Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE ADVERTISER. Subscription Prlce.12 Months, $1.00 Parable In Advance. Rates for Advertising.?Ordinary Ad vertisements, per square, one inser tion, $1.00; each subsequent Insertion, 50 cents. Llboral reduction made (or large-Advertisements. W. W. Ball, Proprietor. LAURENS. 8. C. Dec., 0, 1908. Concerning Work. Less than a month hence New Year resolutions will bo in order. Mean while, let us look back over the past year. Without regard to offences against righteousness and virtue, to what degree have wo done our full duty? Looking over the year's bal ance sheot, those of us who are "be hind" in business have what excuse? Are tho &easons wholly responsible? Have we had "bad luck?" Has the gov ernment robbed us? Are those of us who are poor and In debt wholly with out fault? Are we persecuted croatures of misfortune and disaster and aro we serving asentenceof poverty for which thero is no pardon? Wo know a man in tho cotton mill village who has worked an averago of ten or eleven hours every day except Sundays and national holidays sinee the dawn of 1003. He has managed to get along. He has eayed some monoy and It it is either in the bank or has been invested. Thero Is a farmer in this county who has worked on his farm not less than 309 dajs this year and each day the work has been honest, hard labor . It has been severe at times, last summer more than once the temptation came to him to take a mule from tho plow and go away on a little frolic but he with stood it. He has bad however, about two weeks holiday in the course of the year. The crops were short In his neighborhood and h's was not an ex ception. However, he worked so stead ily, so thoroughly and so carefully tha* he made somo cotton and the good prico he has received has enabled him to pay out and save money. Wo know a man in a bank who early and lato has worked at hisdosk, taking not one single holiday except when the bank was closed. Thit nun has saved money this year. There are numbers of bus'ness men in th's town who have not been idle for u week out of the fifty-two. How many hours have we loafed? Lst ns look tho old year squarely Pi the face?how much of it havo wo actually used? How many days have we al lowed to slip by without seriously striving to find something to do and doing it? Tho world contains hundreds of mil lions of people who are supporting themselves on farms of less than ten or fifteen acres. For the most part they live in countries less favored than this. For the most part their lands are less fertile by nature and in not one of these countries can so many kinds of crops, so many th'ngsof value, with so little effort, be produced. These mil lions know full well what work means. Tney have little dream of the pleas ure? of idlesnes?. If they did oob work all the time, they would starve. Let us make a candid and humblo confession. Is it not true that few of us have done more than a fraction of what we might have done? Men are not born equal. A few men bave brains far in excess of others. These men cau make money with cor respondingly less endeavor. A man who makes a great invention in me chanics will likely have an automobile and a steam yacht and be able to labor little. In the same way, some men have a turn for farming, for controll ing labor or raising cattle which others have not. They prosper accordingly. The average man in this world of ours is born poor. He isglf'ed with onlv an average amount of brains and niufelo.: That man may become independent here in Laurens, South Carolina, bar ling peculiar afflictions, but toil and saving make the only way. The most successful men, as a rule, until aftor their success Is accomplished ! and they havo letired from business,' are the hardest workers. There Is per haps not a successful mill president in South Carolina who is not accustomed every day or the year, Sundays ex cepted, to putting iu an average of ten hours. Suppose we keep tab on ourselves. How many hours havo we labored to day? Ho v many have we been idle? If a record, by the watch, were kept for a year, how would it appear? Old men cannot work. Sick man can not work. The young, the able-bodied man in Laurens has little excuse. We have in mind a printing office in this county. If every man in the county worked as steadily as the printers in it, (we are not talking about the edi tor) Laurens Would havo produced a larger cotton crop in 1003 than ever be fore in her history, regardless of the seasons. ? The Chlccos or Greenville. We gather from the Greenville Nows that the people of Greenville county are in insurrection against the dispen sary and that the time has come for Governor Heyward and the state whis key directors to suppress it. Briefly it appears that Lark's distil