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We Start with the Rough Log We end with the finished product, and every operation is done by our own men in our own mills. Sash, doors, blinds, screens, mouldings, columns, grilles, newel posts, shingles, lath, interior finish, etc.?everything in building material we furnish in both quantity and quality. Complete house bills from architect's plans and builder's lists our specialty. Bring or mail in your specification. Get our estimate free. "Buy of the Maker*1 AUGUSTA LUMBER CO. AUGUSTA. GA. You will never be a winner by luck. All successes have been built up. Building takes time. The tallest structure was made by laying brick on brick or stone or stone. Don't hurry too much. THE BANK3^ LAU RENS LAURENS, S.C. BEGIN NOW Look over your Wardrobe and Household Fur | nishings. Anticipate your Spring Needs. Have them ready when you DO NEED THEM. Many pleasing changes and much economy are t easily possible by FOOTER'S Famous Methods and J Processes of Cleaning and Dyeing ;; None other can give you the benefit of long expe \ \ rience, modern appliances, or serve your needs as \ well as FOOTER DYE WORKS Cumberland, Md. 2 Positively America*s Greatest, Best and Most Complete \ Cleaning and Dyeing Works. J DIAL COMPANY We are in Business to do Business in a % Business Way. We keep an up-to-date Fresh I Line of Staple and Fancy Groceries. Prompt attention, Quick Sales, Short Profits are our Watch Words. Call to see us in Dial Building or Phone 50 when wanting anything in our line. DIAL COMPANY J. C. HENDERSON, Manager RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD By Miss Laura Cromer At a meeting of the Joseph B. Ker shaw Chapter, U. 1>. C, held several weeks ago two papers of such excel lence were read that The Advertiser was requested to print them. One of them "Reconstruction Period", writ ten by Miss Laura Cromer, appears below. The other one, "Ante-bellum Days in the South." by Miss Laura Uarksdale, will appear in a forthcom ing issue. Reconstruction Period. When our fathers and grandfathers returned from the four years of war fare, to find the homes they had left lying in ashes, and tho cherished acres of land so pitilessly multilated, it must have required more heroism and courage than we can imagine to set to work again to deliver them out of this state of chaos. But think of their horror when this beloved state, for which they had so freely shed their blood became known as "Military Dis trict No. 2"! It is then that "Reign of Terror" in our country, common ly called the Reconstruction Period, is said to have begun. We reckon our reconstruction from 1S65-1S77, but readers of history will go back farther than that and tell us that the first spark was dropped among tho rubbish of an incomplete government when the constitution of the United States was first adopted, and had slowly, but surely, been burn ing its way through the grea: mass of sectional discontent and disagree ments, until it burst into llamo in 1S65. The four years of blood-shed, just preceding, gave the real alarm of the mighty conflagration so soon to sweep over our land. Virginia, New York and Rhode Is i&nd were the first to point out the t that our constitution was defec tive, when they refused to adopt it, without claiming the right of seces :f desired. Th? Missouri Compromise, and again the r->-.z:'t romise of 1S50 only served to ? :rrzz'.trr. this spirit of dissension ^ii been smouldering among our Abraham Lincoln has been accussed , i-i fcbused you please, as the fath-j rr Receattraction, but history pre-, unu facti la such an authoritative on* is compelled to rec-j ognixe abolitionists and that oth er ir. famous class of politicians, then kno^n as Republicans, as the true progenitor. To daughters of the Confederacy it seems superfluous to tell you what reconstruction means. You who have heard your parents tell of the blood curdling incidents that took place dur ing those days and who have followed by proxy that champion leader of white government, Gen. Wade Hamp ton, as he and his "Red Shirts." blaz ed the trail for those who were to live after him, know all too well the significance of this one word. It has been tested in our own state. A Latin word, divided into its several parts, first: Re, meaning again; second, con, meaning together, and lastly, the past participle of the very struo. meaning to build, or letter still, put. Combine these three, and we have: to put to gether again. There wo have the com plete significance of the word before us, and please lay special stress upon that again. You ladles know that it is a much simpler task to properly put together a new garment than It is to rip apart and n.ake over an old one. And in making over an old one, we are oblig ed totcut out some portions that are not necessary, and very often. Insert folds of new material in order to fash ion a modern garment. Our government pnssed through the same process; and as South Carolina took the first step toward dissolving the union, she also took the first to ward repairing it. It would take too long to recount even a few of the affairs so closely associated with reconstruction in our state. Briefly I would say that such times always find candidates for of fice who can supply the proper en dorsements of corruption and vice, to prey upon the hopeless victims. Our brave men, who had fought so gallant ly for what they thought was right, were forced to stand aside and see such scalawags as Robort K. Scott, and Franklin J. Moses, Jr., occupy the chair that had held such men as the Plnckneys, Rutlcdges, Mlddleton, Pickens, etc., whllo three of our con gressmen In Washington were negroes And at homo over half the members of the legislature were Ignorant, treach erous negroes, who stole the property of our citizens, and theratened the lives of not only our men, but our women and children as well. This was all fearful, but tho gross est Indignity heaped upon our brave men was their disfranchlsement. Be cause they had fought for a principle