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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-12-01
Real Estate Offerings

2O9 acres of land six miles of Lau-
rens, known as the Jerry farm: has
good dwellings and outbuildings: well
supplied with tenant houses; has fine
pasture. This farm is nicely located
and is in state of cultivation well a
uapteu Tor grain and cotton; price
$1,000; terms made easy; will also sell
the stock consisting of mules. cattle
and farming tools at reduced price to
any persons desiring to purchase this
farm
S3 acres of land close 20 Beulah
Church on the dividing line of Green
vile and Laurens with an eight room
dwelling, one tenant house. also good
out buildings and fine pasture. This
place is known as the Thaddcus Babb
homestead; Price $33 . per acre;
terms made easy.
lo3I2 acres of land near Warrior
creek church with five room COTTAGE
two tenant houses and fine pasture
IhlS is Il fine farm nicely located ana
well improved; price $35 per acre.
Terms made easy.
one lot on Main street, close to the
IuDlic square; six room, modern
dwelling; water, lights and sewerage
nice home. Price $4,000.
2lG acres of land in Dial's township,
known as the Capt. Switzer place; six
room cottage, 2 tenant houses. fine
barn and outbuildings. Price $50 acre.
92M acres land near Tumbling
shoals; bounded by lands of w. ID.
ana j. G.. Sullivan; room dwelling:
good outbuildngs. Price $3.50 per
acre.
323 acres land, bounded by lands of
Daniel South, Davis land, Miss West
ana others, known as the Cullen Lark
homestead, room dwelling and 3 ten
ant houses. Prices made right.
Terms easy.
Al acres on Rcedy River. bounded
by lands of James Downcy, viii Cald-
we'll and others. With tenant house
Price $50 per acre, Terms made
easy.
.2la acres of land, room cottage
nicely located in the town of GRAY
Court with one of the finest wells of
water in town. Price, 81 300.
s room dwelling. on Centennial St.
Clinton, S. c.. with 81 hundrcdths of
an acre OF land, known as the Griffin
place. Price, $4,000.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-12-01

" acres OF land i'm the town of Whit
mlrc, :. c., nicely situated, suitable
Tor dwelling lots. Price, $1,000.
l"o acres land. one half mile of Dial
churcn, with Il handsome dwelling. 2
tenant houses and good outbuildings.
come quick IL you want this place.
Price $40 per acre.
% acres Of land just outside of the
corporate limits Of the town of Gray
court with one tenant house. Price
500 per acre.
Two acre lot in the town of Gray
Court with Z room dwelling, nicely
located Price $4,000.
lG' acres Of land bounded by lands
NJ, III. Holder, w. ID. Abercrombie, and
o'herS' room dwelling, tenant
houses, good barn and out buildings.
fflce 5000 per acre. Terms: 81 900
cash remainder in five equal install
mcntS.
40 acres known as old Goodgyn
place, has room dwelling, 3 tenant
houses. fine corn mill in good running
nrd"r with 40 horse water power.
Price $l5OO. Terms made easy.
G5 acres of land. with dwelling. good
barn ard out-buildings, near Owings.
Price $4,000; terms made easy.
lii acres bounded by lands OF Jeff
Davis and Herbert Martin; good ten
ant houses, and good barn. Price
$50 per acre.
loo acres of land, with five room
dwelling, 3-room tenant house, good
ont buildings, near Hickory Tavern.
sullivan township. Price $500 per
acre.
ia acres of land near Gray Court.
pounded by lands of IG. r. Shell, w.
~ Gray; seven room cottage, fine
barn and outbuildings and fine past
ure. Price $50 per acre.
81 acres of land in one mile of the
town OF Gray Court, with two dwell
ings. Price $40 per acre.
3dS acres of land near Rabun Creek
chufch, S-room dwelling, three tenant
houses. Price $3.50 per acre.
GO acres in Dial township bounded
DS lhnd% of Pink lIclIams, Ludy Bolt
nd H. {. Wallace. Price $1,000.
~ h'l' DouIueu Dy IandS or Y.
{. ll"llnms and Mitchell Owens, i'm 3
ihlleS OF LaurcnS; 2 dwellings and
out buildings. Price $35 per acre.
acres in town of Gray Court:
nice building site. Price $4,000.
l27 acres land in Sullivan township,
room dwelling, good out buildings,
tenant house. Price $50 per acre.
100 acres of land in Youngs township,
II room dwelling, two tenant houses,
good barn, Price 81. $50
5i7 acres land a miles of I.aurens,
bounded by lands Mrs. Burgess, Bob
Brown, Jno. Madden and others; 6 ton
ant houses; horse farm in cultivation.
VIII be cut into lots Of 100 acres each.
Price $50 per acre
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-12-01
$50 For TrauSportinr.

