Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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(Hctuertiser '?12 MoatUB, 91.60 DVAXOB. DITOR. 4rt!s!ng.?Ordinary Ad per square, one inser ?aoh subsequent Insertion, A reduction made for large Ad jmenta. W. W. BAU., Proprietor. LAURENS, S. O., Mar. 2,1897. OUR SOLON'S. It will be remembered (hat our Leg islators deolined to work on tho 22d, being most of the lot, "sons of the revolution" in spirit, if not, In fact of those who fought at King's Mountain. Tuesday last there was much talk. An amendment to the Dispensary law was hotly dobated in tho House, the amendment requiring liquors brought into tho State for personal use to be sent to the State chemist for analysis ?that no citizen should got under his skin any snakobito stuff. Tho friends of the measuro, some of them,bolstorcd their position with tho argument that tho Attornoy Gonoral had prepared tho bill and tho Governor favored it, while it was replied that tho Attorney General had blundered and the Unltod States Supreme Court had decldod against him already on this question. The brother who urged that tho Gov ernor lavored a bill as a reason for its passage Is a dangerous porson to be loose- as if Congross wore told this or that wero a good measuro becau?o Grover Clovoland or Bill McKinley fa vored it. There was much more such stuff, but tho bill passed tho House. It must take Its chances among tho wlso men of tho other branch. On tho samo day a debaio occurred In the Senate on tho bill to limit tho hours of employees on city rail-ways not cal culated to olovatc our notions of tho character of this body. The dobato strongly savored of domogogism and having a tainted socialistic flavor (al ways provided ono don't fancy this sort of thing.) Iloro too we take loavo to observe that for ability thorc Is lit tle room for comparison botwoon tho two houses, tho Senate being far below tho lower house, (If you will pardon an Irishism.) A bravo effort was made in the Sonato to roopon tho free pass question, which failed. (The republi cans in Congress and some democrats threaten to abolish the civil ecrvlco law that political pot house huckstors may reward their henchmen.) There Is no question but our legislators earn the sympathy of our people They have to look after tho sinking fund follows; the dispensary gontry; soo that we have good hard roads; elect able Judgos add Senators; keep tho taxes down; manage groat corporations and a sight of other Important matters, as well as to see that no man's dog Is molested. It is surprising that a man's friends will impose upon him such re sponsible positions. A.now office has been created?that of Bank Examiner. A p-etty little salary of $1,500 with $100 bosldes to defray travelling oxpensos. Sometimes when a lated traveller Is passing through tho snows of Siberia tho hun gr}' wolves cry from evory cave and neighboring crovico. So candidates from tho East and West and North and South yelp for tho place. May tho worthiest win. On Thursday much speaking was had on thelnomotax bill. It passed the House. We a?e sorry for It, It will prove corrupting. It cannot bo enforced fairly and equally, j It will prove to bo a second Pathor of Lies and fruitful of perjury and litiga tion on constitutional grounds. It is unequal. One man makos 30 bales of cotton and 500 bushols of corn worth ?1,000 and has neither wlfo nor child. _AnotherThakos 50 bales of cotton and ^B*J0 bushels corn, but has a wlfo and ton children to support, but tho tax gatheror gets him and eats him. The whole system is against tho genius of our people. At any rate the tcale shou'd commence at $500, if at all.? The following shows the schemo of graduation as It loft tho Houso. (Arn't you glad you are not rich)? "A tax of 1 per centum on amount so derived ovor and above $1,200 and up to' $5,000; H per cent on $5,000 and ovor f .and up to $7,500^ por cent on $7,500 and over and up to $10,000; 2* per cont on $10,000 and up to $ 5,000; :i por cont on $15,000 and ovor. A tax on insurance companies has passed and will becomo law. In this case, It is tho other follows ox that Is gorod?perhaps. But tho rate of In surance will be raised, and still It Is the quality of tiro to burn. Civilization comes high, yet nobody