Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE ADVERTISER. Subscription Prlce-12 Months, f 1.00 Payable In Advance. S. E. BONEY, Editor. publish ed by advertiser printing company laurens. s. c. KATES for Advertising. ? Ordinary advertisements, per square, one inser tion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Liberal reduction made for large advertisements. Obituaries: All over 50 words, one cent a word. Notes of thanks: Five cents the line. Entered at the postofflce at Laurens, S. C. as second class mail matter. LAURENS. S, C, JUNE 10. 1908. People all over the State are talking about Laurens. Here is the usual re mark those days that greets a man from here: "You people up there must have a hustling town judging from ALL REPORTS. A temporance lecturer declared that the world would be happy when the last whiskey barrel is empty. We know a man who won't be a bit happy. But some people are doing their durndcst to get to that last barrel. For all the recent abuse the weather man is now making it hot for us. "The wickedest man in New York" is dead siiys report. His position has been refilled and tho standard not low ered. Now is the time for every citizen to make a pull for a Greater Laurens. South Harper street is setting a fine example in the building and remodelling line of improvement. Candidate Blease, by the way, has changed his platform since his last ef fort for gubernatorial honors. Looks like it was tit for tat over in Georgia, but mostly tat. Smith turned Brown out of the railroad commission crship by right of his gubernatorial au thority?Brown turned Smith out of the governorship through the vote of the people. _ Col. Nash, of Atlanta, remarked to the editor Saturday morning: "I wish my old State would get rid of this abominable liquor business as my adop ted State has done. It is a blight on the people and a disgrace to the honor of the old Palmetto State. Georgia has led; North Carolina has followed in the state-wide prohibition movement. Now, it is up to South Carolina." It is no argument of ours but a stub born fact: a man is compelled to classify his every individual act as belonging to one of two kinds, right or wrong. This applies in j>olitics. Because wo know so many good men who have voted for the "legalized" sale of whiskey, earnestly and conscien tiously have we striven to find a legiti mate and true argument upon which was based their act. We have failed and cannot but believe that they have allowed a misconception of the question ?>f practicability to determine them. Of course there are some people who want the whiskey close at hand and convenient to get and others who are after the money in the business and the revenue. There are now 1,240,000 bachelors in this country-in spite of leap year. "Who laughs last laughs best" is what the Joe Brown people are saying over in Georgia. President Roosevelt may be a rough rider but he knows how to make an easy fall. That advertising pays is a fact beyond dispute. For instance: there was a man in Chicago on the lookout for a good town in the Piedmont section of South Carolina in which to locate a certain business. He saw one of the envelopes with Laurens facts printed on the back and forthwith came here to investigate. This little piece of advertising work was done by the Chamber of Commerce and is one of the means of building up our city. Lnurens is a growing city?a fast growing city; and that's the very best of recommendations. When a city begins spending money on public improvements and the citizens investing more capital in their busi nesses and modernizing their plants it is evidence in fact of growth and pros per ity. With the dispensary removed from this city and county the.e will be more money in the hands of our people to in vest in money-earning enterprises. Dispensary profits come from the] pockets of our own people. The Abbeville Press and Banner ad vises preachers to keep out of politics lest "their holy vestments" become bedraggled in the dirty pool. We beg to ask who made politics dirty, and how does our esteemed contemporary hope for purification and by what means? Here is what it says: "Let our preachers, instead of bed raggling their holy vestments down into the dirty pool of politics, preach tem perance and sobriety. "When this editor was a boy good A. R. P. preachers were horrified at the idea of church people joining the Sons of Temperance. Latter day preachers, in some instances, desecrat the sacred desk in the holy temple by talking poli tics, and telling us how to vote, instead of telling us to let liquor alone." The Abbeville paper forgets that the purest, holiest man that ever lived worked daily in the gutters of life and yet he was