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THE PICKENS SENTINEL:JOURNAL Entered April 23, 1903 at Plakeus, S. C. as second elass matter, under act of Congress of March 3, 1879 39th Year PICKENS. S. C., SEPTEMBER 16, 1909. Number 17 Trusts Are Grow img Stronger; They Must Be Repressed. _%> >% By SAMUEL UNTERMYER. New York Lawyer. IIENEVER the government really wants to bring the e riiminal rich who are managing these conspiracies that are notoriously violating the criminal law within thpen: f that law it will not be difficult. THERE NEVER HAS BEEN AN HONEST, IN + TELLIGENT EFFORT TO ENFORCE THE AMPLE PROVISIONS OF THE LAW AGAINST ANY OF THE MONSTER MO NOPOLIES. The governinent has had no trouble in convicting and driving out of business a few pjoor, struggling, comparatively HARMLESS COMBINATIONS which were put together to prevent bankruptcy and secure a small profit. But the financial buccaneers who have been "holding up" the country in the necessities of life, keeping out foreign competition through the tariff at one end and crushing home competition at the other until the increase in the cost of living is alarinmin, have remained innunie until every lawyer who has had to deal with this big question knows that the PRETENDED "EN FORCE1ENT" OF TIUE LAW IS A HUGE FARCE. Every time the government has had a chance to enforce the crim inal I)rovisions of the law-which constitute the only effective part, the others beinE mainly academic-IT HAS RUN. There are al ways so many reasons fqor not doing things that it is never difficult to find one. WE ALL KNOW THAT THE ANTI-TRUST LAW IS BEING OPENLY FLAUNTED AND VIOLATED EVERY DAY BY SOME OF ERFUL MEN IN THE LAND. ther it looks as if the POWER OF THESE MEN TOO N[CI[ FOR THE GOVERNMKENT. The evidence of crimes has been for years available to the public authorities if they would go abouUt their task as they do in ferreting out smugglers, counterfeiters, postofivie tlhieves and other classes of criminals. We are t,hl by a certain section of the press-and some gentle men around \Val street are*" regaining their smug conlence in that belief-tlat there las beeii a REACTION IN PUBLIC MIND) agai n-t what t1y are pleased to call "a ese crin ia1 conspiraes. FOR THE SAKE OF THE COUNTRY LET US .4E GEN TLEMEN ARE MISTAKEN, FOR IF THEY ARE ... 'WE SHALL HAVE AN UPHEAVAL HERE AS COMPARED TO WHICH THE MILD AND HARMLESS EXPER!MENTS OF THE LAST ADMINISTRATION WILL SEEM L!KE A MIDSUMMER ZEPHYR ALONGSIDE A CYCLONE. THESE POOLS AND COMBINATIONS ARE GROWING STRONGER AND MORE NUMEROUS. IND.IVIDUAL ENTERPRISE IS BEING STRANGLED. UNLESS THEY ARE BROUGHT WITHIN THE CLUTCH OF THE CRIMINAL LAW AND DESTROYED THE FUTURE IS FRAUGHT WITH DANGER. THE ONLY WAY TO REGULATE THEM IS TO BURY THEM. America's Taste For Good - Music Is Improvinga. By REGINALD DE KOVEN. Musical Critic and Composer. J7 EGITF1 MATE lighit oper.a was alnost the sole form of jmusical t heatrical entertaiinmenit twventy years ago-I mean opera of the tyhpe created by Offenba ch, Suppe, Johann Strauss and Sir Arthur Sullivan. But the theater going public at that time was small as compared with the presen(it dbiy and generally composed of more or less CUL TURE PE iiOPLE. As the theater became more and more the re sort of thie 3iASSES the average of intelligence and the popularity of iIGH ChLSS COMIlC OPERA DECLINED together as farce comiely, largely conmposed of the vaudeville element and ovf pop".r sougp having no particular viaiyor merit, grew in popui ilar favor. IN THE MEANTIME, HOWEVER, SUCH MUSIC AS WE HAVE HAD HAS BROUGHT MUSIC TO A HOST OF PEOPLE THAT NEVER GAVE IT CONSIDERATION BEFORE AND, EVEN THOUGH IT -MARKED. A DETERIORATION IN MUSICAL TASTE FOR A TIME, IT LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MUSt-CAL CULTURE THAT 2-AS AT LAST BANISHED THE COON SONG AND RAGTIME FROM THE PLACE THEY HELD SO LONG IN POPULAR FAVOR AND HAS BROUGHT ABOUT AN APPRECIATION OF A BETTER CLASS OF MUSIC THAN PREVAILED FIVE YEARS AGO. That we now have an ENORMO0US PUBLIC THAT IS EOND 01F GOOD) MUSIC is shown by the great vogue grand opera has been having in the large centers of p)opullation the last few years. We Are -Nearing the End of Cheap Food. By Professor EUGENE DAVENPORT. Dean of the University of Ullinois. I Nanother hiundred