The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-11-19


1t is about time to think
ing about Christmas shopping.
The Fountain Inn Tribune says the
banks OF Fountain Inn are complain
ing because there is little call for
loans. Look out for a visitor!
In describing the. scene of n recep-
tion given by Wofford boys at Carlisle
Hall in Spartanburg the other even
ing, a contributor to The Spartanburg
Journal, evidently a Wofford swain,
mentions among the decorations" a
bevy of Converse girls. Continuing, he
so far forgcts his sense of chivalry and
displays such Il lack of appreciation of
beauty as to say that the frocks worn
by the young ladies were the most
beautiful decorations of the evening.
Shame on that boy! He ought never to
be allowed within the walls o. Con-
verse again.
Memory Gems or Short Quotations.
is the title OF a booklet Just issued
from the press by n. O. Plyes, a one
time resident of his county but now
living in Columbia. As the name sug-
gests and the preface tells us, the
booklet consists of short quotations
and fragments OF thought picked up"
by the editor and chosen because of
their beauty and aptness of thought
and expression. The contents are ar-
ranged in alphabetical order. making
a very convenient reference book. The
editor has placed Il medium price upon
the booklet, fifteen cents, in order, he
says, to place it in the reach of every
school bog and girl in the country.
Col. Cheshire, WHO recently sold The
Anderson Intclligcnccr to a stock
company sedns to have bccn very
happy in Tie selection of a name for
his new paper. Chcshire's Harpoon.
We say Il happy selection, for the
first whale" that Cheshire harpoon-
ed was the stock company to whom
he sold his old paper. We gather from
an editorial statement (without com
menD of The Worthwhile Enquirer, that
the colonel was bound by a contract
not to publish another paper in An
derson for a term OF years. but that he
does not now consider tile contract
binding because The I~ntelligcnccr was
owned in his wife's name.
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Had Col, Sam j. Nichols thought of
precedent as ii affects military honors
and political glory, he would have
hardened back to the time of the
Sp2nish-Amcrican war when Wyatt
Aiken and IL r. p. Hobson laid the
foundations. or rather touched off the
fuses, that bio. them into congress.
Col. Aiken at that time was court
a mighty good one at that. Not only
was he a good s~tenographer. but he
was a good mixer (not drinks, Sam) -,
learning all the people and cementing
iiShuoIi!o VII tNclS sue. POSSIBLY
he had an eye OF that congressiona
seat then and. If he did, nobody holds
it against hBm fer he had a right to
aspire to represent his people in Wash
ington. Anyhow. he was coming along
fine. He had learned all the men in
the district. knew most of the women
and was getting acquainted with the
boys and girls right along when at a
propitious moment Uncle Sam called
for volunteers to chase the Spaniards.
What did Wyatt do. Apply for a Job as
colonel, to be up among the bon tons?
Not, by a jug-full; not Wyatt. He roll
ed down the top Of his desk, put the COW
er over his typewriter, swung the train
for Columbia and signed up to serve his
country as a private. Now, of
course, Wyatt wasn't the man to stay
a private; his superiors knew that and
so did he. Pretty soon he had some
kind of commission or other and, af-
ter various vicissitudes Of fortune
during which the Spaniards were
efectually squelched leaving US
with Cuba and Porto Rico large
ly on our hands and the bag to hold