lery, four miles from Greenville city, known as Tully Babb'sdlstl'lery, (these are a different crowd from our Laurens county Babbs), was raided by a gang of constables and a revenue officer. One of the Babbs was seeu with a live gal lon copper can of whiskey running through the woods, pouring out the stuff as he ran?a melancholy thing to do. The constables searched the woods and the Bibb ciowd fired on them. Twenty-five shots were ?red by each gang. Nobody was hit, ? which I3 wholly discreditable to the marksman ship of the constables. They aimed surer than thst even at Darlington, nine years ago, in Ben Tlllman's time and the dispensary was a toddling baby then. As for the Blind Tlgars,\hoy were not trying to shoot. Four of the latter were tiaally arrested and re leased?note particularly?on bonds of $250! On the day preceding another Babb's distillery was raided by revenue offi cers, at the instance of dispensary con stables and nearly 400 gal'ons of whis key were found secreted in a base ment. Wo wish to ca'l all this to the atten tion of the governor, and especially to the attention of the Abbeville Pf*s< and Banner. In Greenville, open war against the dispensary system exists. The Babb crowd when arrested had a Winchester, a sho'.-gun, a box of am munition and 14 shells. They fired 25 shots. They were released, though t-hargod w!th resisting officers and with assault with intent to murder, on bonds of $250. each. Abbeville Pres3 and Banner stand up. Hold tip right your hand. It this light had occurred in Charleston, what would you with done with that desper ately wickod town? Would you not ssk that it be razed to the ground? Had a Charleston magistrate role used Chlcco on a charge of shooting at a constable repeatedly in the woods on a pitiful $260. bond, would you not have thrown a lit? Would you not have in. slsted that tie peoplo of Charleston were responsible for it? Meanwhile, this Greenville Babb gang have figured in dispensary viola tions for yearj. Thoy havo been more dangoroui and more preseverlng in re sisting the law than any blind tiger in Charleston. Hosido?, it Is probablo that as many men during the year sell contraband whiskoy in Greenville county as sell it in Charleston. Most of them aro in the mouutaius and tho quantities sold by thorn are small. Nevertheless, the law-breaking ele ment in Greenville county ?> said to bo numerous?so far as tho w alskey busi ness Is concerned. The great mass of Greenville peoplo aro in no way re sponsible for it. The Charleston peo ple would bo responsible for similar conditions of course. It is popular to slander tho people of Charleston. It is excellent politics. Tho politician who slandered the peoplo of Greenville would neyer hoar tho last of it. * This Is An Outrage. Tho fctate whiskey directors havo de cided not to withdraw the whiskey pro fits from tho city of Charleston but have conditioned that from thess pro fits the expenses of tbe defence of tho constables prosecuted by the German citizen, Wleters, must bo paid. The Charleston News and Courier with praiseworthy courage denounces this provision as an outrage without the shadow of reason or justice and ad vises that the city authorities, rather than submit to such shameless oppres sion on the part of the board of con trol, surrender the $30,000 of annual whiskey profits. We had hoped that the time had come when the city of Charleston could look to be treated by the politicians as a pare of the state. Tho hope may as well be abandoned. Charleston is regarded as a part of South Carolina for revenue purposes only. No com munity has snlTered more for a state than has Charleston for South Caro lina. In no city were sta'e pride and state affection, more deeply rooted ever. No people fought better In war f iv state's rights than did Charleston. In 1870 it was Charleston that contri buted tho vast bulk of tho money ce cossary to tue Democratic campaign. Now, b:cuuse a citizen of a European country, a subject 01 Emperor William of Germany, chooses lo sue officers of tho state of South Carolina in the fed eral courts this same state of South Carolina declares that it will extort from tho city of Charleston $30,000. unless Charleston provides tho state of South Carolina with lawyers to defend the state's agent! A great socession movement onco started in Charleston. Unless the mean and small p.