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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-06-02
WEDDING BELLS TO
RING AT WATERLOO
Prof. Joseph ii. Shealy To We'd Miss
Clara Vivian Wharton Next Wed.
neSday-PcrSOnal Items.

Waterloo, May 2Sth.-NIr. and Mrs.
william Henry Wharton announce the
engagement and approaching marriage
of their eldest daughter. Clara Vivian
to Prof. Joseph Haskell Shealy. the
wedding to take place at the family
residence, on Wednesday afternoon
the ninth of June. More than unusual
interest centerS around this coming
event, the cOnSummation OF which has
been the cause of many pleasant an
ticipations among the numerous
friends and aCluaintances of Miss
Wharton and Prof Shealy for some
months past. Miss Wharton is a
young woman of most delightful
charm, and this. together with her
striking brunette beauty and viva
ciousness, only adds to her attractive
personality. Prof. Shealy was for a
while principal Of the school at this
place, and it was while here that he
first saw, wOOed and won his bride-to-
he. Miss Wharton acting in the capac-
i'y OF assistant teacher to him
During the past year, however, he
has been similarly engaged as super
intcndent of the school at TovnviIIo
prof. SheaIv's native town is Limo
Mountain and no is voung mo,, or
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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-06-02
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
State OF South Carolina.

County of LaurcnS.
Whereas. petitions signed by more
than one-third of the qualified cleo
tors and more than Ome-third of the
free-holderS residing i'm School Dis
trict No. =, SullivanS Township. Lau-
renS County, s. G.. asking for an eleC-
tion upon the question of lcvyinE a
four C) mill tax upon property i'm
said School District to be used for
school purposes have been filed with
the COuntN Board of EduCatiOn an
election is hereby ordered upon said
question. Saih election to be held ON
the 18Th day Cf June. 1909 at Hcndcr-
Sonville school house. under the man
agomcnt Of the trustees OF said dis
triCt
Only such electors as return real
or personal property for taxation. and
who exhibit their tax receipts and
registration certificates. as required
i'm general election, shall he allowed
to vote.
Those favoring the tax shall vote a
ballot containing the word Yes" writ
ten or printed thereon; those against
the tax shall vote a ballot containing
the word no" written or printed
thereon.
Polls shall open at the hour of :
o'clock in the forenoon and remain
open until the hour OF in the after
noon when they shall be closed and
the ballots counted
The Trustees shall report the result
0f said election to the County Auditor
within ten days thcrcaftcr
GEO H. PITTS.
CO. Supt Ed.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-06-02
Anderson
&
Blakely
BROKERS'

An elegant new pebbledas dwell
ling with 9 rooms. all necessary out
buildings, water connections, l0j feet
front. including 3 acres. located on
East Main street: at a bargain on easy
terms. See us about this property.
One new five room cottage on Todd
avenue at Il bargain.
900 acres ON Walnut Creek, cut in
to five tracts as follows: No one. sc
acres; No. two, 100 acres; No three,
20 acres; No. four. G acres; No five,
lG5 acres. Bounded by lands of J.
T.. Goddard, NJ OwingS. H. Reddcn. J.
a. Knight and NJ. w. Hill. Well i'm
proved, well watered, and well tim
bered. Will be sold by the tract or
altogether, at a bargain Plats can
be seen at our office.
One new six room dwelling ON Irby
avenue, fine bargain.
acres ON Conway Avenue. near J.
w. A. Boyds, with ) room cottage
terms easy.
20 acres known as the Heffcrman
place. bounded ly lands of $. O. l.cake
and others. Terms easy
200 town lots at all kinds OF prices.
One lot on y. Harper St. nice build
ing lot, between Steve Taylor's and j..
d. Sexton
81 acres of land within fourth
mile of Watts Mills From one acre
lots up. Cheap.
On. ~ ,,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-06-02

An elegant new peDble-daSh dwell
ling with 9 rooms. all necessary out
buildings, water connections, l05 feet
front. including ; acres. located on
East Main street; at a bargain on easy
terms. See us about this property.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-06-02

One new five room cottage on Tudt
avenue at bargain.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
The Man From Mars.

