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___THE EOPLE'SJOR VOL io.---NO. 46. PICKENS. S. C., TIURSDAY, 1) CEMBER U 190o ___ _9_- ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. i'o th Readers olf We invite you b< and boys we Our line of M< Our Boys' Kne, Men's Pants fri A complete lin<' felt and sit The best $3.50 E.very ''ning in line of unla known to t] We will take p best stock ( section, allll Youl's trilly, SMITH & I GREE WAG WAGONS. We are GRuIEA'I' "OLD RELIAB Select Material Used. Prices I The Greenville G. W. SIRRINE, Supt. - - BILL ARP IS AT HOMF AGAIN. HAD TROUBLE GETTING TlERC. The Railroad Gat es Were Blocked an(I 1o Took Passago on Anotlher Lile. Home again and happy. Children and grandchildren met me at the de pot and escorted me home, where a bountiful supper was awaiting, and I asked the same old blessing that I have been asking for fifty years, only it was with unusual gratitude, for I had been in peril3 of wind and water and escaped. them. I was weary with long travel, and now I could rest. I left New Al bany at midnight, reached Birming. ham at daylighi, only live minutes late, and had five minutes' time to buy a ticket for Pell City, and from there I was to board the East and West for home. How happy I was. But alas for human hopes. flow soon they can vanish into aespair. There were about a hundred big, black, greasy negvo preachers ahead of me at the ticket office. Their Baptist convention had -been broken up, and they were going home on tha southbound train, and had an hour to go on, but they would not let -me advance an inch. I hurried back to the gatekeeper and begged - him to let me in, for my train was wait ing, and I pointed to the crowd of ne -groes and told him it was impossIble for me to get a ticket. He said he was *sorry, but he had his orders. I hurried back to make one more elfort, but a big square shouldered preacher, with a back as broad as a barn door, had *dropped a dime on the loor and half a dozen were down hunting for it. I hailed the ticket man, but he never -heard or heeded me. Frantic, I rushe d -back to the iron gates, and saw my train slipping off like a snake in the -grass, and that oflicial autotnation would not let me pass. "'Gainst or ders," he said. Blackstone says there is a remedy for every wrong, but there were no railroads in his day, or he wouldn't have written those lines. I had no remedy, and there Is none. Whvo could I do ? No train for P oil City for twelve hours, and none from Peoll City for my * home for twenty-four hours. I was so tired and so disappointed that [sat down to ruminate on my valIse. I was *weak and sad and pitiful, for there is no disappointment so distressing to me as being left by a train when going home. Just then a drummer, God bless him ! came up and sp)oke to me, and said, "My friend, [ am pretty much in the same lix you are, but we can go by Chattanooga, for the Ala *bama Great Southern Is an hour late *this morning. It's schedule is to leave here thirty minutes before we arrived, but it has not come yet, apd -we have' half an hour to get our ticketsh Those preachbers are nearly all out of the way now.' I rose to my fedt: I saw how it was and that I would lose only one hour in getting home. In my heart I revived, and like David whispered, " Bless the *Lord, 0 my soul." We got our tickets, and in four hours were inXhattanooga, where I telegraphed my wife, " Hold the fort ; I'm coming." And so " All's well that ends well," and no thanks to those who manage that Iron-bound pen at Birmingham. But I found the cutest ilttle narrow gauge railroad in Mlssissipi that I. * have seen In many years. I didn't know there was one left. It Is called * hL Gulf and Chicago railroad, hut they began to build it in the middle many years ago and built sixty mIles and quit. You can ride all day on it for $1.50O. It doesn't seem to have any sohed ule, and the folks along the line just wait for it and seem content. They say, " Well, it's our road ; it all we've got, and they do the best they can." The owners are clever men and will wait on you half an honr if yu tele Iho1 Journal : t ) come to see 11 for ally thing that men r. n's7 SulitS run1 from11 --.00 to .$25.00. Pant Suits $1.50 to $G.00. i $1.00 to $7.5o. of Men1's and Boys' IHats in both aw goods. Shoe malude for men1. Undterwear, amlolig which is the hest indered white shirts aid colored sh11irts le trade for 50 cents. lcasure ill shiowing 3011 irough the f goods inl our' line inl the l'iedllont thle prices are all right. 