y-ears the population of the United States will be one h illioni four- hi dred million, or more than four hundred to the square mile of territory. ANYWAYYOU CAN FIGURE IT, WE ARE NEAR THE END ANY CHA FOD IN THIS COUNTRY, WHICH MEANS THAT THE OPULHAIO FISO BEGINNING TO OVERTAKE THE FOOD SUPPLY. POUeATINinre1e podulctioni vet manyv fold by means of better metods moe itensive practice and thme requisition of undeveloped mcethdbut the inEST LAND) HAS BEEN DEVELOPED, its fr .crevs, bee olei 0le1(5 DEP~4.ETIED, and some of it has already benAANDON ED. While I have no desire to pose as a p)rop aet bn tl est OiitYC I am ready to venture the opinion that and sA11 tEE TlE LAST OI CHEAP WHITE B3READ) IN TIS COUNTRY. THETIM ISCOING WHEN THE LANDLESS FAMILY WILL BE AT A TREMENDOUS DISADVANTAGE, BECAUSE EACH NEW INDIVIDUAL MUST SHIFT FOR HIMSELF. CVlIC SPIRIT'S VALUE Important Factor In Winning Home Trade. PUBLICITY MEANS PROGRESS. Rightly Used, It Is an Engine For In dividual and Municipal Advance ment-How a Newspaper and Com mercial Club Can Boost a Town. When all is said and done it is the spirit of a people that inm.kes their in stitutions. This applies to towns and cities as well as to socities aid la tions. In the work of winning home trade and of town growth Iand iliprovemieut it I the spirit of the merchants and of the citizens that counts. This is an1 age of intelleCt :nd of iU tellectual forces. We are realizing inure and nore that mintd rules. This truth applies to all departlitents of life. It applies with especial force to the building of a in niiality. Iemove the p re.snt inhiabitants from any American city and ptt al eti:ll inumliber of Zulus in their plavis an1d what would be the resultC. D>espite all modern imiprovemitents. twentieth cen tury builiings, ele\atawrs, teleplhones, telegraph. street cars, water, gas and electricity. palatial Ioilles and the rest, that city in ten ye.rs would be but a Zulu habitation, the imlodorin iiprove ments wrecked, grass growilng in the streets. iall progress obliterated and eV rythiing reverted to sa vagery'. Suppose tILe proces wee reversed and the AnWrican inihbitants of any city were removed to the imiddle of Zululand. What then wouhI happen In ten yeatrs they would have builded 11 city on tuoderti liles. The twentieth entury buildings, street c:r1s. w:ller. as aId electricity. teleplonVS lalaitl hiomes and all iuodern ipilroveimeln-ts would be ra-itred as if by uin_ic. The pteople atre tie city. Gie their constructiv-e spirit and the outet iaiii festation follows as a nu.itter of4 course. When Chicago burned inl tlie seven ties a new and greater city arose in its pkice. The people were uinldaunted. Their spirit was more deterniined than before. When San Francisco wits de <troyed by earthlquake and Iire the whole world was thrilled by the sillen dlid courage and cleerfultess of the inhabitants. The spirit of tle peol!e rose triIIIIphIINtL :and aISS!ku1redL a new San Francisco better 1han the old. It is ever so. The spirit of a town or ity determine what tlait to-wn or city will be. If there is united Purlpose. energy and will all other things are added. The first work to do In upbuildin.g. beautifying antd pr(inomllnlg any nitnici pality is to arolse pllic spirit. P'eople tilust ielieve inl their town. must have faith In Its future, must Unite for its o-:'I'ss. There is lo roomu for fault. finders. knockers, reactioaries aitd dlead-alive bu man en titles ont tIle car of progress. Only those who belIeve, wvho have courage atd whot' work belong there. The constructive spirit Is the spIrit of Amnericanisml atnd of the new age. What every towni that would become t greater and better townl neetds is this Infusion of spirit, of optimiism,i of unit Anything thait helps tol entgendetr thIs spirit anmd lpurpiose should be welcomed. Anything that dampens or retairds It should lie elliinated. Amonig t he miost powerful public Rgecies in bunilding cIvic spirIt are the The newspatpet' comes) first, for In this day the press is the greatest power in tle world. This is no idle boast, but is reconized by every stud(enit wvho hats rue insigh t. No onle can miieasuire the inf luencte of oneo ptublic spirit ed. progressive, wide olly butilds local spidrit, but It ad ver ises thle town to te