The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-04-02

CoLuMpIA, S. 81, MARCH 80, '96.

" T"-Ff
Among tho surprising happenings OF
the past week are the arrival Of spring
and the ordering by the ~dispensary au-
key. Yes, our strictly temperate Wits
key shop has discovered that not even
the famed four X OF which the Govern
or vas wont to speak In such an ardent
vein of respect, not to say affection,
when he vas q candidate is good enough
for "the high rollers OF the Palmetto
state. SO we are to have sold Cabi-
net and "John r.. Pepper and they
are to, be sold, not with the Palmetto
brands but with their own-those UNI
der which they have become cele-
brated. {
Give the dispensary time. One of
these days we shall have official saloons
to which the Hoffman House bar would
present a mean and n~iggardlY con-
trast. Wait awhile. The bothersome
prohibition sentiment must be choked
until its last breath is gone. And then
the d~ispensary will "get a hump on it
telf" and put on style and polish and
perhaps make a reputation for mint
julips whiskey sours and hell benders"
and all those erudite and c%unningly
mixed species of seduction.
THE SEASON.
With regard to spring. 1t has always
been a curious question to me why the
name of this and the other seasons are
not begun with capital letters,-why
they don't Ego upp, in printers par
lance. Has not THE ADVERTISER a
reader who can answer and relieve the
anxiety? Tennyson in his "Locksley
Hall" affirms that
siTn +bo ,,r;,o - o, ,o,. fo,o,
lightly turns to thoughts of love"
and instantly the question asks itself
"Why are not the same phenone-
ma to be observed with regard to q
young woman?"
Why should not spring affect man
and maid alike? So far as | know dis
tinctions are not observed in the adj
vertisements of spring medicines and
"that tired feeling" comes to all. Yet
Tennyson was u man of intellect and
often injected wisdom into his most de-
lightful poems? Why and on what Pc
culiar grounds did he imply so strongly
that woman is not troubled with this
spring complaint? And is he correct?
readers who ought to be able to answer
this question from actual experience?
TENNYsoN's WISDOM.
Speaking of Locksley Hall it teens
with philosophy and it is wonderful
what o stimulus it is to thought. Poe
try is full of politics and yet politics
contains no poetry. Burns'"Man Was
made to Mourn" is by odds the strong
est presentation Of the socialists and
populist's platform aver attempted and
yet it is beautiful as nothing more than
a poem. The same author in the Got
ter's Saturday Night" completely re-
flutes it.
DULL PROSE.
The Forty met Wednesday night in
u gorgeous hall of the House and
clothed itself in pomp and power and
passed resolutions last night. 1t was in
reality q peace and unity convention
and all the delegates behaved in O de-
corous and reasonable What
the Forty is aiming after appears to be
very nearly identical with what the
comprOmisers nave had in mind and it
appears that the Forty have set about
it in a methodical and business like
way. 1t was a very sensible conven-
tion. Mr.. Sigh of Newberry, who is
said to be an excellent preacher dis
cerned in it an insidious attack upon
the democracy-Mr. Sigh is also said
to be q democrat-and Tor some min
utes he exhibited symptoms of consum-
ing wrath, but even Mr.. Sigh was
brought to a state of dead calm and did
not beat the hasty retreat that he
threatened. Thus u calamity was
averted. Col. Il. G. Robinson of Pick
ems who has just been promoted to that
rank on account of meritorious services
also showed a disposition to kick but
was appeased.
1 suppose that the struggle will be
between the allied forces of the COM
promisers end the Forty and against
the republicans. 1t is hardly probable
that the extremists will persist in OPP
posing the return of good feeling
among the white people and surely
now that even Governor Tillman and
Editor Cal Hemphill have inferred
their tomahawks the race of extre-
mists is extinct. Let us hope that
Senator Irby and Congressman
Wilson will recede from their position,
that Larry CAN'T will fall again into an
equable frame of mind and everybody
may be happy as the birds in the bow
erS.
w. w. BALL.