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iokous Soninel-Jourua EIUBIJBBD UVERT THURSDAY MORNING -BY The Sontlnel.Journal Company. TFoMPBoN & RiBHEr. Pruos. J. Is. 0. THOMPSON. EmToR. Subscription $1.00 Per Annum. Advertising Rates Reasonable. Entered at PFcheni Femtof100 a4 scon4 clais Mail Matter PICKENS, S. C.: THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1908. Level4eaded Editors. "A FOOLISH BOYCOT Over in Pickens, South Caro lina, a majority of the merch ants have boycotted the only paper published In the town be cause the paper vigorusly assail ed one of the public school teach ers because she whipped a pupil in an alleged cruel manner. That takes the rag off the bush in the way of a boycott. Why the merchants and largest prop erty owners of a town can make up their minds to harm ahd fi nancially injure an institution which has helped make the town and their fortunes, we cannot understand. W know nothing of the mer its of the case. We care noth ing about that. The teacher who let the rod fall heavily on the back of some youngster may have acted with good sense and sound judgment. Solomon said apply the rod. Maybe the teacher remembered the admo nition of that wise man as she tained the pupil's hide. May be the merchants and other bus iness mien are right in uphold ing her actions. The editor may have blundered in criticising her. His judgment may have been real bad. We will not venture the statement, however, that it wes, for we doubt it. We have confidence in most editors-just a little more than we have in some high-tempered school marnms. But, the editor's bad break-if such it was--was no cause whatever for the actions of the Pickens merchante. They have cut their own throats, and it will only be a short time before they will see their folly. For every dollar the paper has made itself, the merchants have made twventy dollars each. It furnishes them publicity, with out which trade is paralyzed. Business will dwindle in spite of all other means of advertising. Nothing willl take the place of a newspaper these days for adver tising purposes. This Pickens boycott is an ugly affair. We believe the ed itor will come out on top. We hope he won't apologise. No self-respecting newspaper man will go to Pickens and start an other paper. These merchants will come round alright. It's a pvetty kettle of fish if an editor has to go around and consult all his advertisers before he speaks out on public matters. The Pickens editor used his editorial columns exactly as we would have done in his place if we had believed as he believed. His e o u r a g e is commendable. Those Pickens merchants should be proud of an editor who hal the courage of his convictions, The man who hasn't isn't fit t< edit a newspaper."--sylvaie (Ga.,) Herald. There was a meeting of the Republican party of this coun. ty Saturday, at whlich the samt old crowd wasesent. te fa I miliar faces of the ever-faithful were seen hobnobbing with the recent convert and the persist ent hunter for the pie-counter. The meeting was motley, occa sionally a snowball was seen among the variegated shades of browns and blacks that predoim inated. Quite a good deal of interest was manifested in the election of delegates, and some of the alternates offered good money to go in their stead. THOSE QUESTIONS ANSWERED. The teacher in Dist. No. answers the following ques tions as suggested In one of our exchanges: "Who is really ruining that school, you or the directors?" I am! That .is, I advise with the directors and they direct as their title signifies. True they may never have passed the threshold of the school room, but from hear-say-knowledge they surely know how a school ought to be conducted, at least so think a majority of them, but then I hold full sway and they sway me. "You or certain parents in the district?" We-1-! Children belong tc their parents-indulging par ents-aud it is not presumed ] would "run them," only as par rents might direct in their wis dom. Their children tell them a great deal and hence parente become wiser than teachers, and Willie and Susie must have many indulgences, they are pa pa's and mama's pets, and they would not have them overtaxed for all their education might profit them. We rule togethei and thus have one harm-odiouE whole. "You, or that overgrown boy who talks and laughs and gig. gles and recites and comes and goes as he pleases?" Wellthat boy Is "big" enou gl to know better and I'll sham( him out of his rudeness yet, and so overcome him with a let-do. as-you-please-kindness that I'll run him-if he don't me-tc perfection. "You, or that blackeyed girl who thinks she knows as much as you do and wears better cloth es and is a cousin of a director?' Well, that blackeyed girl is ar annoyance and what she thinki and wears may be in a measure true, and then beinig a cousin tc the director it is rather expected she should have pritileges above the rest; if not, where would be the benefit of being a cousin tc a director. But this is rather ar unfair question and difficult foi any one to answer. Upon the whole, I am of the opinion and rather think, I am, or we are, "running that school." SUNSHINE AND SHADOW iM ITAL.Y. Dr. John H. Eager will lecture