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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24
rHE aorHENnuRa SYSTEM.
How the Liquor Traffic 10 ConcrolIe
y fin Sweden and NORWAY.

how tue Liquor Vrafhc 10 Controlled
in Sweden and Norway.
Il. Y. Evening Post.
The Commissioner Of Labor, Mr..
Carroll d. Wright, has just issued as
his nth special report the results Of q
full inquiry made into the method of
conducting the liquor traffic in several
cities OF Sweden and Norway, known,
from the place Of its chief develop
Various accounts for this system have
been given from time to time, and 1t
has been hailed by many of our own
somewhat wearied temperance reform
ers as the panacea Of which they have
been waiting. But eye before has
30 exhaustive an investigation been
made into the subject, and the COM
plete history OF Scandinavian liquor
laws given in this report, togeth-
er with the full statistical exhibits
relating to consumption Of liquors,
arrests for drunkenness and crime
connected with drinking, pauperism,
dispen' able document for all who would
approa III the matter intelligently.
The Gothenburg system may be de-
scrlbed, In brief, as a plan to deprive
liquor selling Of the mercenary motive.
All the licenses to sell liquor in q
particular city are given YER to a single
corporation, which limits itself to q
profit of six per cent, on tho capital
invested, turning ove all surplus
profts-amounting In 1892 to nearly
5000, 600 in the city OF Gothenburg-to
certain designated public charities.
The men actually In charge Of the
saloons receive a dxed salary, which is
In no way dependent upon the amount
Of sales indeed, large sales are dis
tinctly discouraged by many Of the
regulations. The price for drinks has
been raised several times, not for
greater profit, but for lessening the
drinking habit and encouraging the
use of fermented instead of distilled
liquors. In all the neutrality-suspicious.
placards are c~onspicuously posted
setting forth the handsome sum q
working man could accumulate If he
would put the price of his daily dram
into a savings bank. The COM
pany also maintains reading-rooms in
connection with the saloons, and in
and e~arly-evening closing, limits the
opportunities and temptations to drink.
AT the close Of the report, DR.. Gould,
who was charged with preparing it,
makes u cautious summary of the
advantages and disadvantages of the
system, as developed in it's operation
during nearly thirty years in Gothen-
burg. The advantages appear to pre-
ponderate on the whole the greatest
Of them being a diminution of drunken
ness along with the inducements to
drink, and, what most of all strikes an
American, the complete breaking off
of the liquor traffic from all connection
with politics. Yet, as DR.. Gould
judiciously observes, it would DO hasty
to infer that q like success would attend
the system in this country. Local con-
ditions count for almost everything in
such matters, and the one local condi-
ton which probably counts for most is
the comparatively high character of
the mon engaged in the business in
the cities OF Sweden and Norway, and
particularly of the public officers who
have power to regulate the system.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24
ABSOLUTELY PURE

ELI Perkins ON Getting to Florida.
There was a blizzard up north and
the New Highlander was in q hurry to
snuff the roses at Charleston and
Savannah and see the ~alligators and
pick oranges in Florida.
I've studied these guide books till
I'm blind" he said. II wish some old
traveller would tell me in a word how
to go South easy"
"Ill tell YOU" l said i've been
there a thousand times"
Well, how?
why, just throw that guide book
away. There isn't, and lever has
been, nor never will be, but one great
straight coast line to Florida, Havana,
New Orleans, Galveston and Mexico"
Whats that ?"
Why, the Atlantic Coast Line.
Now, you just go into any ticket Office
in New York or Boston and ask for
that coast line ticket. Then pin it
onto your coat collar, jump into the
Pennsylvania road and you'll be in St.
Augustine picking oranges or at Tam.
pa. FLORIDA, walking onto u Havana
steamer in twonty-four hours"
What will | SEQ on the way 2"
"Wby you'll slide through Washing
ton and see Arlington Heights. Alex
andria, fredericksburg, where Hook
or and Burnside tried to cross the
Rappahannock. You'll glide through
Richmond, see Petersburg and the
Wilderness Notifications. You'll see
Goldsboro and be within q few miles OF
Appamatox and then drop down to
Wilmington on the ocean. On you'll
go shifting the ocean breezes all the
way to Charleston with its palmettoes,
and Savannah with its beautiful live
oaks and hanging moss. You are in
the tropics from Wilmington down tc
Jacksonville, Palatka and ST. August.
inc, or around on the Gulf of Mexico tc
New Orleans and Galveston"
And no trouble at all"
Not q bit. You step into the Pull.
nan at Jersey City and walk out of il
in Florida. The Coast Line is u great
system. All roads wait for it and you
can't get left. 1t don't run up on the
sterile red hills, but down through the
green everglades. 1t is the Sea Island
cotton line, the rice and the palmetto
line. 1t is the antipodes, and that il
what the live Yankee is looking AFTER
Does the Coast Line make time ~
why, it destroys time. 1t kills i
dead Trains on time? Well, wher
the Atlantic Coast train pulls int
Jacksonville over the Plant system
you will see the mayor and common
council standing there waiting to sci
their watches by the train, and if the
train is five minutes late the whole
State of Florida waits for it,"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

