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Pickenls SeltIlel-JOluf1101 Subscription Price One Dollara Year In Advance. t Entered at PicXiens FostomCe as Second Class Mail matter PLCKENS. S. C.. THUESDAY EB. 23 1911 ought to Know Better. Senator Root is a bright man -bright enough, in fact, not to press the point that Southern I lynchings were evidence of the I South's disregard of the Four teenth and Fifteenth amend mients. There have been far too many lynchings in Northern states to make such an argu ment serviceable. Lynchings represent plain lawlessness and barbarism, and while the South has its share it has no monopoly of the article. It should be said finally, that all this is re c I c from the popular electivf of a United States senator which Mr. Root was d' ssinC. Sringfield Republi . Blease A the Field. P And so~ oes. It's Cole Blease t again e field of politicians, their efforts to take away 'm him the power heretofore delegated to other governors, the politicians are not only tryine to hobble thegoyernor of SouthCar olina, but the people of the state who elected him. It is, in effect, saying, to them, "You have elected your man Blease, but we I will fix him so he can't do you any good-we will shear him of his power, and you can't help yourselves." But the people can help themselves. Ben Till man, with his "driftwood legis lature, "was treated in the same e manner, but when he appealed c to the people to give him a legis lature in sympathy with his administration, he got it-and Cole Blease will get one, too, in nineteen hundred and twelve! Laurensville Herald. Y 'Lincoln and the South, Time is the great appraiser. . To read .how business is to beS suspended in New Orleans in honor of Lincoln's birthday is to realize the truth of this. Fifty1 years ago, at this time, the1 states of the South were seced ing, in fear of this very Lincoln. . After his ~election as president, and without waiting to see what his administration, would be, ~ they left or tried to leave the t Union, and fifty years ago last Thursday Jefferson Davis was chosen provisional president of the new confederacy. And ^now, in 1911, New Orleans busi ness men decide to c'ose their stores and offices in honor of i he man then~despised and feared' Even before the close .of the civil war the South reached a truer opinion of Abraham Lin coln than that which it held in 1861. His death was recognized as a great calamity to the South. More and more since then his goodness and greatness have been praised by the section which once rebelled against him. Now it can be said that what ever civil war animosities still exist, hatred of Abraham Lin- t) coln is not among them.-Buf- i falo Express.f Did Anybody Say "AbneyT' n Gov. Blease on Wednesday sent another message to the leg- li islature, relative to the special g judge controversy. The mes- f sage was a lengthy and elabo- Io rate argument in support of the1 I governor' s views on the question a in issue, but calm and dispas- s sionate in tone throughout.' Taking it all in all it is the most ft statesmanlike and creditable 0< paper that has y:3 ppeared x over~ the goverovr's signture. nh his; metssages on tis phm.I In another colu~nm we rin a N synop~sis o)f this messaXe. iack of b space alone preventire the re - he message, for it is well worth eading. It appears to the writer that x0v. Blease has made out his :ase. Unless he has misquoted he law, unon which he bases is argument, there is no appar nt flaw in his reasoning and 1s conclusion is sound and log 1ical. Our sympathies are nol vith the governor in this matter, or we seriously question thE visdom of committing into thE iands of any one man the abso ute power to appoint a judge t( )reside over any court, even foi t special term, but under a rea ;onable construction of the con titution this power seems to -est solely with the goYrnor. as xov. Blease cons it does. sumter Item. - TIf"istol-Toters. As.sd general proposition it "b stated that a man who arries a revolver' is 'either a oward or [a criminal. There re exceptions, of course, so on't get excited if you happen ) have a six-shooter in your ip-pocket. There is altogether too much istol-toting in this country, and Le laws prohibiting the carry ig of concealed weapons are cactured to a* frazzle in every omMunity, with little or no ifect upon the part of the au Lorities to prevent such vio tion. Of the 185 homicides in the ity of New York last year. as bown by figures just issued rom the coroner's office. 108 rere firemen murders. One undre-1 and eight persons-two ictims each week-were shot to eath in the metropolis by irre ponsible, assinine,inept wretch s who went about the. streets arrying concealed revolvers. lost of the murd :rs throughout e country are pistol murders. b is so easy and so handy to ull a gun and pump lead into our best friend if he steps on our toe or into the stranger who isputes your right to a street ar seat! Some men can carry a revolver rth safety to themselves and to ociety, but7 the average- man ho has the pistol-toting habit ; a serious menace to humgn fe, apt at any time or place to risuse his weapon. Many men ancy that they must carry re~ olvers because of the possibility f needing the weapons "in self efense." Others tote pistole ecause of the inane delight they ake in being armed, putting on wagger,_going about boasting f the fact that they are "loaded or bear." All this disgusts the aan of real courage and respon ibility. It is high time that a general rusade be started against the istol-toters, to the end that nocent victims may be saved .nd the toters themselves kept if the gallows or out of the enitentiary. IRevolvers are use uli chiefly in target practice. o