John Gary, Il negro railroad hand
pleaded guilty in the mayors court
Saturday to the charge of transport
ing wbiskoy and was sentenced to
serve 30 days sentence ON the coun-
tN chain gang or pay fine of $50
Gary was arrested Friday night by
Special Constable Sullivan.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-12-01
'frcSpasS Notice.


The state OF South Carolina,
County of l.aurems.
by o. G.. Thompson. Probate Judge:
Whereas. c. W. Garrett made suit
to me- to grant him letters of Admin
iStration OF the estate and effects OF
w. H. Garrett;
These are therefore, to oitc aud adj
monish all and singular the kindred
and creditors of the said w. III. Garrett
deceased, that they be and appear be-
fore me in the Court of Probate, to be
held at laurcns G.. H., s. c.. ON the
9th day OF December. 1909. next. after
publication hereof at If O'Clock i'm
the forenoon, to show cause, if any
they have. why said Administration
should not be granted
Given under my hand this. 18th day
of Novcmbcr,Anno Domni 1909.
o. G.. THOMPSON,
j. T.. l.. c.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
WILL CENSOR ALL POSTERS.
Washington Officials Place Ban on
improper or FTashy Pictures.

Sensational and fiashy posters, pic
turing melodramatic scenes, dancing
girls, busts of women advertising cor
sets and figures clothed only in union
suits, will no longer mar the billboards
of Washington. Commissioner West
announced that the doom of this class
of advertising has been sealed. The
billposters of the city and the print.
ing companies, he said, have Joined
arms with the commissioners and Mai
Sylvester in an effort to drive out of
existence this class of advertising.
Maj. Sylvester has recommended to
the commissioners for several years
that some action be taken to control
the character of the displays of the
billboards.. The posters, Maj. Sylves-
tiers says, have harmful effect on the
youth of the city, who are daily
brought face to face with thrilling and
suggestive pictures.
After a conference with John E.
Shoemaker, who controls the billpost-
ing in this city, and who has recently
returned from the annual convention
of the National Billposters' associa-
t1on, held in Oklahoma City, the an
nouncement was made that ban will
be put on this character of displays.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06

The triumphs of the scholar the
public regards as individual; the prov
ess Of the athlete is popularity held to
establish the name and fame of his COL
lege. or course this is unreasonable
for the reputation of university as
an institution of learning should de.
pend upon the liberal education she
gives to those within her gates. But,
remarks the Philadelphia Public Led.
ger, it is quite true that, despite the
excellent reasons why it should not do
so, tho public continues to pay homage
to Drawn rather than brain, in so far
as the undergraduate is concerned.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
zee 8 q 81 90.
C5Ey[1[;[5[2[5[D> SE1D[L[z IS
SHE KNOWS ENOUGH.

She does not know who Caesar was,
Nor when Columbus sailed the seas.
| She may, for all she says or does,
Think Botticelli is a cheese!
| Now, gentle reader, don't commence
To say you think it is a pity
To live in ignorance so dense
| You see, she's pretty.
| She will not wrinkle up her brow
To call to mind a verse of Keats;
| Ask her if Shakespeare's writing now,
She'll say she likes the parquet seats;
Of current topics she may speak
And show transformation simple
But in the rose-pink of her cheek
There is a dimple.
She'll tell you sociaHsm's cute
Because friend who's rather plain
Is lecturfng from here to Butte
And has so many in in her train;
She cannot tell you what is meant
BY the philosophy of Ibsen,
But hers is beauty that is blent-
A Gibson.
Of differential calculus
she may discourse in language clear
Until it comes to us
she means some automobile gear;
The fact that Raphael is dead
Leads not to talk on pictures olden-
Her lips are cherry ripely-red,
Her hair is golden
So, what is history to her?
What are reformers and their ilk?
She has the latest word on fur
And wears the newest shades in silk.
Sigh not that she must live alone,
For her unlearnedness quench your
pity;
She knows all that needs to be known
You see, she's pretty!
Wilbur D. Nesbit; in Life.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
Don't Know Their Own City

