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Pickns Sentinel-Journa] IF'UBmSBRD BVERTY THURSDAY MORNING. -r-BY The Sontinel-ournal Company. TDOMiSON & RICHEr. PROPs. J. L. 0. TIOfMPSON, EDITOn. Subsoription $1.00 Per Annum. Advertising Bates Reasonable. Mitered at Pickens Frstomee an second Class Mail Matter PICKENS, S. C.: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 1907. A JUNK HFAP. This is the time of year when, in the course of everte, bills are due and being paid. Tbis year, the price of cotton bas hindered many bills being paid. The merchants have mortgages and liens to make them secure of their money fur guano and supplies advanced and can foreclose when these papeis fall due. They are not doing so from the fact that they want to show their patrons, the farmers, every courtesy and consid oration. But suppose they did ft ra close: Wouldnu they be the possess: ole of veritable "junk shops," for their papers call for a heap of unique and peculiar things-doge, cow. mules, horses, wagons, farming tools. household and kitchen furniture, clothing, ete,, in fact, anything and everything is usually specified in one of these papers to secure the pay ment of a debt. Presuming that the merchants of thie' town had these pr pere and were to agree to all fort close on a certain date, and a certain date thereafter sell the plunder they had taken in, nouldn't it be a sight to behold! We hope they won't fore. close. So much for generalities, Now for some personalities. This paper bas no ironclad papers on anyone for what anyone owes it. It presumes everyone with whom it deals to be the soul of honor, and only by their own acts toward us do we have ren. son to know that they are dishonest. When they deny, or refuse to pay an account, do we class them. With very limited capital to operate on, with a weekly expense roll of $60 tc be mot, with 90 per cent. of the inr' tbusiness .yet nncollected an'd intepockets of our. friends (?) we are constrainied to do somethting to relieve the situation. Money we wan, and .money wo must have. To'( facjiitale maultters with our friends nho still want. t ( hol their cottony, wve hiave opcieed a '"junk hea p," andl w ill take imiules, horses, hiogs, cittle, wagonIsk, buggies, do gs, ses.i g mnchinsfiurniture, ehi:ekeni -, cor-u, forl r, hay and( gi ain, allowing Ilho marivket prr for smnew, aund credit t hese itemils onl subs 'criptionII1001 acunts as far a hey w ill go. If we cat turnl lheu, inito cash, or I n~y thle print - ers, <r buy machelin ry and pay-r i, or pay.~ our deh-bis, or t rade them to the merchants fi or clothinig iand rai on, If . u l> not Oare to y itroin::- thei 'ju1: h ea ," wet aree ini t he < fi--et ( day i ihewi. rn utrc p Teiaix.(' cInd iri eln svl;I it1' beoth r, thet eildy trouible.jt ilthee i: moreip mOnovi jin the handisl of the pen plan <ver lbtfore, iuad this [t( wsonly realized after the coltonti sea'-on weVlt opeiitd - -hence the '"bot tomii had1 to dropij t-"t'-until sonme provnuon oui l be h made. The pro. viion'l i'- nlow madite, 1-nd( the p~rice of cotton is raid~ly advancing, and1( by Chritmas we aro sure, it will be not l1'aS than, 12'e per pound. 8e11 0ff a do likewise. Don't be afraid of the banks --theZ were never soupder ur in better flian cial condition. If you breve any sur plus money put it in the banks. I will go out through tile char nels o. trade, finally reach you, and get bael again to the bank. There Is nothing like confidene, The confidence you have in yowi neighbor. your preacher, your town, your bank, your merobant, youi country, the confidence each one hat in each other is what keeps th wheels of commerce going round what keeps this country in the fore front of all nations. Havej confi denee in the money situatiooin th4 cotton s tuation, in the prosperouo condition of the country, and belt to make this feeling secure by doing all you can to help things.along. Sel yo ir stuff and put your money it circulation. The merchant who doesn't adver tise is a broken link in the businesi chain. Ile "kinder" blocks t1 wheels of progress, and injures the place where he is located from i tradiug stendpoint.' People are atrai of him-afraid to buy his goods The man who will net come out it the open and pioclaim prices ani describe his wares, in this day o k"An cortipetition, is a back nurbei and does not deeerve businea. I you want trade get out and hustil for it-advertise to beat the band and ace the dollars pile up in youi till. The farmer hustles--plants tends, then gathers his crop-ani reaps the reward for his energy arn advertising. White spacd! That is what newspaper sells, that is their stocl in trade, but too few people realizi the fact, judging from "the tricki that are dark and the -ways that ari vain" that they use to get publicit, and notoriety without shoving ul the long green. Communications tha do not interest a dozen of our readeri outside of the parties at interest fre quently reach us, with rtquest t publish and also call local attentini to same, which we cannot handle, fo it is too obviously a free advertisin dodge. Coniespondents too fre quwnt ly write puffs about merchants, espe cially those in. their neighborhood which we cannot handle. We hav advertising space for sale,-but giv a lot of it away, free, to eliaemosynar aubijects. To all othgers it ise ''as] ii hb order,..' or it. g J(S tr> .thsf>jonl heap." A man to itene(l anid aanpmuilat TLhe farmer or artisann mtst hav im proval tools and know how to um thenm or lie is a failure. Thel me chant must, carry a htock of good that aro nlew anid fr'esh al dii was kn >w ho~w to aeli tihe ml, or' ho is; failure i. Theii law~ er .nd ldot migh as1 well I 1 hun their books at ai2lmi1n their viltiolns if the I CITA TION. 1i. Lawrenice ainu to .' ut to meii to gran hemii le'tters of Adini iion 'Iof0 1 hes ato ''n211 elY1 t; of EL1. in Lawrene .Teeare therefore toi cito andit admllon (credIito(rs of the1 said E. IL. LawrenIce deeause1, that they 1)0 11nd a~lppear beforc me, ini theo Court of l'robate to ho0 hlt at Piolkenil on thie 4th day of Jau. 1 908 after pulicattoni hereof, at 11 o'clock in the for'enoon, to) shiow (autse, if any they have, wvhy the said AdmDiniistrat Ri shld ( not 1bo granted. Given under my hand this, the 4ILL day of Dec., Anuno Domnini 1907. J. .11 Nzwnanno ruaU I e Latest Pfliu Plow This Plow has the latest improvements It ~is made by B. F. AVERY & SONS. manufacturers in the world-at it 82 years. Everywhere the talk is about good plo paration of the soil. This is the plow you EXPENSE TO YOURSELF and if YOI PLOW AND ITS WORK ITS OUR PLO MOOREi& PAYiNG INX LIST With Us for IN.THE R~IG - NOT TFOO Cl-OSE IN, 1 2 8 eauLtifl one acre lots, opce part of tr Ro ,with Etasley Road. M~ORE CONV\IK CANNOT 1BE FOUND) ANYW \ R*; 26) Acres, PARTLY WOODE)D, 5 V t W will cut this to suit butyer. 5 .\cres abouIt -R of a mile fromU (on.-t I IL;u -good investment. BR o Real Estate Pickens, ile Disc PlOij. h 01 ilos hi fils Sfi o and is fully guaranteed to d:> the work. one of the oldest and most reliable plow Ning, thorough breaking, the right' pre need for such work. Try one at NO J ARE NOT PLEASED WITH THE W. FIAULDIN. CEFOR ESTENTS \OT' l'O() FA\R OUTI 2. ~ (~L!Ko O Il' CO UR n ' (vi > :1; u J :tild line s:wing on li-l)er't-. 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