wotrld. It sows the seeds .oh suggestioni. I'eople are shapI ed anmd in flueinced by It uncon seously. If It is at papter of the right ot It uniieis senttimenCt for the towvn, sti's thle citizens to atct in, bring~s im provemeinit. iinduces others to coime. Citizens who want to help the commu nity In whichl thiey lIve can do no bet ter than to erge thte local editor to take up the cause of i:trger trade and town implrovement and11 lien stand1( beindii that editor, boost ine' his circubationi. ils advertisinig andi( his power for gooid. l'ulicity is thle ilm.lic wortd of out' times. It mieanis commitlerce; It meanlfs p'ogess; it meantlis corre'cttin; It means sictCs. lighltly used It is an engzine for individuail itnd civic atdvaneent. If you would boost your town, boost your locail press~ and set it to pr~eIihing the gspel of townf aldvan(emen'it. Side by side with the newspaper goes the commierciail club. It is an 01 g nic thIng anid reaches peole the use of orgamile, united ac'tiont. lIn or'ganizat ion the sttrengthI of' the untit incretises in gome(trie t'atito. 'lTe indi vidual is raIsed to the itth power. This is but aniothier waty of statinag tIle old and trite ma ximi that in tinitn is strengthI. The 'onuneir('ial Iclub boa 1:rd of trade. .wtow iiprvleen s ciet y o r other )ody~ of like purpose. (':lled4 by whiat ever ntame It may be, serves at (loublIe prpoe. It lbo th eitgentder's pulIe sinit and furnishtes a mi eanis of its ex pressIon. It inake's peophe wanit abet ter tow and:11( furnishes tem til a; nue through wich to get a lolltor to wn. In it tle pro'grlessives si tinte the lag gards antd the w idea wakes open01 the eyes of tile dnillards. The coimmercial club makes atdvanicement and .trade winmning fashionable. Advertise and organiize. Themse are the two watchwords of townI improve mnt. And iSways and everywhere build up the civic spirit of the people. J.A. EDGERTON. The New Summer Capit IE long discussion over the re vision of the tariff disarranged thelans of President-Taft to take up his residence about the 1st of July In the lotfse he has rent ed for the summer at Beverly, Mass. But he (lid not wish to keep his fani ily in Washington on account of ne cessities of state. so be decided to es cort themi to Beverly and then return to Washington after participating in several patriotic functions in New England and New York state. Whether or not the president himself gets any ciaiiee to recuperate his energies dur Ing the hot months amid the cooling breezes which blow from 'Massachu -etts bay will depend on the circum stances pertaining to the debates and conferences of the statesmen at Wash ington in their deliberations over re vision of the tarIff schedules, etc. The chief magistrate feels that his wIfe needs a relief from her cares as mistress of the executive mansion. Her health has Improved, however, since her nervous breakdown a few weeks ago from overstrain in social (uties, and it is hoped a quiet sum mer will r4store her to her normal degree of health. Her daughter, Helen, will be with her at Beverly. and also the two sons, Charlie. the mischievous youngster whose pranks have amused so many White House visitors, and Robert, now a dignilled Yale man. a ivmbiher of Skull and Bones and of PhI Beta Kappa and winner of ra rious honors. scholastic and other wise. Mrs. Taft's he:tlt' is Improving so much that the president and his family miight be able to make their I cotemplted western trip later i the suminer if congress adjourneil In time to give the president a little rest In between. But the chances of this are not encouraging, and If he were kept in Washington until late in the sum VERANDA OF THlE sUMMER WHITE HOUSE AT BIEvERLY AND UNITAiRIAN cHLUI. mer lie would hardly wannt to start out on a long and necessarily fatiguing journey without getting a rest first. Oyster Bay has beent for so many yers the summer capital of the UnIt ed States that it Is hard to think of Beverly. M1ass, as enjoying that dis tinctiont. The Stetson cottage, which the president rented for the summer. Is ont Woodhuiry's Point. frontting Mans lscustetts hay, to the cast of the more thickly settled part of Beverly and about nineteen miles fronm Boston. The liouse, though called a cottage. is a large hut quite unpretentious dwell