Tho Appomattox table upon which
Grant and Lee signed the papers for
the surrender; two mimic balls that
met point to point and welded together
on the Petersburg battlefield ; original
manuscript of Gen. Lees farewell ad-
dress to his army ; the bed upon which
Lincoln died; the stove, goose and
shears used by President Andrew
Johnson when n tailor original manu-
script of Grants terms for the surren-
der of Vicksburg !; coat worn by WASH
ington at his second Inauguration ;
chair in witch John Hancock sat when
he signed tue Declaration of Indepen-
dence; Bible and gavel used in the
Confederate Congress-, and the great
chain that Gen. Putnam stretched
across the Hudson River in l776 to
keep the British fleet from passing up
the river, are the ten most valuable eX-
hibits in Libby prison, accor ding to
Mr.. Gunther, OF Chicago.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24
-Talkinp Of Roht r. Loo thu 9th

Talking of Robt. e. Leo the other
day O Southern Congressman said that
he was the subject of two of the finest
phrases of eulogy he had ever read or
heard. One which he quoted was Ben.
Hills Grafton when he said in his
climax hat Lee was "like Cesar
without his ambition, Napoleon with
out his selfshness, and Washington
without his reward "-the last clause
summing up the whole Southern
fleeing toward Lee. The other quota
tion was from a panegyric on Lee, de-
livered by Col. Richard Wintersmith.
OF Kentucky, at n dinner party, when
no said Office that in going to heaven,
he relieved Washington of his eternal
loneliness"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

The greatest bridge builder in the
world is the spider. There is n point
on the Merrimac River, not far from
the Missouri Pacific bridge, where IL
large spider made a bridge clear
across, a distance of over 200 feet. He
first sent out q flyer, a sort of kite
string, which was carried across the
stream by the breeze and lodged in u
tree opposite. 1t was then braced by
guys to other branches, and thus fifty
feet above the water was a perfect sus-
pension bridge. In comparison with
this insect work the Niagara and Brook
lyn bridges are trifing.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

Bill Wade, a notorious desperate.
rode into the town of Webb, Miss,
armed with q Winchester, a brace OF
revolvers and a butcher knife. He
Don cleared the streets, with the ex-
ception Of j. M. Evans. a quiet citizen,
who was sitting in front of his store.
Wade opened fire on Evans, but tho
latter refused to be bluffed and return
ed the fire with such unerring aim
that when the smoke cleared away
Wade was found with six bullet holes
through his heart. Evans Is seriously
but not fatally wounded.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24
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| DANGER |

pure. Heed the warning while
there is yet time; clear up your ays.
tem and purify the blood by taking
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov.
cry. 1t rouses every organ into
natural action, purifes and enriches
the blood and through it cleansea
and invigorates the whole system.
1t attacks all scrofulous, skin and
scalp diseases in the right way by
purifying the blood.
The diseases that it cures come
from o torpid liver, or from impure
blood. For everything of this
nature, it is the only guaranteed
remedy.
In Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Sour
Stomach, Biliousness; all Bronchial,
Throat, and Lung Affections, even
Consumption Tor Lung-scrofula) in
it's earlier stages-if it aver fails to
benefit or cure, you have your
money back.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