A man on his first visit to Washing.
ton, few days ago, boarded trolley
car in Pennsylvania avenue and asked
the conductor if he was going toward
the White House. What house?''
asked the conductor 1.-The White
House-the presidents home Don't
know-I've only been on two days;
ask him." pointing to his associate
conductor in the trailer car He also
hesitated before answering, but final
ly remembered, just as the car neared
the foot of Capitol hill, that the White
House was in the other direction.
Having gone so far the stranger made
the rest of the journey to the top of
the hill, slipped off the car into the
snow and asked workman on the
grounds to direct him to the library,
and, following the direction, would
have gone to an unfinished building
had another visitor not saved him. He
wrote to his home in London that
evening: There are beautiful places
in Washington, but do not ask a resi-
dent to tell you where they are-they
do not know"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
DEPEw AS A STORY TELLER.
He Protests That the Newspapers
Have Destroyed His Reputation.

Maybe it is a sign of age in Senator
Depew that he should undertake a de
tense of his reputation as an after
dinner speaker. But he did the other
night, at semipublic dinner, where
ne was known personally to most OF
the diners, says the Cincinnati Times
Stars New York correspondent. De
pew let it be known that he felt al
ready the charge often made against
him that he told stories and cracked
jokes that had earned retirement. I'll
my stories are sometimes DID, said
he, "at least they are my stories, and
no ones else. The fact is, the news
paper is the ruin of the modern aft.
er-d1nner speaker. A good story is
AIKEN up. sent broadcast, ascribed to
any one of thousand speakers rath.
er than the one who originated it,
and if, in the end, he ventures to tell
his own story second time, he es,
capes kissing only because of his au-
dttors' good nature. Let me illustrate
by a case in point. Years ago was
asked to speak at certain dinner.
sat down and thought. In the end /
invented several stories, among which
was one of the farmer who asked the
transportation department of a rail-
road for four freight cars to ship frogs
in. The summer hotel down at the
point said he, has promised to take
all l can catch. And from the racket
them frogs out in my pond make, /
reckon / can ship four cars full and
leave enough for next years CROP
But little later he revised his order.
l dreened my pond and I found that
two bullfrogs and a tree toad had been
dom all that hollerin'.' Well, that
story was well liked, because it illus
trated point I wanted to make. The
papers printed it. At the next dinner
| attended, the speaker who preceded
me told it as his own. I've heard that
story an average of twice year since
then, and I have never told it a sec.
ond time. And yet that was my story |
The newspapers have destroyed me
as an after-dinner speaker"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
Wiley Runs Into Bad Chicken.

DR.. H. w. Wiley, the conseryator OF
good food, almost broke up a dinner
party on dining car that is run be,
tween Washington and New York. The
car was we'll filed when he entered
and seeing that roast spring chicken
was the headliner on the menu, he mr..
dered it. When it was brought ON he
examined it carefully and then call
ing the waiter to his side said in .
voice that carried throughout the car.
This chicken has been in cold stor.
age eight months, three weeks. four
days and five hours. 1t has Bonassa
umbellas. Take it away" The din.
ing car conductor took DR.. Wilev,a
name, reported the incident to the gen.
eral superintendent of the dining car
service, and an order was subsequent.
ly issued that no cold storage fowls
should be served on that railroad
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
Men Who Have Doubles.

Charles P. Searle, the Boston attor.
ney who has appeared. recently in i'm
portant arguments before the commit
tee on ways and means of the national
legislature, bears so strong a resem-
blance to George B. Cortelyou that he
could impersonate the secretary of the
treasury in all but his impassiveness.
The hair and mustache of. Mr.. Searle
are trifle grayer, but otherwise the
resemblance is very striking. Andrew
Carnegie has an exact double and
Senator Crane is reported to have one
in Washington, also, although the in
formants cannot locate him definitely
Representative James B. Perkins of
New York is the dead image" of
George w. Wilson, the actor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
1ount of prop