>r?ccution of Charles ton in the part of politicians should cease, it would bo hotter for Charles ton to inaugurate secession again ?tois tlmo from the state. Of couivo, such a thing Is not mentioned seriously and coulc not be but, from a purely senti mental view point, secession wou'd bo justifiable. Tho politicians lovo Char ton?during election years?and they love hor for tho money that may be squee/.od out of her in all years. Mean while, the metropolitan police and the black district Infamiej (it will be re membered that tho general assembly once deliberately framed a negro con gressional district to inc'udo Charles ton) have Ip * ' latest outrage a fit ting oompai. Wo do not lievo, we-cannot bo-' llovo, that the people of South Caro lina will approve of or consent to this high-handed procedure, this pitifully mean spirit of malieo towards a com munity. They will yet rebuke it. Had the state of South Carolina bluntly withdrawn the whiskey pro fits from Charleston and pocketed them, tho state would havo put itself in the attitude ' a brigand robbing tho helplo's. A 'ng hold-up Is less disgusting than systematic filching by a Pharisee cloaked in hypocrisy. The policy of confiscation which is be ing pursued as to Charleston would have more to commend It wore it open and above -board and sweeping. RECTOR OP ST. LUKE'S, Ashburnham, Ontario, Tostlfies to the Good Qualities of Chamborlain's Cough Remedy. Ashburnham, Ont., April, 18. 1903.? I think it is only right that I should toll you what a wonderful effect Cham berlain's Cough Remedy has produced. The day beforo Easter I was so dis tressed with a cold and cough that I did not. think to be able to take any duties tho next day, as my voice was almost choked by tho cough. The same day I received aa ordor from you for a bottle of your Cough Remedy. I at once procured a sample bottle, and took about three doses of tho medi cine To my great relief tho cough and cold had completely disappeared and I was able to preach thr?o times on East er Day. I know that this rapid and ef fective cure was due to your Cough Remedy. 1 make thla test'monial with out solicitation, being thankful to have found such a God-sent remedy. Respectfully yours, E. A. LANOFEIiDT, M. A., Rector of St. Luke's Church. To Chamberlain's Medlcina Co. This remedy is for sale by Laurons Drug Co. Boars tho Big nature of lite Kind Yon Hare M*aw ?u;' * *> 4?4> V+ ?X? ? ?i-v GRAUSTARK ... By ... GEORGE BARR McCtTCHEON CopurlQttt, 190t, by Herbert S. 8lvne ?4.4?4. < t. * * * 4. * 4.4. 4? 4.4? 4. 4? 4.4.4? 4.4. * 4? CHAPTER II. TWO BinANGKltS IN A COACH. IOUHY wasted very little tiiuc. Ho dashed into the depot and up to a the operator's window. "What's the nearest station east of hero?" "P-," leisurely answered the agent in some- surprise. "How far is it?" "Pour miles." "Telegraph ahead and hold the train that just left l ore." "The train doesn't stop there." "It's got to stop there or there '11 be more trouble than this road has had since it began business. The conduct or pulled out and left two ot his pas sengers?gave out wrong inforniatloii? end ho'll have to hold his train there or bring her hack here. If you don't send that order, I'll report you as well as the conductor." GrenfnU's manner was commanding. The agent's impression was that lie was important, that lie had a right to give orders; but he hesitated. "There's no way for you but to get to 1'-anyway," he said while turn ing the mutter over in his mind. "You stop that train! I'll get there inside of twenty minutes. Now, be quick I Wire them to hold her, or there 11 bo nn order from headquarters for sonic ninety day lay offs." The agent stared at him, then turned to his Instrument, and the message went for ward. Lorry rushed out. On the plat form he nearly ran over the hurrying llgure in the tan coat. "Pardon me. I'll explain things in a minute," he gasped nnd dashed away. Her troubled eyes blinked with aston ishment. At the end of the platform stood a mountain coach, along the sides of Which was printed in yellow letters, "Happy Springs." The driver was climbing up to bis seat, and the cum bersome trap was empty. ' "Want to make $10?" cried Grenfull. "What say?" demanded tTte driver, half falling to the ground. "Got me to P-? Inside of twenty minutes, nnd I'll give you ?10. Hurry tip! Answer!" "Yes; but, you see. I'm hired to"? "Oh, that's all light! You'll never make m?ney easier. Can you got us thero In twenty minutes?" "It's four mile, pardner, and not very good road, either. Pile in, and we'll make It er kill old Hip and Jim. .Miss the train':" "(let yourself ready for a race with nn express train, and don't ask ques tions. Kill 'cm both If you have to. I'll be back in a second!" Hack to the station be tore. She was standing near the door looking up the track miserably. Already night was falling. Men were lighting the switch lanterns, and the mountains were turn ing into great dark shadows. "Come quickly, I have a wagon out here." Reslstiessly^ she was hurried along , and fairly shoved through tue open door of the odd looking conch. He was beside her on tho seat in an instant, nud her bewildered ears heard him Buy: "Drive Uko'the very deuce!" Then the door