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Cfje gfobertteer Subscription Trice Ih $1.00 per Year Tit)able in Advance. Published by ADVERTISE It PRINTING COMPANY Lniircns. S. ('. Advertising Hates on Application. Obituaries and t'ard of thanks: One cent a word* Entered at the postofflce at Laurens, S. C. as second class mail matter. LACHENS, S. C., MAY I, 1910. Shall it be $1,500 or O. C. Bigham? ? ? ? Wonder where Bigham was "enum erated ?" ? ? ? There comes up from New berry complaints ot dullness "within the county" of things political. ? ? ' Since IV.m; Mr. C. A. Power has been successively elected as secretary ui the Laurous County Democratic con vention a tribute to his elllcloncy and rnlthfulness. ? ? ? Hon. o. P, Goodwin has bad the honor of presiding over the Democra tic convention of I.aureus county Tor (|uite a number of years. ? * ? [?'or ih- fifth time the Democratic party of l.aurens on Monday honored Col. Thos. H, Crews by reolectlng him as member of the state Democratic i se< nl Ivo committee. ? * * li appears that whole streets in Spiirtanbiirg were missed by the cen ses enumerators. That's probably one of the penalties, for bothering Green ville's board of trade. ? ? ? \< a luassmeetiug of the citizens ol "Walterboro a resolution was adopted, petitioning the town council "to make the ollice of mayor nun salaried." Detter abolish Hie ollice and elect a good live intend.-nt as do the towns of Cross Mill ami Princeton. ? ? ? Counsel, it is often noted, will con clude his argument by assuring the jury that whatever the decision rend ered he will he perfectly satisfied; Whereas if the verdict bo adverse he Straightway nives notice of intention to nrgue motion for a new hearing, Which of course is his privilege. ? * * The Indiana Democratic party, in convention assembled, unanimously nominated John W. Kern for the Unit ed States Senate. Mr. Kern was a candidate two years ago for vice pros- ; fdent on the ticket wills W, l. Bryan. Tlis candidacy for United Slates Sena tor is indorsed to the Indian:! legisla ture next year. o ? ? The chamber of commerce meeting next Tuesday night should have the prompt attendance or every member, and It world be a mighty good time to register the names of a score or more of new members. What about it? On this occasion the Hon. W. U. Rlchey and Captain .1. Adger Smyth win address the chamber on the "Good of the Town." ? * ? The business men and employees from now on through the summev months have the balance of the after noons after six o'clock for recreation. If there was In (he city or Its suburbs nn attractive park, such as found at Gnffney or Darlington and many oth er towns no larger than l.aurens. how much more enjoyably could the time be spent. ? * * THE MONUMENT UM), As will bo noted, additional contri butions to the Confederate monument ! fund as given today, as reported by Mrs. Bell, who, as president of (lie .1. B. Korshaw chapter, United Dang i. tors of the Confederacy, has been un tiring in her efforts to raise this fund. The response has boon gratifying but there yet remains a considerable sum to be raised within the next few weeks Mrs. Heil reports that work on the monument is progressing rapidly and that it will bo completed early In Au gust. Every l.aurens county citizen is Interested in tho erection of (bis memorial, and all should have a part in it, for it is to commemorate the deed* and valor of the l.aurens county Confederate goldlers, Those who have not subscribed anything and wish a personal Interest?an interest thn* counts for something?can send It to Mrs. R. B. Hell and the contribution will be promptly acknowledged in The Advortlaer. ? ? ? LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA. In a letter to The Advertiser the writer, after telling of the beauty of the city In which be resides and brief ly referring to the greatness and glory of the State of California, pays (his tflbute to the South! "I am not thinking to dlsparnge the no less wonderful South which I shall ever remember with pleasure. I huve not forgotten to sound Us praise or extoll its attractions. We lived In the South ii dozen years, and the country is endeared to us by many sweet association.'' MIOI I.I) Tit AI \ Tili: HAM). I.aureus 1'eople Should Add Manual Departments to their Schools. Kditor Advertiser: I take pleasure in handing you the enclosed open letter from our fellow eiti/.en. W. W. Kali