Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WIT- Used in ever increasing quantities, because the roofs put on ZD years ag^ are as good as new to-day, and have never needed repairs. D^n't put on tl at roof until you see them. 6 3 For sale by Local Dealers or Cortright Metal Roofing Company 50 N. 23rd, St., Philadelphia, Pa. DRY CLEANING = AND - PRESSING OF THE EXPERT KIND Have your Clothes Cleaned and Pressed by men who know how. You'll find them here at this shop. E.V. FERGUSON O ver H. Terry's Store Laurens, South Carolina i! Gasoline and Kerosene Sold in air-tight Iron Drums. Convnien t to handle. Deliver in small quantities in city. R. ML Eichelberger Agent Gulf Refining Phone 33 Stubborn Case "I was under the treatment of two doctors,** writes Mrs. R. L, Phillips, of Indian Valley, Va., "and they pro nounced my case a very stubborn one, of womanly weak ness. I was not able to sit up, when I commenced to take Cairiui. I used it about one week, before I saw much change. Now, the severe pain, that had been in my side for years, has gone, and I don't suffer at all. I am feeling better than in a long time, and cannot speak too highly of Cardui," f*> TAKE LARDUI WomanSTonic If you are one of those ailing women who suffer from Any of the troubles so common to women. Cardut is a builder of womanly strength. Composed of purely vegetable ingredients, It acts quickly on the womanly system, building up womanly strength, toning up the womanly nerves, and regulating the womanly system. CarduI has beer, in successful use for more than 50 years. Thousands of ladies have written to tell of the benefit they received from it Try it for your troubles. Begin today. Wiitt to: tadlet* Advisory r>ot.. CialtanooM Medicine Co., Chttttnooft. Tern., lor SfiKlal InitmcUons, and 64-nage bock. V Horn?; Treatment lor Women." gent free. J & If candy makers had to depend on xen consumer! instead of upon Cupid ir.d the kids, there would be great 'allures in saccharine circles- -bat :here is one time of the year that my 'nasculine sweet-tooth &b?*rt> ItMtf led then. Instead of yearning for the :hocolate-cream confections or the fruit dips, it ciamors for a big bag >f mixed candy, right out of the bar -el! I admit it it a plebeian taste, that '.he candy is mostly glue and flour tumbled to suit the taste of the adolescent?but somehow I cannot '.*-?] that I hare rightly celebrated '"hristmas without this bag of candy. When I was a boy this is the sort of i candy we got and the taste was early acquired. And what a lot of antici pation there was In eating the stuff? anticipation because when you stuck your hand In the sack for a sweet bit. you never knew whether it would come out clutching a lemon-drop, a tararnel or a peppermint! And, too, the candy was cheap. You could get a big beg full of it for ton cents?and some ol It was red and com? mhite and tome yellow a:. there were sj:;ir b< arts with mot toes on them ar.d nie* round marble ' V -11 r _ n. nr>ta 1 t- ? ~ . ,4 hinn? mal shapes that tickled?ar-i ch heaps of interesting things In tLa Christmas sack of candy. This was the same kind of cand ?*e got sewed up in red mosquito-ba sacks at the Sunday school Christma: tree festivities, along with the nut.' and the popcorn oalis. And now. man that I am, I canno get across the Rubiccn of Christmas without sauntering down to the cand} store and asking for a sack of cand> , out of the barrel." Invariably th?. candy man will tell me he has much ! better candy and look at me in a sur ' prised sort of way. but I know what I I want when I want it?and Christ mas is the time. How about you? Haven't you e sweet tooth left for the old-fashionei ;candy? Along about October 1 when the rranarlea of the world are full to bursting and the cellar Is so clut ered up with coal and preserves that be maid cannot reach the laundry aps without stumbling over the snow ihovel, somebody says something about Christmas and gives father ? '-art disease. All summer "dad" ha3 been wrestling with the problems of business?this was presidential year, and everybody had to have vacations and Billby & Jones started in direct competition and?oh. the dickens knows what! v% And now he has to face that Christ mas thing again! The list is a mile long and father knows it will put a crimp in blB bank account amounting almost to cramp, but mother 6ays It will have to be added to. if anything, so there! Hut somehow ub I look at "dad," 1 cannot restrain from asking: "Why Hhould father be the goat?" It wasn't so In the days when I was dreaming of a wonderful career In letters. Everybody worked on Christmas presents then and father was not called upon to settle the Christmas bills for all the family. I made a "corner-copia" . e don't spell It now the way we pronounced It then- for mother. She knitted sow" socks for inc. I rigged up a shaving paper outfit for pa and he gave me a perfectly gcod twenty-five cent jack knife. I made a wood box for the I neighbor's wife and she sewed me a I pair of mittens. Everybody made things in those days. For weeks be fore the holidays, mother worked ev ery night on Christmas gift3. and she was as harpy as could be doing things j for those she loved. Into the fabric j of what she was sewing, she put the I love and affection of a great heart? J and all of us did the same. And I'll leave It to you?didn't the thin^B we got in the old days, the presents we made ourselves for each other, come nearer exemplifying the true Christmas spirit? Of course they did! And father did not have to dig down in his pocket and pay for two hundred and fifty-seven presents, two hundred of which are given Just be cause somebody else gave us some thing and got on tho confounded list! I'm for Christmas?but I like the old-fashioned observance best. It isn't observing the "peace-on-earth" spirit to load "dad" up with so much debt that he can't crawl out In five months, fletter take to wood boxes and cornu copias. The express wagon la backed to the j grocery store entrance and the driver, ! assisted by the grocer's boy. begins \ to unload ChristmaH trees. Soon