Ing, two and one-harf stories high, sttding it the midst of spacious grounds. Its south sIde facing the bay. From Its wide veranda an attractive view in the direction of M1arblehead Is obtaned. The Stetsont cottage Is In easy motor ing dIstance of the M1yopia Hunt club at Hamilton. where M1r. Taft when ever lie is at Beverly wvill have at his disposal an eighteen hole golf course, coverintg some 180 acres of land. Near t-he end of Woodbury's Point is a sall pier runninig out into ileep wa ter. whtich may be used as a lantding pace. The governmlentt yacht Sylph. commanded by Lieutenantt Roger Wi'l Iiams, was recently ordered to Beverly so that it might be ait the dIsposal of the presidenit during the summer whetever he chooses to use it. Quarters it a businies.) block on Ca )ot street, Beverly. have been offered by the Beverly boatrd of trade to the presidenit for execuitive offices when ever he wishes to make use of them. The ol Unitariant church In the same ton, in the familiar New England "meetintg house" style of architecture, will doubtless witness scenes of inter est in the course of the summer and have congregationts of unwonted size whencm it is antticipated that President Tft wvill attentd the services. Beverly, f course. is very proud of the (listinec tiom it enjoys as the suntmer capital. But it and1( that portiont f! Mlassac-hu setts are used to distinguishted people, for the shores 4)f 3assachusetts bay in this neighborhOood have int late years becomie time sites of summer homes -.,i by many en of note. The World Of Books M ARK TWAIN recently gave some advice to sweet girl graduates which was a little out of the ordinary In the way of commencement speeches. It was at the graduation exercises of St. Timothy's school in Catonsville, a sub urb of Baltimore. "'There are three things," s.tid the humorist, -that young ladies shou:d never do on any occasion. "First, don't smoke-that is, nuot to excess. I am seventy-three, and for seventy-three years I have smoked to excess, so I am a living example. "Second, don't drink-that is, to ex cess. "Third, don't marry-that is, to ex cess. "And now If you young ladies will refrain from all these things you will have all the virtues that any one will honor and respect." Twain then said he wished to (:rlve It home that honesty Is the best po!ioy. "I remember when I had just writ ten 'Innocents Abroad,'" he said. "My partner and I wanted to start a news paper syndicate. We needed $3 and did not know where to get it. While we were in a quandary I espied a val uable dog on the street. I picked up the canine and sold him to a man for $3. Afterward the owner of the dog came along, and I got $3 from him for P::: sAMUEL L. CL~EMi:Ns (MAlIK TW.IlN) telling him where the d'-r wa~s. So I went back and gave the s-': to the iL whoini I sold1 it to, and( I have livedL honestly ever' since." Years ago, during Miark Tw'~ain'S journalistic care'er and before' pros perity had reached him. he found him self with a note coming due and a total lack of funds wvith which to meet it. Ialf distracted, he wvas rushing round the city in a feverish hunt f'or funds to tide him over the trying time, iIe rushed a little too quickly. however. for as the tall humorist was turnint: a corner he collided with a little man and overthrew him. The victim re gained his feet and yelled: "You do that again and T'll knock you into the middle of next week." "My dear sir." said the apologetic humorist, "do it by3 all meatns. If I can get through till then without breaking I'm safe." Rludyard Kipling has always been keenly interested in hospital work. and when he spoke at the dlistributiont of prizes at the Middlesex hospital hei eifessed that "but for the infinite mercy of I"iovidence" he would have been a doctor. WVhen he was sixteen he was intended for the practice oif medicine. but he gave up the study later. But the author must have r'e taned some of his lear'ninzg. and he put it to the test wvhen with the troops in South Africa. IIe struck a goid time with a comnpany vf Tononies on one occa':sioni. a ndl th., dayV a fler h i- de )arture the c'apltain re cie f'rom him a packet contatinin;r. t wo '"hotiles of dosed with it-for coli' i thrt if p )resering the mnedicine : a n;emet1I. of the-.anthoir. but he~ n.oll