The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-11-12
BILL ARP AT THE EXPOSITION,
HE SAW THE WILD WEST SHOW
He Gets to Talking About Money
In the Olden Times Gold and Sill |
yer Were Plentiful.

HI tne olucn I1meS Cold and SiI
yer Were Plentiful.
| witnessed the street pageant of Baf
falo BilPs wild West" show. l sup
pose there were 81, 600 people who did
the same thing. That much was free
and quite enough for me. Somehow
have lost my appetite for circuses and
other spectacular amusements. The
time was when l never missed one II
could help it; but now l prefer to see
things that provoke thought instead
OF smiles. The wonders of the exhi-
bits in the exposition, the progress OF
mankind in thesurts and sciences, fill
the mind with pleasant contemplation
When the telegraph wires first reach
ed our town we felt sure that there was
nothing else to invent or discover, that
nothing more was needed. But 80 many
wonderful and useful things have piled
state of expectancy. What will come
next?
VIXEN l was boy we studied a phil
osophy which said that the load must
be near the power, and there WAS u
picture OF u horse trying to pull bag
of sand by rope that was 100 yards
long-and he couldn't move it. Now
we read that the power from the cleo
trio plant at Niagara is soon to pull
all the boats on the great Erie canal, t,
and the thousands OF horses and mules
are to be discharged from their monot-
Onous service. More than this-we
read that this same power Is soon to
supercede all other powers in loading
and unloading the vessels in New
York harbor. II this power can reach
New York from Niagara, why not reach
across the continent? How long be-
fore all our railway trains will be
moved by it? There is sufficient wa
ter power right here near Cartersville
to operate plant that would move all
the wheels in Georgia. The children
now at school will live to laugh at the
simplicity ana stupidity of their fa-
theirs and grandfathers just as now
smile at the recollection of the time
when my father kept nint and steel
and piece of punk in u little tin box
and would strike spark and light a
candle when be wanted light In the
night. 1t is funny to think of the
time when there were no matches.
What would these cigarette boys do
without matches?
Every decade brings cheaper moth
DDS and more comforts. The old rule
that Adam Smith taught us in his
Wealth of Nations " was that provi-
dence had wisely ordained that the la
Dor of one man would easily. support
eight persons, meaning himself and
wife and six children. But he wasent
counting on IS shoes for the boys and
$40 hats and balloons sleeves for the
girls and u college education for both 4.
The labor of the average man will not
support eight persons now, for not
wlthstanding the cheapness of things
our wants are Increased ten-fold.
md cat hnt
get rich was TO buy nothing that you
are not obliged to have. but we reverse
the maxim and buy too many things
we are not obliged to have.
While n the exposition | did want
to buy a lot of those beautiful alumni
ium wares for my wife, for she does
love pretty things and fine things, but
dident have the money. let her look
at them and only bought her q pep
per box. Now, that reminds me of our
trouble in the South. That alumni
ium clay is all about in our hills and ia
being mined and shipped every day to
Pittsbnrg and there it is reduced and
manufactured and the products come
back to us with two freights and big
profits added. Just SO with our man
ganese and Ochre and lumber and
hides and most of our cotton and wool
materials ur we will never catch up
But we are making good progress in
iron and cotton and maybe the other
plants will come along in time.
learn that 80 per cent. of that alumni
ium clay is wasted and thrown away
in the process of reduction. Just
think what saving Of freight there
would be IL we could reduce the meta
at the mines. We would soon be the
richest people on the earth If we coult
manufacture our own materials. The
labor is here, but it is idle. Our boys
are willing but they can't find employ
ment.
1t is astonishing how rapidly wealth
increases when labor is rewarded
| Look at a ruined State like Georgis
was in 1865 and now see what thirt,
years have done. Look at the exposi
tion that has been planted with tn,
money from one city and Is now tn,
wonder of the nation. Where does al
this money come from? Verify, i
looks like Aladin's lamp ha
come down to us--and yet almos
everybody is complaining of hare
times. I've been reading Josephu
again and don't understand how Sol
omon got all his money, for David wa
at war with somebody most all his life
| JOSephuS says tnat silver was as plen
tiful in Jerusalem as the stones in tn
street. The temple was overlaid wit
gold and cost millions of dollars
IIerod sent little present of ten mil
lions OF drachms to Caesar. Hyrcanu
sent ten thousand talents of gold. TIL
Pharaohs built the pyramids 70
their own tombs and one OF these too
100, 600 men thirty-seven years to CON
plete it and it cost five hundred mi
lions OF dollars and Is not worth cen
to anybody. The Aztecs of Mexic
built some just as large. The ruin
of them are still there and historian
say they had idols on their tops thu
we're thirty feet high and made {
solid gold. There is cathedral no
in the city OF Mexico that cost sixt
millions Of dollars.
What vast amount Of money hf
been made from the beginning dow
tc the present time. Mankind bega
: early to hunt for gold, for Moses SAY
: in the second chapter of Genesis thi
the gold of that land around Eden W,
good, and / reckon old Adam dug I.
: 1t and nodded it and jingled 1t In h
, pocket. He never wore fig leaves lon
: John Knox, In his Geneva edition
, the Bible, an edition that lasted fl
: years and was very popular, says th
: Adam and Eve, when they knew tn