The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-08-18
JUST rRoM rYLERsyILLE.
What Katie Did-'sRolkses in the
Fashion'-Laurens Leads In Some
Things, but Newberry Doctors,
etc, the Best In the State.

After a free and unlimited rusti
fcation at a favored spot between
Rocky Spring and Sandy Spring
with all its attending pleasures
and benefits, the writer finds him
self at home again,
When he left Laurens the towf
was in the midst of the late en-
campment of the Third Regimen,
State Militia, and the festivities
were just about beginning in earn
est.
Laurens is not so large as New.
berry, but she has the finer and
handsomer court, house-they say
the prettiest of any in the State
Granted; but when Bose Crews
says they have a larger cotton mill
he-he--he--what did John Gary
Evans say to John Duncan? Now
Bose knows a great deal, is q good
political prophet, blows the biggest
horn In tho band, ably edits Will
Notes Free Silver paper, and is
rearing one of the largest families
to his size of any mar in the county,
but he must be mistaken about the
relative size of his cotton mill. We
"wouldn't fool you," but Newberry
ts ahead in some things.
FINE PLACE FOR BOY BABIES.
But Laurens is great. One man
in that hospitable county has seven
sons, and the eldest is only nine
years--no twins, no triplets. When
your writer thinks of this grand
and glorious result he is led TO con-
clude that marriage Is not a fall
ure. Surely that mans "pride OF
ancestry" must be swallowed up in
his "hOpe of posterity." How is
that for high, Chips?
And another progressive gentle
man of that land of fertility has
three sons who were born during
the stormy period of the late upris-
Ing and whose Christian names are
respectively Benjamin Ryan Till
man F., George Washington She'll
F., John Laurens Manning Irby +.
This Is given on information; il is
not positive that the boys have the
names in full, but it Is probable.
May the little three stick closer
than the big three.
When the correspondent left Lau-
rens there were forty-fve candi.
dates in full blast, Drawing the hot
waves from the mouth OF the torrid
zone and struggling in the boiling
heroicalIy as g. Walt Whitman
frought the simmering air of New
berry Friday. There were nine
candidates for the House of Repre-
sentatives and seven for Treasurer,
with only three for county super
visor. Laurens had, up to that
date, sixteen moro candidates than
Newberry; but we have one only
for treasurer, with nine for the
House and five for supervisor.
THE ATLANTA OF SOUTH CARO-
LIMA.
But, speaking Of Laurens, that
lively town presents the appear
ance of a little Atlanta at the de-
pot when four daily trains roll in
regularly from different directions
about the game time. The depot is
a favOrite place at train time for
the young people of the town.
Some pretty girls were there the
other day, although it a a hot
spot; but
Lovely girls, like sweetest flowers,
Need sunshine in the golden hours.
Or silvery hours, for "all that
glitters is not gold" now, by a large
and overwhelming majority. When
the "free and unlimited" gets un-
disputed sway it is expected to
change the color of everything ex-
cept the rays of the moon--they
have always been silvery. And sill
very rays remind us that we met
more than n Katie, and that, not
for us, but for some one else, it can
be said:
When the right one met Kate
She settled his fate
With a glance OF her beautiful eye;
And forthwith she hid,
Was what our "katie did"
And the man thought he was up in the
sky,
Yes, Chips, that was what this Katie
did.
One of the most pleasant fea-
lures of the visit to the court
house was our meeting with Col.
Ball, who is we'll remembered as a
former solicitor of this circuit. He
Is the same genial, kindly gentle
man.
When we entered the town it
was with difficulty we relied it
was not Newberry, for the first
persons we met were our citizens
and ex-citizens- ED Clary, Lolnis
Blalock, Lewis and Arthur Sink
ms, Tom Lake, Joe Burton, Frank
Bishop, Tom Henderson, the Mere
diths, the Davidsons, the Har-
groves, and others we'll known in
Newberry: Engineer Hammond,
John Todd, Hugh Workman and
John Smith, with those whose
faces were familiar but whose
names cannot now be recalled.
SOUNDS FROM HOME.
One day during the last term of
court they had a bryan ratification
meeting there, and the speakers
were the candidates for solicitor,
all of whom were present. 1t was
ra location, g~lorifcaiion, jubila-
tiOn and jolliAcation. May it prove
a justification. Listening to the
articulation of their p%eroration we
forgot our tribulation. Everything
was. silver--16 to /. Gold bugs
were as scarce as lightning bugs In
a Nebraska blizzard. The golden