3RISTOW, SNVILLE S. 0. ONS WAGONS la'king a +- RUN 3UrJ 0L11' LE" WAGONS. Satisfaction Guarani ced. Right. Coach Factory. - - H. C. MARKLEY, Pro). phone hem. They are very accommo dating. esipcCially going Sout h, for tbey have no conncctions to make. I boarded that train at. Blue Mountairn tt -1 P. im. lot' 'ontotoc, where I w1s to lecture that niglit at 7.30 o'e-OLk. It was 'only thirty miles, but, we didn'i get the--e until 8.1:1 o'clock, and my audi ence did n't give up the sh ip. They said it was their roud-their only road-and they knew its pecullar ways. We stopped when within three miles of town, and after half an hour or so I asked what was the matter, and was told that the steam had given out. Before that the train stopped in the I woods somewhere and then began to back. I ventured to ask what was tie thatter and was teld that, the brake man had dropped his cob pipe and they had gone back to look for it. But it was a railroad and I had no right, to complan, fir I remember when thor' was not a railroad in 0he LJni t(i States. When f was seven years old I came i Itrom Boston to Georgia overland in a carriage witlh my father and mother, 1.200 miles, and we never crossed a ratlroad, for thber was not, on to ,rosI; and now there are 196,000 miles in ihese United States. No, I am happy on the way on atny. rail road, everi if it is thirty iIles short and four hours lotng. It heats thet old1 stago coach a long ways. I tried a buggy team from Ripley to Blue lount, only a six mile drive and like to have got drowned. I got fundamentally andt distressingly wet.. I shall watt for the narrow guage next, time. Oth, that eyclone. I haven't quIt telling about It yet. Next motrning a man who was in it and undtter it and on top) of it said he went outt to-shut his mutes up in thte etaolo, and bufore he could say Jack Rtobinson, it ptickod him up and t~urned hitm a thousand sotmersaults, and while ho was tutrning 110 heard his mules ia braying in the air above him. "' Gentlemen," said he, "' that are a ract, If 1. ever told It;: and the thitng just let tme down In d inny Jones's po0ta .io patch as easy as a woman lays her lbaby In the cradle." TLh at college at Blue Monutain Is a marvel to me. It was founded twenty ive years: ago~ by General Lowrey, a great big-hearted 'mtun, who, liko lBen Ad hem, loved hIs fellow men. it was at Ii rst a high school for the beneflit of t~he pootr g Irtls in the neIIihborhoiod andi exp~andled into a college. When he diled his sons and sonts In law tooki char~tge and con tinuecd to ex pand, and now there arc :100 gIrls there ; over 200 of them are boarders at $12 petr mtonth . The others live In cottages neatr by atnd btoard themselves at a cost of atbout $5 a tmonth, for' they (1o their own work. Large handsome biclk buildings have been built and1 muotr atre being bit. Bountiful stprings from tile mountain side o urn ish abunrd ant 1)u1re watetr for everything. IThero is a dairty fartm near by andI vegetable gardens, and everything moves like elocawork. IProfessor ILowrey is a n mn of utntirt ing energy and says that work is his best recreation. Lie took mie on a ro.t1 mantlec drive to the to:) of the~t mnoun tain. .and -the 'villago graveyard, and when we' returned heo11 cal for h1 four little children, includl ineg thte baby, and took them to rIde. I liked that. It does not take me long to diagtnose a good husband and kind father., Tlhet'e was no barbeor in the village anti ihe brought to me his mne lawn mowem' ra'zor that cost *5, and when 1he saiw how awkward and nervous I was, the said, "' Oh, let me do that," and be" mowed the gray stubble off In a minutte. 1Ever hear o! a college presiderAt doin~g that ? I was specially interested in a young' man, Ernest Guyton, the only hoy in college. He is totally blind, hut Is getting a first-class education through his ears. He listens eagerly to the recItations, keeps up wirth the foremost and Is now studying laatin. Hlis mother or siste.r reads to him every night and the 1am1 iy are all proud of him, for he ! not only bright mentally, but cheer ful and handsome. lle told me that being blind never distressed himi and hi,, wias happy all the time, for cvery hody, was so good to him. How kind Providence Is to the amicted. Those Mississippi woods are full of Georgians. Scores of them sought ie and with a natural and earnest prido told me where they came front in the long ago, or where their fathers camo from and who they were kin to. I was amused at one old man who said he caine here from Cast County before the war, and he asked mne where Bartow County wias. Ile lim never hear:1 that the name of old Cass was chaned to