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Il wish I could fathom the actual rea-
son why Mr.. Roosevelt hasn't become an
automobile bug long. long before this.
You see. nobody could possibly advert to
him as an old-fashOned man. AS a mat
ter of fact. he's about half a century
ahead of his generation in whole lot Of
respects. So it can't be old-fashioned
ideas that keep him from taking up with
SO bully contraption as the automobile.
Again. he is about nine million leagues
removed from being a timid man. AS a
matter of fact. he's as reckless as the
divvle. He's one of the most reckless
horsemen that ever took a fence within a
thousand miles of Washington, and he
thinks no more of being tossed off Of his
horse than l would of half-sipping on a
banana peeling. He likes danger. He
enjoys unusual stunts. Well. he'd get all
the element of danger that any reason
able human being could possibly ask for
if he took up the motoring bug, wouldn't
he? l think he would.
"Maybe-I dunno, / dunno-he really
fears that if he does get into the motor
ing habit he'll get into it too deeply; that
he might as matter of fact. develop the
speed mania. He's just the kind of a
man, at that, who would develop the
speed mania. He doesn't do things by
halves, and 1 can't imagine him clubbing
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them. Every nickel of the $4,000 came
to light i'm the housekeeping. 1t was
rather a severe sort of joke, but il is fine
to think that never during a minute of
the tension when the shortage was dis
covered did a solitary human being ac-
quainted with the old librarian even for
a moment dream that he had been In any
way culpably responsible for the missing
sum.
The old gentleman used to laugh over
an incident that occurred shortly before
the Library of Congress was removed
from the Capitol to the new building. Mr..
Spofford, as will Of course be recalled by
those who knew him, had a singularly
swarthy skin. which, with his strongly
accumulated aauiline features. often
caused his friends to suspect that per-
haps he had a drop or so of Indian blood
in his veins.
One day a somewhat bumptious new
representative in Congress from a west
ern state dropped into the old library and
got a big bundle of books at the desk
books which he intended to use in the
preparation Of a speech. When he lifted
the books from the desk he found them
pretty heavy. So. with the cocksureness of
the very new congressman in his fran
chise-conferred ability to order folks at
the Capitol around. he turned and saw Mr..
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blankets on top of me. 1 managed to get


