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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23

great stores, banks and manufacturing
companies, or apply the best methods
of management to running farms and
controlling labor. The able and bad do
things Of the same kind but, besides,
they cheat an illiterate white nan or
Cypress a negro. They charge 40 per
cent. interest because the victim must
have money and can't get it for less.
They make a practice of squeezing a
dollar or a nickel out OF every man they
can handle by any means possible, and
they use their brains to do it without
making themselves liable to go to Jail.
Laurens county would be an unfor-
nate district if it had no rich men. Our
wealthy men are just as rich in COM
parison with our poor as the Wander
bits are rich in comparison with u
richest. To the man who lives with a
large family in a log cabin, through the
cracks of which the winter rain and
wind come-to whom fat bacon and
corn bread are the staples of food-the
man worth 500, 600 is quite as rich for
all practical purposes as the man worth
a million.
1t should be the aim of every boy to
get rich, b. to do it honestly by di-
rect methods, by working and saving
and investing intelligently. Therefore
Prof. Andrews is right. 1t is wrong
to condemn men merely because they
are rich; it is shamefully wrong, and
ruinous to the healthy sentiment that
should prevail among the people. When
boys are taught that rich men are nee
essarily wicked we shall have COM
munism and finally anarchy, which are
the mothers of suffering and poverty
and general disorder. But, at the same
time, the boy should be taught that
having money does not make a man
better than his fellows; that riches are
not the first and best test of achieve
ment, or the highest rewards to be
sought, and that the man who accumu
lates them by usury, by cheating, by
taking advantage of the weak, the ig-
norant and the unfortunate is the most
contemplate of men. When the peo-
pie learn to select, to discriminate be-
tween the worthy and the base, we
shall have a good country. 1t is a good
sign that Rockefeller, whose methods
in building up the oil trust have been
proved dishonest, is understood by the
American people, and that the great
majority of them look upon him with
contempt, in spite of his immense gifts
of money to colleges. 1t is a good
sign that the respect and affection of
the people cannot be bought. But it is
an equally good sign that there are far
mers and merchants here in Laurens
county who began life without a dollar,
but are now well-to-do, with stock in
banks and mills and money lent on in
~terest, who are popular and respected.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
Entered at the p~ostofice at Laurens
S. G.. as second class mail matter.
LAURENS, S. c., OCTOBER 70, 1907.
A SECRET SOCIETY OF EDITORS ?

The organization of members of pro-
LESSONS and trades is an excellent
thing. We always favor and encour-
age it. The organization of telegra-
piers, lawyers, bankers, merchants,
farmers and doctors are good things.
The society of the editors in this state,
called the press association, in which
all subjects such as advertising and
subscription rates, the cost of paper,
the wages of printers and pressmen
and the methods of obtaining business
are discussed, has proved very benefi-
cial to it's members. 1t has helped to
train them in ways of saving and MAX
ing money.
We wish to make a suggestion to our
brethren of the press, although we are
opposed to it ourselves. 1t is this:
Make the association secret order.
Let the members be sacredly bound by
oaths of fidelity to each other and ODE
dience to the officers and the will of the
majority. Were that done, it would be
practicable for all the newspaper own
CHS y ISuuCc Vic "dSCo VI pl lllCSlS Ill
South Carolina by 20, 80 or so per cent.
The society could raise the subscription
prices Of all the papers by 20 or 100
Der cent. and advertising rates propor-
ionately. Secrecy is a~wonderful thing.
Behind closed doors it is mighty easy to
form trusts, and the members, being
bound together by oath, can do just as
they wish if they only stick to each
other loyalty.
Moreover, if the press association
were an oath-bound secret society, ODE
Client to it's officers, it could very nearly
run the politics of the state. An office
seeker whom the association did not
like would be unable to get his name
into a paper. His political life could
be choked out of him, and he would
never know what hurt or hit him, if
the editors would only be loyal to the
association and obey the oaths. Truly,
is not a secret society in business or in
politics a magniticently powerful en-
CINE? Why, it can do almost anything
it wishes to do. It's members are bound
to each other by sacred oaths.
Of course it may be replied that this
is a free country, and hat the people
would not submit to having the news
paper business run in this way. They
would establish newspapers of their
own, insisting that the secret methods
were inimical to all our Democratic
ideas and institutions. But, dear Breth-
rem of the press, do we not see other
professional and business men some
times organizing themselves in this way
and have we not known them to set
forth candidates for public office? Why
shouldn't we try it? 1t would be a
great success, if the people would only
stand for it, and maybe they would.
However, THE ADVERTISER is an old
fogy, and opposed to the experiment.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
PROF. ANDREWS ON RICHES.