Bartow in honor of our General Iar tow, who was killed at Manassas. An unknown friend has sent me a 1oetic gem called " The Change In larmer Joe," by Sheldon Sloddard. I wish that it could be read by every husband in the land, for it tells in neauti ful vers4e hlow Joe had long pur .ued money for money's sake and gavo his loving, long sulfering wife few com forts and none of the luxuries or ortna ments that brighten uma woman home. For years Mile had from titme to titme hinted that she would like a new car pet for her room, for the old ono had lien turned arid Iatched anid beaten 1until it wa. faded and thriedhare, anId 11t wind ow sh ade us were worn out. iut he said no, he couldn't aifford it. and Ie worked early and late and wasneeuullil lating money. The poem tells how ihe left ler one morning and noticed a Lear in her eye as it dropped down oin hur male cheek, and ie got to thinking about it in the cornfield, and that tear launted him and he recalled the long years of Lheir married life and how iatient she had been with him and the little children and nurs-ed him when si-k and watched theni by night and by ay. Sud denly lie cane to imsi ef aid .topped his mule in the middle of the row and hurried home and hitched up ,hc buggy ind went to town like he was going for the doctor. lie bouzh, a nice carpet and some curtains and oither coniforts and drove home like Jchu andull tumbled then ail at the front door. "1 Ilere, Sally, come here, bless your der heart, you sh an't cry any more." And li he ii urried back to the tiirnlield. Well, I liked that, and I feel now like golig to town and buying a now carpet !or my wife. We men orgel. that a woman ha -0 stay at home ali the time. She lovUs ;r.n muents. for God made ler so, and if she can't have these things her house is not a Iomire, but a prison. li~ Ala'. MILL MIEN ANID CHII14D 4ABOR. IMPA1'IAL VIlW Or AFl'A1JRS. Sle Obs rvittions of il n telligenil Visitor Amiong the Cottoni MIlls 01 tihie Pediionli Section. Mr. N. G. Gonzales, the editor of The staite, has given his impressions of the nanagemment and policy of the cottou mills in (reenville and A nder.-on coun ies as obtained in a recent visit to iMe of the largest mills, where every auiity was given him to form a just :onclusion and obtain a fair insight as o the pruibl emii of child labor and as to ,ie facilities for educating the child -en of suitable age. 1His !Lat~ement of ,be sitiation is as follow. : Ini this State there are not lacking sotton moan u facturers of broad views md progrezivye spirit who realize lat .he tiie has come for the regly~ation iy law of 1the labor of minors and the iohibitioLn of child lihor in) our. mills. I'liey not only perceive that, tihe issue wesented must be sol veid but thbey are viiling to contribute toi the solution of t and they i-eatl1ize the fact that, great mbl01ic initerests rr qu iro the education if the generat ion whIiich in a few year-s uiore is to con trol the destintiles of Sou lih Jarolina. Last week the editor of The State r-e urnred froii a visit, to the Greenville and \ndor-eon mill districts where he was fiven the opportunity to see what had ieen done for the betterment of con litions in the mill villages aind the (ducation oif the ildreni andl to leiarnt nat. whotevcir might lhe the abuss !sew here t.here was at least one g roup~ >f :otton nills in Sout Car(miolina whetre lhe duit~y (if emplo rycirs to th<ie emiiployed and the responusihiitlies resting upon n anu facturers for. tire fu(toure of time :hildrien of true factoies werec fulIly -cal zed. It is nolt poih~liI to go iintoi gi-eat, letail in an article like this, but it can se id th iiat, the revel ation of in terest, ni the cliirrer omi L~he pamrL of these nianufacturers was gratifying. At the P'iedmo-it mills, a commuanity if some :3,000 paple, .lie pr-operty of wyhich i~s owined rind contr-olled abso utelv by the manufacturing company, Jol. James L. Ori-, the president ex ulbited with justiliable pride the two ciaded1 schools established( aind inalin a ied by the corporatilon for tho chil ren oif t he operatives. The practical ve ry-dlay woi-k for the schiools as seeni howed that thie childreni were well aught as well as well housed and that, he attendance uo to the 1 2 year olds wais lai-ge. Col. Orr said that, it was is earnest endleavor to k'ep elihildren mdler 12 out of the mills, hut that his -forts had not been fully siiccesful by easoni of iirepiresotntations ais to age nade liy the parents of some children.F n the mills few cildren who seemed ,o he under age wet- re ciuntLeed. The 'icdmoniit company