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BROTHER BOB ON NEW COUNTY. Court House Not ft Lova ble Thing. SOME OBJECTIONS. Fountain Inn's Many Strong Points. Tlio Expensive Trip of a Pair of Calves ?The Looks of Lawyers and the Cause. Brothor Bob sends Tns Advertiser the following entertaining letter: It's a busy timo with mo just now. I have no timo to think about a Court House; less, to write one up. Our cot ton Is late on red land and is just now coming in on us. We are sowing oats and wheat as wo catch the ground in ordor and storming about generally. Besides, I have recently purchased a pair of Red Polled calves and sold six bales of cotton to get money to pay for them, but it lacked just $11.33 filling the bill. They cost $200 f. o. b. El merville Tonn, and the freight, which I calculated only nominal, was $50.25. This freight business Is awful high on red polls. The calvos are the finest I ever saw. I am delighted with them; but the freight! that is what strapped me. It's too high ; entirely too high. Had I thought about it I should havo sent Tone out thoro and had him drive them back. Tone is tho nogro boy who lends my cows. He works for $8 and board and could mako tho trip in two months easy. I will send him after the next lot and that will be keeping the money In tho South. We believe in home industry, home patronage and homo investment up hore. Hut talking about the Fountain Inn Court House I can only say that I am a Fountain Inn man over and over. Fountain Inn is a hustling, growing littlo town with a glorious future in front of her. Gen erally speaking we Have here one of tho best horso markets this side-of) Kentucky; ono of the best cow markets this sldo of Norfolk and a cotton mark et that eclipses anything this side of New York. We are expecting to open up in tho near future a whole-sale gen oral mercantile business and it will pay your Laurens trado to see us be fore going to Now York. We will treat you nice. We havo an oil mill, a cotton mill and plans aro about con summated for a bank. If we take a notion for a Court I louse of course the matter Is a foregone conclusion. The world can't stop us. But, for my part, I am not much of a Court House man. We need a bank and will have ono. I want some money right now. Must havo it. My idea of a Court Iloueo Is that it is for a terror to evil doers, and we aru'b that. I have always enter tained a sort of antipathy for Court | House scenes. A Court House is asso ciated in my mind with a jail house with its screeking doors, Its iron barred windows, behind which wo have glimpses of kinky heads, large white eyes and all that is ghastly and ghostly. Of course these institutions?be it said tothodiscredltof our twentieth century are necessary to our social and industrial interests, but- tho fewer wo can make out with tho bettor. My choice is to live as far away from a Court House as I can well get. While a necessity, they are at tho same time object lessons that tend to demoralize. To sit In a Court House and see a half dozen, fiat nosod, broad-mouthed, greasy negroes boing tried for their lives whose de portment indicates all the placidnesss of a King in a meat-house has a tendency to lower one's estimate of the royalty and highness of humanity. I like things that brings a man's thoughts in to a loftier place of meditation. Some times I think that Is what makes law yers look mean? Hid you know that some people think lawyers are really mean? Tho lawyer is not a mean man at all. I have been Intimately ac quainted with numbers of them and some are, I believe, actually Christians. No thoy are not mean; they only look mean from having contaminating en vironments. You have have heard It said that when two persons live to gether till they are old they come to favor each other. This oomoa from looking at each other and sympathiz ing with eaoh others wrinkles. That's the way It is with the lawyer looking on the prisoner and the prisoner look ing on the lawyer. "Evil communica tions corrupt good manners." A very prominent educator and president of a college said to me once that I would have made a good lawyer. Maybe he was right, but I don't want the job. You fellows have got it down there and tho Court House too, sol make the motion that you just hold on to it. ] Look mean if you want to; I don't. Thorn Nelson says If we get