The poor, oppressed and downtrodden
rich have found a new champion in the
person of Prof, E. Benjamin Andrews,
of the University of Nebraska-the
very same that was virtually expelled
from his chair in Brown University,
Rhode Island, in 1896, because he ia
vored the free coinage Of silver and
William Jennings Bryan. Here is what
Prot. Andrews said in a lecture at
George Washington University a few
days ago:
cit is the GROWING b~ascness of our
tlme-Which is saying a good deal-this
selecting as Il victim some character so
distinguished as to assure ]piquancy and
a market for your inventions, and then
craftily avoiding suable libel, and rely
ing for further protection on the VIC
TINS known kindness, industry and
dignity, proceeding to vivisect him for
pay. None of the business Villanies al
legged to be 50 rife could in
atrocity with these squalid campaigns
of libel and libelous carrcature which
recent months have produced.
81 care not a straw for the wealthy
as such. My interest and sympathy are
solely with general society and the
common man. And, speaking as a rep
resentative, of the people at large,
urge that the pride, idleness and doubt
full practices of a few wealthy are no
just cause for putting all wealthy men
IN pillory. The possession Of wealth,
however great, furnishes by itself no
presumption against the owners
probity. If a man can fraudlessly be-
come possessor of $40, 900 he can, if he
works on with the same zeal, skill and
power, not only as easily, but more
easily, obtain 500, 900, $500, 900, 81, 600,
900, 500, 000, 900. Just here financial
geniuses find opportunity. Now and
again arises up amid the common
throng of business men one with the
ability to utilize to the end that semi
automatic power, to set and keep this
500, 900, 600 earning with the same
precision governing his first invest
ment. He combines industry with in.
dustry, and effects savings. He takes
advantage of rivals errors and hest.
fancy. If he becomes a Millionaire, you
have no right to denounce any part OF
his fortune, IA upon proof of fraud.
The mere fact of his being so wealthy
is naught but a proof of his genius anC
his industry"
OF course we are not in favor O
hanging for libel. That would make
the business of publishing newspapers
entirely too hazardous. At the SANE
time there is much truth in what the
distinguished free silverite says. Some
OF the best men this county has hat
have been among the richest. Also
some of the worst. Some of the worst
men that the county has had have beer
among the poorest and also some OF
the poorest have been almost too gooc
TO live. I
There are two kinds of men who get
rich able, gifted, brilliant men whc
are good; and able, gifted, brilliant me1t
who are in their hearts liars anc
thieves. The able and good are thos,
who organize and operate industries
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
Sixty.Two Bushels TO the Acre.

Col. John H. Wharton was in towr
Monday, and stated to a representative
of THE ADVERTISER that he had com
menced gathering his corn, the upland
portion of his crop which was planted
and cultivated on the "Williamsor
plan" Only a few acres had beer
gathered, and the measurement from
one of these showed a yield of a frac-
ton over sixty-two bushels. The Colo
mel believes his bottoms would make
eighty bushels per acre, cultivated on
the same plan. The Colonel is to be
congratulated, for at the time he was
feeling so fine over his great crop THE
ADVERTISER mans crib was empty, and
not a grain could be bought in town.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23

cept by his direction. She brought the
gun and was about to deliver it to the
men who had called for it when it oc-
CURED to her that she had not demand
ed the countersign agreed on between
herself and her brother. With the gun
still in her hands she looked sternly at
the party and called for the counter
sign. "Oh, you are too slow in your
movements" said one of the men,
both the gun and yourself are now in
our possession" "Do you think sou
she replied, as she cooked the gun and
aimed it at the speaker. eff it is in
your possession take charge of it,"
The men laughed and gave the coun-
tersign without further delay.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
DiCey LangstOn's Career.

