Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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te Ciduertisar ipfclon Prior-1? Moutbs, IJ'l.O^ JAYABIiEIN ADVANCE. W. BALL, EDITOR. Advertising.?Ordinary Ad ^^Hti per aquare, ono ln8?r raOf ' eaoh subsequent Insertion, 1 reduction iiuulo for lnr?o Ail ments. W. w. BALL, Proprietor. B?RENS, S. C. Dec. 21), 1800. Democracy. scorns to be In these latter cuVtoiiH and now fancied notions fcCOoracy. In South Carolina and South, demoorutio doctrines jon held and boasted for a cen ?ho Carolina Idea of democracy a demand for what is known us C democracy?a government by ob, overy man and woman exer equalunquall6ed volco in tho Pfcfc of the State. This is not Carolina Idea of democracy. It (r has been?we trust it never will ['hose whoexeroiso tho suffrage are [real Governors of a Stato. In this we so qualify the suffrage that on tose of sufficient intolllgenco oxer tit and are thereby governors. This jxpedloney?looks to tho greatest of the greatest numbor?this Is rathern idea of domocracy. The sr or the Governor must be ab!o to I or write or understand tho pro >ns of our constitution. This is ex igency whereon all good govcrn i% is founded. We are not a puro iocracy. 8uch has novor existed practically ought not to ox 1st.? luse criminals, idiots, paupers and ^deplorably Ignorant ought not to jrclflo the functions of Govornmont. loranco and pauperism should not lo tho State. But this conclusion is t founded on an abstract right. It is tnded, as we urgo on tho doctrine of Jpedlenoy?tho greatest good of the vtest number. There has been loh discussion reoently of tho State jnpropriatlng public money to public ?jhools and Stato Colloges. the right of ? State to appropriate taxes to the jipport of the public schools and to klntain such Institutions as Clemson, ie South Carolina Collego, the Clta ?l and Winthrop. This is absurd ? ie State has settled Its policy of pub ic schools and tho support of higher luoation. To take any taxpayer's louey for education is puro socialism xcopt upon tho generous principle of xpedienoy. We do not want a gov rnment of ignorance. So tho higher, nstltutions of learning are tho cap tone of our system. If upon tho principles of abstract right you un dertake to apportion where the public loney should go you would break town at the first stop. Thero is no irithmetio by which you can calculate tho worth of one citizen more than an other to the State. So that upon sound principles of government wo expect 110 radicalism of our coming Legisla ture and fully count upon the General Assembly promptly relegating to tho rear the revolutionists in the Stato I'ho would administer our atTairs upon Ideas of wild revolutionists who Pbuld destroy, instead of build up.? fRomovc not tho ancient landmarks. < Jefferson was the extreme exemplar of populism In the United States and /yet was the chief instrument in estab lishing tho University of Virginia, |d_WM^)?OHder of this achievement Khan of being the President of this Con- J Ifedcracy. Havo done, dono with radi [callsm, demagogism and socialism. W. J. Bryan delivered a lecture at Lttanta on the evening V the 2.'ird in stant?tho first of a s-'-icS-tQ-foJ-low In January. The subject was "Anolent Landmarks" and blinked at tho fea tures and Issues of the recent cam paign. A long lecture staring a reader In tho faoe?a full pago of an ordinary newspaper?Is a little demoralizing, t*we tackled It and found it entirely rth.tho while. His style Is simp'e, perspicuous, logUal to the last, and this leoturo ns a sample clearly plonoors a series that will to worth tho money and the time that they must cost.? There are none ot the earmarks of Tom Watsonlsm it the address and the prospeot is that Mr. Bryan's serios of leotures will be a succoss. It is a dangerous experiment however for a man who has the reputation of an ora tor?the leoture platform a3 a rule Is more frlgl I ?han a glacier and tho mixed audience fa< ig him of no higher temperature. Bryan would do well to rest until 1900. There was somo question whothor the constabulary slaughtered Sims In G.