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XLbe Ibeoplc A M KltC II ANT'S N KWril*A*?Eft; A COUNTRYMAN *8 S?W*PA1'*?K. A N EW: si'APtk FOft SKJJ.ER ANJD BUYER. fUIIMSIIHD EVEIIY THURSDAY. d ' 1 _ -!? - . - 1 J. i. * .1 ? !i_ W. A SCHHOCK, PVBL1SHER. fiOBSCRlPTlOI, SI.W PH one ?ntndcii, 8. V., Au;'. 22n<l, 190T< STRIKES. Strikes. What are Strikes? A senseless thing'. We are moved to write this editorial because of the strike now on between the Western Union jtmd Postal Telegraph Companies and their operatives. We can see no rhyuie or reason in this strike. In fact, we can see no good in any strike. They are ul ways deliterious to the inter est of the geueral public, and almost always result in injury to the strikers. Employers are usually fair in their dealings with their em ployes. ' They realize fully the value of contented labor, and as u rule will neither overwork or Underpay their employes. In any instance that employees liave a just cause for grievance against the employer, we can- j not conceive of an excuse for a strike, except that we have no &tate or National Board of Arbi tration. We are on record as favoring such boards, and in the interim we condemn the action of the Telegraphic Unions in forcing their employees to discontinue work 011 such flimsy excuses as wo believe led up to the present strike. CORPORATIONS. There is a good deal to be said on bot h sides of this corporation question. There is no question in the mind of any sensible man that more can be accomplished with a hundred millions of capi tal in the development of a cer tain line of industry than can be accomplished with one million, mid this too without the com pany or corporation coming un der the ban of acting in restraint of trade. It is equally true that these same corporations do at limes justly come under that ban. We arc however not a member of the class who are al ways howling against corpora tions. Take Standard Oil as an instance. A tremendous furor lias gone up against that corpo ration, nnd the courts are try ing to hammer the life out of it, the tremendous tine of $29,240, OJ.) having been recently as sessed against it for unlawful! practices. While this lino may have been rightfully imposed under tho law, we fail to see where tho general public has .been mulcted in tho premises. Oil is today a3 cheap as we have ? ever known it to be. Tho people are as well served ns they ever wer;?. This is said in 110 spirit of extenuation of tho methods of tho Standard Oil Company, but is merely to show that there is danger of running things in tho ground. "Put yourself in his place" is a good motto for anyone to adopt. If you, reader, could control the output of tobacco, wo don't think that you would hesitate long in doing so, especially if it could be done in a legitimate way. Tho same with cotton or any other commodity. Doubtless tho public is often victimized and imposed upon by these giant corporations, but it is idle to say that all of them are bad, and injurious to tho gene ral welfare. Tho greatest harm that numbers of them do as we see it, is in the watering of their stock. A summary stop should bo put to that sort of thing as the practice is vicious, and must of necessity rosult in injury to the peoplo collectively. THE MESSENGER AND THE LAW. . "Wo take no especial interest in the Kershaw dispensary con test. We voted against and op posed the old dispensary. We desire to call atteution to what seems to ns to ho anarchistic ut terances on t he part of the Cam .don Mfssentfor in the rocont dis jKMisury contest there. Week before ) ast a?u' .t>e/prp the State luL-a^mjVL tlie itMWOger] Mmrt M%b?otat?nce tfc*4 tfiej board o^l w decide iglinstj the dispensafy .bemuse the raa jority of the '4fetes cast jyere against It. Tlrtrft^ the |>oorest kind of reasoning. and totally without logic. ft ignores the law governing the com and reads like an appeal to the board to iguore tUe law and decide the case solely on the majority vote, regardless of the lact of the board finding any legal eause for deciding otherwise, such as fraud and illegal voting. Judges, juries and boards are sworn to decide cases according to the law and evidence pro duced on the trial and not ac cording to majorities. The board decided against the position of The Messenger and it bewails its loss in its issue of last week as follows: ??Thus the will of the people ? that is the majority ? aoes not count with the state board of canvassers for anything, even Mr. Lyon, the Attorney Gene ral, taking sides with the dis pensary element. (At this rate it will probably be a good while befor.lie puts stripes on the graf ters, although we do not make the charge of grafting against anyone connected with the dis pensary here.)" If Mr. Lyon saw that the facts and the law were against him, I it was just, right and proper for him to have so admitted. He is I not presumed to be a partisan. Then The Messeuger goes on to say: "The ground upon which this decision was reached was that six boxes were used instead of three, and that clerk's certifi cates instead of registration cer tificates were used in a number of instances and that the voter was not sworn upon each of the questions being voted upon." Every ground presented is against the law in tne case and if that board had rendered a different decision, it would have placed itself in a very awkward position, by showing that they disregarded