Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Subscription Price is $1.00 per Year Payable in Advance. S. B. HONEY, Editor. PUBLISHED hy ADVERTISER PRINTING company LAURENS. 8. c. Uatkh FOR ADVERTISING. ? Ordinary advertisements, per square, one inser tion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 60 cents. Liberal reduction made for lar/To advertisements. Obituaries: All over 50 words, one cent a word. Not? ;; of thanks: Five cents the line. Entered at the postofiice at Laurens, S. C. as second class mail matter. LAURENS, S. C. AURCH 31, 1909. ONE YEA It. (Today one year ago. the present Qdltor of ThO Advertiser came to JLstiiren*. Trusting that the readers of this paper will suffer him a personal word on this occasion, it is his desire to oxpress to the poople of the county Mb heartfelt thanks for their uniform feindnoss and hospitable treatment. 'Ill:- year ha;, gone by with startling ?rapidity, largely because of tin pleas ure? and good feeling that have char ttCterJ/.cd the islng days. Laurens is the best town of it: size in the State; it is a good place to live: i* is 11 good place U) work. MiUty changes have taken place in the Khort months of tue past year, ami h* .-pace permitted would be a pleasure to recite them. Hut the amn'iiii of building anl public Im provement that lias !>' ??!> realized is too great to pass over without notice, it WoUld startle tl-.c people to know OXOCtly bow man;, dollars have been spent in Laurens on new buildings during the past twelve months: and thon over $10,000 have been expended Oy t.ho city in permanent work on the ptiblh square; the merchants have made considerable lay-out in im. proving their places of business; the school district has erected one of Thn finest graded school buildings in the whole state; while the railroads have spent thousands of dollars in building tracks and steel bridges. Man;/ new business Arms have been organized, and new people have come to the city; Laurens has grown per ceptibly in the year. Not least among the changes "wrought is the removal of the county 'dispensary last November; Laurens repudiated the system and took her l>laoe among her sisters of the Pied mont. Lmring the past twelve months the writer has hail something to say on uiinopt every subject of public Inter est; many of those utterances may have been better and more Ingeniously expressed, but the principle and sub StanCO of which he still holds unal tered. May the next year be the best in Che history of Laurens. ? ? * Oi:H OW\ DEAR SMITH. Never in our long years of export onc? have we been so shocked, so out raged as by the wanton assault upon >OUr OWn dear Senator Smith made by one II. B. ('. Bryant, the Washington correspondent to the Charlotte Ob server. Note the villlanotlS attack: "South Carolina has sent to Wash ington i lie las' straw for the camel's bach in the person of the lion. Fal Smith, senator of the United states. Who is thin. wiry, sallow and wears ?a. Mptckleci tie and short coat, and car ries a lOOSe and oily tongue, which wag;? constantly. The general Im pression here is that Smith got in the wrong pew die should he in the house Instead of the senate. He seems to At in nicely with the lion. Tom Heflin. the Hon. Henry Clayton and the Hon. Wyatt Alken, and judging from the time that he spends on the floor of the riouve. giving and receiving advice, he would feel more at home there. Af ter trials-ami tribulations, and months ? of labor, the Palmetto state brought forth a gnat last summer, But. Smith ?b paid to he a great entertainer on ?he stump, an accomplished wind jammer, who covers much ground but does not reach the fertile soil of thonpht. It is reported at the capitol that fie is going to deliver himself of *one or more characteristic speeches SOOT). Pat McGoWan and Dr. McOhee Trill be there to gather the honey as it rails." And this appears In a North Caro lina newspaper, Mow dare he call vmr Senator a "gnat"? Very true It is that tie Palmetto State, out of groat tribulation and trial, brought forth a senator last Slimmer; but who Suspected his real identity as that of a gnat? surely Intelligence guides Ihn people of our State in their selec tion of a senator, and the bOSt man was Sleeted, Tin re was Bumpkin, a mighty good man in the race; and there was our good friend .Martin fthero were others in the race, good men, who would have made fine sena tors; surely South Carolina did not select si gnat out of all this Mood ma terlal. We resent this attack from that fellow Bryant. We had hoped that our own dear Smith, the farmers' friend, would he popular in Washington; no matter how he dresses, nor even if he vio lates all the dignified customs of the "august senate'*; he is a smart man., and he will raise the price of Cot to 11 to fifteen cents before congress ad journs. Just watch him; Bryant is mistaken. ? * ? THE REALITY OF LOVE. Under the above caption a writer dolivers himself of some very excel lent sentiments about love, arguing its reality and its endurance. He says: "If it Is our