*eeaviUo or in that great democratic county Spartanburg. Tho honor was however awarded to Spartanburg and 4he-1aNer of that county stood their on tertainors till tho Governor of South Carolina could be heard horn. So von eltlos contended for tho honor of tho birthplace of Homer. Stockholder** Moving. The annual meeting of tho Share holders of Tho National BanV of Lau rens, 8. C, wlll bo holdonat their Baok'.ng House on Tuosday the 12th Of .January, 1807, for tho pprposo of electing a Board of eight Direuors for said Bank. Jno A. Barksdaik, PrifUent. The Laurens County AllUt.,. js hereby called to meet at Laurnjitr/;. II. on Friday the 8th day of Januarrnext, instead of Friday the 1st day . I M. A. Summkul rresflwt,. December 16, 1890. Bargains in Pianos. Beautiful Upright Pianos irom 1816.00 up, at M. A. Malone'^Op lumbi?, 8. O. NEW YEAR'8 EVE 80NQ. Stay yot, my friend*, a moment stay? Btoy til) the good old year. Bo long companion of our way. Blinke? hands and leaves us hero I Ob, atay, ob, atay, One lit Mo hour and tben away I The year whoso hopes wero high and strong lias now no hopes to wake, Yot ono hour more of jest and song For his familiar nnko. Ob, stay, ob, Htay, Ono mirthful hour and then away I Tbo kindly year, bin liberal hands Hrve lavished all bin store, And shall wo turn from whero ho stands Booause bo gives no morof Ob, stay, oh, stay, One grntoful hour and then away I I Days brightly camo and calmly wont Wbilo yet ho was onr guest. \How choorfully tbo week was spent I Uow sweot tbo sovontb day's rest I Oh, stay, ob, stay, >no goldon hour and then away I ear frlands' woro with us, sorao who sleep VBeneath tbo coffin lid. bat pleasant momorles wo keep , Of all they said and dldt Oh, stay, ob, stay, |no tendor hour and then away I .?i n whllo wo sing he' smllos hin last knd leaves our sphero behind. 10 good old year is with tho past. )b, bo tho new as klndl Ob, stay, oh, stay I \o parting strain and tbon away I ?William Collen Bryant. ,A NEW YEAR'S CRY. Jcu\pa,ul Blohtor on the Call of Re morse. old mau stood on Now Year's nigl in the window and looked with dcojlcspair up to tho motionloss, over boatful Bky and around ou tho still, puroVhito earth, whereupon was there no ol bo perturbed and oomfortlesa as ho, fl ho was near his grave. It was coven by tho snow of ago and not by tho vduro of youth, and ho had brongi nothing out of a long, rieh life ?notbg with biua bnt errors, Bins and misorla wasted body, a ruined soul, tho brW full of poiBon and an old-age of ronlso. nis iv youth time returned like a vision \ him and took him baok to tho timo \v?n ho had stood with his fathor upon tn,bvauohing road of life. Tho right had path led into tho sunny land of virtulfoll of light, good fruits nnd nngels, ivido, still country. To tho loft was ho nndorgrouud path of vico, leading iL black hoi), full of dripping poisons, 'Vithing sorponts nnd dark, stifling bAliu. Oh, how tho serpents clung to h breast I Oh, tho poison on Iiis tongtp was, Mindleij ho cnlled Ho know well whore ho nnd in inexpressible agony, hoavon: "Oh, givo me back my youthkguin, O Fathor 1 Stand ino on tho b inching path of lifo again, that I inajlivo my lifo over." But hi'/fathor and his youth woro gone Ion ago. Ho saw fireflies dancing ovor thcSvamp and extinguished in tho ohurohyil, and ho said, "They aro as my foolik days." Ho saw a star fall from thjfiky, shining as it fell, and then rsnlh in the earth. "That is I," said hisliicding heart, and tho serpents of romo:9 made still larger their wounds. Tho fl koriug phantasms drew tho creeping unnnmbulist out on the roof, nnd thovs tdinill raised