the new county he and myself will be sent to the legislature. You see, we have made a run or two and got no older. It would hardly be fair yet to impose on tho two counties tho burden of I building a new one just to get us to the legislature. It would seem fairer to open up our threat** upon cur epeotlve counties and give them an other ohance at us with the ultimatum squarely sot forth. Then we may cut and slash. One of my neighbors says he will not voto for a new county but will vote for a- fusion of Greenville and Laurens counties Into one. Of course this is im practical. In the discussion of this , small vs. largo county question a . few years ago somo one made the point that they were not able to support the county officers.' He said that he had occasion to see a Probate Judgo in one of these small countios and when he called at the office no one was in. He enqulrod as to his whereabouts and was told that he was a mile or two out of town on tho baokside of a litte farm ho had rented hoeing cotton trying to make a living f .r his family an his sal ^ ary was not sufficient for hin support. But I leave this phase of the subject to thoao more seriously interested. I am v thoso more seriou V giving ouly my sentiments and tastes in the matter. My idea of a home is a country farm In the north-western part of a county with corn, cotton and wheat fields on It, a large pasture with Hed Pc.'s in it, within easy i ?ach of a dashing, plucky, coming eity, with mills and stores and banks in it? Is there a second to my mot'on ? Brother Bod. TYLEK8VILLE ITEMS. Missionary Society Formed ? Visitors and Others. Thanksgiving was pleasantly spent here. Visiting, hunting and good din ners wero tho pleasures of the day. Miss Ella Peterson of Whitmire spent a few days with her parents last week. Mrs. N. B. Byrd Is visiting relatives in Spartanburg. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Garrett of Gray Court are moving into this neighbor hood. Mrs. Boulah Julian and childron of Helena are visiting Mrs. Will Wright. The many friends of Mr. John Pully deeply sympathize with him in tho loss of his fine horse a few days ago. Miss Mattle Sloan la spending this week with Misses Hortense and Mat tie Blakely of fWnton. Mr. Bob Cunningham visited his daughtor, Mrs. Geo. Mosely, last week. Mr. J. W. Donnan has tho largest bed of cabbage plants we ever saw. Can con.-I, them by the ten thousands. Several ladles of this community mot at the resldonce of Mrs. Mattle Clark last Friday afternoon and or ganized a Woman's Missionary So ciety. The following oillcers were eleoted: Mrs. Dr. Saxon, President; Mrs. Tom Pool, Vioe President; Miss Emma Blakeley Secretary and Mrs. Clarence Cooper Treasurer. They de cided that during tho winter months they would meet at their homes; dur ing the summer at the following Churches: Sandy Springs, (Methodist), Langston (Baptist) and Bothany, (Pres byterian). The wide-awako 8abbath School of Sandy Springs is making preparations for a Christmas tree for the afternoon of Deo. 25tb. All who wish are cor dially invited to come and put their | presents on the trees. Santa Claus will be there and will begin his fua prompt ly at three o'clock. Maruuerite. Assessor's Notice. The Auditor's Office will be open from tho 1st day of January to the 20th day of February, 1903, to receive re turns of Real Estate and Personal property for taxation in Laurens county. For the convenience of Taxpayers I tho Auditor will attend the following named places to receive returns for | said year to wit: Jacks Township, Dr. F. M. Setzler's, ] January 5th from 10 a m to 2 p m. Jacks Township,Renno, January 6th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Hunter Township, Clinton, January 7th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Hunter Township, residence of Duck I Young, January 8th, from 10 a m to 2 j p m. Cross Hill Township, Spring Grove, | January 9bb, from 10 a m lo 2 p m. Cross HlUTownship, Cross Hill, Jan uary 10th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Waterloo Township, Waterloo, Jan uary 12th, frOi? IG a in to 2 p in. Waterloo Township, Ekom, January 13th, from 10 a m to 10 p m. Waterloo Township, Mt. Gallagher, | January 14th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Sullivan Township, Browerton, Jan uary 15th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Sullivan