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Pickens Sentinel-Jolirn PUBIMSHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNINo. -BY The Sentinol-Journal Company. TvOMPsoN & RICHEY, PRoPs. J. L. 0. THOMlPSON. EDITon. Subscription $1.00 Per Annum. Advertising. Rates Reasonable. Entered at Pickens Fvstoinee an Second OlasE Mail Matter PICKENS, 8. C.: TRURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907. Hogs-The American Swine. This is a dissertation on the Amer iean hog-swine-not the two.legged kind that kick en the hotel service, take up two seats in the railway train, and go through life grunting, grumbling and kicking against every thing in general and nothing in par ticular. but the four-footed, cloven hoofed, swill-sucking animal that, when killed, is good to eat all the way from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. This county spends thousands of dollars annually for pork and bacon, and this money goes to the West when it should stay right amongst us. We have naturally a grain and stock climate here in this Alpine re gion, and it. is.sheer foolishness fot the farmer of to-day to raise cotton and expict Nlo buy all he needs wilt cotton-money. Horse[, mules, cattle, chickens, hogs-all these things cau: be raised hero-along with corn, rye, wheat, oats, potatoes, and all the vegetables and fruits, and each and every one cai, and will, bring good money. All that is needed is a feu good canningfactorie. and a few farImVs to take the lead. There ar< indep)endent fortunes here for th< pioneers in intensified and diversitiei farming. Its possibilities are untoldi But to return "to the hog --tha animal when killed, fresh, at Christ mas timo, gives us sparerib and back bone pie, blood and liver pudding which, in the spring, gives us hop jowl and turnip-greene. and in th early sunuiner furnishes us with bacoi and beaus, and rlater on, when con pany drops im,bow appetizing is a disl of the thoro ugh ly -eutred, homne-raise ham! Howv our nostrils distend a the smell of it frying! Howv oui "tummnick" has that all-gone, weal feeling of hunger when we think o what we are going to have for din ner. It beats chicken, cake and ice cream two in the game, Every year carload after carloa< \I of hogs are shipped to this country but wit a little proper care, arrange ment and expenditure of money hog could be raised here in plenty fo about 3 to 4 cents per pound. Wit I proper pasturage--and it can be hai right here-there is no telling houn cheaply hogs could be raised. The; can be kept from rooting, and whoi turned on rye or barley, to graze will grow fat. The Spanish pea nuti will grow well here, and several ton of beets to the acre can be easil raised. We believe the farmer whc spends his money for hog meat is, t say the least, acting foolishly. Th man wh'lo raises cotton to buy hog meat displays mighty poor judg ment. During the nineteenth con tur, much attention has boon paid to th breeding of live stock. Great im provemnent has Lieon made in all dc niesticated animals, and contagion diseases have been learned to be sue cefully combatted. Agricultura fairs have done much to improve an( encourage the improvement of livi stock, and has forced the breedin~ of pedigreed animals. The swine brought from the Old World throvE and multiplied abundantly in the fo'ests of the Now World, and the Wft'rn frr t(ed themi on mast fin tM i-s poturn nsn coin e fart ed NO INS Company will insure any KIDNEY I Every trace of kidney t UVA Baltimore, Md.. for ney trouble UVA B' A Word to For Sale by p]Q-J]J farmer bad the idea he could buy his1 meat cheaper than he could raise it, so we still keep up the farce of buy ing cheaper meat in the West than we can raise at home. Small Industries. It is the small industry, the diver. sified industry, that pays and pushes a town or community along, just as the smiall farmer, the one who has his various patches -corn, melons, beans, onions, tomatoes, roasting ears, cabbage, etc., and makes some clear money on each one, so it is with the small, diversified industries. They furnish employment of various kinds, and a person does not have to be an artisan to make wages. These industries also make good money for the stockholders. Along this line, we understand there is'ft novoeiont on foot to estab Ii a laundry in Pickens. An expe rtinced man is at the head of the euterpris , and, while ho has capital onougli to establish the plant him beif. he prefers to ni'ek it a stoc C)mpany, and has been offered money b> put it up, Ite is ia Pickens this week looking the fi-ld over, and it is very probabk that before Christmas thc housewives of this town and community can put away their wash tubs and bid defiance to the wash 1r wvorneni. We hope that the people of the town, if they' are approached to take 'stock, will not throw cold water on the proposition, b~ut that they will do all they can to land the enterprise. The Index has been keeping tab Ion the counties of the state to see which leads in two peculiar Southern summer manifestations, to-wit: bar. becues and all-clay singing. At this time, though the season is not quite over, Newberry bas the pennant cincLed for the most barbecues while Oconee county has a good lead over Pickens and Anderson counties for the most all-day singings. -(Glen wood Index. Mr. Taft's "keynote speech" de livered recently at Columbus, 0., bas been received by the press of > the country in a manner that indi cates that it, is a foregone conclusion that he will be the . et l .