wants to go back to old times?a pot hook and pot suspended from up tho chimney and a corn dodger. Nover mind, civllp/ntlon President Cleveland will be retired to private life on the day after to-mor row. It has been a question for several years among the sentimentally given, what should be done with our ox-Presi dents, but with common sense people the question has attracted little or no concern. The real practical question is how to get a.common sonso, honest praotical President and what ho should do while he holds that high and ro sponsiblo office. Unlike Emperors, Kings, and other potentates, who aro nominal heads of Governmonts tho President of these United States, (which lately operates as a nationality) has real powors for good or evil: how ho bears tho scoptro Is of concern to many millions of citizens, or subjocts as tho caeo may bo; his Is not a barren sceptre: but It is an Idle and vain thought to look beyond tho occasion of our Chief Magistrate laying down the emblems of power and passing iuto tho Stato of private citizenship. It is however, a noble sentiment to speed with fair words and courteous good wishes tho faithful public servant as he bids farewell to all hiB groat employ ments. As one Southern man, a South erner of Southerns,we desire to express our very best wlshos for the happiness of Grovor Olovoland as he lays down his great ofilco--and to bospeak for all his household continued blosslnjis. Tho Southern people have not agrood with Grover Clovoland in his administra tive policies for tho last four yoars; tboy have boon spiteful and angry In expression; they aro hasty and have tho hot blood of a Southern sun In their volnsjbut they aro generous, and loft to tholr cool reflections they aro not vindictive and with tlmo to ro lloct they will remombor Grovor Olovcland as tholr frlond and political redeemer. The Southern Statos from Lincoln to Cleveland woro provinces, and satrapies; with Cleveland thoy woro restored to Statoheod and equality with Ohio, Illinois and Penn sylvania. A Southorn man now Is a man, In the South, the East, on Boston I Commons, in tho White House, In tho Senate Chamber of this great govern ment, Clovoland filled his Cabinot and tho great places, at homo and abroad, with tho proscribed chlvalr, of the South; ho mado Gordon of Georgia tho poor of Sherman of Ohio and Rood of Malno. Cleveland Is a groat man; great, that he resisted tho clamors of partizans and stood by his convictions of right. Tho lime must soon como when he will bo cnshrlnod in tho affections of the Southorn peo ple. Glyo them tlmo. To Grovor, Ruth and Esther, each a fair good night. Wo aro not sentimentally con corned as to what what may bo his stato as an ox-Presldont. Ho can be trusted without the sickly concern of the sentimentally feoble. Twenty throe Charleston Christian ministers have signed an address to Governor Ellorbe In tho Interest of Chief Martin of tho Metropolitan Po llco Force of that city. They say: Dear Sir: Inasmuch as tho control of tho police In Charleston is ono of the duties of your office, wo desire to draw to tho attention of your excollency some Important facts In connoctlon with tho same. A careful roadlng of what follows discloses several conclusions, but not a slnglo "fact" that wo can discover.? Indood, to our unsophisticated soul It seems anomalous that tho clergy of that city should be tho fore-front wit nesses upon tho administration of tho whiskey laws. Of course wo dare not and would not controvert "conclu sions." But good training and safety advise,?"bo careful of your facts." * ? ? Otis Smith, the young man who has boon arrested in Atlanta charged with embezzling $10,000 says that ho could not bo in tho swim of sa9sloty In that city on $1,250, his salary. Ho had to steal to hold his placo. That is, ho be camo a thief to please tho fools. As a perfumed loader of sasslety ho will prove a success In tho Penitentiary and thus ho will have led a check ered career, (provided always that convicts wear stripes In Georgia.) **? Tho Edgofiold Chronicle makes plaint that no Edgeflold man Is on Govornor E lerbc's staff and that pa per contemplates with dismay that tho crop of Colonels in that county is threatened. In tender commissoration wo suggest to Brother Bacon: send a few good looking boys to rosldo tempo rarily In Laurons, and wo undertake to return thorn In good ordor and time full Hedged Colonels. *?