its arms threat eningly a if to dash him to pieces, and as his las hours approached the spirits of tho cad canto from their empty tombs. In tho i idst of those terrors suddenly from Iho lower came tho Now Year's ehimes liki distant church music. Ho was deeply^ moved, and as ho looked around tho noazOU and over the wido laudscapo ho bought of his youthful friends, that nhv, better and hnppior than ho, were tochers of tho world, tho fathers of huppt children and blessings to mankind, and ho said: "Oh, could I also on this firstjnight of tho year sleep with dry eyes alonco I could I Alns, I should now be lnppy if I had only fol lowed my parcrts' teachings and ful filled their Nowy ear's wishes for mo I" Tho vision of his lost opportunities camo with fearfd olcamoBS beforo him. Ho could seo no more. Ho restrained his eyes. A thousmd hot tears stroamed into tho hiding mow. Ho inoanod in despoir, "Oh, yqdh, only como back? como back again f' And it enmo baok, for he had onliou tho Now Year's night been drenning. Ho was still n young man. Onl| his errors were not a dream. But he thmked God that, while ho was still younL ho conld turn from tho pathway of vfto into tho sunny way of tho puro Hud oWirtuo. Conduit the Bible. It is said in Scotknd that those who desire to learn whuifato or fortune tho new yoar has in stori for thorn may do bo by consulting ho Bible on Now Year's morning bofqe breakfast. Tho sacred book must be laid upon a tablo, and those who wish (o consult it must open it at random md plnoo a fingor upon ono or other ? tho chapters at which it is opened. *ins chapter is rei.d nnd is believed to dcMribo in somo way tho happiness or mifiejy during tho en suing year of the person making tho trial. - A Wnrnhjr There's ono tlihiR wildestrn to soy Wit hont prejudice it bias? If yon swear ?ff on N?w Year's d Please r^lveinhef Ahnina. ajr, Reading a look Won't tell you about you health. v Ask your neighbor whal he and hia family took last Sprilg when @* they felt to miserable, i) tired- M out. He will tell you ' >,;,; Dr. CLARK JOHNSON'S ^ INDIAN i BLOOD 1 SYRUP 1 the standard family remdy for y> years for Malaria, Lhills and Fever, Lassitude, ScMula, Rheumatism, and all Bloo| Dis eases. A magic boon totired mothers and puny childrej. It has cured thousands, willcure you. Nothing new about I; no trial remedy; no teroprary stimuli honestly, More Medicinal value in a bottle of Hood's Barsa parlllathan In any other preparation. More skill Is required, more care taken, more expense Incurred In its manufacture. It costs the proprietor aud the dealer Moro but it costs tho consumer lets, as he geU more doses for his money. More curative power Is secured by its peculiar combination, proportion and process, whlcli makes It peculiar to Itself. More people aro employed and more spaco oc cupied In IU Laboratory than any other. More wonderful cures effected a ml moro tes timonials received than by any other. More sales and more Increaso year by year are reported by druggists. Moro peopto aro taking flood's Sarsaparllla today than any other, and moro are taking It today than ever before. More and still murk reasons might be given why you should take Hood's Sarsaparilla The One True Mood Purlllor. $1; six for $0. x-i j? r?!ii curo u>1 Liver Ills and Hood S PlllS Sick Headache. Kcenta. State of South Carolina, County op Lauren?. Court ol Probate. Summons /or Relic/.?Complaint not Served. Charles S. Franklin and W. H. Dendy, as Administrators of tho personal estate of Willis J. Dendy, Petitioners against Francis Dendy, Georgo Don dy, Ida Andorson, Earnest Dendy, Fed Dendy and Bubbor Dondy, De fendants. To tho Defendants Francis Dondy, Geo. Dondy, Ida Audorson, K?mest Dendy, Fed Dondy and Bubbor Dt ndy. You aro hereby summoned and requir ed to answer the Petition in thts action which is this day tiled in the ofllco of Judge of