. Annual Newspapers. Journalists ought to have fairly easy times in the polar circle, where the papers are only issued once per annum. There are three or four of these. One of them is u.e Eskimo Bulletin, edited near Cape Prince of Wales, on Behring Straits. The English missionaries there have established a school in a village inhabited by Eskimos, and as only one steamer lands at the place, and that only once n. VAflr thfi ntiu-o It Krln ora !*** ? , V..V- UVMM IV Ui ilVUI Uic outside world Is printed on a sheet of paper with the hektograph.?British Emigrant. Little Journals. The word "petit" In connection with French newspapers always strikes the foreigner. Its origin is, in itself, significant. The evening edition was called "Petit" and originally was petit, but the French newspaper reader has come more and more to road his paper in the evening, and the petit edition has now become the chief one. whereas tne morning one is merely a repetition, with a "stop-press" column.?London Bystander. "No-Drip" is the most clever lit le silvered Coffee Strainer ever in'ented. Get one free from Dr. ahoop, Racine, Wis. by the Coupon dan. The Coupon and Dr. Shoop's lew book on Health Coffee sent to ny lady requesting them. You can rick any one by secretly serving Dr. ihoop's Health Coffee at meal time, four visitor or your husband will leclare he is drinking real coffee? nd yet there is not a grain of real offee in Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee, 'ure grains, malt, and nuts give lealth Coffee its exquisite taste nd flavor No 20 to 30 minutes telious boiling. "Made in a minute.'' 'ry it from your grocer and get a leasant sin prise. One half pound ackagc 25c. Dreher Bros. pplause than was given to the bare mention of the monument for the romen of the Confederacy. BSBURO ADVOCATE. Ma; BRICK WORKS. ! on the market, with dispatch. s. c " Ou? Trratmont of tlip Chlnose. Tho coolio, while no more objecUonnblo than a considerable portion of the uliens who come from Europe, may bo undesirablo. But subjection high class Chinese, whose hiendship would meun much to American interests, to the same restrictions which apply to the lowest coolie is taking n short cut toward crippling our prospects in n country which will one day furnish tho world's greatest market.?De*roit Free Press. John Hull's Change. J Tho influence of the old, staid Victorian middle class Is passing away. The present generation has I no such care for propriety or for ' self-restraint. ldfo has grown richer, more full of color, less correctly insular. We may not be worse than our fathers, but we are less reserved. What will It profit ' John Bull If he ceuses to be a hypocrite only to become a brute? Tlic.e lies tho danger.?Mon'hly Review. DOESN'T SHADE HIS EYES. "The Koran" Forbids it' so Many Arabians Become Blind. "I shall winter in the Sahara." said a traveling man. "With a caravan I shall traverse, under a blinding j sun, an endless plain of snow white i sand, but none of my Mohommedau i attendants will wear any kind of shade over his eyes. "Against thai dazzling glare the j backs of tlielr necks will be swathed in white linen, and even their ears will be protected. Nothing though, will keep the sun out of their faces. "Wondering about this, 1 said one day to the cald of an Algerian village: " 'Why don't you Arabs wear a cap of some sort? You live In the world's worst sun glare, but neither fez nor turban under any circumstances has a peak.' "The Koran,' the raid answered, 'forbids all true believers to shade tneir eyes. Obeying tho Koran impliclty we dwellers in the desert avoid like poison brims to our headgear. In consequence there is more blindness among us than among any other people in the world.' " Alpine Fatalities. "The playground of Europe," as Sir Leslie Stephen called the Swiss Alps, i has for many been a graveyard?a fact which experience from year to year emphasises rather than m- dittos. Statistics officially compiled for 1907 supply us with the death rate due to Overwork. Can anything surpass in pathos the | fate of a man who, through a stroke ' of paralysis, is doomed to end a hnsv. active ..fe in a state of absolute and entire dependence upon oth rt ? This question i.-: one which directly concerns every brain worker in the city of London, especially at the present time. The -train upon tin most engaged of city men is often greater than any man ought in reality to face. ?1 loxpital. The British Breed. British-bred animals, whcthei they I be horses, cattle, sheep, or even jitgs. | are superior to all others in quality | and 11amii a There is ^.i hi range and admirable power in our koII and climate which puts a stion. .< Hbre and a m< e enduring stamp ot \<. 11 ence into tbe live stock bred in our islands tl.iu are found in the sane breed <>r species in any other pint ol the v/oi Id !. ml >n Times. I Useful Retirement. | People are quite right in lnose days ! of struggle to leave off money-n i .ug 1 when they have got enough and give 1 the younger generation a eltanre. In every town and parish howevet there I is much work, needing to be done by I some one. that could he undertaken | by people who have retired fiom ptofj essions or business. Sunday at Home Why Girl's Don't Marry. There can he no doubt th: t nowadays then- are fewer girls who sire prepared to undertake the "daks a:j tendant upon a rush into matrimony i The girl with brains is discriminating and has no liking for leaps in the dark . i before she consents to marry she ! wants to he reasonably sure of the fu. 1 iik*e.?Cassell's Saturday Journal If your stomach, Heart or Kidneys are weak, try at least, a few doses only of I)r. Shoop's Restorative. In five or ten days only, the result will surprise you. A few cents will covAr f Vt PAdt A wrl U ' ?