and request its publication. Wo all know that "Hilly" Ball has the best interests of Iiis home town over in mind. Ills commanding abilities as a newspaper man enforce his resi dence in the more populous centres, but he is and always will be a "Lau rens man". The suggestion ho makes is commended to the careful attention of the trustees of our Clradod schools and if these gentlemen need the nec essary funds to carry it out. I believe our taxpayers) when next called to lay ti levy, will give the means, to them. The colored school would of course receive some of the benefits of such expenditure, just as they do, of the regular levy now. and to my way of thinking, it is right and proper that the demnngoglc cry of "negro tax money only for negro schools." In the providence of Clod the negro is here in the South a congenial habitat, and ho is here to stay. Admitting this, is it not the part of wisdom for us to train his lead and his hand and make the most useful citizen and la borer we can. of hint? Wo need and use his unskilled labor and the finan cial rewards of all our endeavors, would be greater were lie more ofll clont. No community in South Caro lina lias a more competent Instructor or better citizen than we hove here in the person of Thus. Sanders. Super intendent oi colored schools, who has so long, so well and without friction or objectionable feature, rtouductctl this branch of our city school system. n. k. Alken. Dr Hugh K. Alken, president, chamber! of commerce, I.nurcns, s. c. My dear Sir: When I was in LnureilS ten days ago and fraternizing with the sane healers (who to me are more interesting than the insane healers infesting the coun try nowadays) I rode through Main street which name should he changed "Mi?ln" si reel means nothing?why not call it "Simpson" street, for the only governor ami chief justice thai Laurens has given to the state, whose home was on that street? Passing through the street, 1 say. l tell to ruminating on the old two room, frame, one-story "male ncademy" that stood where 'Squire Dial's mansion now stands. When I was a lad in the academy and William I.. Kray (long since expanded from pedagogue to merchant prince, after a transient halt as a lawyer) presided with admirable aplomb and no lack of muscular Christianity, the little lu use was al ready venernble ami trenching on de crepitude. Not for two or three de cades, if ever, had it known fresh paint but occasionally the roof had he?n repaired and once or twice in my time the black-boards were re painted, which created something akin to a sensation. Kill the benches were stout and strong, the big lire.places at either end of the building had hearths made of great rough stones and, good hickory ami oak wood be- i ing plentiful, comfort was abundant and genial in winter in spite of the cracks in the weather-hoarding. Most interesting and suggestive about the little house was its carving. Outside and inside, on the walls, gen eration following generation had en graved their names or Initials with jack-knives and. little hoy that I was, the names and nicknames of my an cles and cousins tised to arouse my Interest and wonderment I remember to this day how "I,. 11. W." and. under them. "T H 1 (' K ". the former being the Initials of Larry II. Watts and the latter the nickname of his cousin ' James Watts, who died in camp at Alken at the beginning of the War. looked. There were scores of names, of the Wattses. Irhys. Sulllvans. Garl Ingtons, Todds, Flemings, Simpsons, Mlckes and others and some of them were CUl with a skill and neatness that gave promise of artistic talent. Inside the house were drsks. home made desks - doubtless built by some , of Dr. Simpsons well trained and cunning negro artificers long before the War and they bad a singular architectural plan. They were a cross. I say It for the want of an apter coin eye of the master wandered over the pnrlson. between a beehive and a fish basket, and they stood firmly on low. squatty legs. Anyway, they had fine storage capacity for all varieties of books and hostile implements and school commlsarles and they served well as pi ires of retreat wnea the eye of the master wandered over the rooms with an apparent nonchalance, that was Rometlmes deceptive. Then, i too. there were the long, narrow j writing desks with their prism shaped , tops on which we learned to scrawl in our copy-books and all of these I desks and benches