maintaIns for Its n ill operativyes a fiec circu lating1 lihi -iary containIng Litiouands of volumr11s >f w holesomie readinog matter, var-y ing rotm the istiructivye to the entertain ing, whIiich is fmreel y paitron ized buy tiheF lip, wvho are encouliraged( to tamk e books ,o the l ir homes andio are penrmi t~ed tio <ee p the m there a fort-toig ht at, a time. i'hie reglstration at thIs lIbrary shows mt avei-age (if 8.000 volumes read ( an onal ly. Of the ampilo church fac ilities if 1 'led mont, It is rao, rnecearty to speak. The property of the Pcilzer Manmufac A) -lg comUpainy constitutes a ver-itable priInei pal ity. The comlietenessi of the ~ow-n of I 'elzer, every acr'c and buIld me oif wich is oiwned by the cor-poram torn, has beeni written of so often oif late that every newspaper reade- in South Carolina must know what a unique and remarkable place It is. rhnr-e ar-e over 6,000 people at lien-.nt and Capt. Ellison A. Sinyth, the presi dent of the great corporation with its four mills and 120 000 spindies, is per haps the best exponent this sido tn island of Guam of a "benevolent dos potism." His great Interest in the wol. fare of the community over whilh ho presides and his minute attention to its needs must impress overy oie who makes the rounds of the institutions of Polzer. There is a titne now graded school building, spacious and admly able arranged, a lyceum, open all the weck, with its reading room, gamo room and facllities for wholesome social intercourse, a kindergarten and several churchos which would be cred itablo to a largo city. That Capt. Smyth fully recognizes the importance of educating the children of the mill communities and of prohilbiting their etimloyiment in the factories until they have acquired the bases of a good com mon school education is shown by the following form of contract which ho requires to have signed by tiwi heads of all families taking employment with the company and occupying its dwell ings. There Is a book full of signatui es to this atreeneont: W 11iEn AS. I, with Imy 'ititily 'fit-iit Ill o - L-tijiy ulite ii' thie twellitig 1lieu' - t'i-liittiijig to tIw Phe-il,.- lillittitct n rilng Citilily. ill tIhe htm ti of, Pl't er-l. S. "', atnd lInte-ndt 1(. (-ilti-u inito t hi;- t-1111plov of S10h1 voilipiirty;.111 %%c algem.;s ill iloiiig so it is ile-siied to e. pa - 1th0- ltirev It-n weu t i ens t-l m i uni t h. 3115i- Pai.d 1 't(IN'. Now, thrrti o . i dio .ti grivti reil IIti 1 th1,4 i .-it l low 1. " hal aill c-hildeirt-. liur-mber s t-f mv inin1ily. htw-t-l I 'i atges of ) and~ I. yt-ars. luill enter. [tilt,- shilm rintint1ttril-d by Sitidl t-onlpittny ;t( 'etu'mr. ind sliail atttent t- erv se'lioio iv Itat-ing IlItv sch~ool s -Nsiol. I r it'SS pre--vi-Ilteil 'I 1 ll chiir-i . ltt' i-tIs ot may 15linily, lihtve I wt-lvi- .vi-ill-s u'lit sitil worlik regi nrty in ti- iti l. ititi shltl nt h1e ex'nseivil fron 't- ie- the'rvinl with uit, the( conlst-1n t llt.i 41alie- ite-n11. f'or gooli etise. I 'l'lnit ilt-ith-r I. nir iv iniht- ol' t nir it1ily. P-h 4it lii ll t - l o yI inent (it hlle S idi !olkliall withou~tt g ving ItwoI we--i 1t..tie-, lir sliall s;iiii coll itut vtty lie a lib1rty to i-i' j.ii 11:11s t:id I .-Il : lo i l int- t i tilit iir.i il lg t two ei -k I no iti h-- i-- il,- i it ior let itsi 1. .it ciSe I ret eive not' W i - to illuit, I linsr . thlegi - tu1 ii g a - rliolltse li I- eIt of Nwl ht<ks ut inl calm. 1 111m dlischinetryI-< r ist1s u i I lee t inientir it wit in threv iiIy..s: . . . i.I lr e to comly wi th 11Iil th1- I-illt's of he l rMaii ttutriny I!I I itn fny. ThllvIt- p l t r in 11. t I- rmi-nt h ilts Iliet-1n I ea.1 to ir by)) Inl- ItInl I ftil~ y lindi i tilnt it. W-.:............................ I - Ar . I : .. .. . ... .. .. .. . 1)...... A similar agreement is required of ill employes of the .ielton mills, of which Capt. SItIVtI is also the prsI lent-the only di forence being that the children are required to attend the p tIiblie school at ielton," whleh is said to be a graded and excellent one. Capt. Smiyth's progressi veness in these matters is emulated by Mr. L' wis W. Parker, president of the Victor cotton miIill at Greers and the new Monaghan mill jut built in the suburbs of Greenville. ThIs latter mill is one of the linest in the State, but is not yet in operation. Its- village and surroundings are laid out with excel lent taste and already formti an attrac tive picture. A lino school building is about to be er'e-cted on the property. At G reers Mr. IP"rker's company has built for the mill operatives a graded school building which