Probate lor tho said County and to servo a copy ot your answer to tho said Petition on tho subscribers at thoir Ollico at Beurens Court House, South Carolina, within twenty days af ter tho8ervlco hereof, exoluslve of the day of such sorvico; and if you fail to answer the Petition within tho time aloresaid, tho Plaintiff"in this action will apply to tho Court for tho roliol" demanded in tho Petition. Decembor 18th, A. I)., 1806. BALL, SIM KINS & BALL, Plaintiff's* Attorneys. To Kannst Dondy, non-resident, Defend ant : Please tako notice that the Petition in this action was tiled in the office of the Judgo of Probate for Laurens County, Stato of South Karclinn, on the 18th day of Doc. 181)6. BALL, SIM KINS ?fc BALL, PlaintiftV Attorneys. Att08t:-0. O. THOMPSON, J. P. L< 0. Lauren?, 8. C, Dec. 21, I89?.-0t STATE of SOUTH CAROLINA, County of laurens. Court of Probate. F. B. Wilcut, as Administrator of the estate of J. E. Wilcut and individually, Plaintiff, against Jno. It. Wilcut, ct al., Defendants. Pursuant to a decree in the above stated action, I will sell at Lau rens C. II., S. C, on Salesday in January, 1897, being the 4th day of the month, during the legal hours of sale in front of the court house door, the following real estate: All that tract of land, sit uate in said County and Siate, containing Fifty four (54) Acres, more or less, bounded by land6 of F. B. Wilcut, J. Rufus Wilcut and Mrs. H. It. Dunklin. Terms?One-half the purchase money cash, balance on credit of one year with interest from day of sale; secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of premises sold, with leave to purchaser to pay en tire bid in cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. If terms of sale arc not complied with %tul will be re sold ci) same or some subsequent Salesday at the risk of the former purchaser. O. G. THOMPSON, Dec. i2, 189(5 j. p. l. c. mm ?FOR of all kinds go to Pr.B.F.Posey's DRUG STORE Citation Notice. WHEREAS, G. \V. Duvall, has ap plied to me, to grunt him Letters of Administration oil the Estate of and effecth of Octavia Duvall, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said Octavia Duvall, deceased, that thoy be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Laurent! Court House, S. C, on the 7th day of January next, after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in. the forenoon, to show Cause, if any they havo, why the kaaid LctteVs of Administration Reduction! RIGHT WILL WIN! Wo havo fully illustrated tho truth of tho abovo business maxim. From a small beginning six yoars ago, wo have built up a largo trade uutil our mammoth storo is now recognized as ono of the largest and most attractive iu upper Carolina. While we duly appreciate tho liberal patronage bestowed upon us by our friends iu tho past, wo aro still anxious that our business should grow and assume greator proportions. With this object in view, wo will, on January 1st, 1897, associato with us as partners in our business, Messrs. M. L, Iioper and S. P. Babb. Of course, this change will necessitate the taking of a complote and rigid inventory of our immense stock, and in order to reduce the same to a minimum within tho remaining twenty-five days, w6 aro determined to inaugurate a cut-rate sale all along the line. We will offor big drives on some some special lots of Shoes and Clothing during this twenty-five days, that will completely knock out all competition. During this sale we will not con sider tho question of LOSS to ourselves, but GAIN to our cus tomers. SHOES! SOME BIG DRIVES IN BOYS' AND MISSES' SIZES, 12, 18 AND 1. CALL AND SEE THEM. A FULL LINE OF MEN'S SHOES CHEAP. ALSO LA W' DIES' SHOES. IT WILL PAY YOU TO SEE THEM. A Well Dressed Man With woll dressed chil dren is a pleasant sight. Tho man who dresses well rogardloss of any obstaclo has" learuod ono secret of success. Ho has learned