slammed, tho driver cluttered up to his seat, und the horses were off with a rush. "Where are we going?" she demand ed, sitting very straight und defiant. ? "After that train. I ll tell you nil I about It when 1 get my breath, 'I bis is to be tho quickest escape from n dilem ma on record, provided it Is an es cape." By this time they wen* bump ing along the flinty road at a lively rate, jolting about on the scat In a most disconcerting manner. After a few long, deep breaths be told her bow tho ride in the Springs buck bad been conceived und of the arrangement be had made with the dispatcher. He, furthermore, acquainted her with the cause of bis being left when be might have caught the Iraln. "Just us 1 reached the track, out of breath, but rejoicing, I remembered having seen you on that side street und knew that you would be left. It would have beeu heartless to leave you here without protection, so I felt it my duty to let the train go and help you out of a very Ugly predicament." "How can I ever repay you?" sho i murmured. "It was so good and so thoughtful of you! Ob, I should have died bad I been left hero alone! Do you not think my uncle will miss me and have the train sent back?*' si went on sagely. "That's so!" be exclaimed, somewhat disconcerted. "Hut 1 don't know, ei ther. He may not miss you for a long time, thinking you are in some other car, you know. That could easily bap pen," triumphantly. "Cau this man get US to the next ala tlon in time?" she questioned, looking at tho black mountains and the dense foliage. It was now quite dark. "If he doesn't hump us to death be fore we get half way there. He's driv ing like the wind." "Von must let me pay bull' bis bill," sho said decidedly from the dark coi ner in which she was huddling. He could llnd no response to this per ' emptory reimest. "The rond is growing rougher. If you will allow me to make a sugges tion, I think you will see its wisdom. You can escape a great deal of ugly Jostling if you will take bold of my arm and cling to It tightly. 1 will brace myself with this strap. I am sure it will save you many bard bumps.'' Without n word sho moved to his side and wound her strong little arm about bis big one. "I had thought of that," she said simply. "Thank you." Then, after a moment, while his heart thumped mad ly, "Had it occurred to you that after you run so bard you might have climbed aboard the train and ordered the conductor to stop it lor me?" "I?I never thought of that!" ho cried confusedly. "Pleuso do not think nie ungrateful. You have been very good to me, a stranger. One often thinks afterward of things one might have done, don't you know? You did the noblest when you Inconvenienced yourself for me. What trouble I have made for youi" "It has been no trouble," he floun dored. "An adventure like this Is worth no end of?er?inconvenience, as you call it. I'm sure I must lmvo lost my head completely, and I am ashamed of myself. How much anxiety I could have saved you had I been possessed of an ounce of brains!" "Hush! I will not allow you to say that. You would have mo appear un grateful when I certainly nm not. Ach, how he Is driving! Do you think It dangerous?'' she cried as the hack gave two or three wild lurches, throw ing him into the corner and the girl half upon him. "Not In the least," he gasped, the breath knocked out of his body. Just the same he was very much alarmed. It was as dark as pitch outside and In, and ho could not help wondering how near the edge of the mountain side they were running. A false move of the (lying horses, and they might go rolling to the bottom of the ravine, hundred:; of feet below. .Still be must not let her see Ids apprehension. "This fellow Is considered the best driver In the uiounlnl ' ho prevaricated. "Oh, then we need feel no alarm," she said, reassured. There was such a roaring and clat tering that conversation became almost impossible. When either spoke, It was with the mouth close to the ear of the Other. At such times (Jrenfnll could feel her breath on his cheek. Her sweet voice went tingling to. his toes with every word she Uttered. He was in a daze, out of which sung the mad Wish that lie might clasp her in his arms, kiss her and then go tumbling down the mountain. She trembled in the next fierce lurches, but gave forth no complaint. Flo knew that she was in terror, but too brave to murmur. Umibl ' > resist, ho released the strap to which 1:;' had clung so grimly nnd pin< cd his strong, linn hand encourag iugly over tfio little one that gripped hlfl arm with tho clutch of death. It was very dark and very lonely too. "Oh!" she Cried as his hand clasped hers. "You must hold to the strap." "It is broken!" he lied glu\lly. "There Is no danger. See, my hand docs not tremble, docs It? Bo calm! It