would he an or nament to any town. It is handsome ad tasteful within and without, and is ttqlipped wiith special features Om biodyling the most advanced Ideas. A vell apipointed kIndergarten Is con lucted in connection wish the school, % pretty church is attached to it, and ,here is a large hall overhead which vill he used for free lectures of an in tructivo nature torl the benefit of the )peratives-a feature, by the way, vhieh has been provided for at l'elzer is well. A number of other mills were seen, ut these were the most advanced in hte matters here undor consideration. At the Anderson cotton mill I'resident Brock took special pride in the quality and applearance of his operatives, which w iere indeed exeeptionally good. Ihe ages of childre'n seen at work varied in the different mills: some uanager~s were hy no means as careful is others in excluding the small ;nes and in suptply ing them w ith ample dlucational facil i ties-but every wvhere ~her'e was recognition (If the fact that ~he labor of tender children in the nills was an evii to be deprecated and 'emedIied and that a mnor'al obligation ay uIpon mill ow ners to provide facilI ,1es for their education atnd If possible o enforce the use of these facilities. We have r'eason to blieve tbu t when he L egi slatuore shall meet it will be tiulndI thiat progreJt'.3sivoy imanutfatur~ ters vii li met hllf-way those whot are' an~x ouis to abol ish clildl--tr rathier, infant --labor' in the cotton mills and to comn tel the aittenttance of mtill clhidren on ,he pubtliIc schools. I n truLth, it is no ese for' their i nter'est than that of the >perIativyes themselves that there shall )to alatw on thliis subjet; fotr the hui a a ndhtii publi1c s pirited mnanuifac turer ,vhio caries( oJut ait consitderlable cost h is ilans for theu betterment (If mnill cond I Aonls is nowv lit, a disadvantmge compaptr ~d with those w ho neglect stuch prov Is arts. What Oild miills and new mtills in he C Geen vi lie dIi -strit tan dIl (If t hielr Iwn vollitio~n, believing that it is right in expedient to dio, ali mills and tnow nillIs olsew here can firl y be requtii'ed A) do. We arc convinced that some 30mlsijon iof law shoutld be put apont )iperativyes to) senmd thel' ir ittl hil id 'en to the schIools prayvidedi for them. Mlany of these childr'en are frhom the mountain dlistricts of Lihis amid othber itates, whbeir ed ucational facili ties mave been lackinag, anti they do not r'eali'ze as the mnajtority tdo the valute of Athit instruction ta III c~hit bi Ir en. It ist best for all intor'estedl thtt the~ 'State shoul d esitabliishI as nearly as it Jan some11 uni formuity of obtligatiomi amnd >oppoir tunitLy, so h at t hose wvha are in worthy shall not p' iit to the d etrl fnent oif the wor'I thy. I ,et Lihe qutestion I('10i conid(eed wii itit ttreijudllice or jeat. alnd thle salutioan, wet arc surec, wvill be to the permalitnentt adlvantage of sothl ~ Carol inal. -- ITere is a miovetment on foot in I ~ltoni for the eemilon of ai monu men t to Edga'ir Allan l'oe, to be put up in the publie gairdens, which adjoin the CASTOR IA For Infaunts and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Bismaturo of iCR LIFVE CNDED WITH OCINTUII A Worker in tho First Cotton M Establislied in South Carolina. Anderson Daily Mail. Mrs. Mary B. Pickroll died at o'clock on lriday afternoon at ti home of her daughter, Mrs. Ka Norrie, a, Broyles, in this county. S was tihe widow of the late .Jonatha Pickroll, l0sq., who died five years ap at the ago of .7, and herself lacked ti the 101.h of February of completIr her ninety-fourth year. She had be< sick but a short time and her death wa due solely to the intirmities of extron ago. She sufered but little and passe away without a groan or a struggli Notwithstanding the great weight ( years her strength of mind and bod was remarkably well preserved, ar the fire of her religious experlent burned brightly to the oud. Only few days before her death she caugi the hand of her daughter who wi ministering to her and pressing warmly exclaimed with rapture, " i seeing Him who is invisible," "1 U lot be to God ; praise 11 i holy namo !" She had beeni a member of the Meth dist church seventy-livo years, pr bably longer, and during that 10n time-a much longer time than is a lowed Inost people to serve In ti church nilitant-sho was uniform loyal to the church of her fathers, co stantly exemplifying the soundne and saving power " c'on down to o :ge" of the ruligion of the Lord Jus Christ. Mrs. Pickroll was born on Nantuck Island, otT the coast of Massachusett and was a daughter