choice lo he men. we must take down the sorrows of men. 11 it is our privilege to bo living souls, we must accepl all thai goes with thai privilege. it Is HOl true that life Is only u vapor, nor is it true that we are chasing empty phantoms of joy. The love of the human heart is the most real and the most beautiful of all real ities. Tho richest gift of our man hood ami our womanhood is this gift of human affection. It is the love that joins us together as brothers and sisters, fathers, mothers, children and comrades, husbands and wives : - pan Ions, alike in joys and sorrow*. Whatever the length of tint* may > to have had something of thfcs ? VQ have experienced the supreave privt . ti hood. 1 - ? - ? - ... _ While we as:re? most hearti'.y with the expressed sentiments, and in fact think them most excellent it v.jil be difficult to convince the young man or maiden of their truth in its entire ty. That first little love affair, upon which the young heart thinks time ond eternity depend, which they swear will he the only true and last ing affection of their hearts, passes away like the early dews before the morning sun. And though the youth ful lovers may for a time think that life is empty and the world cruel and hard, lime soon heals the wounded, broken hearts and life Is again bright and happy. Youthful hearts cannot he persuaded that this love was not "horn of sense." However, the last sentence of the above quotation is a striking state ment, full of rich thought. It calls to mind a familiar quotation from Tennyson: "I hold it true whate'er befalls; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." Bishop Chandler has declared against this "Live-like Christ" move ment, declaring it. with many other similar "movements" a failure. The j Methodist bishop is right; others should he as fearless in comdemning these wild "movements" that are har anguing and harassing the country. In our opinion it is poor advice to tell a man to "live like ChriSt"; better tell him to live as Christ would have him. a man, live. ? ? ? ? Representative Edwards of Georgia wants his salary as Congressman cut from $7..".on the year to $;>.uoi>. Well, that may be all rlghl for a Georgia congressman. but South Carolina semis only high-priced representa tives, wito are worth more than a paltry $6,000. * * * Anderson, In inviting Tail to visit that city, lays herself liable to criti cism by the "staunch, rock-ribbed Democrats of the State. ? * ? A whole lot of rubbish has been said and written about toadyism, in reference to the Smith's general hos pitality to President Taft, a Republi can. While we have no sympathy with these gushing nothings, spouted by many of the Southern papers, wo see still less sense in the apparent alarm on the part of others that the foundations of Democracy are being undermined by tin. se compliments and overtures. ? * * Quoting the words of tin unusually refined, remarkably intelligent young woman of the city we say: "the hats this season are the work of a sense less ?architect', not artist." * * ? The Charlotte Observer would like fo bless the nuptials of .toe Cannon ami Carrie Nation, such consummate cruelty COUld emanate from only the most hopelessly dopravod, black hearted, concclonce-soared journal. ? Telephone lines are fad linking community with community, and hap py we are to see i:. ,\ telephone is an instrument of education. ? ? * Clinton seoms to be thoroughly in sympathy of the movement to build a trolley lino connecting the two cities. .lust a little hard work, and the plan will succeed. ? o ? Another bridge contract let by ihe Supervisor; and thus we see the dam ages of last August's flood disappear ing) one by one. * * ? So President Taft had never heard of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence! That is the best yet. However, there is one chance left for the myth-worshippers: let them show the genial Presidont that photograph of Editors Caldwell and Komphill, Standing arm in arm. on the I), ass tablet laid in the center of Charlotte's public square, commemorating the much-disputed event. That picture will be a fotchor. The Origin of Lincoln. President Lincoln's ancestry has always made an Interesting question. One tradition represents the war President as the son of Jefferson Da vis' father, another as the son of John ('. Calhoun. Both doubtless rest up on nothing substantial except the rather decided resemblance which Calhoun. Davis and Lincoln shared, although it is not difficult to believe that lines of decent may somewhere have crossed, connecting the Confed ! 