ty within the limits of the city.
The most impressive thing to the
visitor on entering the city is its mag
nificent gateway. The union station
has been written about widely, but
the country at large probably doesn't
understand what a beautiful thing
Washington has in the great structure
OF marble and granite lying to the
north of the capitol
1t doesn't make any difference how
big it is or how many million dollars
it cost. Statistics are of no special
consequence. All that the visitor
knows is that it is quarter of a mile
walk to go from one end of the build
ing and back again; that the splendid
rotunda is one of the finest things he
mas ever seen and that the building
looks out through three colossal door
ways.
The station stands in a great plaza
which is not yet finished. Street cars
circle this plaza, but the landscape is
not disfigured with overhead trolley
wires. And this is one of the striking
things about the whole city. You
see street after street given over to
street cars, but with a clear vista.
Washington has one advantage in
the compactness of its plan. 1t is
possible to keep the streets in very
much better condition when they are
not spread over whole prairie land
scape. The Washington streets are
paved with miles and miles of asphalt
and they look as if they had been
busted off every morning with feath-
er buster. The Washington street de-
partment has the advantage, of course,
OF not having to contend with large
amount of trucking. The national cap
ital is not manufacturing or bust
ness city. At the same time the
scrupulous caresof the streets makes
the average visitor from commercial
city exceedingly envious.
The city is famed for it's trees. JEFF
ferson started by planting Lombardy
poplars along some of the chief thor
oughfares and his plan has been CON-
tinued as the city developed. In
spring and summer the town is a |
great bower.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06

Various legislatures are now break.
ing out with freak bills designed to
create boom in the business of Cupid
q Hymen. In Wisconsin a tax is pro.
posed on bachelors and a state bureau
to provide would-be benedicts with
wives. A bill in Texas proposes not
only tax on all bachelors under 10
but also that bachelors who do not
propose at least once year to at least
one woman shall be made to pay a
double tax. And yet, says Baltimore
America some misguided women are
hstfng their energies crying for the
ballot, so they can affect legislation.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
AModern Incornpatibility
BY CHARLOTTE WILSON
copyright, by BoDDs-Merril Coz

They had been engaged week. The
lagoon was blue-bluer than living
turquoise; and the long, sweeping lines
of the park sward seemed to them
considerably greener than emerald.
They seemed quite satisfied where
they were, as the man, with long, lazy
strokes, brought the skiff around the
point of the wooded island. He looked
across at her under his tilted hat
brim, his long, brown hands clasped
behind his head, his legs crossed.
Sweetheart" he said, has it oc-
CURED to you that we'll be poor?"
Often" she said.
His unconscious look Of relief alone
betrayed a latent anxiety in the ques-
ton. you see," he explained, with a
queer smile, Il don't know you so
very we'll"
Nor you," she retorted. They
both seemed strangely undisturbed by
the announcement.
: Il mean" he continued comfortably,
the You that is the product of heredi-
ty and environment. | think / know
the essential You very we'll o, I
know what you're going to say; you
know it does go good way toward
explaining a person, to know just how
he has been brought up, and how he
differs from his brothers and sisters
what he inherits from his father and
what he doesn't inherit that he ought
to from his mother. Take me, for in
stance; l don't think you can really
know me without having watched me
grow up among my five sisters"
Il might as well give it up, mightn't
III she asked, padding in the water
with the frivolity of idle happiness. Il
don't see how it's to be done.P
He smiled IF we had lived in adj
joining houses. now
NO." she interrupted. Then you
would remember how / looked when
had the measles"
Il don't know that / should care to
have you remember me in dresses" he
conceded. I'm afraid you might never
have had the proper respect for me-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
HOMES OF FAMOUS MEN. :
Washington Structures Abound with
Memories of the Great.

Many famous homes abound in the
vicinity of Lafayette square, Washing.
ton. There in stately majesty, dwelt
Commodore Decatur, who erected the
first house on the square. There also
in turn, dwelt Henry Clay, Martin
Van Buren,, Edward Livingston and
others of prominence.
AS neighbors. there were Mrs. Mad.
ison, the widow of the president; At.
torney General Crittenden, the Roose.
Yelts and W. w. Corcoran. It was there
also that the life tragedy of Secretary
OF State William H Seward was en-.
acted. Later there came into the
nelghborhood such illustrious men as
Charles Sumner, Roscoe Conkling,
John A. Logan and John 3. Floyd.
The last home of Daniel Webster in
washington was in Louisiana avenue
between Fifth and Sixth streets. 1t
was there that the friends of the dis.
t1nguished jurist and statesman con-
gregated and where many matters i'm.
portant in the~development of the ma.
~AOh "SAS dCCIuGu. AIIGE W0DStGr
death the building became known as
the Webster law building.
Among the earlier houses erected
in the district was the row on the
north side of Pennsylvania avenue.
between Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets, known as the Seven Build
lngs. The house on the corner OF
Nineteenth street and the avenue was
occupied by Eldridge Gerry while he
was V1ce-president under Monroe. Aft
er the burning of the White House
and subsequent to their leaving the
Octagon house, the property sheltered
President and Mrs. Monroe, and there
they remained until the executive
had been rebuilt.
In 1874, Vice-President Martin Van
Buren, lived in the house, which, to.
day, appears much as it did at the
time when the West end was a
swamp; when horses and pedestrians
were stalled in the mire of Pennsyl
vania avenue; when frogs held nightly
carnlyals and owls kept faithful vigil |
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
A POINT TO LOOK TO.