of Abraham Colli al-io a native of Nantucket, and one the first persons of the icland to ei brace Methodism when the old religh with a new and consuming z 'at Swe the dead eccleslasticism of N .w En land as a prairle tire. Her mother father, William Hunker, a Bapti8 was caught by the tido of Methodis as her father's peop e, who were Pre byterians, had been, and he gave ti land u)on which the first Methodi church on Nantucket was built. When she was ten years of age si heard tho celebrated evangelist, L reizo )oav, preach in Providene Rhode Island, where her father w living at the time, and to her dyia day she kept fresh in mind her impre sions of the man and his manner. Tl preacher was unwell and after ti service in the court house-there wi then no Methodist church in the city decided to rest thero till the evenir appointment. During the interval lady, sympathizing with the evang list in his indisposition, brought hi soni refreshments and subsequentl became his wife. During the year 1819 Mr. Collin, Mi lickrell's father, a man possessot of wide range of practical knowledg decided, in view of the widesprei business gloom that hung over ti lKastern 8tates as a result of the war 1812, to remove to South Carolina. H resolution to come South was large determined by the Insistence of n> friend, I'hilip Weaver, who had a ready come to South Carolina ar established a little cotton mill in Spa tanburg County. Accordingly, Mr. Collin sailed wil his family from Providence that yet and reached Charleston after a storn voyage of three weeks. They wei met in Charleston by Mr. Weaver wagons and conveyed to the little mil up in Spartanburg, and thus MIr I'lckrell became an operative in tt first cotton mill established in Soul Carolina. A few years later M r. Collin remove to a similar mill on Reedy Rtiver, a fe miles below Greenville, and from thei he went ab~out the year 182U to ti Pork sectio)n of this county to take haif in terest in a small yarn mitt w hit the Rtev, Leivl Garrison, father' of ti late Henry GarrIson of thi~s count had established on Little Heaverda creek one-fourth of a mnile below wh is now knowna as Broyles Mili. It was here that Mtrs. Pi'ckrellI w~ marrIed January 15, 1828, the Wtv. M Garrison performnI ng the cere mon She was the mother of thirteen chili retn, tean of whomr grew to maturit One of her sos a promnisin~g youn mnan, was killed in battle at Lookot Mountain, rlTonosee, asa a memb er< the Second South CarolIna Italles dii ing the civil war. F'our of her chili ren, Mi rs. Kate NorrIs atnd M rs. f'lres Cromier of the Pork ;Mrs. Jiohn ( Giantt, of iHartwellI, Georgia ;and Mi William LI. I 'ickrell, of fexas, sur'viv her. TJhe Rev. Henry iinscoma Browns a promlinent miembher of the Sout Carol Ina~ Con ferenec, and Dr. Wal ke G. llrowne of A tlanta, Georgia, d istir guished in the profession of diental sui gory, are ther nephews. Mrs. IPickretll's body was Inuterre yesterday beside that, of her h usban at Smith Chapel in the Fork, in whiac church she had held an unbaroke membllership for a period of sevetj five years, the lIk e beintg probahl without a paralltel in the State. As Sill It)Escauslol l'T. -1 was thi lirst daiy of 8sc100t. The hell had ta; ped and the lit tl cihldren of the se< ondary pr imary were sittIng u prigh in their seats, hands properly foldt and with round eyes fixed on the ne teacher, takIng a nmenital inventory. She was a bit nervous, it was h< first school. T1h~e children made he "lidgety," they stared at her so haa and watched her so narrowly. She biegan to feel like a mouse th; is within the clutches of a cat. St cast about wildly in her mind for son occupat-ion to begin the first day. SI regretted bitterly that she had not a ranged some definite plan of cam paty Then her fae brightened She wou tind out wvhat the children atlreat knew. Qdiestion followed questlio touching on diverse subjects. "Now, who knows what a ske~et< is ?" asked the teacher, s-.niltng coa Ingly. The little girl wearing the pie gingham apron and occupying tI back neat waved her hand wIldly at worked her mouth in frantic ondieav< to get '" teacher " to look at tier. "Well, what Is it ?" '" A skeleton," said the tot, twistir her apron in her fingers, ''is a ins who has hIs insides outside and h outsides off." -Danver Times. --D. A. Layton's brick wvorks Marion County Produce 25,000 ne (ax Y A CONIE itATK A EltONAI'. Ill The Attemupt Matio to Destroy Grant's Army b)y Mean oft' afn Air Ship. A few days ago a persoin who had : boen reading Ian acount of an expori 1o mnont trip of Count Z ppolin's air stip te romarked