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Pickens Sentiic-ournal VUMIAHED EVEItY THURSDAY MOBNLNG. --BY The Sontinel-Journal Company, TiVom80N & ICHEUKY. IrOPs. J. L. 0. TIIOMPSON. EuDTOI. 6ubsriptioti 91.00 Per Anuum. Advertising Rites Reasonable. Entered at Pickens Fustoffice as Second ClaFE Mail Matter PICKENS, S. C. : THIUINDiAY, M.iCI 21, 190S. Sowing a Breeze. REAPING A WHIRLWIND Merchants of Pickens Undertake to Muzzle This Paper by Boycotting It The article published last week, aiient. the school, must have been full of truths, for no article ihas appeared coiitradict ing it. Some denials are being made by Dr. Bolt, to the effect that the child was not )adly whipped, and he was asked if he had seen it H is reply was, 'Oh. : hut Miss Olive savs If he had had the good of t - hotl at heart he. a, chair mm. wo.uld have talled the Sri iwlther and taknI! themn and Prof. Swittenbuirg an e andt Seen -lrumor'< were ulrect. It iare~ Stood hi n) iil 'ttter han tellill that the mat ha Ve all hen ttled if uTon and '. D. Har 'kit ag.ing it up. ne is plenty able to (it.) ..i had a principle in view i-ht an-1 j .-. - right the trustees owed the pat ron-. a right to a gd .whool: for C.i I no he t.-A]. to the. patroIs. to the children. T}he c2hildren were not getting justi e. and I (lid lot want to see theil Sheated out (if their just ri~zhts (l-t l u l tin. I wamted to -'lsC'ilej,;t1,Y:ll.- \\ lat was th'irl ir, and wi. were disrIIar.Ad- v ,I.* illfor'nl tlliu of this arid dlitionls as they wer'e.I Dr. Bolt has seen'l fit t0 g'o to the 'i nirchants with som) i'Ple a, and they have all withth-'awn th eir advertisin g fr'om theSx. ea hloycot. Wh * uely spite lileall in thi.is Cen-' Graittiu wh'1at I said! abiom thle .--hooi .b 'ing for 'spite. t' se~ hool would, ne(xt 5'':--ion.hte the( be'.'r off for the agitat ion. But thiere was 110 spiti' work with mte. I was netve'r mjor'e cool, calm and col lev(iedl than when I wrote the ar't idle of George Edens' whip pingi., and ponde1(red well Over it. My prsonal grievances I will take i'1 hand at the proper time ar O allow the State Road of 2tAncation to sit in juidgme'nt I heard that Dr. Bolt was ('ir c:ulating this petition asking merchants t~o withdraw their patronage, but I did not think that his church and secret or'der' voivs would allow him to stoop to such petty, low-down subter fuges, but lhe threw discretion~ to the wvinds, defied friiend1(ships and suicceeded inl (on vinlc ig the merchants to his way of' think ing. In Satmnday miorning's mail I received the letter' fr'om Balt & Co., later' in the day the H-. -Bi.-M. Co. sent by hand their note, and then I wr'ote the other merchants who were advertis of one mind, the Messrs. Craig Bros. not deciding until Monday moxrning, when I got their last note. Here Is the corm.spondence: Pickens, March 21. Pickens Sentinel-Journal: Gentleien:-After this date we have decided to discontie our advertising space in your paper. We will appreciate your presenting your bill any 'time that is convenient to you. Yours very truly, Bot'r & C(. Pikens, iMarch 21. Mr. J. L. O. Thompson: Pl?ease di 0'coitinue our adver tisemieit in the Pickens Senti 11-Journal unItil f Iarther notice. Hurrui-Bm!-iMonow Co. P~icns, 2liarch 21. M~r. J. L. 0. Thomp-son:] Dear Sir:-We have decided to discontinue our advertisement in your papi'r, and will settle with you at your convenience. Yours very truly, MoonE & MAULtiN. Pickens, M\Larch 21. Mi. J. L. 0. Thompson: In reply to the other side of this sheet, will say that vou may be governed by a certitied statement made and circulated among the merchants. If a I signed certificate has not been handed you, it is not necessary for you to stop our ad. Very truly, CnAlu Biros. i As we could hardly get on to the tenor of the above, we sent a note of inquiry to Messirs. Craig Bros., and received the following reply: In reply to your note, vill say that pet ition has been circul11t ed, but for is to say whether or not we signed it i-1 hardly just to al parties. and we must let yton bo the judge. C HAI B 14'. Monday morning a membr of the above firm left the fol lowing on our desk: Pickens, March 21. Ir. J. L. 0. Thompson: The town seems to be out of order in geneiral, and as we ha e onr ad. from your paper, we ask tlat yoil do so for the present. Yours truly, CRAIG Bitos. Pi:ckens. March 21. Mr. J. (. Thomipson: m' ;ir:-1 signed wth the a h- m n anNof the town o P i< i nto withdrawniv ad. na rntil fult ier notice Or agree ile~t. irs truly, Pic'kens, IMar'ch 21. Mr. .J. L. 0. Thompson: D~ear Sir:-In reply to yours of this date, beg to ask that vou discontinuie our1 ad, in the Sen tinel -Journal. Yours very tru ly, W. E. Fan:EMAN. & C'o., per W. E. F. Pickens, March 21. Mr. J. L. 0. Thomxson: Dear Sir:-We have decided not to advertise in .the Pickens Sentinel-Journal after this date. Yours truly, FoLCAEH, TH~IORNLEY & Co. The action of these merchants was a secret 0one, so