were embellished ' with the handiwork of the schoolboy and his jack-knife. . Against the rules? Why of course, and they preached the care of school property and exacted "Incidental fees" then as now?but it was a day of om , prise and darin? and regardlessness of consequences. Much of the history of l.aurens for half a century and more was cut Into those pine boards and 1 am sorry that t' ey are gone. I suppose that Jim and Bd Crews, Clar ence Kennedy. Sam Wilkes, John Mc Cain. Bob Nicholson, the four Howen brothers, Oscar and Prior Babb and I and some good fellows, too, who have gone to their reward, enrolled ourselves deeply on more than one desk. As for Genie Wilkes, his carv. ing was so much better than that of the rest of us that it should not be mentioned with ours. All of this brings up the definition I by Thomas Carlyle, or seme other opi gentleman, of the present as a tool using age. For a small boy to cut With a knife is quite as I jstinetive as it is for him to rot) a strawberry patch, but the two instincts have this I wide difference - cutting with a knife may be developed into a useful art while robbing strawberry patches, if encouraged, will make embezzlers and Krafters. When I was at the academy I suppose I was rather well advanced. At any rate. I had had far hotter prep aration than most hoys had enjoyed and. besides, learning history and geography and grammer came easy to me not to mention spelling. Had 1 net Imagined myself "smarter" than some other boys who were much older and not studying such big books, it would have been highly creditable to my modesty but. looking back now. I very well know that I wasn't -not thai I had an overweening admiration for my parts even then. The simpio ex planation is that they taught 111 Ih" schools in those days the things that were adapted especially to my mind and utterly omitted to teach equally useful and necessary things that 1 would have acquired with exceeding dilllculty. So now i approach the ob ject of this letter. Immediately before my visit to l.au rens I was in Mai ion and was taken to see the manual training depart ments in tlu> Marion public schools, I shall not describe them in detail but I saw to boys working at benches and with turning lathes, making curious end useful articles with their hands, out of wood and doing it well. As many girls were learning to sew and cut patterns. They were all under the instruction of accomplished and thoroughly trained teachers?one of them, Miss Martin, is a graduate of Columbia university. New York. The instim t of the lad to use bis jack-knife is being developed to make him a skill ful handler of more complex tools and so. when he grows UP. when he has a house or a fence to build, lie will net be at the mercy of a contractor as. for example, I am. lie will know what he is about. With me. I verily be lieve, at the l.aurens academy 30 years ago, were dozens of boys. who. if they had the little start ami Impetus that are given these lads of Marion, would have become successful contractors and builders and machinists in this age of tremendous industrial energy in the South. That these things should have been taught is as certain as thai I. a boy with a bent towards history and writing, should have been given opportunity to learn those branches, in a word, hand-training is as necessary as mental training, but we are only now awakening to the truth that education should not be in a rigidly narrow groove. In Spartan burg, Columbia, Charleston and other towns they are doing or beginning to do what is being done In Marion. The Marion manual schools are sup ported out of the public school reve nues and they cost comparatively lit tle the instruction is on a small scale?but the frame buildings were elected with money contributed volun tarily by citizens of Marion. That Is what I Should like to see duplicated more generously in l.aurens. Thirty yea s ago we looked on a man worth $."i0,000 In l.aurens as we view a Car. negle now and to raise $2,000 for a Church was to the town an undertnk Ing like the building of a Brooklyn bridge, but l.aurens lias plenty of well-to-do men in 1910 some of them with growing fortunes measurable In the hundreds of thousands of dollars To raise from three thousand to five thousand dollars for a good object should be a task of a day and It Is time that the people were learning to give more. Major Hemphlll In his brilliant lec i ture at Yale university last week quot ed a gentle and refined Southern ma i tron as having snld to a Northern man some years ago that she bad "always understand that 'damn-Yankee' was one word". 