* 1 1 I v.iw twoi. iiiiu ucic is wuv neip comes so quickly. Dr. Shoop doesn't drug the Stomach, nor stimulate the Heart or Kidneys. Dr. Shoop's Restorative goes directly the weak and failing nerves. Each organ has its own controlling nerve j When these nerves fail, the depend| ing organs must of necessity falter This plain, yet vital truth, clearly tells why Dr. Shoop's Restorative is so universally successful. Its sue cess is leading druggists everywhere | o give it universal preference. A test will surely tell. Sold by Guni ter's Drug Store. I v 14 1906 We Will Give $|5.00 _ - In Cash For the Three Best Advertisements $5.<K> for tlu; bent Stieff 1 Piano advertiscment. loi't he host Shaw Piano advert isement. )() for t lie best Stietl' J and Shaw I Ma no ad vert isement combined. Mr. .lolm Koss, of t he I ('harlot te < >hserver and C 'li roniele, Mr. P>j reh ot't lie (.'harlot te News; Mr. Wet hers. ot" ( N>111 in 1?i a State; and Mr. J. K.Jacobs, ot" the Pensions Syndicate, Clinton S. ('., will act as judges, ('oldest open until June 1st, I mm. < ipi'ii to everyone. Send your add to Chas. M. Stieff Manufacturer of the \rtistic Stieff Shaw and Stieff belfplayer Pianos Southern Wareroom: 5 W. Trade St. Charlotte N. C. C. >1. Wl !.!>!() I H Manager. Mention t his paper. \ j * , J ' * Pon't liisk even a penny?until health returns Ami 1 na .ill Juat *ti? t 1 \ ti nt. I am tin- ono physician w ho wys to th?- s;< k. "I w 111, "'.I of ln> ii ill |n tel. t. l :i \ f< >r J our tiled i tire- it it fin - to litiiiK >ni I.' ' And fur 'JO years Pr. Slump's medicines have Get Hoaiih been used ami recommended ii??\>-ry city and hninl-'t ill America. They nro |m iiu. ly standard in every community?and everywhere Hi. ii why t ay the cash, and at your r -k. for oilier unwarranted and uncertain medicines? Thousands upon thousands have ill tin. past stlCCCSofu'iy Pi >Thm?P's ii. si.oiaiive. When th.-:-to [Si k ina>l? nerves, or the Heart H g u ms JLor Kidney nerves fall P rv " tho?ect. v.... !This will sav< d -lav ai d disappointment. Ml dniitftists - Pr S hoop's Restorative and Pr sdioop > KBB B Jiheuniatie I;, tu.sly. Init n Re. all are not J. uthoii.eil to H fc ' My Kive the ?i 1 lay test. So B t , B 9 dropinealino l;-Va-< lor 1 lin \ eappointI . an hoie st mid n-sp.-iei' dnnmisj inalmost J.-very tonniiin.ily. o\ iywli. re. to issue my "iio iiclp. no pay." incdicit >-s to the sick. Tell ine nlso which liook you in-ed. The hooks ImdowuPl surely open up new and helpful ideas to FTih tliose wlio are " it- It W? rfa * if \ l1 I y ir. to coliM.'t vSB ; me J::1 as y it won d ymr H BM W In-mo pliysr.an. My advice w"" jg and the ikmil i>.-low aro voi in?and without cost. Perhaps a > nt-lfir two from nn- will clear up somo ( rlous n Intent. i have Iu IimiI tlioiisuiidj n|min t' ousan.ls by my private i>r.>c: iption or ;> ouiil ad> > plan. My 1- t cfTort is surely Afterwp.ids .vort'i your sit- . !> r. < t. s?, y. r now while ni haw- ; it - it in i -l i- i a vk-w never oiu.-s i'l IV \ P.. Wis. Will, h JlpsS l.r..\! t 1 S B-i V<-u ? fso.lOnPyst psin N- i I... \\ etnun | ;<>. 2 On the 1' art I - r M. n | io. 3 On the Kidn. ys ' ? ' I uointlsm ! PiTTSRURft flRAFTP.ftS ? ^ v v V Jkl X A & I JlJ LI KJ SENTENCED BY COURT Pittsburg, Pa., May 5.--In crim-; inal court today even persons con-1 victed within the last lew weeks in ,e municipal graft esses, were sen- ; fenced as follows: W. W. Ramsey, former national | bank president, convicted of bribery, one year and six months im prisonrncnt and a fine of $1,000; Capt. John F. Klein, councilman, two years and a fine of $1,000 on the bribery conviction, ar ! one year and six* months on the conspiracy conviction; Jos. CI W :on?ndWm. Brand, former < j\. .men. each one year and six* months and a line of $500 for conspiracy; H. M. Bulger, j hotel keeper, two years and a fine j of $5')0 for bribery; Charles Coibert and John Colbert, coi v ote 1 of at-| tempting to bribe a juror in the Ramsey bribeiy case, two years and a fine of $500 each. All of the men with the exception of the Colberts asked lor w its of supersedeas. The writs were granted. Bail was fixe 1 in each case, ex cept Bulger's at $15,000 and in his at $10,000. I 4 jp?^??????? MUM?a REAL ESTATE BARGAINS Improved Town Lots. | Farm Lands. I Three elegant 'arms within nir?D VimiCiPitour utiles of Batesbunz Une nice nou^e Weli wat0Iwl. ]n a i I j. -it 0 r?T?r^c? 8tate of cultivation. A ana 10L i:.'clLieo splendid water power can be developed on one. in tfatesbarg lor Tract n0 . 1 contains 33 acres and i * 11 4- ^1 a 4_room house, sale or will traae Tract No. 2 contains 172 acres and ? f* -I i new dwelling. tor tarm land. tract n?. 3contains 12sarr~?~? -v? N?hJ UUU comtortablc house. Terms ot'sale One-Fourth i o CAS1I, balance 011 time sePrompt bervice. cured by mortgage ofpremises. With us it is a quick sale and a cheap price. If you want to buy, let us know what you want we'll get it. If you want to sell, see us, we'll sell it. Batcsburg Real Estate Co. W. J. McCARTHA, Manager OHO BULL TIMMRRMAN, Attorney. Batesburg, S. C, ^ 1fjp ^ p * ? 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