-" Yes, subj" said the Majah, talk
ing to a Chicago reporter. at is true
that we do hang a worthless niggah
down ouah way once in q while. But
you Nawthun folks seem to overlook
completely the great numbah of them
that w puhmit to live until they die
of old age OF sickness. Millions of them,
sub. And when you take into con-
sideration the hot blooded and i'm
pulsive character of our people, / think
we deserve a great deal of credit for
u clemency."
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

a LIST OF PRODUCTS.-The Seattle
Free Press gives the following as q few
of the many remarkable things which
the State Of Washington has produced :
An apple weighing two pounds and
four ounces.
One strawberry ten inches in circum-
ference.
A bunch of grapes weighing six
pounds.
An onion weighing four pounds and
one ounce.
a potato weighing eight pounds and
four ounces.
A radish weighing nine and n half
pounds.
A beet weighing thirty pounds.
A pumpkin weighing ninety three
pounds.
A watermelon weighing sixty-four
pounds.
A cabbage weighing ffty-three
pounds.
A squash weighing 120 pounds.
Timothy seven feet eight inches high.
Glover five feet high.
Alfalfa from a yield of twelve tons
per acre.
Cornstalks fourteen feet high.
A hill of potatoes that yielded forty
three pounds.
Sixty-seven pounds of potatoes from
two pounds planted.
Hops from a yield of 9,502 pounds
per acre.
Wheat from q yield Of sixty-eight
bushels per acre.
Oats from a yield of 125 bushels per
acre.
A blackberry bush showing twenty
one feet growth this year
A branch from q prune tree thirty
three inches long with forty-six pounds
of fruit on it.
A lump of coal weighing 6 1850
pounds.
A plank fifty inches wide, thirty
inches thick and eighty-two feet long
and not u knot on it.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

We are pleased to that
Carpenter Bros, Greenville, S. c., our
enterprising druggists, have secured
the agency for the Japanese Pile Cure;
a most wonderful discovery for the
Cure Of Piles OF every kind, which
they will sell with a written guarantee
to refund the money IL it does not cure.
1t Is said to be Il jpecific for that terri
bic and dangerous disease. Get 81 FREQ
sample and try it.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

Nine. Carnot, the wife of the presi-
dent Of France, has the reputation OF
being the best dressed IN in that
country of we'll dressed INT She
is n grandmother, but there arc times
when she does not look over 25 years
of age. She is q pronounced brunette,
with not a silver hair or wrinkle, and
has the eyes Of youth.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24


The CAUSE OF OUR WoEs.-The
great trouble in the South is tho dis
position to raise q few commodities and
buy nearly everything else from the
North. The cry for hog and hominy is
the cry for wisdom. We have in the
South a soil where all that is necessary
to man a be easily raised, but we do
not utilize 1t. We scorn details too
much. We neglect the little things
and strike for the big, and most of the
time we miss fire. An old farmer wri-
sums up the situation in tho following
wise way:
There is 80 much being said in tho
country about hard times and the
scarcity of money, and as everybody
has O cause and knows a remedy, I
thought l would write to tell your
readers what ] think is the cause. The
trouble is we buy moro than we pro-
duce. There Is too much flour and
bacon shipped here every year. The
things we ought to make at home we
are buying.
We let our timber rot and buy our
pillow stocks, singletrees, AK handles,
hoo handles and fencing.
We throw away u ashes and buy
soap and axle grease.
We give away u beef hides and
buy hame strings anj hoo strings.
We let Il n go to waste and
buy guano.
We buy garden seed in the spring
and cabbage in the winter.
We let our lands grow up in woods
and buy u brooms.
We build school houses and hire
teachers and send our children off to be
educated.
We send a 15-cent boy out with a $50
gun n a SIS dog to kill birds.
We raise dogs and buy wool.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

Johnson's Magnetic Oil kills all pains
whether internal or external. Sold at
Carpenter Bros, Greenville, S. G.
Japanese Liver Pellets are small, but
great in their effects no gripping so
doses % cts. Sold at Carpenter Bros,
Grecnvillc, S.. c..
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

Judge Copenhaven, Of Baltimore,
was instantly killed while hunting at
Grand Lake, Me-, on the Penobscot
river. He was using his rifle as q
cane, when Il. discharched, tho bullet
passing through his head. CD
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

DR.. w. B. Shumaker, o prominent
citizen of Alderman, Miss, was shot
five times and instantly killed by w.
II. Helm, against whom he had pre-
ferred charges of keeping n "b[ind
tiger"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

The citizens of Jacksonville, Fla,
have voted to bond the city for 81, 900,
600 for public improvements.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

r. M. Dobie, a wealthy commission
merchant OF Petersburg, Va, com.
mitted suicide last week by blowing
out his brains with q pistol. No cause
has been assigned. He leaves a wife
aud four children, and his life was In.
.sured for $38, 900. {
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

The MAKERS Of DIR. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy will pay you $500 if
they can't give you q complete and
permanent cure. 9MllaA
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24
Notice.