When a man swears himself into
matrimony, he is allowed to submit
any sort Of testimony, and none of 1t
is seriously impugned.
But when he sWears himself out, he
IS narrowly limited to the beggarly
facts, and moreover must endure the
merciless hammering of crafty law.
yers bent on discrediting him.
Might it not effect a saving of heart
aches to fortify our girls somewhat
with a techinicand av dare anb an
when they are wooed, they may the
quicker detect the incompetent, the
Irrelevant and the Puck
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
Seek ideas in China.

Prof Thomas C. Chamberlin. head
of the geology department of the Uni.
versity of Chicago, and his son, Rollin
T., have sailed for China and the east.
At Pekin they will meet Prof. Ernest
D. Burton of the divinity school, who
is in China. These three men compose
commission which the university is
sending to investigate the education
al systems of China. They will be
gone about year, and in that time
expect to visit all the more prominent
schools and colleges in the empire.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06

| Then he smiled characteristic smile
| which transformed his long, serious
face. Il think, after all, / like best to
have discovered you" he said.
Il know I do she answered with
decision. Il shouldn't like to have
been thrown at your head, even by
Providence. And, though / suppose a
man does have to live in an adjoining
house to know some things, woman
doesn't. | can reconstruct YOU and
your five sisters at any period of your
life. A man has no intuitions, you
know" she added, dimpling with ami.
liable arrogance of sex.
And your intuitions told you was
poor?" he asked.
She nodded.
"They saved me the embarrass-
ment,' he said with slow smile. He
was padding idly in the water. with
a hesitation that seemed to her very
loVable. She wanted to help him ont
but she let him work through the diff
ficulty for the good of his soul. i've
been thinking ever since last Saturday
that ought to talk to you
Don't look so much in earnest"
she interrupted. I'm like David Con-
perfield's Dora-'can't bear to be talk.
ed to seriously"
His embarrassed earnestness lifted
little. Now, you've led me straight
to the point he said "You-you re.
member Dora's housekeeping?
1t was her turn to flush now. Ct
l didn't say l was like Dora in every.
thing" she protested. 'Tm-I'm an
epitome of all the heroines in fiction
all the nice ones, that is. You needn't
be afraid" A spark of resentment
was beginning to show through her
distressful embarrassment.
Listen he said. you misunder-
stood me. Let me tell you in another
way. I have theory"
oh" she said, recovering herself
IF that's all! You're precisely the
man I'd suspect of carrying concealed
theories! | haven't told you" she
said, looking up at him vindictiyely.
that you're just precisely not the
kind OF man | intended to marry. You
see, since I've been in college. I've met
so many-freaks-I verify believe I've
been proposed to by Greek Preposi
ton, pursued by an Economic Theory.
and all but captured by Daily Theme
that finally said one day to mother,
Mother, do you mind if marry
bntcher-or a Viking? If could only
ind nice, CORY Viking: No intellec.
Lual person need apply
You're trying to distract my mind" |
ne said, with great sternness. DO |
you'-he cleared his throat, his |
deserving him a little, do |
you know anything about the raw
food movement"
Raw food?' she repeated bIankly.
IT'S an ideal diet-a return to ma
-ure in the practical sense" he ex-
planned hurriedly. She looked genu-
nelly disconnected. After all, he did
not know her very well. Perhaps he
lid not at all; the idea of square
neal certainly seemed incongruous in |
with her. She looked as
she got that color as the flowers
set theirs. 1t was embarrassing to be
discussing such things SO soon; yet
lang i'll
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-03-06
As He Saw Il.

Mrs. KnoN-One can tell a good
deal about people from their facial ex,
pressions! :
Xnox-Been absorbing wisdom from
patent medicine almanac?
Mrs. knox-No. Take Mrs. Jabber-
ton, for example; there's a great deal
of character in her mouth.
knox-Yes-other le's.-Chica.
so Daily News.