For the benefit of those who have
not read carefully the life sketch of one
Of the most conspicuous h%eroines of the
Revolutionary war, a selection from
Chapman's History of South Carolina
is here reproduced:
"The career of Dicey Langston was
fully as heroic and as full of danger as
that of any of the heroic women of the
Revolution. She lived in a frontier set
Element in the upper part of the state
in the midst Of Tories, and whenever
she learned, by accident or strategy,
any plottings against the Wings she
would always communicate her knowl-
edge to her friends, even at the risk of
her life. Learning one time that a
band of Tories were about to fall upon
the elder Settlement, a place where
a brother and other friends were living,
she resolved to warn them of their dan
ger. In the dark night she started off
alone, travelled some miles through the
woods over marshes and across creeks,
without footlogs or bridges, until she
came to the Tiger river, which was
deep and rapid. She plunged in and
Waded until the water was up to her
neck. She became very much Devil
dered, but finally reached the opposite
bank, FASTENED on, gave warning to
her friends and brother, and thus saved
the entire community. On another
occasion, returning home from a settle
ment of Wings in S~partanburg county,
a company of Torres met her and ques-
toned her in regard to the settlement
she had just left. She refused to tell
them anything. The leader then put a
pistol to her breast and threatened to
shoot her if she did not give the infor-
nation desired. She uncovered her
neck and bosom and said: "You NAV
shoot if you dare, but will not tell
YOU" The bastard officer was in the
act of firing when one of the soldiers
Knocked up the weapon, and the heart
of the heroic girl was permitted to beat
on. AT another time a band of these
Tories went to her fathers house to
Kill her brothers, who were active
Wings and as patriotic as herself. They
were absent, and the Tories were about
to kill the old man, whom they hated
almost as much as they did his sons.
One of them aimed a pistol at the
breast of the old man, who was very
infrm, when Dicey rushed between
them, prepared to receive the contents
of the pistol in her own breast. Her
dauntless courage saved her fathers
life. At n time her brother James.
while absent, sent to the house for a
gun, which had been left with Dicey
with orders to deliver it to no one ex-
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
The Judge Uses F0rceful Language.

Judge w. B. Simmons Of Fincastle,
Paint was used on his residence in 1882.
and held it's color we'll for 81 years; he
furthermore said that 3 years ago he
was induced to use another paint and is
sorry he did, because the other paint
didn't make good. The Judge will now
always use l.. & NJ, because he knows
If any defect exists in l.. & M. Paint
the house will be repainted for nothing.
The l.. & M. Zinc hardens the l.. &
NJ. White Lead and makes l.. & M.
Paint wear like iron for 10 to Is years.
Actual cost of l.. & M. about $1.2O
per gallon.
Donations of l.. e M. made to
churches.
Sold by, j. H. & M. l.. Nash, Laurens;
Clinton Pharmacy, Clinton. 11-2t
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
A Certain Cure for Lroup..-.Used for Ten
Years Without a failure

Mr.. w. C. Bott, a Star CITY, Ind.
hardware merchant, is enthusiastic in
his praise of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. His children have all been
subject to Group and he has used this
remedy for the past ten years, and
though they much feared the Group,
his wife and he always felt safe upon
retiring when a bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy was in the house. His
tacks of Group, but this remedy never
failed to effect a speedy cure. He has
recommended it to friends and neigh
bors and all who have used it say that
it is unequaled for Group and whooping
cough. For sale by Laurens Drug Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
FINAL

Take notice that on the 18th day of
October, 1907, will render a final ac-
i~strator of the estate of Eugene Stone
deceased, in the office of the Judge of
Probate of Laurens county at II o'clock
a. m. and on the same day will apply
for a final discharge from my trust as
administrator.
All persons indebted to said estate
are notified and required to make pay
ment on that date, and all persons hav-
ing claims against said estate will pre-
sent them on or before said date, duly
proven, or be forever barred.
w. H. Whitner,
Administrators,
Sept. %, 1907.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23

Final Settlement.