s.vallowed it ins5tead( and pamssod the word to his orades. lBefoire the day' was over "R. K.'s Cotliv - .ii:n re" was as well known In camp as "The Absentminded eggar." It is no~t knmnm i' lat Kipling has giv en his name to;any mnedicine sinee. "The Mant From Itreduey's." by George -Barr Mlet 'utc'hie'n. spr.ta inlto instant, popuirity wi'en published iast October. It has bteen. one of the "six best 'sellers" since thenpand isenowv at the height of its The frequency of __ lmaxes is a vey4 strong point in that interest is not for a moment. allowed to lag. It gets a grip on the readers attention andl holdS ;t from chapter tio chapter. . . . ' Te E . On the 26jth~ ofG.BMCTIEN July Mr. McCisteheon w'ilrlebratei his fort-thir'd iiIthday. Hie w;as bon' on a far im in 'Tippe'canoe munty. id. tad, being a 'Hoosier, it was neceessary, of course, that he bek into literature. ie did it through journallismf. like so many :iuthors of the (lay. His first successful story. "Graustark." was publishedg in~ 190(0. He has about{ ten works'of fVi 'tion toihi.s credit now. ... ... ... What Authors Are Doing 0 That versatile author and naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, though he haE not escaped censure for alleged nature faking by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, declares that the former president is justitied In his lion hunt in Africa, as lions are a pest. and as vermin among animals he maintains they ought to be destroyed. It is quite possible that the nature faking query may be raised again in connection with Mr. Seton's new book. "The Biography of a Silver Fox," which has for its purpose, in the au thor-s own words, "to show the man world how the fox world lives and, above all, to advertise and emphasize the beautiful monogamy of the better cla:ss fox." "The story of Domino Reynard," s:iid Mr. Seton, "gives the life history of a fox in the form , fiction. It is fiction founded on fact, on my own ob servations, extending over a period of many years. Domino Reynard, the hero of the story, is a composite of some twenty or thirty foxes that I have watched as they appeared either in a wiid state or tamed in different households. Among other moral quali ties which I have thus discovered In the fox is a strong monogamous tend eney in his family relations, and that is something which I have emphasized in my story." Ernest Thompson Seton. who start ed out in life as Ernest Evan Seton Thompson. will be forty-nine Aug. 14 next. Ile was born in the north of England; but, as he himself says, he was really born and began to think on the plains of the Assiniboine In 1882. Ills education has been a curious com bination of Toronto college, London Royal academy, roughing It on the Manitoba plains, study under Henri mosler in Paris, more wild life, this time in-the Currumpaw region of New Mexico, and study again in Paris with Gerome, Bouguereau and Ferrier. To this unusual training and environment is due much of the rare charm of his hooks. "The Biography of a Grizzly," "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag," --Wild Animals I Have Known," "LIves of the Hunted." "Woodmyth and Fable" and now, best of all, "The Biography of a Silver Fox," his latesi contribution to animal lore. Iamlin Garland has turned fron wNAritin.-g romances-and stirring ones toi-of the Indians and the westerr phiins to the production of dramas. One almost regrets that Mr. Garland stopped writing such stories for the present, even though he Is bringing hi4 genius to bear on the production of - HAMLIN GARLAND. drama. And that will surely mean a Igood thing for the stage. As In the past. Mr. Garland will doubtless put in a good wvord for the red man occasion ally. whom he has befriended to such good advantage in his novels. Speaking of the motive for his changm he said: "There are several reast .s why] have decided to write nothing but playm -for sonme time to come at least.] suplose the first one is that a dram atist has opportunity for reaching a far, far greater number of people thai has a novelist. "The modern drama is intimate, and it demands a small auditorium. All the signs point to more intimacy, t( finer work, not to spectacular dramas. Tiha.t is where the managers go wrong in my opinion. They work for large