without smirch or stain. PROHIBITION IS EFFECTIVE. Some of the dispensary advocates ! among the newspapers of South Caro lina have been making statements re garding the deplorable conditions in Georgia resulting from the inefrective Iness of the prohibition laws. Many people have watched our neighboring State with special interest and have been much concerned about conditions there. Among them, a good citizen of Laurens, a doubting Thomas regarding those statements attempting to prove a prohibition farce, was so vitally inter ested that he wrote to a prominent citi zen of Atlanta inquiring how the laws were being enforced and what about the amount of crime under the old re gime and at present. Replying to the inquiry this Atlanta ] citizen among many other things bear ing on the same subject and in the same tenor, said: "In order, however, to reassure you, and to give you some facts worth while, I let me say that during the month we l sent out letters to all the ordinaries in the State asking a number of questions, one of which was, 'What effect is pro hibition having on crime?' The replies are. from former dry counties, 'very little change' from the former saloon counties, 'crime has decreased 20, 40, 50, 75 and in two countiesOO per cent. Now while we do not attempt to prove that whiskey is at the bottom of all crime (indeed we do not believe any such thing) it is a fact beyond dispute that it is "a cause" of crime. From I the foregoing quotation we readily see I that the prohibition laws have had their I effect, in this particular phase of the I matter, in Georgia. If then, the sale | of whiskey is a cause, no matter what the degree or extent; of crime, how cai we as citizens with the care and keep |ing of public affairs in our hands, affon to furnish and foster such a cause. If we fail to remove this cause we are not only derelict to our duty but also guilty of wrong-doing. CHILDREN'S SAFETY (WARDED. So great and numerous have been the ] fire disasters in this country during the past year that the subject of defective and dangerous buildings, especially schools and theatres, has been much agitated. Not only by the newspapers, but the insurance companies have taken up the matter and through their inspec tors have brought the subject very forcibly before the people. The horri ble disaster at Collinwood, near Cleve land, shocked the entire country and compelled attention in the direction of proper buildings to house our school I children. As seen from an article in another column, many of the school buildings in South Carolina have been condemned I and are considered a menace to the | lives of the children. While we know nothing regarding the old building in our city, we are happy to say that, toJ all appearances from what we can learn, the new building is to be erected with a careful view to the safety of our chil dren. In a conversation with Architect E. L. Hertzog a few days ago that gen tleman assured us that this new build ing would be the safest that modern architecture could devise. "The stairways," said Mr. Hertzog, "will be wide enough to allow four abreast; each room will have two doors and there will be two ways of egress from the building, and the doors will open outward. The entire building, second story rooms and all, can be emp tied in one-half minute, the children walking." Asked if he would construct outside iron fire escape Mr. Hertzog said: "by no means; they are a death trap for children excited by fire. Mod ern architecture makes these unneces sary in a building such as we nre put ting up. There is no possible chance for both inside ways of egress being cut off, and the outside escapes will be not only useless but dangerous. The stairs are so arranged that if all the children had to be marched out by one way only they could get out in less than one minute." These facts, as told by a man of Mr. Hertzog's knowledge of architecture and his assurance that the l aurens school building will be the safest of its kind in the State are welcome and com forting information to the parents and to all the peoplo of our city, who ore under obligation to him and to the trus tees for their care and foresight in thus guarding the safety of our school chil dren. If tho News and Courier really wishes to know which of the three cities, Lau rens, Newbcrry and Greenwood, has the i best mayor, we refer it to Col. Thos. D. Darlington, of Laurens, and feel satis fied about what he will say. Before the Charlotte Observer claims him we beg to state that Mayor Clar ence M. Babb was not horn in North Carolina. Neither was he born in Newberryor even in Greenwood. Now, as all farmers well know, is the time to plant peas. This is one of the best paying crops that can be raised in our part of "the country. An up-to-date Laurens county planter remarked the other day: "About the only clear money I made last year was on my peavines." And there is another good crop, namely, corn; and it is not too late for planting. Corn is now selling at $1.10 the bushel. They say there are 1,240,000 bachelors in this country. We know a man who might be induced to make 1,239,999. * ** 4 4 '* * 41 4 41 it * ??4r4?