at the Court House Thursday April 16th at 8 P. M. on Sun shine and Shadow in Italy. Dr. Eager is thoroughly acquainted with Italy, having lived in Rom( ten years, and in Florence sib years. He has also visited Italy every summer for the last seven years. The facts he brings about that beautiful country are fresh~ and first hand, and cannot fal to interest, and instruct as well as amuse. This lecture has been delivered in many places and has always been well spoken of. This lecture will be given under the auspices of the Ladies Mis sionary Society of the Baptist church, The charge will be: twventy five cents. FOR SALE--One J, L. Case tractior engine, one* J. I. 4. ass horse-power, and ono J. I. Case 10-ton Road-Rolk r. Bar. gains for any onie Joo'dlng for ory or the apove mohines. Adifress U. E. Good. Farners' Union BureAnt or - In'111ation lt fon -(ui ucted by the . .......... IT South CaroisIa larmers' N titiatLoual and o CO-Operative Union. Comnunications linteuded for thisdepar Intnt should be addreasod to J. C. Stribling, eiitetou, South Catrolina. if THE ORGANIZATION. U 'Trying to run a farmers union F without due obedience of Its con- a stitution is something like try- c ing to ride a colt without a bri- b die on him. P Early maturity, it is said, r< brings hasty decay. Don't be T too hasty about learning the con- t( stitution and graduating in the h special course on union princi- ol ples. p Whilst you are at every day I laboring hard, with your nose ti and eyes turned down between Ii cotton rows, trying to lift your- it self out of the mire, by yourself, s( by hard tugging at your own c< boot straps trying to coax your h freedom out of soil by hard la- ir bor alone, some slick duck is off o1 yonder weaving an agricultural web to catch all the profit on your cotton crop. Wake up n there, old fellow, and come out u to the farmers' meeting and u help head off these chaps that P: neither toil or spin, but they is have been thriving like the lilies fi of the field off of the fat of your fi lands and labor. U Now. and then we meet up ci with a bucking member in the k union that cannot be persuaded b to pull true with the members. a: After trying him thoroughly r( with a kind of bronco kinch and til an Oklahoma kicking strap and a crupper with no improvement, S better turn him out to grass, he N is not worth his keeping. tl Human kindness and brother- is ly love talk have no influence h over that class of men that love si to hum this chorus: "All in, t) down and out -if I ever get my g hand on a dollar again,I am go- ai ing to hold to it, its my only h friend." c1 The social feature of the si Farmers' Union not only im- n proves the moral character of t) farmers, it also teaches the be f nefits of coopration in business. l< When they learn how actual t< dollars run into the members' pockets, you may not worry about enthusiasm in the Union F that willifollow as sure as smoke follows fire. .-a a PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING. At our last meeting of this club- one brother read an essay on an article he saw in a daily paper about the prosperous con dition of the farmers in a certain section where all were paying si cash for their flour, corn, bacon b and feed stuffs. Why not raise it all t~se and save the cash? In n comilgig to this meeting we met a man -going home from town b driving a one-mule wagon, load Ied with one sack of corn, two bales of hay, some small bundles and one sack of fertilizer. The club spent one hour discussing ci the relative value and usefulness e of this man, and whether he i was really to be classed as a farmer or a cross between a cot- d~ ton bear, merchant, farmer and di a fool! A committee of three b was appointed to investigate s< this man and make their final a' report to this club on the 15th ui day of November next. ia COTTON. Not long since a piece by Wil- y 11am E. Curtis, in the Chicago tj Record, was paraded in the sc newspapers over the South with1 g, 'a statement that the estimated Idi -'average cost of raising cotton e ; L South Carolina is five cel ie pound. Wonder if he e% )ok his wife and childreti c i the cotton field .and trigd e if this noted pencil pushe - iade -any test of actual Ic long this line? This sai riter states in this article ti cotton can be sold at ten cei ie planter can live in luxui [ow much luxury do you thi man, mule, his wife and t illdren would get out of twel ales ofcotton at ten cents, af %ying for fertilizer, farm tot mnt or taxes, and food for i he average luxury, accordi P the same statistics, woi ave to come out of a net. pr( less than $100, if really a cofit at all went to the grow Curtis can write out profits ke cotton lands of South Ca na at ten cents like he wri out on paper at ten cen ,nd him down here and t )tton growers here will p im $10.00 for his services gro ig cotton where he now gi ie in pencil pushing. Every right thinking, hon< tan in any occupation now oi p to the fact that the holdi p of the cotton from off a 4 eessed market during the pai all that saved the South fr< nancial ruin. This standi rm under fire by the Farme nion when "New York.fin ers sprung the big game" ill the Farmers' Union a mnkrupt the South,. is the c id