The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-12-10
BROTHER bob
ON NEW COUNTY.
Court House Not q Iowa
bic Thing.
SOME OBJECTIONS.
Fountain Inns Many
Strong Points.
The Expensive Trip of a Pair Of Calves
The Looks Of Lawyers and
the Cause.
SOME OBJECTIONS.
Brother Bob sends The ADVERTISER
the following entertaining letter:

have no time to think about a Court
House; less to write one up. Our cot,
ton Is late on red land and is just now
coming In on us. We are sowing oats
and wheat as we catch the ground in
order and storming about generally.
Besides, / nave recently purchased a
pair OF Red Polled calves and sold six
bales of cotton to get money to pay for
them, but it lacked just $11 .33 filling
the bill. They cost 5000 I. O. b. FL
merville Tenn. and the freight, which
L calculated only nominal, was $780, 5.
This freight business is awful high on
red polls. The calves are the finest 1
ever saw. l am delighted with them;
but the freight! that is what strapped
me. It's too high; entirely too high.
Had [ thought about it l should have
sent Tone out there and had him drive
them back. Tone is the negro boy who
tends my COWS. He works for SO and
board and could make the trip in two
months easy. L will send him after
the next lot aud that will be keeping
the money in the South, We believe
in home industry, home patronage and
home investment up here. But talking
about the Fountain Inn Court House 1
can only say that 1 am a Fountain Inn
man over and over. Fountain Inn Is a
hustling, growing little town with a
glorious future in front OF her. Cen
orally speaking we have here one of
the best horse markets this side. of
Kentucky; n of the best cow markets
this side of Norfolk and a cotton mark
ct that eclipses anything this side of
New York. We are expecting to open
up in the near future a wholesale gen.
eral mercantile business and it will
pay your Laurens trade 10 see us be-
fore going to New York. We will
treat you nice. We have an oil mill, a
cotton mill and plans are about con-
summated for a bank. If we take a
notion for a Court House of course the
matter is a foregone conclusion. The
world can't stop us. But, for my part,
L am not much of a Court House man.
We need a bank and will have one. 1
want some money right now. Must
have it. My idea of a Court House is
that it is for a terror to evil doors, and
we arn't that. | have always enter
tanned a sort of antipathy for Court
House A Court House Is asso-
ciated in my mind with q jail house
with its screeklng doors, its iron
barred windows, behind which we have
giimpses OF kinky heads, large white
eyes and all that is CHASTITY and ghostly.
OF course these institutions-be it said
to the discredit Of our twentieth century
are necessary to- social and industrial
interests, but the fewer we can make
out with the better. My choice is to
live as far away from a Court House as
1 can well get. While a necessity, they
are at the same time object lessons
that tend to demoralize. To sit in a
Court House and see a half dozen, fiat
nosed, broad-mouthed, greasy negroes
being tried for their lives whose de-
pertinent indicates all the placidnesss of
a King In a meat-house has o tendency
to lower ones estimate of the royalty
and highness of humanity. I like
things that brings a mans thoughts in
to a loftier place OF meditation. Some
times 1 think that is what makes law
yers look mean? Did you know that
some people think lawyers are really
mean? The lawyer is not O mean man
at all. L have been intimately ac-
quainted with numbers of them and
some are, I believe, actually Christians.
No they are no mean; they only look
mean from having communicating en-
vironments. You have have heard It
said that when two persons live to-
gether till they are old they come to
favor each other. This comes from
looking at each other and sympathiz-
ing with each others wrinkles. That's
the way 1t Is with the lawyer looking
on the prisoner and the prisoner look
ing on the lawyer. civil communities
tions corrupt good manners" A very
prominent educator and president of o
college said to me once that I would
have made a good lawyer. Maybe ne
was right, but 1 don't want the job.
You fellows have got 1t down there
and the Court House too, SOL make the
motion that you just hold on to it.
Look meen II you want to; 1 don't.
Thorn Nelson says If we get the new
county he and myself will be sent to
the legislature. You see, we have
made q run or two and got no cider.
1t would hardly oe fair yet to impose
on the two counties the burden Of
building a new one just to get us to
the legislature. 1t would seem fairer
to open up our threats upon Cur re-
spectiye counties and give them an
other chance at us with the ultimatum
squarely set forth. Then we may cut
and slash.
One of my neighbors says he will not
vote for a new county but will vote for
u fusion OF Greenville and Laurens
counties into n OF course this is i'm
practical. In the discussion of this
small VS.. large county question a few
years ago some one made the point
that they were not able to support the
county officers. He said that he had
occasion to see a Probate Judge In one
of these small counties and when he