The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-08-06
Dear Readers or The Ad~rertfscr.-

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Although leaving this paper in deft
hands TO cater to your comfort, the
editor has the old itch OF writing to
come over him aud drop a line.
Leaving Laurens at 1870 on Thurs
day, he was comfortably delivered at
this sparkling resort by A p.m., without
a jostle. Astay at Beccaof thirty min
utes, with pleasant companions, and
the train over the new Glenn Springs
Roa,l, some six miles, puts you down
In the little village where bubbles the
famous fountain of health and eternal
youth. -Four hundred years ago and
our Spanish cousins were badly up
on geography, and this IS the bubbling
spring that Ponce De Leon, that adj
venturous Don, discovered, and which
geographists and photographers in
later times have so %ignorantly located
in Florida and other inhospitable jim
giles. / am glad to come along and
make the correction, giving the brave,
manly and lovable readers of THE AD-
YERTISER the benefit of the discovery.
Come over for q short stay and be con-
vinced, we of sceptical or agnostic ten
denotes. The hotel is now Of grand
proportions, everything bright as a
new pin, and all che surroundings de-
lightful. You can eat and you can
sleep, and sleep and eat and be happy,
and have the morning papers and know
all that is going on in the world, but
you will be happier without that
knowledge. When one is away from
home and pays his schre, it is delight
full to have the finest fellows in the
great big world conjuring for his COM
fort and ease, and this way is the way
of the p~roprietors of this haven of rest.
The Hotel is full to overlooking with
about 400 of the real, plain, old-fash-
toned Southern 400, packed like sar-
dimes and as cosy and happy. A great
many pretty Carolina maids are here,
and remembering that an old, worn
out o%ctogcnarian went and lived and
breathed the atmosphere of q college
for girls and was restored to youth, let
all the lame and halt and decrepid and
hypocondriac come over and he will
dance on new legs for another hundred
years. Prosaically speaking, the COM
pany is composed of plain, honest, I'M
assuming Southern mon and women
and that is saying enough to establish
that they are having a pleasant asso-
citation. There is not a ''cholly" or
swell or other dude of that ilk in the
whole kettle of fish.
Rev. David Todd, of Laurens, our
great town in the greatest county in
the State, not excepting the glorious
Edgefield OF the cultured Athenian
Abbeville, is here, affable, joyous and
having a delightful time. Among q
number Of prominent gentlemen, we
mention, DR.. Maxwell, Of Greenwood,
Col. Dosier, Of Georgetown, Col. Gill
land, of Williamsburg, President Nc
Caughrin, of Newberry and N. G. Con
zales the accomplished and brave edi-
tor of the State.
Politics are little discussed here. We
are only sorry that the subject rises up
so often to worry us when all should be
at ease in the lay-by-time of the year
all our people will have come happily
together, a united family having
kicked pestiferous demagogues and
selfish politicians into the middle of
next week.
We we're sorry to find DR.. Mayer and
wife of Newberry and DR.. Finn of the
S. G. College departing on our COM
ing. B. w. B.