far as mly knowing w~hat the grounds for withdra win'g their patronage is (onc(ernewd. I (10 not know what' (charges 1 am lying under. My un Iderstanrdinug was that these re'solutionls were to come to me1, but Dr. Bolt, who, I am told, got them up, and who presented them to the merchants, or at least somle of the merchants, (for 1H. A. Richey, T. D. H-arris and1 Louis Copal wero. not pre senited with it, but'he told D. F. Pac(e that "A LL the merchants" had sLilgned it except he and Mr. Hamlies, and he was on his w~ay to see IHamles). Hie (Bolt) said "the paper is, the property of the merchants," when I demanded it of himl, and that "if the merchants say" I can have it lie will turn It overf to me. Nw, wf ho wan to miake a personal fight let hip come out in- the open to do :i This-fight he is now making niot a personal one; It Is a figh ,n my subscribers who hav paid for this paper for one an< Lwo years iii advance, and thje] have ju-st that much money in vested in this enterprise, whici bhey will lose if I can be force( >ut of businless. That is wher< the matter stands. This is no "teipest in a tea pot," as Dr. Bolt and the peop ,-e has succeeded in leading blindly, will find out. It wil Lesult in good-good to th< 'chool, but it will be a dear les Jon to the merchants, for othei :owns will bid for the trade thai ias naturally beei coming t( :his point. If there was but one store ir he town of Pickens, and it de ?ended on the citizeiis of thi own to keep it going, it wouk iardly make a living. 'It is th( rast territory tributary to thh ;own from which general sup )ort is derived, and this suppor -ai be very easily diverted tc he other towns when the busi. 1ess men of that town come ir iere and bid for it. The outside world cares noth ng for this fight foi a bettei chool: it is simply local; al hey care for is the justice ai )rinciple of the thing, ane 'or business miien to hop ui ,ither way, and take sides, a, hey have in this matter, show, L very shallow business mind. A boycott never succeeds rom the fact that it is unjust, s born in the wrong spirit anm -onceived by a wrong desire, an s un-American, and the Amer can public will not stand foi mch tactics. One man. Tuesday, came 1i and paid five subscriptions an< renarked that the trade of :ertain Aection amiouited to beap to this town, but that un "Ier existing conditions it wa: JUST AS NEAP to Greenville an< >her towns. I won't advis< Lhem to retaliate in kind, the, -an use their pleasure a:s t< that, buit I will say that I don' think that D. F. Allgood, in th WVest Enhd, or Ri. L. Harris, a the (;ot ton mill, together witi H. A. Richey, TP. D. Harris am Louis Copal, in Pickens, signe< any boycott. If you feel lik coming to this town to trade do so; if you want to patroniz these merchants, after this sla at you, that is your business but I would respectfully as] you to give a share of your pal ronage to those who have no signed the boycott and are nos carrying advertisements wit] me, not only in this town, bu elsewhere. You see how it stands! Be cause I showed up the school i: an unfavorable light, a persona fight has been madie-a b~oycot has, been started, which, I an r'elilably informed, wvill be stoppe< -when I apologize! Apologize for what? For stand ing for my rights and the right of every other citizen of th county as well as the patrons o the Pickens Graded School, fo truth and justice to prevail When I took issue for a princi pie I did not attack any man'a private b)usiess; I tried to shov uip and change a public condi tion. I would as soon dynamit a man's home as try to pul downm his business-the principl is the same. It is the assassii [hat we all dread-it is not th< man that stands up in the opei to fight. How many of- the merchant: who signed this petition havy thildren in school, much leg 1 know how the school tis con ducted? Mrs. Freeman and D. I F, Pace are the only two. Do they kvow that their children 3 are getting justice? Have they I tried to see that they are treated r right? Do they care how they - are treated? I am fighting for a principle, I and aoploglze for my couIse I will never do. "On that book that oath 'I took, and break it - will I never;" but always will I stand up for truth, right and! justice, though the heavens fall. Now, ain't the nierchants a pretty lot of business men to go and ct off their noses to spite their faces! A in't they ashamed of themselves to allow one man to hook his finger in their noses and lead theni around like cat tle! Montgomery Ward & Co.. Seigel Cooper, & Co., come down and learn from the Pick ens haberdashers how to con duct business on business prin ciples. If our embryo merchant princ es would inhabit villas on the classic Hudson, they'll ne'er more hearken to the insane va porings of a bucolic doctor. Salmagundi. The more poorly a man's finances are, the more ashamed his wife is to wear her old hat. -[Dallas News. "We ain't got no ruins in Anieriky." "But