along until o'clock.
But at that witching hour I decided l
couldn't stand it any longer and dumped
frOZenly down stairs to the lobby, run
ming into the other newspaper unfortu-
nate. who had also been in cold storage.
on the way. Together we advanced IN
force on the drum stove.
But the way was blocked by the land
lord of the hotel-a burly. evil-faced per-
son-and a traveller, who> apparently, had
just entered. for ne was shaking the snow
from his shoulders and cOmbing s1x-lncn
icicles out O: his beard. Neither appear
ed to notice us as we approached and
didn't give an inch In fact: the landlord
gave US a very ill-favored glance.
The other dog reporter who was q
lightsome. irresponsible person-returned
the landlords stare with interest and
walking straight ahead, took the snow
covered traveller by the hand.
My friend" he said. mournfully. sob
in his voice. tell me. what room did you
have?'
And I give you my word. the fight that
followed armed us all up.
Il
LIVERY now and then I get to thinking
L. of the days that were, the good old
days when knighthood was in flower and
chivalry held sway, those charming times
when folks We're sweeter and gentler.
kindlier and more courteous, than ever
they are row.
Just think! If you are sitting in street
car and a large person gallops in. smears
your map with his elbow and tramples up
of half q dozen other unfortunate passen-
gers, wouldn't it be delightful to hear the
offender say "Prithee gentles. I crave
your pardon" instead Of "Wythuhell
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boyhood he was great friend of the
then little Adeltna Patti believe he told
me once in Chicago that he lived in the
same house with her here in New York
at the time-when the renowned diva
of the later years was just beginning to
lit around and to show her folks that
it might be pretty good thing for them
TO have her voice cultivated. Something
even for so distinguished citizen as
Marse Henry to be able to say, isn't it.
that when he was boy he accompanied
little Adelina Patti, an obscure child with
just the symptoms of a voice, on the
piano?
1 deduced after an enjoyable seance of
some length with Marse Henry the other
day. that he isn't taking his work as
promoter of the Bryan campaign with
any very horrible or nerve-racking sense
of responsibility. L don't mean that he
isn't doing his work right up to the
handle or that he won't continue to do
it that way right up to the finish. But
haven't the least notion in the world that
he is going to shrivel up and die of a
broken heart If Mr. Bryan doesn't connect
with the presidency. Mr.. Watterson has
been in the harness so long that little
work of this kind Is more by way of fun
for him than anything else. But he has
been through SO many, many political
campaigns, has followed the mutations
of politics with a twinkling eye and a
merry heart for such a long stretch of
years. that now he is able to enjoy the
game more for the games sake than for
the mere idea Of winning. 1t was a bril-
liant stroke on the part of the Bryan peo-
pie, at that to get Marse Henry to act as
the big chief Of the publicity bureau. His
audience is enormous, and literally hun
dreds of thousands of voters who turn
away with a dreary sort of sigh when
they catch sight of most headlines deal
ing with national politics stop. look and
listen when they get peek at Wat
terson utterance, and they read the Wat
terson stuff through to the finish and are
influenced keenly by 1t. too. leading
newspaper reproduced on its own editorial
page the other day Mr.. Watterson's por-
trayal of the political situation. in which
he handed out bunch Of thuds directed
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argue that you live in Gave, or In the
fork of a tree. or up in balloon or some
thing: and of course you don't live that
way.
Well. what's the matter with these Sun
day Afternoon Callers, anyway? Why do
they do it? What's their idea?
1t can't be that they positively extract a
keen delight in getting themselves hated by
folks. can II? Why should they want to DE
hated and despised and loathed and vitu-
perated and scorned?- That couldn't get
them anything. could IL? Well. then!
1t can't be- either, that they are natu-
rally and inherently and inately of such a
ghoulish character that they experience
ecstatic joy in inf1icting ineffable misery
upon their friends, can it? We hope not.
Honest Injun, we really hope not.
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WELL, we'll. hain't these press agents
w the Johnnies right near there,

WELL, well, hain't these press agents
w the Johnnies right near there,
though!
The other afternoon some lace curtains
in a front room of a Broadway hotel
caught fire. Lots and lots of actresses
and show girls and such like were just
about to turn in-you observed that I said
it was afternoon, did you MOTTO get a
little sleep for themselves.
Well, the blazing lace curtains were seen
from the street by somebody who turned
in an alarm of fire and then hustled into
the hotel to spread the big squeak around
that the place was on fire. Immediately
a big gang formed in front Of the hotel.
The gang was made up mostly of press
agents in the employ of the actresses and
show girls and things. who were just
about to get little sleep for themselves
in the fire-menaced hotel. Right soon the
halls were filled with lamenting stage
parsons of the female sex. all of them
more or less tastefully diked out in negli-
&c. They really didn't know what to do,
so they didn't.
But the press agents. down below. knew
what to do. They scampered up the hotel
stairs in squads and platoons and bat
talions and brigades, and they proceeded
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to give advice to their actress principals
as to the best way to seize advantage OF
the occasion. They suggested to their
respective principals all sorts of methods
whereby they could get their pictures.
with text, into the Moo Yawk papes. One
of the press agents hurriedly told his
actress employer that the real katlzz for
her to gain a little more momentary fame
would be to toss a rope. made out of a
batch of 91urriedly spliced trunk straps.
out of the second-story window and then
to slide gracefully to the Broadway pave
ment in her pajamas de mutt. Il say
specifically pajamas de mutt because, you
know. lots and lots of the show girls have
regular day pajamas, very ornate and
tasty. in which they do their daytime re-
ceiving of their girly girl pals) Another
of the press agents told his lady OF the
stage boss that she would achieve news
paper knockout if she would grab her
parrot cage and hustle into the street,
where the reporters already were maxi
ing notes, with the cage containing the
parrot in one hand the parrot cussing
volubly in Portuguese the while) and her
Jewel casket in the other, while still ar
rayed in her-ervthat is, with kimono
or something carelessly tossed around her
night dress or nightie or whatever 1t was.
Still another of the press agents was right
there with the suggestion to the renowned
end-of-the-line show girl employing him
that she couldn't possibly take better ad-
vantage of the occasion than by walking
calmly down the stairs. in all of her neg
lige, with her eyes firmly closed. thus
giving out the idea that she was sleep
walker and the original of La Sonam-
bula" or somebody like that.
The actresses, thus melted by their
press agents, were listening raptly and
preparing to act upon these acute sug-
gestions, when a bell hop ambled up the
stairs and said out of the southeastern
corner of his face. Jaw, whyn't youse
dolls flirt back t tn hay-th' fires all
ont. which WAS the truth. and thus by
hesitation, many. many glorious oppor-
tunities for newspaper exploitation were
lost by the stage parsons
But the fact that they. didn't get away
with it doesn't count against the press
agents, now. does it? For they sure are
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eelets on the job twenty-five