The imam from Mars"-meaning a
completely impartial detached observ-
er-might well round out his over
worked career by laughing to death
over American politics.
Relatively speaking. 1t makes little
whether he calls himself Republican.
Democrat, Socialist or Female Suf-
fragist: nor is the political COM
plexion of the House Of great moment.
Both President and House are always
amenable to public opinion; in both
those branches of government the VIII
OF the people is powerful. And who
ever Is selected. under whatever name,
on whatever platform. the Senate re,
mains immovable subject to the will
Of the big business interests. 1t is a
part of their system. no more capable
OF disobeying them, as at present con-
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
HAD HIS HALE CHE.

Ordinarily a haircut is not a very
serious performance, or one to attract
general interest. 1t is true that the
barber sometimes cuts your hair the
way you don't want 1t cut, and some
times refuses to cut 1t the way you do
want 1t. 1t Is also true that he some-
times ships off piece of your ear as a
in the bacN of your neck when you are
not looking, but all these things be-
long to. the natural course of events
and cause no excitement or public no.
tice.
But there was recently a job of hair
cutting in Tombstone. Ariz., that has at
tracted attention. We believe Tomb
stone derived Its name from the habit
it's first settlers had of burying each
other somewhat promiscuously-afte
the pistol had spoken, but that Is not
material. The present interest hangs
around Mayor Wentworth, OF thai
town, who has had his hair cut.
Perhaps it will be asked why any
unusual interest should be felt in the
cutting of the Mayors hirsute adorn-
ment, since Mayors have their hair cut
just like other people, but in this case
there is a story. In 1895, Mr.. Went
worth was an ardent and enthusiastic
supporter of Bryan and free silver. he
looked on Mr.. Bryan as the greatest
man that ever came down the pike and
thought that free silver was to be the
panacea for all the financial ills, real
or imaginary, that could possibly az
hict the country or the people there
of; therefore he whooped 1t up for
Bryan and free coinage of silver, and
was sure he had dead sure thing.
But Mr.. Bryan was not elected, as
we all know, and Mr.. Wentworth was
disappointed, as were numerous others
But ne was hopeful for the future and
registered a solemn vow that no bar
Der or other person should cut, trim or
otherwise NEEDLE with his hair until
Mr.. Bryan should be elected President
That was thirteen years ago and he
kept his VOW religiously until few
days ago when he gave 1t up and had a
clean cut made of his flowing locks.
Just why he relented we are not in
formed, but 1t was probably because he
Is wiser than he once was. He realizes
that free silver has been consigned to
the tomb of the CapuIets. or some 9th
ar place where they bury dead ones.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
THE BATTLE OF TOHOPEKA.
(HOrseshOe Bend.)

BE -. SULLIVAN
Twas on an ethereal vernai day
When Jackson's men in herce array
Ali painting for the bloody fray
Moved down on Tohopeka.
Brave hearts from the Tennessee's
Fierce Creeks and fiercer Cherokees'
With banners waving IN the preeze
And drums beating loudly.
For two hours the cannon roar,
Then a mad dash at the foe
And Ger the parapet they go
To kill the hated redskins
Twas cheer on cheer. yell on yell.
Clash bang sla shall pellmell
Verify II was a scene OF hell
Beside the Tallapoosa-
Somerville and Moulton bite the plain
And brave Montgomery was slain
1.-The flower of the army.
For these we drop a silent tear.
Their memory wen aye revere.
With many more that persisted there
Fighting for their country.
Full three hundred mighty braves
Sunk beneath the rivers waves
We're sent down to watery graves.
BY General Coffee's cavalry.
In the bed from shore to shore
Dead,-and several hundred more
We're made to weller in their gore
BY the regulars and militia.
And when DER that horrid sight
Nature drew the pail of night
Not a warrior was left to fight
or to tell the tragic story.
Camp Hill. Ala, July 2. 1909.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
THE INsoLENCE OF POWER.