tho walk is cluttered with them and the passersby, catching the spirit of the tree, smile at the children gathering 'round. A light snow is falling and the green of the spruce is inviting, to pay nothing of the reason it has come to town. What a lot of Christmas trees the grocer has ordered?and yet how few compared to the many thousands that grow In Christmas Tree Land, away Up north. Up there the woods are full Of Christmas trees and the snows are ?o deep that snowshoes may be nec essary. And In Christmas Tree Land there are vast stretches of nothing but evergreen trees and white snow?and In the snow, If you are versed in woodcraft, you might find tho track j of a deer and innumerable trails of Brer Rabbit, leading away through the greenery to the quiet, vast places. Probably you pay $1 or more for a Christmas tree. Up north they are free, but the hardy men who gather them must wade In the deep snow and d/aw them many miles to the railroad that they may be shipped to the Httlo boys and girls of the city. And as you sit beside your tree. ! with your heart glad and your spirits gay. you might ponder on how that tree got to you. You can picture the vast snow field nnd the forest with tho December sun shining on It, shedding Jewels of light. A squirrel la floun derlng about in the snow trying tc locate some burled nuts and a blue jay is scolding saucily from a ma pit treo hard by. And then, into the quiet comes a man. lie is a sturdy man with a woolen cap drawn closely over his ears and nose. There are slits for his eyes. On his feet are great woolen packs with rubber shoes and his trousers are tucked inside the packs. His coat Is very odd. tc you, consisting of a great, bright sweater sort of garment, buckled cloKoly around him. On his shoulder he carries an ax. He begins to cut Christmas trees and the one you have In your home is a very pretty one that pleases him as he hauls it ' away to where his team awaits. With many other trees yo?r tree Is put on the sled and after a time, Is hauled to the depot where it is shipped to your grocer. The man who cut It was no doubt a lumberjack and If he is like hla kind, he lives In a log cabin with his wife and children. In the olden days be worked in the timber exclusively, but now he farms during the summer on a wee farm that he is clearing of stumps, and In. the winter time he cuts wood for the lumber companies. And his little ones always have a Christmas tree, for Christmas trees nre free where hr. lives, but probably it is not as plentifully loaded with gifts as yours, for which you should be very thankful. u m Our store now gleams with many beautiful Christ mas presents for every member of the household from grandma and grandpa down to the baby. The "beauty" of getting presents from us is that they are USED and will last a long time, and the giver will be long remem bered by those who get them. Come, select your pre sents NOW and let us deliver them at Christmas time. MAKE OUR DRUG STORE YOUR DRUG STORE. PALMETTO DRUG CO. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA ROLLISNG STOWII I &ATH ERS NO ? p^oiraa :iMO$S r WHY* BE-A* T-EM AN T? Buy A Home With Rent Money! The average renter pavsforhis place every eight years but the land lord still owns it. Why Pay Rent? YOU PAY AS RENT 12-"> Acres hounded bv lands J. Warren Bolt, James Wham's estate and olh'.-rs, known as tlx Coleman Tract. Cheap and easy terms. 125 Acres within one mile of public square, well improved. Will cut into 10, 15 or 20 acre lots. Easy term. 46 ^cres, more or less, adjoining lands of C. D. Moseley, Mrs. Cain and others, one and three-fourth miles South of Laurens C. H., With good tenant house and in high state of cultivation for $45.00 per acre. One 5-room house and lot fronting' 6h Mack St., containing three fourths of acre, more or less, for $800.00. On easy terms. One acre lot with one 2-room house and one 5-room house front ing Jennings St. Price $700.00. One 4-room house on bt 100 x 150 near Watts Mill for $1,100.00. 553 Acres, known i s the Tom Smith Farm, between the waters of Reedy River and Sali da, well improved. Will sell as a whole or cut up to suit purchaser. Tjrms reasonable apply for prices. 127 Acres of land on Greenwood county side of Saluda River, adjoining land of Helton Day and others. Price reasonable and terms easy. fir- ITS Acres noar Ml, Olive Clutch. Cheap and on easy terms. One-half Interest in one of the finest lime quarries in the South. Four miles of Ware Shoals. Cheap on easy terms. At $120.00 per year In 10 years. $1,581.68 At $120.00 per year in 25 yean. $6,088.72 At $240.00 per year in 10 years. $3,163.86 At $240.00 per year in 25 years. 18,167! 43 We will cut any of the following into such size tracts as you desire. We buy at wholesale and retail land out to suit the small buyer : Ahoi-.t 100 Acres near Watts Mill, known us the Radget'1 Land. 240 Acres located near Reedy River Power Company, on Reedy River, and known as the Dorroh Piac<\ Price. $12.50 to $2o.t>0 por acre, depending on number of acres and location. 23 acres at Anil's coss .-cads, cheap for quick sale. 10 acres near Watts Mills, a)! improved, for 11.500, half cash. 166 acres, a parlol .1. N. Clardy ir:ict. *-S 00 per acre. (Jet tho bar gain now. !?:t acres near Ora. H. C. with good duelling house and all necessary outbuildings good orchard, good h-voi land, church und school conve nient. Terms and price reavmable. U acres near Watts Mill well Improved. See us for price and torms. Several houses and lots near Watts Mill. We also have for sale about Twenty two Acres of land within the corporate limits of the City of l.aurons. kn >wn as Grays Hill, which w? will kpU in small building lots, at reasonable prices. A good many of thme lots have collages on ihem. Remember that we cut off any numr>er of acres de sired by purchaser and give any reasonable time in which to pay. We want to make it possible tor every white farmer in Laurens County to own his home. Laurens Trust Company R. A. Coopkr, President. C. W.-Tunk, Sic & Treas. \nderson k Rlakele). Miiniigers Real F.stnte Sale*.