the busy beelets on the job twenty-five
hours per diem.
D EALLY you know, 1t is bad fawm
~ and all that to get gloaty. isn't it?
But, then, again. when you come to con-
slider that the two leading maXims of this
town are these: Hit him again-he amt
got no friends and Never hit man
when he's down-jump on him. when
you come to reflect that iii OF Moo Yawk
is guided and propelled by these two
maxims why. the case becomes little
different in this matter of gloatfulness,
doesn't it?
l refer, as of course you have guessed
long ere this, oh, long ere it, refer to
the relative standing Of the New York
ball club of the American League and the
Washington ball club of the same or
ganization.
Notice those large gobs of percentage
the Washington club. with the Washing
ton club doing the squatting on top?
Well that's the whereof of the gloat,
and we duly, solemnly but resolutely
glOat. No bunch of base ball sharps in
North America have SO persistently, in
veterately, continuously and mercilessly
kidded the Washington ball club as these
New York knOw-it-all base ball folks.
Ihey've been Str1ng1ng the washington
ball club ever since Hickory jim was a
weanling, and they've always got away
with II. for the reason that New York
never had ball club that finished quite
SO cellarwards, SO to speak, as the Wash
ington ball club.
Well: they started out with their little
goads for the Washington ball club as
usual this spring when the playing sea-
son began. The New York club of the
American League started out Ike a Texas
quarter horse. and the Willie Wiseheims
of the sport over here had 1t all doped
and handicapped that the Yanks had the
American League pennant cinched and
put away on ice, like a Rocky Ford for
tomorrow mornings breakfast.
In the meantime the funnyists of the
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against automobiles. as the story used to
be and still is in some quarters.
Nobody that know has ever heard him
express himself against automobiles. and
yet it will be agreed, l think, that Mr.
Roosevelt expresses himself on great
many subjects, some of them of compare
lively minor Importance. Why, them has
nobody ever heard him fare up about
motor cars. if it's true that he really
doesn't like 'em or is ag'in 'em. / should
think it likely that if Mr.. Roosevelt really
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But it would have been a good story. all