a rule they are mighty poor ocket companions. - George >wn Times. An Unusual Life Story. A days ago there died in a New ork public institution one of ae most remarkable men of the mes-Owen Kildare, ex-tough, rmer, prize-fighter-once a lowery rounder, poet, lecturer, ovelist and philanthropist. Kildare is said to have begun fe as a waif. Anyway he rew up in the slums, where rce of muscle and quickness E feet are the tests of merit. eing strong, he was a leader. nd became a prize-fighter of >mel importance. WXhile emlored als a bouncfler r a Bowerv saloon, h a ~casion oneda o efn a oman against t h ir'sults of ong the stt tmme ;u h 3spoke4 to her insolant! C' do(ubt Kildare imlflt had on gilty of such conduct re ~atedly, but when the neatly idg them a scornful glance, re marked. "And you pretend to be men" a blow from Kildare's right sent the chief offender, an old associate, to the sidewalk. The girl passed on, little know ing the high qualities she had aroused in the unlettered, un couth being who had come to her defense so gallantly. From then on for some time Kildare trailed her about the streets, respectfully but secretly, until one day she spoke to him, and invited him to her home. Hj~ was more than thi , ' -old and kn . -letter in the .a a .a is good angel, who was a public schoolteacher, be gai to teach him, and drilled him through the primers on up to real book intelligence. They fell in love. He changed his occupation and became a decent man. A few days before they were to be married, she died. I Overwhelmed by grief,Kildare lay :on the brink of the grave for weeks. When he got up he sought the flowing cup. and, trying to drown his sorrows, drifted back into the old crime infested haunts. This time he knew how to read, and found in books a relief superior to that suppiled by intoxicants. He thought of writing. penned a romance based on his own sad experience, calling it "My Ma mie Rose." and it was one of the most popular pieces of fic tion published that year, and was late'r staged under the title of "The Regeneration," but the pky failed. He wrote a great deal more, essays, short stories and verse, and his matter was rarely re jected by the magazines, one of which' made him associate editor. He met another girl, a woman of intelligence, and they were married. Ambition spurred him on to overwork, and a nervous breakdown came, which was accentuated by financial trou bles.. A fall in the subway in jured his brain, and he became insane. He was removed to an insane asylum. There was no chance for recovery, and, with his consent and by his advice, his second wife obtained a di vorce and wedded another. She visited him frequently. and saw that he wanted for nothing, and was by his side when death ended his remark able career. The story of his life would furnish excellent material for a written romance. His career is another proof that fact is stranger than fiction, and it also shows that it is never too late to mend. Tempting Champ Clark. *Mr. Bryan puts the country on notice that the -Hon. Champ Clark measures up pret. ty well to his concention of the sort of man the Democrats should nominate for the presi dency next year-the detailed specifications may be had by consulting the Commoner from week to week-and Mr. Clark on his part has for some time shown sighs of entertaining the opinion that his party might go farther and fare worse. If Champ will take our advice, however, he will get Oscar Tin derwood and Ollie James or some of his other trusty hench men to bind him hard and fast to that speaker's gavel, either that or else stuff his ears with cotton that he may not hear the voice of the tempter. Champ has a great chance to carve a* niche for himself in the temple of fame, but if he does so it will be as a snece~ ssor of Unchs Joe Cannon nlo t WO ill iaml[ Howardl Taft Se*ven vic pres-idents hae one to the :a house, of the most brillian a cou ntry has pro'd. " .. served in that capa a position in which friends. Uncle Joe Cannon must smile as hints of Champ's aspirations are conveyed to him. So must Uncle Judson Harmon as he turns back and takes an other look at the last election returns in Ohio-over a hundred thousand majority he had, wasn't it? Moreover, let it not be forgotten that Dr. Wilson up in New Jersey still has those woolen socks.-The News and Courier. Heriapan Prepared to Lick Russia. The truth is that the Japanese from camp followers to com mander-in-chief were prepared for war and the Russians were not. From the day that Russia, aided by France and Germany, forced Japan to cede back to China some of the fruits of her victory over the Chinese from that hour Japan nursed and fed fat her rankling grudge and bided her time as deliberately as a tiger waiting to spring. While I was in Japan an Eng lishman told me that immedi ately after Russia forced Japan to give her victor's spoils he was amazed by the trendous interest in the military drills in all the Japanes- schools. and when he ask(I what it meant there was on..