'Utes and Federal Presidents by blood as well by birthplace neighbor hood. There are yet ether ingenious tiieories. some of them proceeding from i S?rth Carolina writer. When we. approach the realm of - ... :? y we find that Lincoln, jorn -. tile JrcOtiet' home Of Thomas vail ? lably oru '.awful wedlock. ? inr . . - - - . . . ... .... r:i* - rertifictite of Thomas Lincoln I*. Ei almost universally agreed that Xancj Hanks went to Kentucky from Vircir.ia. ifter at '.east a temporary resider-c-r .r. southwestern coun ty of Scyth. Lincoln's own impres sion upon the subject of his ances try, especially as regards his mother, are interest'-.::? set forth In Hern don's biography. The occasion de scribed was a drive with the author to the county seat of Menard county. Illinois, in 1859: "During the ride he spoke for the first time on her characteristics and mentioning, or enumerating, '?hat qualities he inherited from her. He said, among other things, that she was the illegitimate daughter of Lucy Hanks and a well-bred Virginia farm er or planter, and he argued from this source came his powers of analy sis, his logic, his mental activity. hi3 ambition and all the qualities that distinguished him from the other members and descendants of the Hanks family. His theory in dis. cussing the inherited traits had been, that, for certain reasons illegitimate children are oftentimes sturdier and brighter than those born in lawful wedlock, and in his case, he believed that his better nature and finer qual ities came from this broad-minded, unknown Virginian. The revelation ?painful as it was?called up the recollection of his mother, and as the buggy joggled over the road he added ruefully, God bless my mother; all that 1 am or ever hope to be I owe to her" and immediately lapsed Into silence." Lincoln, though his great fame ar ise principally from a most fortun ate series of events, certainly possess ed remarkable qualities. Who ever his father by blood?and Thomas Lincoln may well have been?those qualities did not spring from nothing. His own story Of his mother's origin would go far in explanation. It is to bo hoped that Lincoln centenary year will not pass by without throw ing some additional light upon tills subject.?Charlotte Observer. Opening Books of Subscription. Hooks of subscription to the capi tal stock of Home Building and Loan Association of Laurens. S. ('.. a cor poration to be organized to do a gen ernl building and loan business, and Issuing stork upon the serial nlan. will be opened at the Enternrlso Hank on Thursday, Anrll 1st. 1900, at in o'clook. a, m? pursuant to commission from the Secretary of State. Authorized efloltal stock $10.000 Initial, and $600,000 ultimate, par value $100 nor share, payable One dollar per month unt'l maturity, chas. IT, Roper, A. c. Tedd, Corporators. Notice to Farmers' rnlon. The Latirehfl County Colon will ni"ot at L.mrons C. II.. \nril 6th, Let ovt.v L'nlon send delegates as busi ness of Invinrtanee must bo attended to. By order of the prosldcnt. Unfits Dunlap, Co. see. I ocal farmers' Union, The Laurens Local Union is urged to meet (iii April 3rd, to eloci dele gates to the County Union, W. M, 11 by. Sec. RETAILERS AND NEWSPAPERS II??? I ho Non-Advertising Merchants' ( au Help in Two-fold Manner. Wesley A. Stanger. Edltof of The OIMce Outfltte-, Chicago, recently made an address before a body ?>i retailers In which he called attention u> the value of the local newspapers. He said in part: ? ? The local newspaper is the great est thing the retailer has it' he will use it right hut the majority, or* at least a large proprotion do not know how. They are too prone to believe that the editor will take en re of their Interests whether they look after him or not. This is dead wrong. if merchants as a class would only take advantage of the opportunities that the local newspapers afford them, they would reap reward far beyond their fondest dreams. While self possession is the first law of nature, it is a very noticeable fact that ed itors of local papers have a ha hit of letting self interest no to the limit when it comes to a question of serv ing the community. Tor this they are entitled to recognition which they rarely receive. " l iiere are many editors in prosper ous localities who have been labor ing ceaselessly and earnestly in the interests of the community for the ! best interests of all combined, letting their own selfish interests take a back seat. They have boosted the merchants individually and boosted them all and boosted the community. No doubt the retailers have oncour-} aged them as far as sentimental | encouragement goes. They have undoubtedly sai l that they approved | i? t * editor's methods and called I Kim "good boy." but in how many ; cases have they fallen short in the real encouragement that counts? How often have they neglected to use; columns, thinking that they were clever In it? In failing to patronize him they have too often killed the | goose that laid the golden egg. "Every retail merchant should j mako up his mind that he will not permit the ? reat advantage that the local paper offers him to go by un used. You must get behind your '.ocal editor and push for all you are worth. He gives you two dollars hack for every dollar you invest with 1 him. He furnishes for you at his own expense one of the biggest assets you possess: the medium through which to let the people know what you have to sell. Within recent years the ? mail order proposition has been some what