Be modern. Don't harass the system
with noxious drugs. Monterey cures
Malaria, Nervousness, Indigestion and
ant TO taste and leaves no Bad eSects.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

All diseases of the skin cured and lost
complexion restored by Johnson's Ori-
entail Soap. Sold by Carpenter Bros,
GreenVille, S. G..
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

The Fort Worth Gazette remarks
the Same tendency among the rural
population of Texas as prevails else
where, ito. the leave the country for
the towns, and argues that the cause
Of it is the isolation of country life. 1t
advocates the plan of farmers living in
a village, which is in practice in some
parts OF Europe, and is being tried in
the northwest. All the farmers of q
certain section nov to q central locali-
ty and establish u village OF their own.
With good roads it is easy for them to
go to their farms every day. The plan
has many advantages, and if generally
adopted would do away with the isola-
ton which is now y great objection to
farm life.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

-Ex-Senator Joseph E. Brown, of
Georgia, has grown so weak hat he
can scarcely hold his head up, and is
almost blind.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

ARREST OF A MILLIONAIRE.-A dis
patch from San Francisco, dated Oct.
18th, says that "Charles l.. Fair, the
the young millionaire, who married q
woman known as Maude Nelson q few
days ago, left here with his bride on
an overland train last night for a
European tour. Previous to starting
Fair transferred all his property to his
wife and made a will leaving her
everything he possessed. When the
train upon which Fair and his bride
took passage reached Port Costa, a
deputy sheriff entered the train and
took forcible possession of Fair and re-
moved him from the train. His bride,
who was not disturbed, left the train
OF her OWL accord. The charge on
which the young man was arrested is
said to be insanity. He was brought
to San Francisco.
Young Fair Is the only son of ex-
Senator James G.. Fair, Of Nevada.
The young man has taken the Kelley
cur twice, but 1t has had no apparent
effect on him. Charles inherited $780,
600 from his mother and on the death
to him. Under the conditions Of his
mothers will, Fair receives an income
from the money left him and will not
secure the principal until he is 30
years old. Recently, it is said, he
threatened to raise money by pledging
his share of Senator Fairs estate,
which he would receive when his
father died. Senator Fair is worth
many millions of dollars, being one Of
the richest men on the Pacific coast,
and Charles is his only son. Senator
Fair, when asked about the proposed
marriage, said he knew nothing about
the woman and said his son vas on
tirely beyond his CONTROL
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-24

DlCIIMOND x DANYILL.E X. r..
III Co. SAMUEL SPENCER. T.. w.
HUlDEKOpEk AND hEIBEN FOSTER.
R"c"ii.ir. t~0luu4hih ~ G".ansilD Di-
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T.mr.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-07
Strong and Weak Spelling.

Speaking in broad and general way, and
ldmitting that every one is likely to mis-
pell word of the English language at
ome time in his life, spoilers may be d.
'ided into two classes strong spellers''
Ind the weak spoilers" What '.stronp
pelling" means may be illustrated by the
autographed maxim and practice Of an
EXCELLENT gentleman who Is now dead. His
1iln was, Never misspell word for want
If putting in enough letters" Acting on
Ibis principle, be spelled girl gearle, do doe
ind get gette.
This trait would seem to indicate lib
raj disposition, and this gentleman was
certainly very literally minded man. His
strong spelling" did not prevent him from
irving the public acceptably in several ca
.acities.
Another strong speller always insisted
(1pon writing the word perhaps" thus, per-
hapse Though he was frequently remon-
strated with and repeatedly told that there
vas no final on the word, he continued to
spell it that way.
A thoroughly strong speller' always
seems to be accorded certain sympathy
and even admiration by those who ordina-
rily spell correctly, while a weak speller" is
always laughed at. What weak spelling
means may be illustrated by the case Of a
gentleman who recently wrote ''enthusi-
asm" thus, entheusam, and who generally
spells Suggest" sojest.
| The same gentleman is known to have
spelled penalty pelenty, but popularity
Of his case is that he never mispronounces
word and always appears in conversation
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-07