The insolent confidence OF the Re-
publican party In Its own power was
never displayed so positively as It is in
the passage OF the Aldrich tariff bill,
with all Its injustice, all its favoritism
and all its sectionalism. There Is
something of the impudence of Boss
Tweed In their courage in passing such
a bill as though the Republicans say:
Yes, the bill was drawn for the man
ufacturer and against the consumer
What are you going to do about it?"
There Is something humiliating to
Democrats in this show Of insolent con-
fidence by the Republicans. 1t is as
though the Republicans assume that
they can plumber the people, that they
can take from millions Of consumers
and give to hundreds Of manufacturers.
without considering any future trouble
from the opposition party. 1t is hu-
initiating to admit IL, but the defiance
Of the country, expressed in the AID
rich bill. marks the lowest state OF ef-
ficiency OF the National Democracy
since the days Of Tilden. The Republic
cans say by their attitude, We can do
anything we please, and then beat the
Democratic party" The party Of Til
den, the party of Thurman. the party
of Cleveland have this contemptuous
defiance thrown into their face.
The Republicans have brazenly
placed an added tax on articles used by
the great middle class of Americans,
and by that class Is meant the Ameri-
cans who are neither paupers nor lux
uriously rich. The class holds, too, the
great voting strength of the country,
but the Republican party defes 1t. to
pet and reward the rich manufacturers.
The following is a partial list of the
articles of common every day use on
which the Aldrich bill has placed an
added tax:
Wooden cloth, gloves, laces. embroid-
cries, hosiery. underwear, hats, veiyets.
artificial flowers. imported suitngs,
coat cloth, shoes, paper, toilet waters,
soaps, toilet articles. perfumery, cord,
builders materials. lemons, pineapples,
ms. spices.
But when the Republicans pass bill
admitting the luxuries of the rich, such
as yachts. and other costly playthinss
of the wealthy free, insolence tops i'm
pudence. On all things that the people
must have the tax is raised, but on the
things for which the manufactures
spends his money he makes by the tar
III, the tax Is either lowered or re-
moved entirely.
What a magnificent chance there
would be today for the vital Democ-
racy of Grover Cleveland on the tariff
question. If the old ideals of the party
had been maintained--if the old tradi-
lions of Democracy had been preserved
the party would sweep the country.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11

and that Mr.. Bryan, ~ . prssidsntisl
possibility. IL entombed with Il. 20 he
probably decided that an adherence to
his vow meant lifetime without Q
haircut and that was q little too
much.
Whatever the impelling cause may
have been tho result 10 a short-haired
Mayor Wentworth. He 10 no longer
one Of the sights and attractions of
Tombstone. No longer does he walk
the streets of HIS town with hair so
long that he steps on II unless he is
exceedingly carefus II by some
strange combination o: circumstances
Mr.. Bryan should be elected President
while Mayor Wentworth lives he will
perhaps regret that he had his hair
cut but that is q contingency not to
be anticipated. At all events. Mayor
Wentworth. of Tombstone. had his hair
cut,
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11

mobile heRl8yer. ~
Mr.. Brooks Lawrence's card to The
Birmingham News 10 not the free and
frank confession Of error such as we
should expect from q worthy antagon.
list He admits the unwise use OF
the phrase liquor judge" having re-
lection upon the members of courts
0f our State hat the wholesale on
slaught upon the integrity Of the
bench he does not apologize for. The
indications are--we may accept the
voice Of the press both pro and anti
prohibition. as indicating public opin-
Ion--that Mr.. Lawrence's usefulness IL
ended. The people OF Alabama are pa
q good deal Of criticism and abuse
even from outsiders. such A. Mr.. Law
renee Is. but when, without producing
any evidence. the critic declares that
he will chastise our courts. bec6use
Of men who work over
time In their efforts to protect the
liquor outlaws OF Alabama" meaning
to say that. because Of corruption the
courts have not given their decision In
accord with the law, there arises q
feeling of intense Indignation and re-
pulsion, feeling that the iconoclast
has introduced too far upon ground
that IL sacred; that he has violated the
laws Of hospitality; ana that his of
tense IL unforgivable.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
Worker and Loafer.