1 don't feel that way about the Yankees but when I saw three dozen automobiles lined up In front , of Gray's hotel, it was not pleasant to '?? reflect that their sale In l.aurens meant the transfer of $10.000 of l.au rens money to Yankee manufacturers and that not a dollar, except the pro tits of the salesmen, would remain in i the South. We shall not have diversified manu factures in the South until we have a population of trained mechanics?we must make mechanical construction a part of the life of our people so that every hoy witli a turn for it will have a chance to make the most of his turn. Had manual training in the common schools been Introduced in the South Pi years ago, hundreds of young men would have been eager and prepared to go into (lie automobile Industry when it came into being, about IS'JS. Clemson college is doing and has done excellent work, hut If we are to havo a rounded education in the South, in cluding the education of the hand and eye to produce as well as of the mind to think, and an eillciont people, we must begin at the bottom?in the com mon schools. I should add that manual training is not to be confined in meaning to carpentry. The rudiments of farming, gardening and other practical things Should, In time, he taught. Columbia, April 30. _Or ^ $ CANDIDATES' ANNOUNCEMENTS. ? For The Legislature. At the. request of friends I hereby announce myself a candidate for Hie House of Representatives and promise to aldde by the result of the Demo cratic primary election. W. H. RICHEY I am a candidate for reelection to the house of representatives from Luu rens county, and hereby pledge my self to abide the result of the Demo cratic primary. JARED 1). SULLIVAN. I hereby announce myself as a can didale for rcolection to the legislature from I.aureus county, pledging myself to abide (lie rules and regulations gov online the Democratic primary elec tions. R. DUNK DO YD. For t'ouniy Treasurer! I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for .reelection to the ofllce of county treasurer, pledging myself to abide by the result of the Demo cratic primary election. .). I). MOCK. For Supervisor. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for reelection to the office of supervisor of I.aureus county, subject lo all the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. If elected I shall endeavor to render faithful ser vice. Respectfully II. D. HUMBERT. For County Commissioner. I hereby announce my. candidacy for reelection as a member of the board of, county commissioners, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. T. Mc. ROPER. For County Auditor. I am a candidate for the office of auditor for L?ntens county, my nomi nation being subject to the rules of the Democratic primary election. W. T. DORRQH. For Superintendent of Ftluontion. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for reelection to the office of county superintendent of education of Laurens county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. OEO. L. PITTS. I For Probate Judge* We are authorized to announce the name of O. (1. Thompson as a candi date for the office of Probate Judge, subject to the rules of the Democratic prima ry. OUR SPECIAL NOTICES. The Byrdville Dairy and Stock farm has purchased a line Tennessee Black Jack. Me is ready for service at the farm; fee $12..'?0. insured. Phone No. 10. W. D Byrd & Son, Prop.. Laurens. s. c. it. P. D. :{. tf ..For Sale One Burrows minnture pool table. For price, terms, etc.. see W. Onry Thompson, Laurens, S. C. 10-it. Wanted Two young men to travel ii South Carolina. Kxperiouce r. > ..esessary. Address M. II. Hammond, general delivery, Laurens, S. C. it Attractive Prices now being made on Mens' Clothing, shoes, furnishings. DtC. All new and fashionable goods. Very low prices, s. Pollakoff, Lau rens, s. 0. Registered Red Poll Slock cow. now itntioned at Victor Weathers. Laurens, :. v. D. No. 2. Pee fct.oo cash. An lerson & Weathers. 40-11 For Sale Kggs for hatching, from high class single comb White Lcg torns. Exhibition matings, The fa mous Wllbei & Fogg strain. The Ninth's greatest layers. $1.00 per 1.'