Take. notice that on the 18th dav of
October, 1907, | will render a final ac-
count of my acts and doings as execn-
tor of the estate of p. b. Brewster
deceased, in the Office Of the Judge of
Probate, of Laurens county at II
o'clock, a. M, and on the same dav
will apply for a final discharge from my
trust as executor.
All persons indebted to said estate
are notified and required to make paw
ment by said date, and all persons haV-
ing claims against said estate will pre-.
sent them on or before said date, duly
proven, or be forever barred.
j. 0. G. FLEMING,
Sept. 18th, 1907. 7.5t
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
~"PneumOnia's Deadly Work

had so seriously affected my right
lung writes Mrs. Fannie Common, of
Rural Route l. Georgetown, Tenn.
that | coughed continuously night and
day and the neighbors' prediction
consumption seemed inevitable, unit
my husband brought home a bottle OF
DR.. Kings New Discovery, which in
cough cure and restorer of weak, sore
lungs" When all other remedies
utterly fail, you may still win in the
battle against lung and throat troubles
with New Discovery, the REAL cure.
Guaranteed by Laurens Drug Co., and
Palmetto Drug Co. SOC. and $l.O0.
Trial bottle free.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
Doing Business Again.

when my friends thought I was
about to take leave of this world, on
account of Indigestion, nervousness and
general debility" Writes A. A. CHS
holm, Treadwell, N. Y, land when it
looked as if there was no hope left,
was persuaded to try Electric Bitters,
and rejoice to say that they are
again as of old, and am still gaining
daily Best tonic medicine on earth.
Guaranteed by Laurens Drug Co., and
Palmetto Drug Co. so cents.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
The Price of Health.

"The price of health in a malarious
district is just 25 cents; the cost of a
box of DR.. Kings New Life Pills."
writes Ella Slayton, of holland, Ark.
New Life Pills clense gently and i'm
part new life and vigor to the system.
25c. Satisfaction guaranteed at the
Laurens Drug Co., and Palmetto Drug
Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23

William Smith, who escaped in com
pany with Harry Dean from the peni-
tertiary the night of the 10th, was re-
captured near 1nman and brought back
to Columbia Friday night. Smith and
Dear escaped from the ~penitentiary in
Urinary. Smith had less than a year to
serve, having gone in on a charge of in
tent to kill. Harry Dean, who was
sent up from ~Spartanburg, charged
with murder, is still at large.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23

God for false teaching; for which there
is not the slightest foundation in fact,
for l have never had greater peace
with God or so much of His divine
power manifested in my life.
In His name,
N. j. HOLMES.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23
Afflicted With Sore Eyes for 80 Years.

| have been afflicted with sore Y G
for thirty-three years. Thirteen years
ago | became totally blind and was
blind for six years. My eyes were
badly inflamed. One of my neighbors
insisted upon my trying Chamberlain's
Salve and gave me half a box of it. To
sight came back to me.-P. C. Earl,
~Cynthiana, Ky. Chamberlain's Salve
s for sale by Laurens Drug Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23

DR.. Will Under, a physician of
Union, shot and killed Lucy Lipsey, a
colored woman, on the streets of Union
Tuesday afternoon. The woman died
Thursday. A few months ago Dr..
Under was shot in his office by the
Llpsey woman. She was tried and con-
victed, but was out on bond pending an
appeal by her attorneys.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23

If you are in need of a nice Monu.
ment for loved ones / am prepared to
furnish it to you at very reasonable
prices. See me.
j. WADE ANDERSON, Laurcns, S. c..
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-10-23

RATES Fol ADVERTISING. Ordinary
advertisements, per square, one inser-
ton, 81. 90; each subsequent insertion,
so cents. Liberal reduction made for
large advertisements.
Obituaries: All over so words, one cent
q word.
Notes of thanks: Five cents the line.
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A Call for a Square Deal.
Charlotte Observer.