the law and the facts. That would have been in the line of anarchy. I The partisanship of The Mes senger seems to have blinded it. We call attention to this because the country at large is leaning too much tnat way." In the above we really think that Brother Calhoun is entirely too rough ou our friend and contemporary, The Messenger. Mr. Birchmore an anarchist ! Spurn the thought. If there is a conservative editor within our borders, he is "it." In his edi torial comments on the recent farce of a dispensary election, he simply reasoned according to his lights, and we feel assured that he was actuated by no an archistic motives in giving ex pression to his ideas on the sub ject. We hope that in the future, if Mr. Calhoun cares to wield his weighty pen in criticism of a brother editor, he will make his comments more pertinent to the subject and to the man. We al ways take up our cudgel for the under dog. This is said with no intention of comparing our friend Birch rnoro to any member of the canine family, but is merely a figure of speech. ? Edgefield News. TELLOPMAKttlED LIFE. Postmasters Reply to Question Concerning Tlielr Marital ltelntion. Washington, Aug. 12. Mer ntt O. Chanco, cliiof clerk of the postoftice department, several months ago sent out to all the postmasters in the country a list of questions asking for certain information to be used in the preparation of tho government "Blue Book," which is published overy two years. One of the questions in the list was: ?'What are your marital re* lation?" Tho object of this particular question was to find out whether tho postmasters are married, single, widowed or divorced.. But some of the rural postmas tors do not understand the ob* ject of the question. Mr. Chance received several answers in which the persons addressed en deavored to give a clear and lucid explanation of the status of their married life. One post master said his domestic affairs were "fine and dandy." Another, not so fortunate, replied, "Fair ly middling." A third postmas ter tilled in the blank space of the question about marital affairs with ppe wprd, "IJoU." AV ANGEL OV KARtIL , - A WailM of BwtMM AMUjr.tf { MlvetnuMl UmMe Utoyi.nl IMi,* PrlMd t? AA nil li i Um ilaaa IVk* Ari CttaruituK a Cw> raspoad<?iat. To Aba Editor of The Observer; Reading something in Satur day's Observer under the cap tion of a "Charming Woman*' recalls another woman equally charming and popular. A few weeks past the woman of whom I write got on train No. 7 at Greensboro and got off at Thomas ville. The train was crowded and she occupied the' loug seat with three other ladies to whom she was charmingly en tertaining; taking time, how ever, to give an encouraging pat on the head to a small boy who stumbled in the aisle; also, to shake hands with and say a friendly word to Carrie Nation. Two traveling men sitting to gether, who knew her, began to talk of her and from them this scribe learned that she was the widow of one of the most popu lar of North Carolina hotel men; the mother of two manly boys, remarkable for their fine charac ters and good manners; a lady who but a few years back was a society belle, well known in several States, but when ill health came to the husband who worshipped her, seised the reins of business and bravely carried it to a successiul issue; a woman who is faithful to every trust; a charming woman with a per suasive voice and a full com mand of English language; a gifted writer; a sweet singer; a personality that wins all with whom she comes in contact, possessing a charity that reaches down in extenuation of the sins of others, judging only as she wishes to be judgea. Is it a wonder that children, animals and the unhappy turn to her for comfort and sympathy? Something draws friends to her wherever she goes. Something gives td her whatever she seeks. Is it magnetism or is it a reflec tion of the charity that abounds in her own heart? I could but wonder if the kind words said about her by the two "knights of the grip" found reflection in her heart. **C. Y." This refers to Mrs. Scott Brown, of Camden, and was taken from The Charlotte Ob server. See No Reason For Panic. New York, Aug. 18. Leslie M. Shaw, Ex-Secretary of the Treasury and now president of the Carnegie Trust Company, allowed himself to be interviewed today on the state of the coun try. He said: "Our farms produce more than $0,500,000,000 per annum and prospect is good for an average crop. Our mines yield more than $1,000,000,000 and neither of these sources of wealth have been exhausted. The output of the factories, in other tliau food products, is ap proximately $12,000,000,000 and no fires have been extinguished. The railways earn more than $2,000,000,000 and they are all in successful operation. The pay rolls of our factories and railways aggregate approxi mately $3,500,000,000 and the scale of wages has not been re duced. In other words, the real source of tho people's wealth have not yet beeu affect ed, and the ability of industrial concerns to pay dividens i^not measured by the market p^fce of their stocks. Logical /easons for serious contlitionsjtre there fore wanting. Psycfiolog i c a 1 reasons are never wantincr. "If I judge correctlg tho peo ple will have exactly what they expect. If those who have money injthe banks withdrawn it and lock it up, if the banks withdraw it ond lock it up, if the banks refuse to graht accomoda tions and If the consuming pub lic decline to place orders, then we will very soon witness the effects. ??Let those who think that times of disaster follow each other at regular interuals bear in mind that this country has I never yet experienced a period of sever# depressioh that was not -.traceable to financial eco nomic agitation or legislation and usually to tyolh. In 1893 the redempUoy .of gr^epbackj in living iiiv?r iutetdof fold vu BpMly ?drooated. Tfce parly In power was under promise to DNBOve the protective tariff from our industries and lib# free coin age of silver at tbe ratio of 16 to 1 'was championed by prorni neat members of both parties. The country might have sur vived any on? of |bese sources of alarm, but it ooi|id not sur vive all three. *?'