that In a low more years k0 people will travel in air intitead of on in the solid earth. Iran and steel rails o will lose their value becauso railroads 11 will go out of use. Tle now modo of g travel will be moro pleasant, for there n will be no dust and, by rising higher, is as necessity may require, the happy o traveller may koep cool. d Travelling in tile air by moans of !. balloons Is not of very remoto date. If The first suiccessIful ex3rimonuts in y this line woro iada in France about d 1783. when the balloon sailed acrost, c the Seino and a part of Paris, romain a lug in the air twenty-five minutes. A it balloon vas used for military observa is tln LL the battle of i'leuris, fought in t 1794. s A great deal concerning acrostation y can be found in books and newspaperd, but there is one experimIent that sootus to halve escated tile notice of the cu riolls, andt of whIich there is no record 8 > far as the w i tor k o'ws. I. In the winter of Imil 65 Gen. bort 17.00o anld LS tariny , ( wer ifend(1i n g y 'etorsb urg, Virginia. The troops I. were stretched out along the lines Sertiaps at the ratao of one to every one dim ltidred yartds. lRtWions were seiarce is alld clothlug scant, and tht'ro were muany other discomfort,, but tile spirIt of the veterIans were superior to al1 Of thboso depressing circumstances and n, they were ablo to erjoy a good thing. McGowan's brigade held the work not far from Battery -.a (or the Star io't) and ILear W1hero the great dain wt ias built. O1e cold, iaw (lay the bri gado wais called out, without a1mis, to ;inear a sIpcell fromi a scientilie person tire who was Introduced as " Profs " Blank. The old soldiors crowded arondil 1111d took the1r seats on the 6 cold ground, aid le Infolded his scheme for dentimIi'll?.ing and driving away (Grant,'s army. 1.1( had just invented an air ship. ie Ill slhili it was somlethi g like a bird atnd for tL"at reason lIe had called it " Arti, Avis," or "The Bird of Art," is which was ti ileaning of tile two i 1atin words. The frame was niado of 01hoop iroll and Wire. It was covered e with white ouk splits. It was to be e l run by a Iliorso power engino and one isman i eato ch bird would, be sullicient. -Tile engine wis to be iI the body of Stihe bird and to furiiiih powir .or keep It ing the wings in muotion. A sinall door ,at the iltillIer was opened or elosed mn to control the direction cf the Iird of Y Art. A door unler tile throat wai opened when it was desirable to ie s- tCUld and a 1001 Oil 1,o of tile neck ,a Ivhen the operator wished to go higher. T i'hero was nachluinry by wieicti tihe tail cotuld be spread out or clotted. I n Ie tib0 body of tile bird t,ter was room rI li' a 11b1111)Ur of sillI is aed tile Opera 1 tot,' by touching a spring with his foot. I Y coIld drop themu 1,)1 tie eneIy from U. a sife distance. The " 'rofessor " said that ho had complited one bird and inado ib test, oh its speed, intil how it would wo k. lie h tied it to a flat cai', wIlieti was CouIIOu to a fast engine. It wits ItLaeted to tihe hlat car wit h a long, strong rope. y The word was given and tile railroau e n gitn tI a 3tud oil at, great sepued. Tile "it'd of A't." (I id tu sumoc and had no trouble inl kiepi ng up with tile Iron hor t without , p lling oin tihe roel. h The " 'rofessor " concluded his re marks by saying lie needed a littit d 111010 ilny to ink hirds enlioug ii to W destroy GrtL's itiny, and askett the Old oli1r01s" to COltrilbute On1e dOihlLr C each Li) the c:auce. Many of thln id t. a an.l tile l'rofessor nlioved on and dis hi alppuared. e NI) dout, itany (If the survivors have ~, forgotten this incideunt, but, not, long nl agoI tile writer' inet, J 01h n W. B utlter, a t, oml tnercial ti'raveller', wiho bet ong u~d t~o thte I ItLii S. (2. V., in I fuI, and at kou i in: S"id y'OtI ever hear or ttile 'Ar'ti Avis?" r. lie r'eplied : '' I certinly lhave lieard ,of it, foi' I gave a diullar' to it.'' ,. A bboville, Noveniiour :N. e -M . The"il new city hallI amnd audi t~'rt 1n at, lPioreneu hias been comphloted. FHE SICK ARE MADE WELL, iancl Sliir gi h i Ii h1e, li t a 161d fi thoi Oreat-. oil lii'iia' aof M viia l'' T ise. .1n o o to .' a naa ii V ains i o i ven r weaiknessa? On lial-' 3.116 londaaa fIaha il It enrlitaliiia in). _________ t i ncflttil iity ioa i he'1 lyil'? Are ot arit ta-ilaI thorn, aniy Mysrnl a l a I, vler ranp - - Al re T ii a I'el'eetlly It rain1.', Ae'ive Va~ ig,-. -llani ora Walioss, aa al iaa t I'~~f ll a flaiefiial at iaiiiato - hoii tha iah Yrnani1,ldy I iain - pe laafi i a n'tif ru'al,t iver -land fi veryl 'a of a i-a k.l d l niealaC a i aaafii h a i dfn' r t lad it n-r :!a yenr-~ r ia T.. NI-:w 'IoN r The Leadingj i~i l 11 a y has~ talill 11, b.;lating in Spccialist. a'r '' -' "'t lt"-v'"""llt. in-I'-' d athatof'a taani faa tl'd.teed n d n hent o ' a' li (1 Imi t faot al+: Itia condf' tea n i m 'i beana heta'aI i n'lf r'vfell Iflhe - ine awal prl a..fe- al m fn 1 in ' Il iol'' renend' l yi. Ilis 1, t un b fa af a ~ ' i nt- afa 'a yaa iflou i a'e e e ft a l ali 'l-. I h a-a'ti 11 i a afin'alln ta ad ' 'iE ' lsaan-1)1 uha a-a la a',Ia a meIl an i fa ItI r 'tal,t l a owhft he1 itIab-uh . ia1. atl'f feIall- e una ifl h1 u l' .