Township, Princeton, Jan uary 16th, from 9 a m to 12 m. Sullivan Township, Tumbling Shoals January 10th from 1 p m to 4 p m. Dial Township, Abner Babb's, Janu ary 17th from 9 a m to 12 m. Dial Township, D. D. Harris,' Janu ary 19th, from 10 a m to 4 p m. Dial Township, V. A< White's, Janu ary 20th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Young's Township, Cook's Store, January 21st, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Youog's Township, Young's Store, January 22d, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Young's Township, Pleasant Mound, January 23rd, from 9 a m to 12 m. Young's Township, Lanford Station, January 28rd, from 2 to 4 p m. Scoffietown Township, Tylersvllle, January 26th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. It will save muoh time to taxpayers, also greatly facilitate the work of the Assessor, if every person before leav ing home will make out a complete list of every item of personal property in the following order: Horses, cattle, mules, shoops and goats, hogs, organs and pianos, watches, wagons and car riages, dogs, merchandise, machinery I and engines, moneys, notes and ac- j counts above indebtedness and all oth er property, inoludlng household. It is always required that the Audi tor get the first given name of the tax payer in full. Under the head of place of residence on tax return, give the township. All male oltlzons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, on the 1st of January, except those who are Incapable of earning a support from being maimed, or from other causes are deemed taxable polls, Confederate I veterans excepted. And all tax-payers are required to 5ive number of their school district, 'hey are also reques'ed to state wheth er the property is situated in town or | country. After the 20th day of February next I fifty per cent, penalty will bo atttaohed for failures to make returns. In every community there are per sons who cannot read or that do not I I tako a newspaper. Those more fortu nate may do suoh persons a great favor by telling them of the t imo to make re turns or by returning for them. The assessing and collecting taxes is done in the same vear. and we h*ve to aggregate the number and value of all horses, mules, oattle, and other pieces of personal property as well as the acres of land, lots and buildings and their value that there are in this country, and have'the same on file in the Comptroller General's office by the 30th of Juno of each year, and from that time to tho first day of October the Auditor's and Treasurer's duplicate have to be completed and an abstract of the work la the Comptroller Gen eral's office by that time, which will show at a glance that the Auditor has no time to take returns, or anythiug else much, between the 1st of October, but work on the books and the blanks. We hope, therefore, that all taxpayers will make tholr returns in time. W. L. FERGUSON, Auditor. Dee. ?th, 1902 ?If. _ MONEY TO LOAN On Improved farms. Long time. Easy payments. Small oost. Np com mission. Apply to O. D. Barksdalk, Atty , Laurons, S. C. June 24th, 1902?3m. /?ss^GO TO THE^a*??^ CASH BARGAIN STORE TOYS And sec what a little CASH will buy to make the Children happy for? CHRISTMAS. Old Santa has just unloaded here aud we have them for every Child. Come and see. Now look what we have for grown people aud children to eat: Oranges, Apples, Raisins and Bananas, English Walnuts,.18 cents per lb. Almonds, the best, .18 " Filberts, the best,.15 * * Pecans, just off the bush ,15 * * c ? c ? ? ? ? t J. L. HOPKINS, LAURENS, S. C. Proprietor A BIO CARNIVAL. Laurens Awakened! The progressive step marks her pathway,with steady move ment is fast coming to the front. Daring this week's festivities many special attractions will be displayed. W. G. Wilson c(r Co. will offer during the week Special Lines in? Dress Goods, Blankets and Ladies' Jackets. Decided Bargains will easily be detected here by those who are thoroughly familiar with present market values. These cut prices arc for this week only at? W. G. Wilson & Co. WHY? Why we can and do sell Best Goods for least floney! Because wo soil for cash only and therefore loso nothing from bad accounts. Because we exchange or refund money on anv article not satisfactory. Because where you see an article advertised