**4r*4r*4r4r I AMONG THE EXCHANGES. | ??4(41 t fc4r4r4j4i*4,**#*4>4,4>**4r%4>4JW A Dangerous Business. Editor Boney, of the Laurens Adver tiser, certainly is a brave man. He has dared to say what he thought of an amateur performance given by local talent in his town. Gee, but he has his nerve, alright. Gaffney Ledger. All for Laurens. Bush the town, Don't pull it and everybody in it simply for what you can get out of it. Gaffney Ledger. Some Things to Do. Would you have a clean town, phys ically? The old proverb as to the meth od used with success in Jerusalem solves it and here it is brought down to date with minute specifications and details. Try it. Cut your grass. Clean your attic. Clean your front yard. Clean your back yard. Pick up all loose paper on your prem ises. Dump your cut your grass with the trash, not in the gutter. Give your front walk a hose bath every day, unless it rains. Dump your trash in one box, your garbage in another. Don't mix. Contractors?move your own debris and don't leave this for the city to do. ?Greenwood Index. Still Used Occasionally. A Chicago church has just added, in addition to its parlors, reception room, etc., a "courting room." The preach ing room is still used occasionally.? Anderson Mail. Democrats and Aristocrats. Mr. Bryan is again talking about the ] Democrats as opposed to the "Aristo crats," and yet there is not one of the ) eighteen instructed delegates from j South Carolina who is not an aristocrat. A statement was published about one of them not long ago to the effect that he was a lineal descendant of Robert Bruce, of Scotland. South Carolina does not contain a Democrat who is not an aristocrat. The common people dwell in North Carolina.?News and Courier. Debate Unnecessary. The following daring assertion is made by the Newberry Observer: I "Greenwood and Laurens have both raised their mayor's salary recently to $600. Newberry is as good a town as Greenwood or Laurens and has as good a mayor." Will Greenwood and Laurens permit this claim to pass unchallenged? A tri angular joint debate would be illumina ting. Without wishing to intrude, we shrinkingly utter the suspicion that the town and mayor of Newberry are better than any town and mayor in North Car olina, and equal to the best in South Carolina.? News and Courier. A Model Wife. A model wife is the woman who looks after her household and makes hospi tality a delight to herself, and not a burden; who has learned that a soft answer will turn away wrath; who keeps her sweetest smiles and most loving words for her husband; who is his con fidante in sorrow or in joy, and who does not feel the necessity of explain ing her private affairs to the neighbor hood; who respects the rights of hus band and children, and in return his due regard paid to her; who knows that the strongest argument is her womanliness, and so she cultivates it; who is sympa thetic in joy or in grief, and who finds work for hands to do; who is not made bitter bv trouble, but strengthens and sweetens under it who tries to cancel the faults of her husband, rather than blazon them forth to an uninterested public; the woman whose life-book has love written on every page; who makes a home for a man; a home in a house and in a heart, :i home that he is sure of, a home that is full of love presided over by one whose price is above rubies. She is the model wife. Ex. If you do not wear Oxfords this season you'll miss an ocean of real Summer comfort. This will be the greatest (Ixford season ever known and we've made great pro vision for it. There's not a worthy (Ixford style in any good leather that we're not showing. We've Oxfords for Everybody! Men's Oxfords. Button style, Blncher style, Ties and the new Buckle Oxfords. Patent Colt, Kid, Yici, etc. Handsome styles in new Tans. #3, $3.50, $4, $5 to #6. Children's Oxfords. We've Oxfords, Ties and Slippers for Hoys and Girls of all ages. Blacks and Tans. \Ve can fit ev2iy foot perfectly. We're experts at fitting. $1, $1.25, $1.50, $2, $2.50 to $3. There will be no slipping, or gaping, or any other Oxford troubles with the Oxfords we sell. The One Price Store Customers' Shoes Shined Free. Women's Oxfords. Button, Bace, Blncher cut and the new Colonials. Handsome Pumps and Slippers. Choice leathers in