?* < At this time no one questions our financial system' and the tariff will not be touched for at least 18 months.. ? Some check in tne speed at which we are going is most de sirable and the chfeckiug pro cess has probably begun. It will now require a fair measure of confidence and courage to pre vent undue retardment ih our industries. Capital cannot be forced into activity, but it can be forced out of activity. I have never seen the time when uni versal sanity was more essen tiol to o :r well-being. FANCY POULTRY. It is a strange and remarkable thing that the breeding of so called fancy poultry has not gained a foot hold in the hearts and habits of our people, As i a matter of fact, there is no fancy poultry. There are breeds of poultry that are handsomer and more profitable than other breeds, notably in the vacuum dung-hill, or the common barn yard fowl. They 'will not rise to the height of the. jpossibili ties of raising poultry 10 South Caro lina. There is no 'doubt in Our mind that the i farmers of South Carolina can doC as much and as well . jpoultry in dustry aa Qftu , the people of Tennessee, 6r any other State. We have ever y 'facility that is possessed by any other State. We should pofetess the know ledge that goes with successful consummation of an enterprise of this character, and if we do not possess this" knowledge, we stand in our own light, for it is easy to obtain . The land is flooded with poul try journals, the contributors to which teach in every issue those who do not know the methods of successful poultry raising. We used to do that kind of thing our self, but are now out of practice. The proceeds of a couple of dozen eggs, or a pair of domi necker chickens of the old breed | will pay for a years subscription to one of these journals. Our friends will not misunderstand our position on this question. It has been a dream with us for many years that Kershaw county would take its place as the banner county of the State in poultry raising, but it seoms that we are doomed to disap pointment. Why ? Simply be cause our people do not ap pear to realize the importance of tho industry, and the eclat that would be ours by' forging ahead in this, one of the most importunt industries of the country. More anon. THE DISPNESARY. We have too much other im portant matter on our hands to waste time in the dis discussion of the general status of such a dead ducK as the coun ty dispensary question. State rights move us to action. The tariff will soon engage our at tention. Corporations will from now on engage our active at tention, and thftt great blanket of "The Public Welfare" as re presented in our municipal af fairs will fill a long felt want in our columns. In this connection, we may remark incidentally that a short length of concrete pav ing on the south-west corner of Broad and DeKalb streets of the city might be of advantage to the .c!t^. Pyrin# p, downpour of rail of a?y duration, tit pedestrian hirto jump a ditch or wade through, to his or her serious inconvenience. 1 Sin ?t?d Height of Poultry House. We are often asked what Fire and what height poultry bosses sfftutd be, and replying,, can only say that so far as sise goes much will depend on number of fowls one wishes to keep. The roosting and laying room need not be large, as hens will crowd on roosts regardless of the space given, and the hens will ta&e possession of only a few nests regardless of the num> ber prepared. Bight by ten feet for house will easily accommodate twenty hens, and all surplus spare should be left for scratching shed, which be not less than twenty feet long, as wide as the house. If it can be made larger, so much the better, as there is where the hens should stuy on all disagreeable days during the winter months. A good, dry, light, roomy scratching shed is an absolute necessity, and no man can hope to succeed with poultry unless he provides one for them. As to height, that is merely a mat ter of choicc, our preference, being a lean-to shed building, eight feet in front ahd six feet in rear. Often with more elabo houses one must use his judg ment and select that which is best suited for his purpose. Dr. I. H. Alexander, DENTIST. Office one door North of "The People." gaga? ? == - 1 The Secret of A Beautiful Complexion Now Revealed ? . FREE Wliat beauty is more desirable than an exquisite complexion and elegant jewels. All opportunity for Every women to obtain both, for a limi ted time only. The directions and recipe for ob taining a faultless complexion is the secret long guarded by the master minds of the ORIENTAL and GREEKS. 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