IF you are riding on a certain suburban
1 car line and the wind is just right
YOU can smell. as you pass a certain
house well back from the road. the fear
fully mingled odors of citronella and
sassafras and other mosquito chasers. An
enthusiastic young scientist along med
zeal lines. who works in one OF the gov
eminent laboratories. is responsible. Re-
Gently he received. SO he says. a box or
yellow fever mosquitoes all properly In
noculated with the disease. from some
plague-stricken spot in South America.
with which he had planned to make GER
tain delicate experiments for the good OF
humanity and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
seh.
Not to post pone the climax. he lost or
broke did something to the precious
box out at the suburban boarding house.
where he Is spending the summer. Since
then five families have moved back TO
town and the other boarders. even the
real brave ones. are living i'm mental ter
ror and physical discomfort. The place
is drenched with all the various smelly
compounds that mosquitoes are supposed
not to enjoy. and every time the buzz OF
one OF the insects is heard three women
faint and all the men on the premises
swear violently.
The bug man insists there's no danger
and doesn't appear at all worried per-
sonally.
Also he is heard 10 chuckle apoplectcal-
ly whenever he thinks he's alone. II
suspicion turns into certainty, there are
three husky citizens who have entered
into a solemn compact to beat him to
death. ]. S. NORWOOD.
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missed by the legislators. on account OF
his immense fund of information with re-
spect to the doings of past Congresses, his
profound knowledge Of parliamentary law.
and so on. All this was and is very true.
But Mr. Spofford will be mourned by many
a man in Washington and elsewhere for
quite another reason.
The nervous jerky. often brusque but
tender hearted Old gentleman was singu-
larry helpful to young men of promise.
He had keen eye for young fellow OF
promise, too. For many years he made a
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at New York, because New York hasn't a
single newspaper that backs up the pres
ent head of the democratic party. and
from the nature of lot of comment that
1 heard here, there and the other place
with reference to those observations of
the noted Kentuckian there would be no
manner of doubt that this first of a series
of witty thunderings which he will UNI
coil before the finish of the campaign
carried a great deal of weight with the
immense class of New York voters, who,
out of Indifference, are perennially on the
fence
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ARSE Henry Wat
terSon may pro-
fess. I'm his anus
ing feuilletons, to
regard New York
as a sort of ex.
crescence on the
map of North
America, but there
are few men OF
his ase who have
m ore fun in
New York than
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He newspaper BIZ
og ra p h e r S OF
.Ainsworth r. Spot
ford, the quaint.
lovable man who
was librarian of
Congress for so
m q n y y e a r 5.
dwelt, when he
died the other
day. at great
length upon how
much he will he
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EFT us now engage
in a little more in
nocent, harmless
prattle with re-
spect to these
Sunday Afternoon
Callers.
Oh. yes, YOU
know 'em. Not to
have at least a
few Sunday Aft
ernoon Callers on
your little list is to
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} far as l know Mr..
r 90 S e welt has
never ridden in an
a 1t o m o bile In
Washington said
an a u t o IN Obile
man. But he's
riding around in
one quite often up
in Oyster Bay, l
hear. So that 1t
can't be he really
is pre- u d l ced
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donchu git out ertbuhwav?,

donchu git out erthuhway?"
If you are In a CROWD and somebody
starts TO tell a bum joke or a particularly
rank smoking-room story. wouldn't it be
and. Ticking the'story teller on the beak
with a per1umed kerchief, remark in
honeyed accents. soft and mild, Indeed,
sir, methinks your language likes me not
1t smells of the: pothouse and the stable
and 1 would have you desist," instead OF.
"Shucks, that's old. l gotta yarn that ii
make your hair curl.''
And. If you are walking down the street
and you see a pretty girl, how much more
interesting it would be to have your COM
panion remark "Ah, my heart! An. Sill
very moon and scent of budding roses.
Observe the curve of the eyebrow. take
me vow to spend my life in sweet wor-
ship of thee'-instead of Jumping grass
hoppers, will yuh poipe thuh skoit. Are
yuh wise tub muh gittin' thuh eye? Are
yuh. BO, are yuh?"
This is a gross. material age when
man who'd try to use language with
frlls on it like the foregoing would be
pinohed on the spot and tobogganed TO
the barred bug.
7 DON'T know why it is. but all this
embroidery reminds me of Alfred An
gus Early, may heaven rest his soul!
T'other night Mr.. and Mrs. Early went
to the National Theater to see the wind-up
week of summer opera. They had good
seats but in Mr.. Early's line of vision
were two pillars and an old fashioned gar
den of a hat. one of those charming
effects. with celery tops and marigolds
and hollyhocks and things standing up
MY dear said ALI, turning to Mrs
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Fl l. RE are some
grand hotels in this
broad land of ours,
and there are some,
too, that are pro-
fanely unmention-
able. / don't know
what started me on
the subject. except,
perhaps, twas a
bo'ding house din
ner I stacked up
against the other
night.
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special Correspondence Of The Star.

NEW YORK, August u, 1908.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-12-16

Entered at the postoffice at Laurcns,
s. c. as second class mail natter
The copper era., 1908-01-23
MotOrman Meets With Serious Accident.

