The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-02-15


n slcC So al co;tou laapp!,c.lro Y,.,. :
1e found there, and il was feared
'ould nOt be found In the Hill c0nn,rv
That difficulty was overcome. howoyr,
Z by modern ingenuity. tho Poo m IN
- g. otville, attention WAS dir,r'r,
" tue humlulhers suspended from tn,
C''''hg over 81 the spindles TIE i'm
H''pene"Ul" moisture would have UguI
iacSlng out Tor these simple contriv
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"hIle the owners and stoCkh holder.
arc Pet'ng rich, they are COnferring
1efH."L. ~ olcsslogs upon tie p-op 4
as III other towns where new mill,
hsVe oemanGed Increasing nutnbe 5 OF
oporaWVl'ss, sGoPS nave started to sup.
ply the needs OF operatives or those
~HO wee emp'0yeI ~ lew industries,
catieu iorth because OF the coming OF
i"OoriOe population. Stores have
o.eh Uo'iS~U 10 carry larger auJ moro
varied sICcks. Tncrc is more travel.
'oS oy r&tl. II Is matter OF daily oc.
cGsrence that amOug the passengers
VINO oHercrowd the trains Of the South
en- railway there are inQuirers arriv-
ing aI various points TO look over the
rama win the view of settling, either
Us persons already concerned in cotton
manu- nu'acInrlng or hoping to be, or
"r4Uestneh seeking new market.
Inc country is beautiful. 1t is
Gharmlng to the eye; IL is naturally
uca'tH iul, ana In the towns will be
more hehilnlul with Il liLtle criticism
"nu sanitation. The summers are long
ana the winters brief and usually mild
But it is not alone in the cominp M
the trolley, the oXpaus ion OF the sh0ps
the paving e streets in towns thn
sanitation OF al places of large poruI.
alton, the sensation Of earning monov
with q regularity and certainty never
before enjoyed il the section, that oc
casion for rejoicing is found in SnutL
Carolina. Attention was directed bv
q thoughtful and obscrvant citizen c(
Greenville to y sociological phase ot
the Industrial development that j.,
most salts efactOry. and that it seems 8,
pity could not be extended in some
way to the State OF Kentucky.
when Columbia began to build mills
aud the operation OF the mills had
made pGrceptible drain upon the
most convcnicGt and willing class OF the
population that was titteG to work in |
the nils, that drain was felt a little at |
points more or less remote from Colum
bIa. Men and women who had vearr
cd lGr opportunity to get money with. |
out digging or hoeiug fori move from
II,
vacated by the people who moved |
earliest, aud afterward, as the mills |
began TO rise nearer to the hills, into
the manufactures of Spprtnrhurg |
GreenVIlle, and elsewhere in the pLnd. |
mont.
EFFECT OF PROSPERITY.
Most OF these people were of the !
real hardy mountaineer sort, with the |
same soft, deliberate, courteous addrcs,
that Is characteristic OF all the noun |
talncers in the Vrginias, the Caru!inas, |
IN Tennessee, or Kentucky. They |
Drought with them Stalwart frames. |
sim ole appetites, and ignorance OF let |
ters as densc as mud. But they were |
not altogether at fault for that. They |
mad not been treated as wards of the |
slate. Having been without the means |
oil learning for generations, thcy had |
acquired the ability to get along with. |
cut IT. There was IL moving down from |
me mountain districts into "a region !
wncre there were schools and stores |
and churches OF proud but earnest |
and ambitious multitude tnat had got. |
ten along without these things simply |
because all their neighhOrs had done |
likewise Tor years. But the pride that
lad been satisfied in the mountains |
made them ambitious to keep up with |
me order OF things in the region to
when they had migrated. The child !
rem must be clothed like other child |
fcn. Inc vile must not be compelled |
10 I'VE In Suh bonnet.
The pubic schools were at once Dat- |
ronZed by children WHO might nave |
developed into ignoramusGs ike their |
parents II 4. had not been Tor the build |