We are not prepared to go as far
the Monroe Enquirer does in criticism
of Senator Simmons on account of
the bushels OF charges he has fled
against federal Officeholders in North
Carolina for their pernicious activity
in politics, but are prepared to say
that any man who eats his bread
from the hand OF a political party
and yet does not lift his own hand
to do anything he can in a decent
way for that party, is a olerabiy
sorry white man. Senator simmons
would have d poor opinion OF a
Democratic officeholder who pursued
the policy of inaction which he would
enforce upon Republican ofticeholders
He has not protested against the
POLITICAL activity of any Democratic
State or county officer and should
not protest. In the Cleveland days
there were postmaster editors in
North Carolina and otficehOlders in
various branches of the federal SER
vice who were openly active as party
workers, as they should have been,
and no voice of objection was heard.
Yet notable among Senator Sim
mons charges is one against Mr. K. ID.
Douglas, the editor of the Industrial
News, of Greensboro, paper of es;
pecially high character, which mani
tests at all times a purposes to tell
the truth and be fair, who has been
nominated for postmaster Of his
town and whose confirmation is held
up by the pOstoffice committee Of the
Senate of which Mr.. Simmons is IL
member, largely at the instance, ac-
cording to report, OF Representative
Kitchen, of the fifth district, our rnex t
governor, because Mr.. Douglas wrote
something in his paper-though
nothing defamatOry or insulting
about him, which Mr.. Kitchin did not
like. We cannot understand the
attiliation with the Republican party
OF IL man like Mr.. Douglas, but in all
Justice he is entitled to his confirm
alton.
No doubt some OF the people
against whom Senator Simmons has
filed charges which he demands be i'll
vestigated, have acted scandalOusly
and should be ousted, but this can
not be said of men who have merely,
without neglect of their official duties,
done decent and legitimate service
for their party, and it is not right
to demand, their punishment, when,
were conditions reserved, there would
be a mighty outcry if there were
registered charges against Demo
Gratis who had acted similarly
The import of this writing is
simply the suggestion of square
deal to every man.
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HENDERSON, n C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY = 1907
Not a Case for Gratitude"
Richmond News Leader

Richmond News Leader.
On an October evening thirty-six
years ago Richmond was sorrowfully
engaged in draping herself in honor
of General Robert f. Lee, news of
whose unexpected death had come
by telegraph. The next morning the
city was as it never had been before
and never will be again. She was
shrouded in black from end to end.
Every business house, every home,
wore the emblem of mourning. No
house was too humble or too stately
to neglect the symbol Of respect and
no family was too poor to provide
it. All the cities of the South follow
ed the example OF the former capital
of the Confederacy.
The people of the South think no
more highly of General Lee now that
the whole world unites in doing him
honor than they did while he was
branded traitor and the knowledge
Of him and the love for him was con-
fined to the limits of his own land.
Nor have they any servile sense Of
gratitude that their fellow citizens of
the North and men and women OF all
countries and languages unite in
placing him upou a pinnacle, in rec
ognizing him as the ideal of a man, a
citizen, IL soldier and a gentleman.
They do not feel that the South or
that Lees memory is honored by the
unstinted, splendid tributes given
him by distinguished citizens of once
hostile communities, by the President
OF the United States, by so many
thousands who were trained to re-
gard him as the arch enemy of his
country. Through all these interven-
ing years OF conflicting passions and
changing conditions the South has
held Il serene, calm confidence that
sooner or later Lee would be known
| to the world as he was known to his
own men and his own people We
feel now Il profound and cordial sense
OF qualification that he is understood
and honored. We are gratified that
the world, and especially the leaders
have come to honor themselves by
understanding and realizing the
greatness of this great man and have
manifested the magnanimity and the
manhood to proclaim frankly their
change OF opinion, to confess frank.
ly their former misapprehension. 1t
is an error, therefore, to speak of the
South as being grateful" for the
splendid Outbursts OF honor to Gen
eral Lee on the occasion of the hun
dredth anniversary of his birth. She
is glad and gratified not that Lee is
praised and understood at last, but
that mankind, and especially the
people OF the great country of which
she is a part, have learned to praise
and understand him and are gener
Gus enough to declare their senti
ment.