they deemed right, and to them sa cred, they were accused of treason to the Union, and donled the right to vote, while the Illiterate and fiendish negro was Invested with all the pow er of his former master. Somo of our ablest men were east into Federal prisons, while negro soldiers, arrayed in the United States army uniforms, were placed in control of the affairs of our commonwealth. President Johnson, a southern man himself, sought to bring relief to the state by appointing Benjamin P. Per ry, of Greenville, as provisional gov ernor on June 13, 1865. With the help of other citizens, Gov. Perry attempt ed to set up a government In our state, hut this failed on account of the in terference of Federal soldiers, and It was then that affairs rapidly passed from bad to worse, resulting in the condition 1 have alluded to previous ly. Daniel H. Chamberlain, although a man not to be admired, was the first to bring any real relief, and he pointed 1 out to the people that It would be Im possible to have a desirable, or even i bearable, government with the ma- ( jority of the voters negroes. It required Gen. Wade Hampton to teach the negro his place In southern ' politics. With his election In 1S7G. ' and not till then, did the people real- I ize any permanent relief, lie brought | the state entirely under the control j of white voters. It also required quite a sacritlce on the part of this noble gentleman ton take up this work, tl was forced up- t on him by the people of his state and ? when he realized that duty and patri- , otism called him, he forgot self, and | considered only the welfare of his fel- < low-men. \ And thus it was with a number of , others, who were asked to be loyal to J their country after the tight had end-1 < ed. This country did not float the ! same flag over their heads as the J one they had so recently lost, but ? have you ever heard of a single In- < stance where one of our fore-fathers ] was guilty of loathing that flag? Did ] not the red in those stars and stripes ? represent the Identical virtue as por- , trayed In the stars and bars? Was J not the white of one as pure as the ? other? And as a common bond of j < fellowship and sympathy we insert' J the blue, and combine the red and ? white of the other two. i Doubtless there were tears In many , a strong man's eyes as he folded away | the tattered flag that floated the stars < and bars, but there were patriotism ) and heroism in his heart when he un-1' folded the bright banner of red, white < and blue, and acknowledged it as his ', own. His blood has obliterated Mason J and Dlvon's line. There is no north < or south now. We belong to one coun- i try, and we are proud of this great land of ours. Now we realize that in union alone1 have we accomplished more than any \ other country in the same length of ' time. There are still a few who allow their ' prejudice to overrule them, and eher- ' lsh a resentment toward tin; north of ? our country for the acts of some of ! their most unprincipled representa tives during those dark days of re construction. They should know that the north was mortified because of these same acts, and If the natural state of confusion that necessarily follows war, had not existed, these fearful affairs might have been pre vented. Now the majority of our people know that we raise the cotton nnd the north manufactures It?that Is, our surplus, for the south Is fast grow ing In the manufacturing Industry; our fertile lands do not furnish food for our people alone but our brotiier farther north as well. Wo are gathered together daughters, to perpetuate the noble lives of those who fought for the southern cause, and this we shall always do; for these are worthy the emulation of our broth ers, sons, and husbands; but all have also learned the value and beauty of true patriotism, and far bo it from us to plant one seed of prejudlco In the mind of any one who loves his "Own, his native land." ITS SO EASY TO END CATARRH. Qo to tho I,nurenB Drug Co. and say I want a HYOMKI outfit--tako it home?open the box?pour a few drops of HYOMKI from the bottle Into the little hard rubber Inhaler?breatho It for five minutes and note tho refresh ing relief?breatho It four or flvo times a day for a few days and ca tarrh and all Its disgusting symptoms will gradually disappear. HYOMRI contains no opium, co caine of other harmful drug and is sold on money back plan for catarrh, asthma, croup, colds, coughs and ca tarrhal deafness. Complete outfit $1.00?extra bottles If needed 50 cents at Laurens Drug Co. and druggists everywhere. Simple Instructions for use in every package?you can't fail to banish catarrh If you follow In structions. Red Iron Racket sells same goods for less money six days In a week. J. C. Hums & Co., 210 W, Laurens, St.. Laurens, S. C. I IN THE STUD?SEASON OF 1912 The Magnificently Bred Stallion ifplfi v. M ? YELLMAN 4911 Grand Son of CHESTER DARE 10 Will stand for 3i5)i of 1912 at $20.00 to insure standing colt. Limited to 50 approved mares. ? AT Childress Live Stock Co.'s Stables Property of R. B. CHILDRESS, Laurens, S. C. 3&???????????I????????????? Roup Cure Healing Ointment Harness Galls We have a small lot of samples. Call for one. Don't delay for we cant get more after the lot is given away. Palmetto Drug Company W. H. WASHINGTON, Manager LOOK! Cotton Seed $1.00 per Hundred Pounds. R.M. Eichelberger COLUMBIA, NK YYBKHKY A LAUBENS r LWAY. N. B. The following schedule figures are publlBhed only as' Information, and not guaranteed. ?nermauoiy 53 Station 52 2:1?. p m Lt Laurens Ar 212 p m 2:3B Clinton i:5o 3:20 Newberry 12:66 3:34 Prosperity 12:42 4:55 Ar Columbia Lv U:1Z *:20 Ar Sumter Lv 9-41 10:00 p m Ar Charleston Lt 6: IC & m ??Trains 54 and 55 run solid between Oreenvllle and Colnmhi?, , ., cc?t Sund,.,. The., at G.rrM. ?. St.t.o?. w?2 uLT 2" Z 53 go lo Union Station. lrft,nB 52 and Co"umbia?,rOUBh trR,n8 b6tWeen Greenv,Ue and (:harleBton via Lauren, and T. C. WHITE, General aPssenger Agent. ?54 8:20 a m 8:44 1:82 9:60 11:15 ?56 7:65 p 7:35 6:44 6:26 6:00