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--~ - THE SENETIN JOU R Entered April 28, 1908 at Piokens, S. 0., as second olass matter, under sot of Congress of March 8, 1879. VPL. XUVIIIS P ICEIRUM 1OUHAILIKA, THURSDAY JULY, 16 11098*1O L Death of a Well Known Citizen, Anderson, July 11.-(Special.) --Mr. H. J. Gignilliat died at' his home on Calhoun street at 11.45 o'clock this morning af ter an illness of 17 weeks, during which time he was confined to his bed. The body will be taken -to Seneca on train No. 9 tomor Tow, which leaves here at 12.24 -o'clock. The funeral services will be held in the Baptist ,church immediately after the arrival there. Interment will-be, anade in the family plot in the Baptist church yard. Mr. Gignilliat was about 52 years of age. During the major part of his life he spent in the -employ of the Southern and Blue Ridge railways. For near ly 17 years he was station agent for the Sohutern railway at Easley, at the end of which time . he was transferred to Seneca! -where he was made ageit for the Southern and Blud Ridge roads. This position he held for 17 years. Two years ago he - moved to Anderson to accept the position of baggage agent at ithe.union station, which position. he resigned -meady a year ago on account -of his declining health. He also was engaged in the transfq-business, he being the owner and proprietor of the An derson Transfer compimy. There was or is no man~ now living that enjoys the confidence of the people of thi3 section more enerally than did Mr. Gignilliat. He was always attentive to, his duties, and the patrons of the roads for which he toiled always had'uice things to say about his. agreeableness and .desire to do them favors. He was really a successful man for in his 1-)g life of usefulness he never let an opportunity go -by, by which he could do some one a kindness. Four years ago Mr. Gignilliat offered for the position of state railroad comnmissioIfdr, and he received a handsoipe vote. . Mr. Gignilliat was a member of the Baptist church at Seieca for many years. He was a con scientious, Christian gentleman and one that never did a fellow man a harm. He was ever re spected as a good, true- man. He was a prominent Mason, Pythian, etc., his membership being in Seneca.. Mr. Gignilliat was married to Miss Bessie Griffin of lNorth, Carolina, and she with one ~daughter, Miss Lois Gignilliat, survive him. Mr. Gignilliat's fiir wife was Miss Lila Bost wl'cl of 'Conyers,,Gieorgia. Mr. Gignifldt is surn ived by one sister, Mrs. S. B. Townes, of Oklahoma, who was at his bedside "'this - mornting when * ' death occured. He hed many * relatives of his name, several of whom live in Seneca. The Sin of a Church. Trinity thurch, New York, is one of the wealthiest corpora tions in the country. It is doubt ful If there is a church in the world that owns as much real estate~as Trinity; which is esti mated 'to be worth anywhere from $40,000$)00 to. $100,000,000. This property consists almost ex clusively of tenement houses in one of the worst districts of New York city. There are~ neal-ly *five himndred in all.. They are not modern tenement houses with plenty of air and light and such conveniences as tend- tc make the lives of their occupants healthy and wholesome. On the contrary they are, as described by Charles Edward Russell in a magazine article, the worst and most dilapidated to be found anywhere in the great metropo lis of the country-"frowsy, scaly, slatternly, bleary, decayed and crumbling old houses, leer ing from dirty windows like old drunkar'as through bloodshot eyes; the broken shutters awry like deformities, the doors agape like oldi toothless mouths." "Drunken disreputable, decayed topsy - turvy old houses, the homes of thousands of families and the breeding-places for so many children that are to carry on the world's work." The revenue from these tene ments Is enormous-no one knows how much except those who have the management of the church's properties. But it is immaterial what Trinity church owns or what is the amount of income from its pos sessions, it is the fact that it holds s ch property at all that is material. Here is a Christian church, noted for its great char ities only possible from the rents of these foul places where dis ease and death held Sway', a teacher of the thoughts and life of the Nazarene who enunciated the golden. rule. and lived it, owning property for hire that is unfit for beasts to live.in, much less human beings. What are the teachings of such a church worth? What value can be placed on its splendid gifts