effects, and they work to appeal to the very largest audiences possible. Now, large audiences are not usually highly Intelligent audiences. There will be intelligent people In them, of course ut the general average is not high. Wen I am in New York I live a,t the Players. And, dear me, every young manm in the club-and some who aren't so young-is writing a play! But how ennm the(y expc(t to do anything wortl wvhile when they simply vibrate be. tweeni managers' officemand the clubi The tro,ule is we don't as a natiQr understand the artistic joy of creation A writer must concentrate, must plan must be alone with his idea, so that h' ein get at the soul of it. And then h' must work It out with all the crafts mianship of which he is capable." Belgium has heretofore been classe as a low priced country, and the loi Icost of living attracted there a larga class of foreigners, who lived almos Iluxuriously on modest incomes. whic] in other lands would barely have coi ered absolute necessities. Now, hotw JAPAN AND THE FOURTH. Takahira as Independence Day Orator In Independance Hall. One would scarcely look to Japan for an orator upon the subject of the:adop tion of the Declaration of Independ ence. But in Philadelphia, where the birth of the nation occurred 133 years ago, the city's councilmanic commit tee in arranging for a patriotic cele bration in the old Independence hall extended an invitation to Baton Ko goro Takahira, the Japanese ambassa dor to th# United States, to make the principal address of the occasion. The committee arranged also for his recep tion by city officials at the city hall and his escort from that builDg to Independence hall by a proceIon'In cluding, be ies various mil;tary bod les, members of the Society of Descend ants of Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Gatherings by the lat ter society in the historic Christ church, where Washington. Franklin and so many other Revolutionary pa triots were accustomed to worship, were also planned for Sunday, July 4, the celebration in Independence hall being on the 5th. Ambassador Takahira Is a great ad mirer of this country's institutions and 4315 SAON TAKAMIMA AND IDEPENDENCE HALL, PEILADELPHIA. is doing much to influence his own na tion to copy them in many ways in the development of a government by the people in Japan. The baron will nake a visit to Japan soon. One of the subjects to be discusse by the Japanese foreign oMce with the ambassador is a revision of the treaty of commerce and navigation with the United States, which, with a protocol regarding passports, the application of the Japanese tariff to. American im ports, etc.. will expire in 1911. Japan has treaties along similar lines with the other great powers, but they ex pire by limitation in 1910. This gives the United States a decided advantage in dealing with Japan in the revision of its treaty, as this country will be in a position to ask concessions made to other countries and perhaps additional ones. Japan would like to begin ne gotiations now with the United States with a view to revision, so that the new treaty may become operative at the same time as those negotiated with o4her countries, but the Washington administration does not favor it.. ROYALTY IN NORWAY. The Queen and Her Son and the Demo cratic Ways of the Court. The life of the royal family of Nor way is very beautiful, it Is so open and democratic and devoid of the feeling of superiority to the masses that char- - acterizes many of the courts of Eu rope. Queen Maud and her little boy, Prince Olaf, are extremely popular with the Norwegians, partly because. - the queen is so unpretentious in her relations with them. As the Princess. Maud of England she was quite un conventional and liked to behave as other girls without royal blood and its TEE QUEEN OF NORWAY TEAcING~ PaIC! OLAF TO BEAD. accompanying restictions usually do. She would often do things which shocked her more conventional rela tives, but notwithstanding this was. quite a favorite with her uncle, the: king. Her democratic ways suit the Norwegians, and both she and her hus band, King flaakon. seek to adapt themselves. to the circumstances under which they came to be rulers of this branch -of the Scandinavian race. The. king belongs to the royal~ family of rDnmasr.