- frank answer: "ve are ge'tting rea(dV to lick Russia. It sh:.uid also be obuSe'ed th a wh- rhe r:r came on the Jan anes: " :1".nly i0in a:state of preparedness 5o fa r as battle Ship)s and airmy drill and muni tion of war weie conscerned, but they were also prepared in the vital matter of proper medical attendance. "When your American soldiers went with Shafter into Cuba the army was utterly without a proper medical corps and the death rate was disgracefully high, but the first Japanese who fell in crossing the Yalu were taken at once to the best of Japanese surgeons and cared for in the most approved of modern mili tary Hospitals." So said a frank Scotchman to me yester day, and in the light of the of ficial statistics I could say noth ing in palliation of the unpleas ant allusion to America. When the war in Russia ended Baron Takaki, Surgeon- General of the Japaesearmy, boasted that weesin the Spanish-Ameri can war "fourteen men died from preventable diseases to one man killed on the field of battle the Japanese had lost only one man from disease to every four from bullets. Characteristicaly the Jananese had not worked out any of the principles of med ical science, sanitation and hy giene which enabled them to make this remarkable record, but they showed their usual fa cility in taking the white man's inventions and getting as much or more-more in this case-out of him than he gets himself. The Japanese record stowing in such amazing fashion whi t a wisely directed health organi zation may accomplish is worth~ remembering not only in con nection with plans for military efficiency, but also in connec tion with plans for public health work in the South. Every State should spend five times as much for this work as at pres ent.- Clarence Poe, in Raliegh (N. C.) Progres ive Farmer. A Thought. It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to Jive and be~ done with it than to die daily in the sick room. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts have done good work, although they may die before they have thce time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and. cheer ully have left a hopeful im pulse behind it in .the world. H~oert Louis Sten~ anuson. Tax )Notice. ..l licens'' was (due thle city Pftickens '/or the year 1911. are: e and c< llectie oni or by the ~25 of r bruary and must be: paid b) - :hat tone. U.B. LaBoon. Mayor. J. Q..inore, Clerk FERTILIZERS Dont you think it will pay you to use high grade f zer? Our 8 4-4 goods is an ideal fertilizer for any crop, any land. It takes just as much time and labor and troubi to haul low grade fertilizer home and then put it in the groun as it does our 8 4-4. 'The condition of the crop is the and everything is the same, except the results. The 8 4 Wil1 make very much better crops. You can easily tell diffrence in crops fertilized with 8-4-4 goods and crops fe ed with low grade goods by riding by the cotton field, farmers say that there must be a difference of 300 pounds o seed cotton to the acre in the yield of the crop before the di ference can be noticed The differeince in crops fertiliz with 8-4-4 goods, and that fertilized with low grade g is so apparant that there must be a. difference of 4o to 5 pounds of seed cotton to the acre, in fact there is frequenti more than this. But call the increase 300 pounds of seed co ton to the acre, this means at least too pounds of lint cotto to the acre. The increase of roo pounds of lint cotton was worth last fall from $13.00 tO $15.oo, and the increased. co of the 8-4-4 is less than $3.oo to the acre, which is as little as should be used. There is your profit At an increased cost ot less than $3.00 per acre, you would have increased your profit last year from $13.00 to $15.oo per acre. A number of farmers in Anderson county last year who used Anderson 8-4-4 goods made around $40.oo clean clear profit on an . acre of cotton. They would not have done this if they had used 200 300 pounds of low grade fertilizer to the acre. We have, no way of knowing what cotton will bring another year, %ut whether it is high or cheap, the mor-e you make to the acre, the\ more profit you will make to the acre. Anderson county made :nore cotton last year than any county east of the Miss issippi river. Anderson county would not have done this, us ing 200 or 3(0 pounds of 1 w grade fertilizer to the acre. Ge he best guano. Get the right kind of 8-4-4. Gct an 8-4-4 hiat is coiinudiced of nitrate of soda, blood, tankage, cotton seeCI mez.1, and fish scrap. This 8-4-4 is backed up by- results and perforimance. Hoof meal and horn meal run higher in ammonia than blood, and will show a higher analys1s. - But the goods made from them will-not make the crops that our goods make. Our -4-4 is made of plant food, and the more plant food you put in the ground the faster ynu will build if up. There are some fertilizers made that wil not build up. ycur land. We like to sell a goods that will make a satisfied customer. Our 8 4-4 makes an enthusi.stic customer. Whenever a man uses our 8-4-4 he begins to talk up Ander son fertilizer. If you want goods of lower analysis we have the best goods put in sacks, but remember that the best is the cheapest. The nitrate of soda in this 8-4-4 helps you to get a good stand and then makes the cotton grow off nicely from the start. A man takes more pride in his crop and his hands, will work it better if it gv6ws off from the start and loo healthy than if it looks stunted. And then our 8-4-4 hel the cotton fruit from the-ground up-and fruit is whtt you after. Regarding the corn question, e 4n ind of this, In 1909 there gas a which there avr a prize, iused Anderson Fertilizer. "What need have Are of any further witnesses. - ALNLERSON PHOSPHATE & OIL CO. Anderson, S. C. J. R1. VANDIVER, Pr'-ident D. s. VANDIVERMana er. FOLGER, THORNLEY & 00O., Agents. Pickens; S. C. Clearance Ie; To make room for ourAi Spring stock we are going to sacrifice all winter goods, and makk special low prices onI evcrything in stock. Jul good value Soc chess goods to go. at 4oc the yard, 25c at 20c, 15c at 12% c, I24c at r oc, ioc at 91 8%rc and so on down the line. All men's womens and child rens shoes, mens and boys hats, caps shirts and overalls. All to go in this sale at reduc ed prices. W. B. Freeman, "At the Old Stand" Phone 459 :FOR THAT KEG OFtl TH BI THAT REAGHES TRE SPOT ~Th rand prov R. L. Davis Proprietor - ta hop