* Greece will probably bo squolchcd In her attack upon Crete. The "Great Powers" aro not yot ready and agreed upon carving and sorving Turkey. Pure Blood means sound health. With pore, rich, healthy blood, the stomach and di gestive organs will be vigorous, and there will be no dyspepsia. Rheumatism ond Neuralgia will bo unknown. Scrofula and Bait Rheum will disappear. With pure Blood Your nervea will be strong, and your sleep sound, sweet and refreshing. Hood's Barsaparllla makes pure blood. That la why it oures so many diseases. That is why so many thousands take it to cure disease, retain good health and prevent sickness and suffering. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Ono Truo Blood Purifier. ?1; six for $& ., ???.?. cure Liver Ills; easy to flood S PHIS take, easy to operate, ??o. Coming Events* Tho Jim Corbott and Fitzslmmons event in tho West; the Bill McKinley and Iianna incident at Washington. After these tho-. "Savo mo from my frionds" is but ono way of saying that it is unfortu nate to havo a fool as your spokesman. Tho young law oillcor of tho crown in this Statu has but llttlo discretion left him but to litigate and fight with all the woapons of tho law, when tho statutos of the State arc attacked. Again it is but customary, when a member comos to tho Attorney General for asslstanco, that that ofllcor should lick his bill Into shape, as it were his own cub. But whon it is announced in debate that tho Attornoy General is tho author as well as draughtsman of a bill already substantially knocked in tho hoad by tho Federal Supremo Court, it becomes a nico question if that officer is not closely related to tho champion of the measure on tho floor of tho House. Tho Robin, or red-breast, so popular and regarded as a domostlc pet in Northern regions, formerly visited us at this season in gror4, flocks. Our streot gamins indulged no poetry about him,.but indulged tho sling shot and mado a pot plo of this poetic mi gratory songster. He no longer visits these inhospitable regions, and possi bly because tho china treo and the osago orange of a half century ago havo likewise disappeared. Tho News and Courier was superior to tho occasion, and showed splendid talent in her portrayal of tho tho Big Fleet's movements in the Charleston harbor. And Charleston was more than equal to tho situation, as she al ways is, in her entertainment of her distinguished guests. The idea now is to oleotrify the soil and thus make it, according to present theory, many times more productive. It will not be long before this myste rious force will bo applied in cultivat ing the crops, and to all mechanical purposes. "Tho sun do movo." William Jennings Bryan, the lato standard bearer of tho democracy vis ited tho IIouso of Representatives, Washington, on Wednesday last and was cordially greeted by Democrats and Republicans. t0f THE BIG FIRE SALE IS OVER AT DAVIS, ROPER & CO. ^rjf SEE ADVERTISEMENT NEXT WEEK. TO THE PUBLIC. For the next Thirty Days we will sell at cut prices: Overoats, Blankets* Shawls, jLaprobes, Wool Jeans and some Job lots of Shoes. J. R> MINTER & SON. H. BALL "INK, UUHENS \ Tuesday*. n NOTICE Of Settlement and Application Jor Final Discharge. Take notice that on the 318t day of Mar. 1897, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Administrator of the estate of Anna E. Simpson, deceased, in the office of Judge of Probate, for Laurens county at 11 o'clock A. M., and on the same day will M>ly for a final discharge from rust as such Administrator, ocrsons having demands 'id estate will please pre on or before that day authenticated, or be for P. SIMPSON, Administrator. |J All persons having accounts? 5 with us will call and settle same5 vat our office over J. R. Minter &J 11 Son's store. 5 ij Yours truly, W i L. E. BURNS & CO., J * Laurens, S. C.r# All Liquors bottled under the Dispensary "Red, White and Blue" label are distilled and guaranteed by us. We have been selling to the South for FORTY YEARS and we know what you want. Ask your Dispensary for " Red, White and Blue" label liquor and insist on getting it. 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