>ublican nominee for the presidency of the 1United States. As Mr. Taft weighs over 800 pounds and Col.. Bryan Sweighs 250 or thereabouts, the conun try will be treated to a typical fut man's race next fall. The grand-daughter of Stonewall Jackson "ran away" and married re cently. It is not thought that she inherited any of her "running away" ability from her grandfather, though her willingness to get into a fight at any cost looks real Juacksonesqjue. "I am not whipped," says Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi. The gov ern'or h~as got hold( of the wrong Iword. "Tamed" is the article ho was TRANCE one having any trace of 'ROUBLE rouble is eliminated by SOL. aid by the Inter ihemio'tl Co.. of any caseof Kid. ,L vill not help. the Wise! S S DRUG CO. The Atlanta Constitution calls vo cifteously upon the authorities to "finish the new reservoir." That's right. January 1 is rapidly approach itng,and am ple provision for Georgia's prospective increase in water cou sumption must be made. The Chat tauouga Times believes that Senator Carumack may, under certain ciroumt-ainces, accept the governorship of Teuinessee. Evident ly the old Volunteer State meons to keep Carmuck where she can put her hand ou him in emergencies. Some day, says the Boston Trans cript, the little heir to the Krupp millions will be a big gun. For a while, bowt:ier, he will be a small hore. A. l'hiiadelpkia womant 101 years Old comphIns thiat society isn't as livelv as it used to bt. Giddy thiog! With Kn.tucky ta'king about state prohibition, even Milwautkee may be gin to giet rid of bor farmt sme da-y. The Nurse's Vocation. The distinction between the wo nimn to whom nursing is a vocation an1d the woman who merelY earns her living by nursing is II very real one, al though it is a very difficult oneI to define. A nurse may be full of faults and yet have a true voca tion, while, on the other hand, a woman of the most estimable type may b~e lacking in the smallest spark of the divine fire. The vocation for nursing leaps out from the hum blest as wiell as from the highest homes in the kingdom. Its one shining mark is its vitality.-Hos pital. ________ Wouldn't Puff the War. Napoleon III. had given orders that reporters should not be per mitted to accompany the French troops as reporters. His reason was characteristic: "The effects of our 'mitrailleuses' will be so terrible, and those writers will make such de scriptions of them, that our battles will impress people as mere maus sacres, and everybody will have a horror of them." A reporter of Le Figaro, Alfred d'Aunay, was so in dignant at the emperor's order that he exclaimed: "Very well, then. We will not puff this war!" How a Dog Keeps Cool. Professor E. LA. Tronessart of the Paris Museum of Natural History, ia a lecture on animal heat, remarked that the dog, whose reiirations in re pose number only twenty-fiv'e or thirty per minute, may in running acquire a rate of respiration as hIgh as 350 per minute. The effect of this acceleratlon favors the dissipation of aninal heat by evaporation from the pulmonary v'esicles. Tihe (log p~erspires very little or not at all b~y the skin, pulmnonaury taking the place bf cutaneous trans piration. It is this fact wvhleh enables the (log to pursue its gamemt so long and persistently. Aninals of the cat family, on the other hand, do not pos sess this peculiarity, anud for that reason tigers, panthers and Jions lie in wait for their p~rey, but (10 not pur' SUe It over* long dlistances. The bird possesses pulmonary transpiration in a very high degree. "Pa, whly (10 they call all sailors 'old salts?'" "Because the..e aren, oe al [HE SUMMEH Is far advanced but we are still SODA ::"" V that can be Our Soda Water business has, in< we are very thankful to our friends ; Always remember that the nost the very best goods for your mone3 BOLT 8 UP-T0-DATE 0 Pickens, HIGH GRAD SHOE R p Are good shoes. They look well wear well. They represent that rar of shoe excellence, style and cc --united. King Quality shoes interest men wl particular about their shoes. 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