only strong and stubbc 'sisting force that warded iat giant blow that was hurl b the cotton growers of t auth by those moguls of Had ery conservative estimates iis saving of organized farmi never placed lower than o undred and fifty million doll tving to the South. Yes inde ie Farmers' Union has wor reat victory in a stubborn fig ,ainst the combined capital alf the world. Shame on th ass of cotten growers that ha ood outside of the Union a ever turned a hand to aid its fight. The Union has ma >r the non-union farmers $10, >$15.00 per bale on all their c n. Now be good and own i Nuggets. Tom Sylvania (Ga.). Herald. Senator Ben Tiliman sa ryan would defeat Taft. 3 II hope so. If you are a ChristIan, (101 o1 with a gasoline engine. Much play and little wo take men and women a curse uemselves and society. Ellen French Vanderbilt ulng Alfred Gwynne Vaud< [1t for divorce.- Another et Sw1lich big names and lots aoney didn't bring happine Beef Is prohibited -by pri< 3er by statute. How many dollars has " >rm" put in your pock< ow much has "reform"< 'eased the value of your prc -ty by helping to stagnate bt Less? Those Atlanta ladies w) mn't want the street car cc ictors to help them off the ca scause the conductors' han >ll angelic waists, might go o the front over the controle: sing the motorman for a st( ,dder. Maybe the Atlanta wom, ho don't want the conduct< 'help them off the cars desi aese gentlemen to stand asi that the view presented1 'aceful, Grecian bends a' op-stitched hosiery may not scured. ,er1 For thet itI IChildren ne its To succeed these days you must have plenty of grit, cour age, strength. How is it with wo the children? Are they thin, tve pale, delicate? Do not forget ter Aycr's Sarsaparilla. You as know it makes the blood pure and rich, and builds up the ng general health in every way. ild "aestebnosnsS proper con,<on. c~or. rect ds nlyrs " 'ls. yiii small laixative Ofit doze o a ll egta to gar-coated. Iny - ade bT 0. Ayev Co.. owe nsas. A omaakubor of er. tAIR vio. on AGUO CURI. On CTORA.. ro- We have no secrets I We publish Leo the formulas of all our auedites. ts, - he Notice Final Settlement and Discharge ay Notice is hereby given that I will make application to J. B. Newbery, Es.. Judge of Probate for Pickens county.n 3ts the state of South Carolina, on the 12th day of May, 11108, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, or as tsoon thereafter as said application cai be made, for leave to 3st make final settlement of the estate of Job F. Smith decessed, and obtain vn discharge as udmitristrator of awid es ng tate. '. 0. Skelton. April 9. 1908. Administrator. le iic Notice Final Settlement and Discharge mfl Notice in hereby given that I will make applicution to J. B. Newbery, Esq., Judge of Probate for Picken. rs county. in the state of South Carolinat, on the 7th day of May 1909, at 11 o'click in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as to said application can be heard, for leave fd to mnke final settlement of th estate of Be njamin Terrell, deceased, and obtain ne discharge as adminti.trator of said es tate. A. L Edens. rn April 9th 1908. Administrat r. Dff ed Notice Final Settlement and Discharge he Notice is hereby given that. I will iake' application to J. B. Newbery, Eq.. s. Judge of Probate for Pickens county, in on the state of South Carolina, ott the 7th day of May 1908, at 11 o'clock inl the 3rs forenoon. or as s..01 thereafter aS said ne application can be heard, for leave to make final settlement of the estate of B. trS L. Walters, deceased. anil obtain dis ed charge as execut-r of said estate. T. A. Gary, i a April 9th 19A8. Executor. of Sheriff's Sale. at State of South Carolina, ye County of Plckens. nd In Common Pleas Court. in By virtue of an execution to me direct ed I will Hell to the hiuhest bidder at ,de public outcry in front of the door of Pickens Court House on Monday, May . 4th, 1908, 'vishin the legal hours of sale Dt- all the undivided interer t the same being one-fifth of two-thirds, or two-flfteenhts, IP- of the defendant, w. Alec Uamsey. of, mn and to all that certaini piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the county of Pickens of the State of South Carolina, on Keowee Ri'er, ad joining lands of James Lawrence and ys others, containing five hundred acre., Ve mnore or he, the samew being the real es- i tat blogig t hetaeof Alexan der Rlamsey, de4ceated, also the interest : of the a d W. Alec Ramisey in the per. C 1't sonal est ate of hia fat her, the said Alex ander Rianisey, deceased. in the hands of E. 11. Ramsey and P. 0. Raimrey as ad rk nirtsrators of the personnd e.'tate of the ksaid Alexander Ratney. deceased. to J. C. JENNINGS, Sheriff Pickens County, 8. C. IS of - p 18- -t' THE FACE IN THE LOCKET O ussrl worthy of a. good setting. Choethe locket, the ring or other jew n- elry here and you'll never have cause to. 8be ashamed of your purchase. ds JEWELRY MAKES THE BEST GIFTI providing it is the kind that wears Let utus show you our collection and explain es, the difference betwecen ours and inferior Jewelry. You will not find onr prices E'any higher for the GOOD KIND than some charge for the other. sEasley, 8. C. 2 J J McSWAIN. ~i LAWYER, be