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P1ekus SduiIeI-01Joura1 ygM.vJsHED IVERY THURSDAY MORNING. -BY The Sontinel-Journal Company. TDOM PBON & RIoHEr. PRops. J. L. O. THOMPSON. EmTon. Subscription $1.00 Per Annum. Advertising Rtttes Reasonable. Entered at Piokens outofee as Second Clans Mail Matter PICKENS, S. C. : THURSDAY, APRIL 4 1907. Says La Rocheloucauld: "We are never so happy or so unhappy as we eThe beauty about being a con gressman is that you can spend mil uons of other people's money and not get into troable. When Theodore Roosevelt Icaves the White House, jocularly asks the Macon Telegraph, what will our ex-presidente do with us? The supreme court in a lengthy opinion holds that Gov. Ansel had full power to remove the late dispenf - ary board. That settles it. A soldier serving in the Philip pines was court-martialed- for steal ing a bar of soap valued at eight cents and sentenced to bard labor for six months. He made the mit take in not taking a whole box of soap. He then might have got a few days ati bard labor. Why is it that nearly everybody who attends church likes to sit in tht end of a seat and bold onto it lik, grim death and every person wh( gets a berth in that pew must stum We over them? Well, we confess wt we do that sort of a thing. It is t, get'out quickly in ease- of fire--- w, sinners are quite strongly remindet of tire, flames and britmtom that is pursuing us, and we can't ttI just ",Kactly wnou it is going to come We want to be in position to make quick get-a.way. "In the beginning God created th heavens and the earth and all thin(l therein." He then created wan ame woman and loft the loafers on thi corners, Aned in duo time they multi plied and then spread into postolliee. and depots and thme stores. In them places the:y sit and explain state an< national problems that have ve.xe great minds. WhliIe they are thu, engaged their wives are out w ailhing for their neighbors, and the poor helpless children are left at hi:>n taking care of themselves as best the can. There isi nothing more niotic. able than a loafer. Piokens is a pretty desirable place in which to live, and wve believe ald who reside therein, are well satisfie' with the progress the town is making There is b)ut little talk and bluster but the town islhaving a healthy and4 substantial growth, for when the business me~n decide they want a thing they simply go after it, anud get it. They decided tb'ey wvere ins need of a school building and built one that would be a credit to any town. Work had begun on the cot ton mill before a laa/ge umi.rity of the people of the county had heard of the prlojetct. Thle streets were dark and light must be had, and the business men mtet in the P~ickenms Drug Co.'s store one iglt, minlkd the atter over, Muhseeailed t.he money tand let the conatraict. The plant is on lie grouni (1ad it is satfe to say that one halft the people in the corporate hmi,its haoo not learn ' that P'icenis hats come out ito'th lighat. Those aire the kind of people that butiIld towns. New dwilliaags are gointg uP in) alI sections of the town tand 'lio amoniat of goods sold in this town would ho a revelation to the uninitiated. P'ickens is all right., because shiu is backed by the right men with the right spirit- cruakers to the contrary.. " C 16 L m a CL. 0 COj 00 '0z U I,f od r-4 C I) ;-O r O2 Q 0 0 ao o o 4.. - 4-' O -o 41 O O f O o 5 a- o cd g c -4 o o y forf H. M. A er, editor of the that Times, says ex-Gov. H-eywar, a so elected U. 8. senator next ya runs. i(yward is a migi man, and the senastorial tog )t.jO" set well upon him. sir_ Man has boen atteim a t g races for thon ands of years .I probably ('0 alinue to(<l( so< ayafter tiLe aut(.mobilej shallihi n gerj succeeded by some other 'v invention. Thelu horsieless neOvar appear if its comling is "' in oat on the aul'.mobile or ai: the inanimalto invention su1pplani FOUr- h)orso in the affections of the ailled The beauty of IIh i lm., his nany neck and3( (jniverin. iiost , he haughty movements, all al lrave9 the eye L.O-day even as they i ople, sands of years ago. Men a% the bient funtis to gratify their j. io in will continue to pany fabulo. for horses until the end of tij o o W ~ o c H R c , o > S. W . '-' . a rn . w c~cis 8 r/ 0 c-USc w p: -3 Or,.. 8 CA 4)o e4 e~~ 10- - 0 75-e .s c -d as aweC n.j c 'i C ? o ?'H- w C n o 4-J 0 O C3C~ Ci .0 4.) O* -* cn 'J o o - V -a o c U |0 a o0 .= 8U U crU n _ 0 - .4 e in' 1-r ( ) e o4~ 4-J. cis cd rU .0o.0 e V -- -~-a og I will be a, if-h OyOgood - a wou. fo Emen for the Si0 0 .1.Prc 25 c,hi d e C orFeeBoke AdresDr ar0 i . i ('d U. 7c~ C.D o.0 A