bothersome. The editors of the country papers have alone more than all other influences combined to win business back into normal channels , and to reconvert the farmers to the | logical belief in home trading. Has I this been fully appreciated by the retailers? The editor prints your advertisements the way you want them throughout the community and surrounding country and bring ! business to >our store. He refuses to take profit from your enemy, when the enemy will pay him more and larger amounts than you will. He refuses to accept business from .the mail order store in the distant city, and even goes further by telling -how superior the local store Is to the distant one. and detailing the advant ages of buying at home. " What do you do? "Do not h t ft be said in your com munity Cat you have let your editor's work go unappreciated. Use his paper. Make him prosperous and yourself rich doing it. If you have foolish ideas about the unproduct iveness of newspaper advertising, throw them off and try it out. One try will prove nothing. If it is suc cessful; so much the better, but the constant use of the paper in an In telligent manner will produce the re sults. If your advertisements do not pay It is because you do not provide the right kind of copy. In almost every case the newspapermen know how to set your ad In an attractive manner, but he Is not to blame if you furnish him poor copy. "The best friends any business man in the world has, next to his wife, Is the local newspapers and if ho does not got full value for this friendship . it is his fault, not tho editor's. The editor of the average so called coun try newspaper has done more to up build his town and tho retailers in it than all other Influences combined, and it also follows that as an almost unbroken rule, he Is tho least appro. Clntod poison in his community. "Cut loose from this narrow, selfish way of doing things. IiOok to your own interests by helping the local newspapers. It Is a veritable gold mlno, all yen have to do is to roach out for nuggets. Itemember that t!.(lltor has to oat and wear clothes tho same as you do and what he sells Is just as necessary to life and pros perity as your merchandise. See tl'.it he is the best cared for man In town, for the local newspapers are the greatest bulwark of America lib' Orty and American prosperity. The editor does not ask Charity. He stands ready to re, iy you 100 per cent, yes, r>oo per diu on every dollar you spend with him, if you spend It right, If you spend it wrong, do not blame him. Line up your local editor, then Uno up your local bank er. Retailers In combination with the blinkers und newspaper men of the country will make an irresistible force that Will bring about the grand est success in the world. There Is no power like the power of the coun try press In America. Retailers seem to have been late in realizing this, but an intelligent use of the local newspaper assures success and prosperity. Get together with the man who runs the paper in your town. Treat it as it deserves. Give it half what it gives you. and together you will reach the goal you both seek. All honor to the local newspapo and the country editor. MUNI FOH.MF.it liAUKEXS BOY. Mr. l. s. Martin, of Portland, Oregon, Writes The Advertiser. Following is a letter from a former citizen of Laurens county, thai will doubtless interest many Advertiser readers: Portland, Oregon. March 17th, 1909. The Laurens Advertiser. Laurens, s. C. Dear Edltor: I am sending you money order for two more years' sub scription. Have been taking your paper for three years and have not missed more than three copies in that time. 1 have noted a great improve ment in The Advertiser since Mr. Honey has taken charge. 1 ?et my paper on the next Tuesday alter it is printed on Wednesday. If any of the Advertiser's staff are going to visit A. V. I?. Exposition this summer in Seattle why not lure your tickets made to read via Portland and I will try and show you a pleasant time while in the city. I have been Olli here almost four years and like it very much yet. South Carolina is hard to beat. Our win ters are long anil dreary but not so cobl. not as much so as upper South Carolina. Our summers are delight ful and it never gets very hot. Yours truly. .1. S. Marlin. 233 Glisan Street. SOMETHING ABOUT V All.Ml VPS. Damage Worked By Pests Thai the Government is Fighting. "There is a pair of little owls over in the tower of the Smithsonian In stitute that raises a brood of young ones ever}1 year, feeding them almost exclusively on rats and mice," said James A. Rice of St. Louis, to a Washington Post reporter. "This I learned from an attendance upon a hearing of the committee on agricul- i ture of the house the other day. The | committee was considering the agrl- j cultural appropriation bill, and Doc- I tor Merriam, chief of the biological survey, was being heard. He told ; the committee of the investigations ' that have been made by his bureau. These two little owls, he said, in the short time they have inhabited the ] tower