by us, it's always here at the price advertised. That's Why?We sell a Lady's Jacket worth $8.50 for #6.90. That's Why?We sell a Lady's Jacket worth $6.00 for $4.48. That's Why?we sell heavy Fleeced Underwear worth 25 for 20c That's Why?we sell heavy ** Union Suits worth 65 for 48c That's Why?we sell a beautiful Marseilles quilt woith $1 for 75c In our Millinery Department you will always find the most stylish productions, at a price to suit you. Come and see us. Satisfaction with every purchase, or your money back. WHY? WHY? A Thanksgiving Summons! "When the frost is on the pumpkin" and tho season's crops are gathorcd in it is time to give thanks. Though Winter's icy blasts may rago without, thore'll be cheer and comfort at tho Thanksgiving foast within. Are you going to oat your dlnnor at home? Then you'll want to prosont your best appearanco, especially if thero is a house full of company. Aro you going to eat your dinner with friends or relativesV Thon you'll want to put your best foot forward away from home. In cither event, you will want something now in the way of wearables. Wo would like to romind you that wo havo everything for your Thanksgiving Outfit. We can lit you out from hood to foot?everything In wearables for man and l>oy is here in wido variety and at temptingly little prioos. You will onjoy tho holiday all tho moro with fresh, stylish apparol? you will want to put your host foot forward boforo your friends. J. E. MINTEIl & BKO. i Ai mm mm A nmm mfti vmj ifc iiV WW ? SEEDS FOR your Fall SOWING? Wo Have T?ll Stock of Wheat, Barle)', Rye, Vetch, Rape, Red, Crimson gf and Burr Clover. $ Burr Clover U tho unsurpassed JL Winter pasturage. Try It. ?i? Complete Line of Undertakers'Supplies ' We roll Mason's, half Qallons, Fruit Jurs at 7f> cents per dozen. 1 KENNEDY BROS. You didn't Know! That our buyer has just returned from New York and Baltimore where he "scooped" some of the BIGGEST VALUES EVER BROUGHT TO LAURENS FOR December and the Holiday Trade. Tr\e Pnncetorf You Didn't Know That in these lots he picked up several large lots of MEN'S CLOTHING, which we are offering much below their real value. YOU DIDN'T KNOW that he scooped a big lot of . Boys' Knee Suits and Children's Vestee Suits. YOU DIDN'T KNOW that he found wholesalers in need of money, and in order to get some they let " our buyer in on the ground floor and parted with some of the newest and up-to-date things in Dress Goods, Waisting, Fan cy Table Linen, Lace, Window Curtains, Etc. % Garlton You Didn't Know that in this lot he scooped a big lot of MilbEnds that we will run at the following prices? 'J000 yards 5-ceivt Outing at,. 3c. 2000 yards 7 and 8-cent Oirting at, . 5c. 1000 yards 25-cent Fancy Jacquards at, 19c. A big lot, of Jackets less than value. A big lot, of Quilts and Blankets less than value. . 7WS *fS /T's ^WS TTs /In 7f\. A big lot of Ladies' Hats 25% less than value? A big lot of Ladies' Skirts 25% less than value. A big lot of Ladies' Suits 25% less than value. J? jl 4; 'X ?/l ju ^ X' ;i^r ni; ?iL a; .a: ^ ,i; vr \i: yi; w v v va/ vi.i X X' ^ \li ".iL X X ?fci J? X A' 4? XJLi; b; 4.' 4.' ;a; vi; .|; 4; '.i.'' n.' 4; 4.' You didn't know that the term New York cost does not figure in the values we are offering because wo bought the n less than cost, and therefore give you the advantage of it. Now you know, Call quick and avoid the rush, as all will be put on sale as fast as the}' arrive. We expect the largest business this month of any December of our exist ence. We know what you want, and we have it! We know what's a fair price, and we charge it. We know what value is, and we give it! Davis, Roper & Co. Famous Underbuyers and Undersellers of Merchandise, Always Something New in the Household Line! Our ambition in adding Novelties to our singular stock of Houscfurnishings is never satisfied. So we hereby introduce our new arrival of Lamps, Chinaware , Furniture and Kitchen Supplies, It's Not What You Eat, but How it's Served That makes a big dinner tempting. If prepared on a Muck's Range it can not be any way but delicious. The Large Roomy Over Is a Distinctive Feature of this line of Ranges and is just the thing to cook a big fowl or roast in. Let us place one in your home. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Xmas Stock Arrive. A Special Sale of all Carpets and Rugs,