of benevolence? Unless the deed of love follows the word of love, the word amounts to nothing; and men will turn away from a Christianity which consists only of profession. For a church lo own and rent tenements where there is foul air, no light, filth, dampness, and where, in conse quence of these londitions, the germs of all sorts of diseases breed and riot in a yearly har vest of. death, with no effort on the part of the church corpora tion to do away with those .hor rible conditions, it is not only a crime against Christianity, it would be .a crime in a land where there is no Christianity, because a crime aga in s t humanity and civilization. How a church can use money thus acquired-use it, mind you in the name of "s'~yeet charity" --is something incoinprehensible. The charitable use of it catinot atone- for its ,sinfut, yes, its criminal acquirement. . Surprise is sometimes expressed tha~t the churches seem to be loosing their hold on the thoughtful working classes. 'We are not. in~ the light of the revelations of Trinity church's New York tenements, where so many of the'se people are compelled to herd amid filth and discomforts. They have b~efore them every day the awful fact of a church's unkept faith, of its utter disregard, not to say denial, of the golden rule of justice and love. - Columbia Record. The Russia Douma has passed a bill providing for an internal loan of $100,000,000.. (t4 IFARMERS' EDUCATIONAL AND CO-OPERATIVE UNION L OFAME1CA -o Pickens County Union Column J. T. BOGGS, REV. W. C. SIBA6ORN and t] JOEL MILLER, Committee In Charge. it t] The Pickens County Farmers' e Jnion met at the courthouse c, Fuly 6. ft Union was called to order by ( W. L. Jenkins, the retiring pres- a dent. (He having resigned to n inter the campaign as a candi- ti late). a] The Union then proposed to al )lect a president to fill the va- T :ancy, which resulted in Alfred it 3olding being elected, who is h iow county president. le Hon. W.. T. Bowen was elect- tj .d vice-president, to succeed A. u F. Welborn, who is now a can lidate, he also having resigned when he became a candid-te. The cotton marketing and warehouse question was dis- S .ussed at length. Several prop- is )sitions were submitted and dis- n ussed at length, especially one lent out from the state head- S juarters, to be acted- on by the I ocal Unions, which has not yet 0: been done. u J. H. Miller was elected busi- a ness agent, and all nmmbers'ul having cotton should repa to r imatEasley, S.C.,the kind ney h have and the price at which h bhey will sell, etc. f] As there was too much busi- C, ness to finish up in one day, the ih Union adjourned until Friday, Y J.uly 17, to meet at the court- I house at 10 a. Im., at which taie a full turnout is much desired. b Df the 22 locals in the county 14 t] were represented. t] JOHN T. BoaGs. g ....0 a The following is from thei Journal of Commerce and Com-' inercial Bulletin of Juno 30. This is the kind of reports that are sent in, oftentimes, by some Dffice kitten like as not, who has never plowed a furrow in his life, but can write a fair hand Let us examine a fewv: "Sum h ter-Plant small: two to three c weeks late." (Here is somec thing fine; stand him up and a let's see how he looks.) "Catee chee-Since last report (a month n ago) we have had beneficial jb rains, which came at a time1a when fields were well cultivated; gi (here's a bear tr 1luee!) plants y are vigorous and hi ye a splen- v did color; with average season r from this time forward this y BTA TE wvill make RUPE cRiOP." 2 (Now wasn't that gall from that t littilicotton patch!) "Autun Our cotton Is late but vigorous;t stands fair." '"Sumter-Plant C small; two to three weeks late; i lice and cold nights against de velopmnent." "Batesburg-Cot ton crop ten days late, but isin growing condition anid free of grass as a rule." "Trenton Crops small and grassy; stands poor In this section." "Carmel Cotton is twenty days la.te." 1 "Beaufort-"Entirely to much < rain; some are abandoning partsi of their crops." (Take thie re-i ports of the last -few- and we ,II to see where we may expect go bumping in this state.) JOHN T. Boos, The best spray mixture for isects is a mixture of one pound E Paris green, one pound of rme and 200 gallons of water. his Is much cheaper and more Ltisfadtory than strychnine, "Lay-by" time has come, a -id xe farmer is always glad when arrives. There's a feeling irills his being, that he cannot rpress with tongue, neither mn he write it with pen and ik. It Is a pleasure that Rock eller's money cannot buy and joy