Cullman Democrat.
The farmer who has worked Is all
right. has been in fair shape all the
year, the sluggard. the town loafer,
who has spread the bad news over the
country has a crop of grass and weeds
with much Of his land not planted.
We have too many calamity howiers
work and talk about the other fell
lows good luck and their hard luck.
Good luck comes from honest effort
from an Intelligent honest intention to
do something. The public is not fool
ed by the fellow who claims he Is pur.
sued by misfortune. Bad luck will
follow iaziness, Incidence does not de-
serve good fortune. Luck Will not
noe the grass out of the crop, but q
pair of stout hands and Just any kind
OF an old hoe will make the grass and
weeds look sick and the cotton and
corn look healthy.
In Cullman county the crop situation
is now good. due to industry OF most
Of our farmers and to ten days of dry
weather. More work has been done in
the last two weeks than any one could
have thought possible. The faded farm
ar and the pillow stock show signs Of
hard work. The general crop condition
is bad. and the farmer who works
and makes a good yield will be re-
warded for his labor, as the indications
are that the cotton will be worth from
twelve to twenty cents per pound and
corn from dollar to dollar fifty.
II is not too late 70 plant early ma
turing corn, the northern yellow corn
will easily mature and those who think
they will not raise enough to do them
should plant some OF It. The corn can
be bought of any dealer in Cullman or
Birmingham. It is not as good as our
fair bread and Is fully as good for
stock.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
The Boston View Point.

There's another little instance of
Boston's peculiar point of view, says
The New York Evening Sun. At the
hotel where Miss Adams and all the
Frohman staff were stopping you
could not secure a room. so great was
the crowd that had fiocked into town
over night to see the Stadium perform
ance At the last moment a woman
friend OF Mrs. ALI Hayman turned up
unexpectedly. She could not secure
a room. SO Mrs. Hayman. who. with
her husband. had a bed room and sit
ting room. went to the clerk, explain
ed the situation. and asked to have a
cot put up in the sitting room.
"pll put q cot in your bed room.
Mrs. Hayman." said the clerk with
condensation.
Heavens nor was the reply. my
friend certainly doesn't want to sleep
in the room with my husband and me-"
We'll, I'm sorry. You have as many
cots as you wish in your bed room.
but no cots can be introduced into
one of our sitting rooms. That is
one of the strictest laws of this hotel"
"weu, all I can say is, said Mrs
Hayman, this hoteS has a very curl
GUS idea of decency But put the cot
in my bed room IL you must them:
and turning to her friend she added
soto voice, 1--WE can shove 1t into the
sitting room ourselves"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
:, S, ss.n =. n s.s arm 4 capable

.stituted. than = man's arm IL capable
lof disobeying his head. p
In. 1892 the people elected Demo.
cleAr-cut issue of tariff reform. Presi.
dent and House tried to carry out the
mandate or the people; but Q maiori.
publicans--heeded only the mandate
Of the big interests. This spring we
have again seen the people in the
ridiculous attitude Of depending for
redress upon q body which was con-
stitpted exactly for the purpose Of re-
fusing redress.
Yet all the shouting II over the cleo.
tion OF President, and whether the
House shall be Democratic or Republi.
can. The far more important thing
control of the Senate by the people,
Is regarded quite languidiy.
Seeing how extremely excited we get
over who shall be the Judge, and how
little we care about the selection OF
the jury. the man from Mars might
die laughing.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
One of the latest theories promulgat-

One of the latest theories promulgat-
ed regarding Leon Ling is that he is
serving as cook on a ship bound for
China. OF course it is only a theory,
for nobody can venture on anything
positive regarding the elusive Celestial.
and this theory will answer very NICE
ly until another is evolved from some
prolific brain. If some one should de-
clare that he has been seen in any city
or town in the Union there would be
nothing gained by disputing It. And
that reminds us that Crazy Snake il
also lost, and no one seems able to find
him. Perhaps they have formed
gether.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
THIS 10 My Seth Birthday
Walter G. COwles.

Captain Walter C. Cowles, of the
United States Navy, was born in Con-
necticut, July IL, 1853. ana received
his early education in the public
uated from the naval academy at An
napolis and during the several years
that followed Ne served on the old
Trenton and the Kearsarge. In 1897
he was on the Marblehead, and the
next year, during the war with Spain,
he served as a member of the equip
ment bureau. His first command was
that of the gunboat Petrol, in 1899.
The following year he was appointed
ordnance officer at Cavite. and then
came two years of service on the
cruiser Brooklyn. In 1866 he COM
manded the cruiser Rainbow and dur
ing the cruise of the battleship fleet
around the world Captain Cowles was
In command of the Kentucky.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
Preserving History.