that money invested iu clothiug is money well invested. Ho has learned that it pays. Men who buy hero have also learned ono secret of succoss?they havo learned that they will got moro for thoir money. You want style, fit, wear and warmth in a overcoat?why pay moro than $7.50 for it, when you can get it for that. Soo our locals. Men's $7.50 Suits now $5.50. WE ARE THE LEADERS! A few ; Shirts-Collars Neckties, Cuffs, Handkerchiefs, Etc., Etc. Odds and Ends in Good Suits worth $|q.oo to $12.50, now $7,50 ~$&r Dressing Well Is a science?it requires lots of study and thought. It requires a little time and trouble? looking about?finding the store which oilers tho best values. Don't you know some man who always looks particularly well? Why do you suppose it is? It's because he under stands t he art of dressing ?because ho appreciates a good clothing storo, and buys hero year after year. Wo have spent lots of timo, money and brains, in making this storo what it is, but wo have never had cause to regret it. Big Job iti Men's Cheap Suits worth $5.00 now $3.98 ! ? This is no "Catch-penny" Advertisement, but a Regular bon*-fi4e cut-rate Sale for DAVIS & ROPER. "FAfiOUS" Clothing, Hat and Shoe Store. LAURENS, S. C, To our Many Customers and Friends: We son.l tho cheery news that we havo now a splondid lino of Clothing from bost manufacturers, at pricos to siiit tho times und low prico of cotton. We have Stouts and Slims Nobby and Plain SUITS Our stock is entiroly now and bought at rook-bottom prices and will be sold as low as any goods in tho State of equal merit. our stock of Shoes and Hats . Is largo and well selected and como direct from factory, and maiked down to meet the viows of all. We sell tho JEFFERSON and KING HATS. We invite both Ladies aud Gentlemen to call and examine our new HAND HADE SH0E8. Prices right. Our stock of DRY GOODS Is new and fresh and marked down at lowest prices. Favor us with a call and we will take pleasure in giving you prices. State ok South Carolina, County of Lumens. Court of Common lMeas. Sallie F. Bagwell, et al., vs. Andrew J. Monrue, et al. Pursant to a decreo of tho Court In tho abovo stated case I will sell at Laurens 0. H., H. C, on Saleday In January, 1897, during legal hours of sale, at public outcry, to the highest biddor after due and legal notice, all that tract or parcel of land, lying, being and situate in tho County of Lvturcus, ?talo ol South Carolina, containing Two Hundred and Pour Acres, (204) moro or less, hounded on tho North by 0. Wister Babb, East by John Pitt roan, South by Dora Boll, West by Roody River. Terms?One-half cash, balance on ereditof one year with interest from day of sale, secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of premises sold, with leave to pur chasor to pay ontlro bid in cash Purchaser to pay for paper*, if terms of sale are not complied with land will bo resold on same or some subsequent Salesday at the risk of the former purchaser. J. H. Wiiarton, 0.0.0, P Notice. All persons holding claims against the county must present t hum to the county Supervisor on or before the first and second day of January or they wilt not be paid time. By order of the coun Shields' Mats. These Hats arc Guaranteed, and we have the prettiest and most complete line ever shown in the South. Our prices are right, don't yoi forget. The above cut shows our 68 cents "Gents Tourist" on the latest block, up-to-date. Get our prices on Hats and we will sell you yoin Hats. Just received some matchless Bargains in Furniture, Stoves, Tin, Glass and Crockery Ware, Sewing Machines, Pictures. Hats, Caps, Shoes and Clothing, Umbrellas, Big Job in Hosiery and Notions, Stationery, Watches, Jewelry, Trunks, Valises, Etc. Look and Live ! Dollars and Cents in your pocket and sense in your head. Thanks for past favors and solicit your future patronage. Yours for Favors,