cannot be much farther." "Will it not be dreadful if the con ductor refuses to stop?" she cried, her hand resting calmly beneath its pro tector. He detected a tone of security. In her voice. "But he will stop. Your uncle will Bee to that oven if the operator fails." "My undo vflll kill him if he does not stop or come back for me," she said complacently. "I was not wrong," thought Gren fall. "He looks like a duelist. Who the devil are they, anyhow 1" Then aloud: "At this rate we'd be able to heat the train to Washington in a straightaway race. Isn't it a delight fully wild ride?" "I have acquired n great deal of kuowledge in America, but this is the llrst time I have heard your deli id t ion of delight. I agree that it is wild." (TO UK CONTINUED). Have you seen Williamson's now Jewelry Store? STARTLING EV IDE NOW. Fresh testimony In great quantity is constantly coming in, declaring Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption Cough and Colds to be unequaled. A recent expression from T. J. McFar? land. Hentorvllle, Va , serves as an ex ample. He writes: "I had Bronchitis for three years and doctored all the time without Deiner beneiitted. Then I began taking Dr. King's New Discov ery and a few bottles wholly cured me." Equally effective in curing all Lung and Throat troubles, Consump tion, Pneumonia and Grip. Guaranteed by Laurene Drug Co. and W. W. Dod eou. Trial bottles free, regular sizes 50 cents and $1.00. OASTOniA, 2*nt th? ^llii Kind You Have Always Bought HEAVY UNDERWEAR! Men's Scarlet Wool, Shetland Heavy Fleece and Plain White Undervests, Ladies' Scarlet and Shetland I All-Wool Vests, Bleached and Brown Cotton-Ribbed Fleeced. Misses Vests, one case, sizes running from 18 to 26--Price.20 cents. Misses Union Suits, If you prefer piece goods and make up, Scarlet Twill Flannel from 2octs. to 35cts. the yard. White Twill Flannel 25cts. White Flannel, plain, i2j/_?cts. to 35cts. a yard. Eiderdown in Pink, Blue and White. Solid colored Outings, light shades. Also in small pin stripes and checks. We offer a superior article in Brown Canton Flannel SlA and 10 cents the yard. W. Q. WILSON & CO. Ig? 8 i News for December Buyers J. E. MINTER Sc BRO, THE FOUNTAIN HEAD OF BARGAINS IN EVERYTHING TO WEAR. Christmas is just^aheadI of us and just now perhaps youVe figurino; pretty closely on your Xmas expenses. Why not save a few dollars on YOUR CLOTHING, SHOES and FURNISHINGS for YOURSELF and family by getting them here? We have made great preparations for a big December Business, and can show you the most complete line of Clothing, Shoes and Furnishings ever offered to the trade here. fr ? ? w ? ^ 7 THAT CHRISTMAS GIFT Will have to be considered. No need to worry about it if you come here. It is not how much you pay for your Clothing?it is where you buy them that makes for proper dress and right prices. In selecting your wear ables here you know that you can select any garment in our stock with per fect confidence. You know that Style, Fit and Wear are assured that you get 100 cents worth for every Dollar Spent. In Men's Suits and Overcoats we carry the celebrated HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES. Big line of all-Wool reliable Suits at SBIO.OO ?worth elsewhere $12.50. Just received a new lot of suits to go at $5.00 they can't be matched for less than #6.50. Another lot of Youths' Suits at $6.50 and $7.50; worth 9.00 and $10. They sell on sight. 0?J>rrljh? INK bf Kwt UlmM? A In Remember We Have not forgotten the Boys and Children. Boys' Suits, sight to sixteen, 1.00 to $5.00. A good all wool Suit for $2.00. Boys' Knee Pants from 25 cts to $1.00. SEASONABLE STYLES IN OUR SPLENDID SHOE STOCK. The largest stock of Shoes in Latirens is yours to choose from. Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes in all .Styles and Sizes. Every kind of .Shoe for every kind of wear, and at LOWEST PRICES Dorothy Dodd Shoes, THE BEST SHOE Southern Girl, IN AMBRICA $Z8? South,and BeHe' " , COPYRIGHT 1$F?1, The Three Greatest Ladies Shoes on Earth. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE MAKERS CRADDOCK -TERRY CO. LYNCHBURG -VA, Childrens' Shoes is a hard proposition, but it is easily solved by buying them here?for no matter how cheap we sell we never give you anything but LEATHER Shoes. And then again if a shoe, or anything else we sell^ is not as we represent it to be , it may be returned and everything will be made satisfactory to you. Can any thing be fairer than this? We want your business?we give you the best Goods and as low as they can be sold. Join the crowd who are coming here for everything they wear. Thanking our friends for their liberal patronage during during the past, and soliciting a continuance of same during this year and those to follow. J. E. Mint er &?Bro. I