--t r la inlfata i n ofltie ntil . h a roy t i i t . a';. b- nfi o ali .lln hla all h, la 'if. fthaen- th- I y ('aft. i .laib~ a :n. ihaiI3nley f ( ' lfidn F i'/ ua~, and .; '.-In f aa' . ha l h1r aar I ala ihrinefa' . iaaiI 1, * jaj- 10.ilfatai''. ue la''- - .a thef *n th 't t'r .- I- 'te fa' awt aad If ha. faa aa lufft e~d o t wa frl e f fI' fa in hu 111 --. Il . p. -.aa' ti. nff ly It' lf'atflan'l uhtehta urti ('i' h fa ut fl a n .t r n ir'. llailtafff- als the f ' w'?'a ate 'a'l I f f l-ea friofi \a li'i I'h all I' ira I1:'0 t. C a'e' -- ',>.'..",, a and it vf lol' rwnf iii'' 'anc iaal dii N:I di IE ver' ase o t f re tinf laf hital'a.a~af tal'rv c.a'- la 'n b lala r.' iahauas3 r' Sprecially l"aa'(ire l~lia'a r ta'd ffff'ah -la'1 Itt I im n e e 1-r lur l f r Ii ill- ffr'a .l'a rn s i Ii aa l-:r'traa '' n a' r II' ''anrf' - -a, ' ta if ilht I a .ia fi -. - i ai- u'a' ffre fl'r a - .-a 'aaa , a ' -al g a.'!wi Ii -'ma -r~aa taffv l' , v i- at~ ha a'a r I r b Lo f-as '" ', I- i- "h aatf', l, " f' i " ia lti a' law n o s il: c;a!, r a lla-it i of n" o dI -i 1n, a fifrofvl. 62g Sitath lf'rnif iel h , .i' A thantai .' alETON0 TiitS l'Ai'Jti Wi11iiN 'a lOeli NO c VNo --V crop can be 40a grown without Potash. Supply enougj'h Pot ash and your profits will be lag;without ot as i your crop will be SCrillhby." Our books, torIi't ,non ' i 1 otoit of fertilizurs t)CSI ad"iltr lot' a I -. t. in I to ulliaruers. GlIlk M.\N K.\l. \\ Ilegg STILL AHEAD. l'Extra good vilue have put us ahead aid extra good values will keep us ahead, No miter where you Ree it or who offers it, remember if you trade with us you get the sane thing for less money. Drsss Goods and Silks. Our sales in tis department has boon simiply ininense. The secret is because we have the goods at, the right prices and the iewest styles. See the 60 cents goods for 25 ceits. $1.25 Plaid for 54 cents. Plaid Back for rainy day Skirts 40 cents, 54 inch brown Hkirting for 40 cents. real value 75 cents. If you get your dress from Bentz you can feel sure that, it is right In price, style and q uli ty. Handkerchiefs I Handkerchifs I I From 2 cents to $12 apiece. The best line ever shown in Greenville. We men tion ia few special values: A 10 cents all pure Linen, Ladies' H. S. Handkerchief, GO cents a dozen-won't break the dozen ; a 15 ccinitP all wire Lien Men's hemstltch ed landkerehiefg, $1 a dozen or 10 cents apjiece. A 1b cents Jap Silk, Bilk Initial men's henstit.cheid handkerchief at 10 cents ecli. ladics' embroidered hand kerchiefs. 1), 15, 16., 25 cents and up. Cut Price on the Following: $1 70 lnt'h white all Linen Damask at t;,0 cenis, $1 I5 72 inch white all Ltnon Da mask at 73 cents, $125 72 inch white all Linen IDamask at 83 cents, another lot of ttose Tie itick ''owels at9 i cents for 6, an other )ot of those 5 cents l'urkish Towels at 1 cents, another lot of those 58 cent. Steel lielts at 25 cents, another lotof those i8 cents Steel and .let. Bolts at 68 cents. Children's ilibbed fast olack Hose, 5 to 9's, regular price 12%/j vents, for 10 cents. Men's black. tan and red IS Hose, value 15 cents, for 10 cents. Extra value in Ladles' Hose from 1) cents to $2 0). Corsets I Corsets I I A nericati Lady Corsets gaining in popu larity every day. If you try one once you will )ave no other ii the future. SIShoes I Shoes I I Bentz Shoes for Ladies' and Children hiave no equal. Ilion F. Rey nolds Shoes for men can'tl be touclied. ltuiv ititterick Patternm to make your dresses by the only reliablo. .TIhotisunds of good things at small pices at R. L. R. Bentz ..,Ioader in Low Prices. Cash DryZGoods & Shoe Store Agont for Butterick Patterns or shw nGrevle You cavenour filstoe seit the borst seece soddy ok. 'oePie Fall ytand Warrnted. canntiot fail to see thoat asuperiorc ain i wofknasthe n u Men's, Women's dcid rend(liru's es oealer N ..ha hdd o.Everything Warranted, t kin haonlote.en.obea r Pn alo s foral wer. o c a 106 S. Main Street. 6F First door above I Lipscomb & Russell.