that the Vanderbilts know Athing about. Yes, "lay-by" me has come, and with it has [so come the jar-fly, which has [ready been heard in our land. he hornet, too, will soon iake s appearance in the dining all where it will make its cease ss rounds ready to seize upon 1e common house fly, which is sed as food. The Far mers' Union Convention. President B. Harris, of the bate Farmers' Union, has sued the fo lowing official r)tice: The State convention of the auth Carolina State Farmers' r1ion will conivene iii the house I representatives hall in Col nibia on Wednesday, July 22d t 8.15 p. m. Where the county nion is formed, the basis of 3presentation is one delegate at trge and one delegate for every undred memibers or majority ra-ction. Where there is no aunty organization, each local entitled to one delegate. If ou have not already done so, ave a called meeting and elect our delegates. Application has cen made for reduced rates on ie railroads. Please ask for iat rate, and where you canuiot et it, !lease ask the agent for certi ficate. B. HAums, President, S. C. State Farmers' Union. Hazel. Health good and crops looking rell; but the rE cent heavy fains ave thrown the farmers be" ind about laying by their rops. Little Hattie, the three-year Id child of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. hapmian, died *at their home ear the ~ Pickens Cotton Mills wst Thursday night with the leastes, and was buried at An ioch Baptist church, Bo Riley tigdon conducted the burial ser ices. We commend the be Bayed parents to the .blessed ,or'd who giveth and who taketh way. Blessed be the name of he Lord. E. C. Jones is our new mal arrier, and we are well pleased vith himb so far. D. D. and Leroy Winchestei pent the 4th of July in Easley ind report a good time; but noa iear what it would have beet n~d it been at fair day. ThIs section 'has been visite< >y a nine days' rain, beginnin1 mn the 1st inst. and continuni mntil the 10th. The ground wva o~o wet to work during the e11 Aire time. MOUNTA IN SPROUT.r Liberty. Rain was a prominent feature of the "Glorious Fourth" in many. places *An 1 with many, people. Many white dresses were drenched that day which were caught a few steps from shelter. We venture the asser tion that the Fourth of 1908 will not-soon be-forgotten by many of our people who did the cele brating act. Most of the farmers are taking a few days off, as the ground is too miry to work in the fields. Crops have,been well worked, but some have not been ck ared of grass, owing to frequent showers in some places; other places missed the showers, and crops are clean. It is currently reported that one man had five kegs of beer shipped in he -here to royally celebrate the "Glorious Fourth" properly, and the celebrating and the rain were so mixed up that the celebration was extended through Sunday. From the best information obtainable it appears that the.:."glory" was drayed out ,FAnnd on the Blacksnake.road, east-of towi, and in a seeluded&spot the day. was royally. and loyallycelea&. brated, notwithstanding the fre quentedownpour of rain; 'and it appeame that the "upper ten and lower five" were much in evi dence on this particular occa sion, assisting in the ceremo nies, with e"eything in con mon. Now rea-ily it appears Lo a casual observer that if this lagerhead beer was especially for Bill, in order for him to prop erly do the celebrating act, that it should properly be equally so for Sall, and If everything was appropriate and in decent order, why this rush-off to the thicket at such a rainy time? Echo answers "Why?" Several parties from here went on the Charleston excur sion last. week. Quite a number of visitors in our midst at present. 4. P. Smith, who has been in bad health for some time, lias gone to Baltimore for sp'e cial treatment. Protracted meeting in progress at the Presbyteriate church this week. Services- every day at 5 and 8.30 p. mn. B. 'A Cheap Kitten. "A ,corruptionist," said Sen ator Depew, "once entered a voter's house.. In - the voter's absence he pleaded' his cause to the man's wife. Finhally spying a wretched kitten on the floor, 'he said: "I'll give you $25 for 'that animal, ma' am' "She accepted the terms. "The corruptioniste, thrusting the kitten into his. pocket, rose to go. -At the doorbhesa'ld: "'I do hope you can persuade your husband to vote (or me, ma' am.' I'l1 try to,' salid the woman, 'though Jim'a a hard one to 1, move when his mind's made up; ( but anyhow you've got a real cheap kitten there. Your oppo - ngen was in yesterday and gave Washington Star. da I