The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-11-12

The Sea Board Air Line is doing
heroic work in aid of the development
of the South and particularly the
Piedmont regions of North and Soutl
Carolina. They have issued a conven
lent pamphlet descriptive of the re
gions traversed by their system, GOV
ering its varied products and attrac
tions. or these also they have a splen
did exhibit at Atlanta. The pamphlet
Is q valuable souvenir.
The News and Courier prints o rol
by counties Of young ladies attending
the Winthrop Industrial and Normal
State School, Laurens being credited
with the following:
Laurens-Sallie Copeland, Mary Hell.
lams, Arva Henry, music; Lizzie Hun
ter, senior normal; Allene Shell, Emily
Smith, Irene league. Ella Berta Tur.
ner, Rosa Wham, music.
We would be pleased to see the Lau-
rens roll greatly enlarged.
1t Is further stated:
Each pupil is obliged to take one OF
the industrial branches. Many take
more than one. The enrolment in these
departments is as follows: Dressmak-
ing, 100; cooking, 40, stcnography, and
typewriting, SO; bookkeeping, 80; art,
10. In the music department there are
1903.
Music Is all right and has wonderful
charms, indeed, and dress does make
the man often and perhaps tho woman
too, but ~dyspeptics would like to see
the list of cooks" q little swelled. If
the girls mean marriage and expect to
live happily with their lords, they
should know that the way to their
hearts is through the digestive appa-
ratus. o
m*m
A valued exchange says: Mr.. Hen
derson, of Berkeley, was right when he
said, "the negroes are learning to read
and write faster than the whites."-
This we do not believe. It is easy
enough to make assertions. 1t may be
true OF Berkeley; we do not know the
white population of Berkeley except by
their representatives, as Mr., Hender-
SON. 1t is not the fact of Laurens and
1t will not be the fact in the future
Illiteracy among whites ought to cut
no figure in the political factorage of
this State. 1t is disgusting to listen to
the blatant gush of the demagogue
about Anglo'Saxon superiority, in one
breath, and in the next, to the bugaboo
OF his humiliation by a confessed in
ferior race.
BY the proclamation of President
Cleaveland the 28th of this month has
been fixed as a day of national thanks
giving and prayer. Proclamations by
all the Chief Magistrates of States will
probably follow, adopting that day.
With overlooking plenty, exemption
from pestilence, war, or other calam-
lty, sixty five millions of people have
every occasion to recognize a bene f.
cent overruling Providence and to Of
fer their heartfelt thanks.
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Mr.. Henderson, of Berkeley, said fair
elections wouldn't suit his county. If
started there the white men were gone
sure"
There are some people who it is not
always safe to trust away from the
house-at least beyond the spring.
+*4
What was the matter with Hardin of
the Blue Grass State?
He was q free silverite and therefore
/ not regarded q democrat.
1t is the first time the Republicans
have defeated the Democracy in old
Kentucky, as they say in Edgefeld.
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Delegate Smith is reported to have
made a strong speech against the suf-
frage plan proposed by the committee
%-disfavoring the property and educa-
tional qualifications.
M*x
What has become of ex-candidate
Tillman's candidatal phrase-"so to
speak? 2" 1t might be made to do SER
vice even in these loving-cup emergen-
cies.
**x
Our readers q read for themselves
and we haven't space for particulars.
But the indications are now that the
Convention will land us in o FOOLS para
disc.
TsT
Gov. Evans Dispensary Exhibit is
in place at the Exposition. Let the
Georgia cracker be careful how he
tackles it.
M*x
The normal democratic majority in
the home Of good Bourbon and good
horses Is fifty thousand. See?
AH