On last Thursday evening the A. c.
Humboldt mine was the scene of a
most unfortunate accident, in which
Motorman Terry had his left leg hor-
ribly mangled from the knee down.
Mr.. Terry has been employed as
motorman several months and had
the reputation of being careful in
the discharge of his duties. On
the day of the accident he was pull
ing out a load of ore on the main
track and did not see that the switch
was thrown for side track, on which
stood several loaded cars. The motor
car, which was in front, crashed into
the cars on the siding and Mr.. Terry
was pinned under the end of the
front car, where he remained until
assistance came. He was removed to
the hospital where he Immediately
received the best of attention.
The copper era., 1908-01-23
Gila Valley Bank Elects Officers.

At the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the ella Valley Bank
& Trust company held last week at
the bank of the company at Globe,
all but one of the old directors were
reelected, Phi. Prudential of Solo,
knoxville, retiring and B. B. Hegardt,
of Globe, being elected to fill the
vacancy. The other directors are
D. w. Wickersham, c. E. Mills, T.
A. Pascoe, A. T. Thomson, H. S. Van
Gorder, 1. E. Solomon. E. M. Hurd
and DR.. L. D. Ricketts,.
Immediately following the meeting
of the stockholders the directors
met and elected the following officers:
D. W. Wickersham. president; G.
E. Mills, L. E. Solomon, DIR. L. D.
Ricketts,, yice-presidents; H. S. Van
Gorder, cashier.
The present managers of the four
banks of the company were again
chosen for the coming year. They
are: E. M. Hurd, Globe; E. w. Clay.
ton, Solomonville; G. A. Van Dorm,
Clifton; r. E. Moore, Morenci.
The copper era., 1908-01-23
FENCE POSTS MADE DURABLE.
Woods Given Sixteen Years Additional
Service by Preservative Treatment.

Fence posts of many kinds of cheap
woods which ordinarily would soon
decay if set in the ground can be
made to last for twenty years by a
simple treatment with creosote.
Most of the so-called "inferior"
woods are we'll adapted to the treat
ment, and this is especially true of
cottonwood, aspen, willow, sycamore,
low-grade pines, and some of the
gums. When properly treated, these
woods outlast untreated cedar and
oak, which are becoming too scarce
and too much in demand for other
uses to allow of their meeting the
demand for fence posts.
Impregnation with creosote has
been greatly cheapened by the intro
duction of the "open tank" which
can be installed at cost of from $50
to S45, or much less if an old boiler is
used. A tank with a bottom II square
feet in area will suffice for treating
40 or so 6-inch posts day, or double
this number when two runs per day
can be made. The absorption of
creosote per post is about as follows:
Eucalyptus, one-tenth gallon; willow,
two-tenths gallon; sassafras, ash,
hickory, red oak, water oak, elm and
maple, four-tenths gallon; Douglas
fir, quacking aspen and black walnut,
six-tenths gallon; sycamore, cotton
wood and lodgepole pine, seven-tenths
gallon. The price of creosote is
about 10 cents a gallon in the east
and middle west, 16 cents per gallon
on the Pacific coast, and q cents per
gallon in the Rocky Mountain states.
The cost of treating a post will
therefore vary from to Is cents.
Properly treated, it should give
service for at least twenty years.
Experiments of the Forest Service
show that with preventative treat
ment the durability of lodgepole pine
in Idaho is increased sixteen years.
The cost of creosote is there rela-
lively high, yet by treating posts
there is saving, with interest at s
per cent, of 2 cents per post yearly.
More important than the saving.
however, is the fact that through
preservative treatment other woods
are fitted to take the place of cedar,
of which the supply is rapidly becom-
ing exhausted. A detailed description
of experiments in preserving fence
posts, together with practical sugges-
tions for treating them on a COM
mercial scale, are contained in Cir
cular III of the Forest Service. This
publication can be obtained upon APP
plication to the Forester at Wash
ington.
The copper era., 1908-01-23

SOME people outside of Clifton are
laboring under the illusion that the
ERA. does not report strikes in Cliff
ton. This is perhaps on account of
outside newspapers securing informa-
tion through unreliable sources. 1t
will be remembered that when the
machinists in Clifton were discharged
it appeared in the dailies that sew
eral hundred men were on strike.
About forty-five men were discharged
and.refused to go to work again when
offered new scale. A strike was
called by the local branch of the
Federation, but the men paid no at
tention to it., as they were not in
favor of Furnishing themselves. A
careful perusal of the ERA will keep
one well informed as to what is doing
in this district.