of the Smithsonian have de stroyed at least 1,900 mammals, In- ' eluding meadow mice, held mice, house mice and eon' n rats. "It will be rect ' ? . that a year or two ago congress .rlously consider ed cutting out th. appropriation for the maintenance of the biological survey, but although It was cut out by the house, the senate restored it. The story told by Doctor Merriam, chief of the survey, to the commit tee on agriculture of the house, was Hie most Interesting I have heard in a long time. According to Doctor Merriam, there an? 400,000,000 prai rie dogs in the state of Texas and 210 of them will eat as much as a steer. These dogs consume in a year as much grass as 1,000,000 head ofcattle. There are millions of ground squiriuls in the state of Cali fornia, and these squirrels Inhabit 2,000,000 acres of land, causing a loss annually of more than $2,000,000. "The State of Washington spends $2,000 every year In lighting ground squirrels. In Nevada the meadow mice average 12.000 to the acre. It is said that they eat SSOOO.OOO worth of alfalfa every year, and Doctor Mer riam estimates that the hawk, owl. weevil, skunk ami coyote oat about ?tn.OOO of theso meadow mice daily; but. In spite of this, It has been nec essary to Introduce poison to prevent the overrunning of the State with these pests. Poisoned earth was spread around promiscuously in an effort to destroy theso mice, but It re sulted In the destruction of the hawks, owls and other predatory animals. The department recently has resort ed to the use of poisoned aflalfa. and It Is believed that this is a solution of the problem "The average ration of a hawk or owl, according to Dr. Merriam, is flf teon mice a day." Trlbble clothing Company the one price clothiers. stiff Neck, Stiff neck Is caused by rheumatism of the muscles of the nook. It is us ually confined to out; side, or to the back of the neck and one side. While It in often quite painful, quick relief may be had by applying Chamberlain's Liniment. Not one case of rheuma tism in ten requires internal treat ment. When there IS no fcer and no swelling as in muscular ami chron ic, rheumatism, Chamberlain's Lini ment will accomplish more than any Intornal treatment. for sab: by the Laurcmt Drug Company. OUR SPECIAL NOTICES. For Sale?The best Ii lb can of Tomatoes for 10 cents. Excellent sun-dried apples at 7 cents pound. M. H. Fowler, Laurens, s. C. 35-11 Fur Sale?.Nice size Tomato plants, ready for planting. Price 1"> cents per dozen. Apply residence J. U. Little. Wanted?To buy all kinds of furs; will pay the top of the market for them. S. Pollakoff, Laurens, S. C. 41 Wanted:?The peoplo to remember that my blacksmith shop is located in front of B. W. .Martin's stables. General repair work and horse shot1 lug a specialty. Satisfaction guaran teed. C. T. Whitten. I times. Wauled You to list your property With mo for sale; or if von want to buy let me know your wants. Will sell or buy for you?J, N. Leak. The Real Instate man. Gray Court S. C. 31-1 t. For Sale Splendid harness horse, six years old, Mahogany bay. large, sound, stylish and fast. Apply to Dr. w. H. Dial, Laurons, S. C. 32-tf for Kent Two rooms over store, with water and sewerage connections. J. H. Sullivan, Laurens. S. C. 32-tf For Sale A lot of nice baled Hay. See J. Wade Anderson, Laurens, S. C. 33-2t For Kent Furnished rooms with all modern conveniences. Apply at the Episcopal Rectory. 33-tf For Sale Highly Improved Prolific Seed Corn. .May be had at J. B. Min ier & Uro. store. Laurens, S. C. Price *U.."?n per bushel. J, E. Minter. Se dalia. S. C. 33-tf Plumbing -Donk A "tlcliecknie, practical plumbers, beg to announce that they have opened a plumbing shop on South Harper street and re spectfully solicit a share of the busi ness of the city. All work guaran teed to be first class and all orders entrusted to them will receive prompt attention at a reasonable price. 'Phone address, Hotel Laurcus. Is more than strong if yon dont get flavor with the strength you have very poor coffee no matter how strong When yon buy from us, you get both strong and the most delicate flavor. Next time you want some coffee, try some of our 15c, 20c, 23c, or 33c, goods and you will want more of it. TEA SEASON is now on and if you want the best of Tea which of course you do just inspect our line of finely blended teas, and you will have the problem of where to buy the best teas solved. Vegetable Fresh from the garden, Friday and Saturday Fresh Beans, Tomatoes, Irish Potatoes, Beets, and (hiious. J. W. Payne The Cash Grocer NcKt Door to Palmetto Hank. Mr. Farmer Before you buy a new Cotton Planter, we want to show you the best one for you to use. Because it will save your seed. Time and labor, that means money to you. The Deere & Manstir Cotton Planter is the Best?there's several reasons. I,ct us tell yon. Eureka Foundry and Supply Co. ?aomn VOU Will Always find here the lar gest and best line or Tile in different colors and designs and at pipes that will be money saved for von H. M. &. B. H. WllkOfl ti. Co.