Huntsville Tribune.
Ar one time the City Of Huntsville
was the capital of the State of Ala
barna and the city Council has passed
an ordinance appropriating sum Of
money to erect a tablet on the spot
where the first State Legislature met
IN 1919 This is good thing and
goes to show that the men and women
Of Alabama are still full of love and
patriotism We can't do too much to
show our love and gratitude for our
ferefathers. Alabama 10 great state
and il will hardly be out Of place here
to mention the fact that she holds to-
day within her sacred soil all that was
mortal of a great man who should
have had a monument erected over his
grave years ago. We refer to ex-Yice
President William r. King. When
he was elected to the office he was In
Cuba for his health and he took the
oath Of office there and died before ne
got home but he was Vice President
OF these United States of America and
there are many States that would have
placed a marble shaft over his grave
long ago and we know that Alabama
would II some one would only take up
the mark and push 1t along.
we are glad to see such movements
put forth as the one in the City Coun-
eli. Let the good work go on. Hunts
willie is a city that has Just cause to be
proud OF her history.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
soclety,s Obligations to Genius.

NoW 1OTk
The pension of $3.50 week granted
by the British government to each OF
the grandchildren of Charles Dickens
is no doubt a mere pittance. But 1t
furnishes no basis for an indictment
of the British public on the score of
a lack of generosity to the descendants
OF its great men. Society is admitted
Nv under obligations to genius. But
must 1t assume the support of the pos
tertty Of genius?
Dickens was one Of the most sue
cessful financially of all authors. His
was no case of genius starving in a
garrett "Pickwick" placed him above
want at twenty-five, and for a period
of thirty years following Its publica-
ton in 1851 he received q princeiy
income from his writings: His Ameri-
can tour brought him $4,000. His
estate at his death in 1870 was esti-
mated at $4,000
That his grandchildren should now
he in need Of the trifling pension be-
slowed on them is painful iiustra-
ton Of the vicissitudes of family Tor
tune. But sentiment should not az
feet the logic of the case. Where the
public has handsomely rewarded an
author during his lifetime the debt
would appear to have been cancelled !;
II is under no obligation to relieve
improvidence in succeeding genera
lions. The children of poets ana men
Of letters have no more claim on IT'S
bounty than the children of statesmen
inventors, explorers or journalists.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11

1t is downright painful to read the
labored efforts of some of the newspa-
per brethren to prove that a johnny
cake Is made of -four. The trouble
with them is that they don't want to
know the truth and will not admit 1t
when 1t is put plainly before them. as
The Advertiser has more than once
done. II they prefer to revel in igno-
rance we can't help 1t. We have done
our duty.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11

Roger. the celebrated French tenor
singer, on one occasion was engaged
for the sum OF 1900 francs to sing at
the house of a rich financier. Roger
sang his first song magnihcent1y; but
no one paid him the slightest attention.
and the guests talked their loudest.
Presently the host thought the time
had come for another song and sent
for Roger He could not be found, and
that evening was seen no more. Next
day a note came from him accompa-
neid by the sum of 1000 francs. The
note ran thus: ct have the honor to re-
turn the 1900 francs which I received
for singing at your party, and beg
leave to add 500 francs more for hav-
ing 30 greatly disturbed the converse
ton of your guests.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
This Date in History
July II.

17OO-William Stoughton appointed
colonial governor of Massachu-
Sets
171e-William Robert Grove, the first
to PROFOUND the doctrine OF the
correlation of forces. born In
Swansea. Wales. Died In Lon
don, Aug. 2. 1905.
1S43--Fremont's expedition sighted
Pixies Peak.
1S79--Wiiiiam Allen, governor of Ohio
1s73-75, died. Born in North
Carolina, In 1907 Is
18S6-Carlisle Graham passed through
the Niagara Rapfds safely in a
barrel.
1S94--Disorders in Sacramento. Cal.
due to riotous railway strikers.
lS9e-Sir Wilfrid Laurier became
Premier of Canada.
1e00-Boers attacked the British out
posts near bridgeport. north or
Pretoria, but were repulsed.
1eOs-Battleship South Carolina
launched at Philadelphia.