.. O. W. Habit, Laurens, S. C. 10-11 l.osl?A broad, black enameled gold bracelet last Sunday night between ('apt. Phllpot'S residence and First Baptist church. Finder leave same at Phil pot's store. 40-11 Lost Will pay liberal reward for return of Oasis Shrlner's pin lost in city a few days ago. J. S. Machen, Laurens. S. C. 40-lt For Sale I havo for sale iour milch cows and 200 bushels Don-gola cotton seed. D. C. Smith, Waterloo. S. C. It >'otlce--Seo advertisement of J. P. j Tolbert of Insurance of crops against j hall or live stock against death. 40-lt Contributions to the Monument Fund, j Following additional contributions : to the Confederate Monument Fund are reported by Mrs. R. B. Bell, pres-J Ident of the United Daughters of The Confederacy of Lauren8! Col. John Whnrtan, $r>; Col. John W. Ferguson, $.V, Col. Thos. B. V. Crews. $2; Mr. Fleming Smith. $1; Mr. W. H. Clark of Greenwood, $.60. Freight Wrecked. Yesterday, morning seven cars of the freight train from Greenville, in charge of Capt. Tolbert. were derail ed near (5ray Court. The track was torn up for about 150 feet, causing transfer connection of passenger trains ">2 and .">:'.. No one was injured, and the track will be speedily repaired. .Mrs. lt. I). Nance. Cross Hill. .May 2.?Mrs. Lucia Nance wife of Mr. H. 1). Nance died Sunday morning. May 1st after a ling ering illness. She leaves besides her husband one daughter, Mrs. Mary Nance Daniel of Saluda and three sons Messrs Carrol 1)., .John llendy, and Lambert Nance. She was a sister of Drs. .1. H. and William Miller and Mrs. Pat Madden, Mrs. Jim Pinson and Mr. W. V. Payne. Interment at Presbyter ian cemetery Monday the 2nd at 10 'o'clock, Rev. (!. W. Hollingsworth, her pastor conducted the service. The floral offerings were beautiful. A large concourse of relatives and friends attended the funeral. The following were pall bearers: Honary: M. T. Simpson. W. B. Ful ler. J. W. Simmons, (!. L. Carter, L. p. McSwaln, J. E. Leninan. Active: J. wniis Pinson, John Mil ler. W. T. Boyce, James Koon. John Lomer, J. C. Cook, J. H. Rasor, Arthur Leaman. Big line of Enamel Ware just re ceived. _S M ft W. FL Wllkes & 'In There's a Tone About This Store That Makes Buying Here A Pleasure *??^ You'll find our large nnd vcrkd stock is mi educator in (good eatables. products from every clime nnd nation nrc gathered on our shelved und counters, Swiss Cheese, 11- Hand Herring, Russian Caviar, ?coteh Marmalade, the b-.-*t condiments of English and domestic inakero, teas from China, and an unsurpassed line ? t coffees. One of our best-liked brands is the fuuious nee n s< lect quality, wll 'i the virile cofF.- r> flavor retained. There Is ns much difference between Kleetu and com mott coffee, ns between morn nu<l midnight. Perfected processes of cooking &nd curiag inr.kc it superior. The quality is always the same?always the Inchest, J?, ?.. because all Klent? Cotteo is Belectcd by experts and cup-tested. V Try a pound can. J. M. Philpot Laurens, S. C. T'5T? we h,gH guarantee if to cur* CJ No stomach dosing?bresthr the pleasant, healing, germ-killing air o( Hyomei, and euro catarrh. coughs. colds. croup. sore throat. bronchitis. etc. ?I Complete outfit, including hard rubber in haler, $1.00, on money-back plan. Extra bottles, 50c. Druggists everywhere, and by Laurens Drug Co., Laurens, S. C. ? PHOTOGRAPHS The McCord Studio will copy any Photo, en large any picture and & make High Grade Pho- \ tographs for you at the very lowest prices. No photographer can do more nor offer any more special inducement than the ? ricCord Studio has always done. The HcCord Studio's motto is I "Best Pictures, Lowest * I Prices" ? >5 ^ 8 I Come to see us. | Now is the time to buy the balance of the Coal You need Laurens Wholesale Grocery Co. is the place to buy your GROCERI ES as cheap as they can be bought. We have on hand 80 Bbls. of Flour ! He snre and see us before you buy We have just received one car of Corn that we can sell 92 l-2c itieal, unbolted, and water ground, at 90c Salt at 55c Peas at $2.50 We have also one car of .Meyers Molasses which we sell cheap. Come to sec us before you buy Laurens Wholesale Grocery Company, R. C. Gray, Manager. 1)R. CLIFTON JONES Dentist Office in Simmons Building Phone: Office No. 80; Residence 219. y Now is the time to C ^ - = = Insure Your Crops of = = = ^ I Cotton, Corn, Etc., I AGAINST HAIL or your I Horses and Mules Against Death From Any Cause SEE J. F. TOLBERT LAURENS, S. C. * In New Office in Todd Building, South Harper St. %