black and the new shades of Tan. #2, #2.50, #3, $3.50 to #4. COPELAND'S. Man and Boy Always bad! That is what it is to buy a cheap buggy. You should look for quality in a bug gy as much, if not more, than you would in everything else. And if you look at ours you will find it in abundance. A full line of Harness and Horse 'Millinery. Barksdale & Franks Laurens, S. C. Final Settlement. Take notice that on the 30th day of June, 1908, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as administratrix of the estate of .1. Harvy Gray, de ceased, in the ofllco of the Judge <'f Probate of Laurens county at 11 0 clock a. m. and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as administratrix. All persons indebted to said estate are notified and required to make pay ment on that date; and all persons hav ing claims against said estate will pre sent them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. ISABELLA GRAY, Administnnt rix. May 27, 1908. 43-lm J. L. M. IRBY CIVI Ii K N O 1 X K K U Office over I.aureus Drug Co. State ok Ohio, City OF TOLEDO, I Lucas COUNTY. f Frank J. Cheney makes oath that h< is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business In the City of Toledo, County and State afore said, and that said firm will pay?-the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the. use of Hall' Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before m<' and subscribed in my presence, this f>th day of Decem ber, A. I). 1K8T). >?_,.. v A. VV. OLE A SON, vor.Ai,.; NOTARY PUBLIC. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, 0. Sohl by all Druggists, 7.V. Take flail's Family Pills for COnfitipa tion. Grand Pianos an Player Pianos. I [ereafter McCord, the Piano* Man, will use this j .... ; space to present attractive piano propositions. ! t j you desire to be informed about pianos, or to pur ] chase a Piano at the very LOWEST PRICE and J on the very best terms, it will pay you to sec or I write him, H Notice the names of a few of His Valued Patrons in this immediate section; .Many other purchasers throughout South Carolina could be mentioned, but a few home purchase. .; are mentioned, and it is hoped, they will not be offended by this presention. Or. ti. S. Fuller, Mrs. M. A. Kike, .J. Walter Cray. C. L. Fuller. Mrs. S. L. Nelson, Mrs. Mattie Medlock, Miss Y oargin, .1. .). Dunn, Mrs. J. W. Clark. Miss Corrinne Martin, .Mrs.Mary Gage Miss Nannie Bramlett. Messer Babb, R. M. Hill, W. U. Drummond, J. w. Garrett, T. F. Mabb, Dr. Reason, Augustus lilifF, G. ('. Hopkins. T. J. Weathers, Rev. B. C. Watson, W. C. Hipp, M. H. Fowler, R. W. Nichols, Mrs. Luther Roper, Capt. J. M. Philpot, B. A. Sullivan, J. A. Austin, J. A. Franks, Miss Agnes Boyd, Mrs. A. S. Easterby, ?. A. Davis, T. D. Lake, T. Mack Roper, M. A. Summerei, T. B. Brown, Mrs. J. Warren Bolt, J. W. A. Boyd, B. C. Burns, Adolph Shayer, J. L. Hopkins, Mrs. Mattie Lindsay, S. J. Rasor, J. L. Hoyd, Mrs. L. A. McCord, Mrs. Albert Burns, Mrs. Willie Walker, W. M. Myers, J. Lee Langs ton, J. [, Coleman, Mrs. J, m. Hampton, Miss Lyde Milam, J. T. Brown, Miss Irene Ray, First Presbyterian Church S. S. Mayor C. M. Babb, 0. C. Cox, J. W. Thompson, B. ('. Crisp, W. F. Cleveland. Mrs. Monte Dagnall, City Graded Schools. And others, besides many scores of organ purchasers which will be mentioned at another time. Write to him if you Want a Piano; it is to your interest. L. A. McCORD, The Piano Man. April 22, 1908. iiiiihi ii?? LAURBNS, S. C Visible Cotton Supply. Now Orleans, May 29.?Secretary Hester's statement of the world's sup ply of cotton, issued Friday shows the total visible to be 3,230,537, against! 3,657,407 last week and 4,181,050 last year, Of this the total of American! Cotton is 2,210,001, against 3,254,528 [ last week and 2,812,050 last year, and of all other kinds, including Fgypt, Brazil, India, etc., 130,870, against 1,105,870 last week and 1,169,000 last year. Of the world's visible supply of col I on there is now alloat and hold in Great Britain and Continental Europe 1,870,000, against 2,609,000 last year; in Egypt 163,000, against 119,000 last year, and In the United States 641,000, I against 766,000 last year. He (lot What He Needed. "Nino years ago it looked as if my time had "come," savs Mr. ('. Farthing, of Mill ('reck, Ind. Ter. "1 was so run down that life hunt; On ?i very Hlonder thread. It was then my (lrugffisl roc ommended Electric Bitters. I bought a bottlo and I got what. I needed strength. I had one foot in the grave, but Electric Bitters |iuL it hack on the turf again, and I've been well ever since.' Sold under guarantee at. l.au rena Drug Co. 's and Palmetto Drug Co.'a drug stores. 50c, Or. King's New Lif ePHIs The best In the world.