we will hev. Some o' these state capitols ain't built none too well. "-[Louis ville Courier-Journal. Abe HIumniel, the lawyer wVho perjured himself for a few thou I sands of dollars, and who has - served his sentence for the L crime, is once more a free man and able to practice law in New York. But the man who em I ploys him is either a rascal or a i fool. 1 What the people of the United - States need as their head at the a present moient is a thoroughly wise and upright man who would govern in the true spirit r of the < istitutioni, with an cqua!i regard to all national in trests, iot as the tool of a pas a sion or fancy of the hour. -[To t ronto Sun. It was expected that this would bead-nothing session of con gress, but it was not expe cted it would be so tame and flat as a talking and disputing session as it has been. No other congres sional session, sitting upon the eve of a presidential election, has Cbeen so dlistl iguiish~ed fo indis tincion as this one thus far. t-[Springfield Republican. 1"Theoretically, he strives for tthe good of the universe: pi'ac tically, for the satisfaction of his owni egotistic tendencies." --[An alienist in the N. A. Re-I view. .Theoretically or Theodor t etically.-[N. Y. World. i Mr. Biryan repeats that he is .1 not seeking the nomination. Certainty not; the nomination is - seeking him and they will c:ome~ s together with mutual satisfac a tion at the Denver' onve~ntion. f -[The State. rt The~ Albany (N. Y.) Journal -says it is possible for a man to ~saw so nmuchi wood that he be comes hidden from sight in the r sawdust. And there i9 a heap - of truth in that. The stone and1 iron ages are things of the past, and it re m nained1 for~ the miuck-raker~s to discover that the steal age is now on1. According to the PhiladelphiaI Telegraph, if money didn't talk some peop~le would never be heard of. N, W, Hester on Our School Trouble I notice in your coliinms of last week an account of 1ho whipping of a little boy by his beachor that I hope is exa 'er Ated, and not so bad as is stated. E ien if it is and the little fellow rets well, is it not m ich better that the case be compromised and kept out of the courts? Give the little fellow the bsnefit of all the compromis money to buy new things for him, and tell him Miss Newton bought all those things for him, and soothe his hatred toward humanity in that way, and it might 1) the means of creating in him a bet ter heart than if his parents brought the case up to court, and continue to ridicule Miss Newton, and maybe create in the boy a hatred for his teacher that will last as long as he lives. Let us all consider what a time teachers have with so many children, and how few of us would take their places. And if we were all that way, how our children would have to grow up in ignorance. I whipped my oldest boy about 15 years ago, but not so bad as in the Pickens case. Somewhere wise Solomon said, "Spare the rod and spoil the child;" but after reading more mQdern literature I have learned better. And such literature should be read by every parent and teacher. (R. G. Ingersoll on raising children and crime against criminals.) .Good lectures are worth all and flogging is worth nothing in the way of good. It only makes a hard, vicious heart of the subject on whom it is ap plied. But, I must tell how funny my little 3-year-old boy turned one of my lectures on me. I was telling my boys how cruel it was to kill little birds, and 14 quoted Walt W\~hitman, who said: "Two little birds built a nest near my window, and they .1sng pretty together, until one day oneo., of the birds got killed, and the other one flew from tree to tree and perched on the branches and sang, 'Blow! blow! hlowv! and blow my little mate back to me.' "' I lectured in a sympathetic toneQ. Shortly my little boy wen t out to the edge of the piazza '.nd came hack wvanting a dIry (dress onl. On being asked1 what miade him so wvet, he relied inl abou0t the tone I used: "Ma. it blowed! blow~ed! blowed! and the wet came back onme11." That was ciuite amus ing and a laugh on my lecture. But above all things, let us have peace, love and mercy in our homes and schools. I was highly pleased with Miss New ton wVhen she taught at Vine.. land. If she has st epped1 asule from her moral duty, which shie has, even if she whipped the little fellowv at all, nio miatter how ligh t, I hope his parents and the commnunity will be mneiful. Rieven ge and wrath never'i won fair lady Your teacher has already learned a lesson, as well as teachers all over the county, and it will prompt every teacher in the sounty to some extent to observe higher morals. While I have a wvarm feeling ~oward all tie schools in the :ounty, and particularly for the mne at our capital town, and 10pe it may not be0 molested, t will only take merciful hearts -4 md considerate brains to break he bubble that rises with so nuch seeming ruggedness o'er s4 rour beautiful and pacific >lains. M. W HESER