What is the use of worrying at what
angle chair stands in the room, 50 long as
the chair is comfortable chair' have
known a poor tired woman to walk up
stairs and down stairs and into every room
in the house simply to make sure that every
shade was pulled just so far down in each
window, so that it would look nice from ,he
outside; then she was too tired to go out that
afternoon. Was it worth while' Hardly
True. there are some people who are never
30 happy as when they are miserable ana
are never so content as when they are find
ing fault. ,,o..od
Have we not known housewives blessed
among women, who, when they cleaned
house were never so wretched as when they
could not get more than half dustpanlul
of dirt after sweeping room' hlp an
Wrinkles wife burst blood vessel IN scGl a.
Ing the peddler who crossed the freshiy
sanded floor. She cared about the moor tne
peddler didn't. She died; the peddler lived
Eliza D. Keith.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-07
General Buffers Courage.

After Lincoln's assassination General
Butler occupied suite of rooms on the first
Hoor of Wizards hotel in Washington
One afternoon the general and his secreta
nv, Mr.. Batchelder, were seated at table
near the window of one Of the rooms, when
Mr.. Batchelder noticed that large crowd
had collected and were gazing at and max
ing comments on the general, who was in
plain view from the street. 1t having been
common report that not only the lives of
Lincoln and Seward, but of Grant and But
Ter were to be sacrificed, Mr.. Batchelder be-
came nervous and finally got up and pulled
down the blinds.
The general looked up and said; What's
the matter, BatchelderS Why are you pull
Ing down the blindsi"
"Oh," said Mr.. Batchelder, II thought it
was getting rather late"
Nonsense, Batchelder," said the general
Put them up again"
But, general said Mr.. Batchelder,
.there is a great crowd outside the window
and there is no telling what violence they
may attempt"
General Butler snorted contemptuously,
LET them,n he said, and seeing that his
young secretary had the seat nearer the
window, land will change seats with you'
so there will be no danger. "-Exchange'
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-07
A Time to Laugh.

You know how it CRATES on your finer
snsibilities to be laughed at to your face,
sspecially when the laugh is Of the harsh,
Unpublished type. And you know one or
more persons who are possessed OF such a
laugh and such a disposition to use it.
Well, there is such person in this town.
He is very well educated man, too, and is
especially good in the languages. Not long
ago be was talking to mild hammered lit
tie woman who had asked him question
about French sentence. He asked her to
repeat it. She did SO.
''Ha hal" he laughed. "Ha, hal Haw,
haw, hawl" and the little woman blushed.
what is it3" she asked very much en-
barrassed.
"Haw, haw-I-haw, haw-was laughing
-haw, hawai- your very bad-haw, haw
-pronunciation-haw, hawh-
"Haw, haw, hawW she interrupted sud
denly. "Haw, hawi ha, ha, ha, hap and
she kept it up as loud as she could until he
began to get red in the face and feel embar-
rassed himself.
"What is iti" he exclaimed when she
gave him the chance.
"Haw, haw!' she responded uproarious-
ly; II was-haw, haw-laughing-haw
hawai- your-haw, haw-very bad-haw,
aw-manners-haw, hawl Good morn
ing" and she turned her back on him and
hasn't spoken to him since.-Detroit Free
press
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-07

II the frieze of the Parthenon be carefully
examined, it will be found how resolutely
the figures of men and horses are kept sub
ject to the dominant motive of ornament
1t is not merely q collection of statues or a
sculptured narrative. That the sculptor
had the power of realism who can doubt in
the presence of masterpieces of Greek statu-
aryi But he possessed the higher power
of subordinating parts to the whole, that
power which is the result of faculty, as
yet underlined, corresponding to the faculty
of music.
The frieze was instinctively recognized
by Greek architects as the proper place fol
ornament; the name it bore with them,
zophorus, the subject of life, marked it out
as the field for display of living pageantry
artistic instinct forbade that it should b<
SO used irrespectively of the general archi
tectural effect. Soin that perfect symphony
of form, the Parthenon frieze, though each
limb and fold Of drapery is true, everything
is made to serve the general harmony, like
chords in professional music--Blackwood'
Magazine.