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THEPIKES SENINELJONL Entered April 28,'1903 at Pickens, 8 0., as second alass matter, nnder act of Congress of March 8, 1879. PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, l905- NO. 42 APPEAL TO PEOPLE They Are Urged to vote Ou the Dispensary. *ADDRESSES BY MINISTERS The Law on the Subject---Showing Hov It Can Be Eone. To the Citizens of Pickons Coun t%: At an enthusiastic meetig of mini istors and someo other towperaice workers, the uudraignod %were re. quested to issue an address to th people of the cotinty Knowing as we all do the evils of whiskey, when used as a bev-rage and knowing that the Dispensary at Pickens is debauciuing our people, robbing many of the famiili.s of the co of the meat, broad and cloth 'jiu,6bugh: )o have, and knowNing th 1) rings disgraco upon many homes, 4d-row, heartaches, etc,, etc., that it malkes drunkards of the boys and men of our county, that it sends them to a drunkards grave and a drunkards hell. We, therefore, call upon all the pople who love right, sobriety, humnanity and God to join us in a movement to vote the Dispon. sary out of our county, The Alwighty has promised a curse upon men Who put the bottle to their neighboms mouths (Habakkuk 2 15). If we vote to retain the Dispensary we are surely under that curse. Let us pray over the imatter, talk over it, rtumemLering we have to niet the responsibility at the Judgment. IHow can any one die satisfied without hav ing done all they can to remove the evil. Let our women join us in the work by giving us their prayers, in Iluence, etc., for at last they are the ones who suffer most. This is purely a moral question, and not a political one, ther6fore, we urge the preachers of the county to preach on the evils of intemperance etc. We urge the superintendent of every Sunday school in the county to talk the matter to the Sunday. schools. But surely all -we need to do is to put the matter b-fore our people and let th'.m have a chance to vote. We cannot conceive how the moral and religious sentiment of a county like ours could sink so low as to be willing to debauch her citizens and sow the iseed to make the rising generation drunkards for the sake of putting a few dollars "blood" monoy into the town treasury. We are glad that both of our county papers arc with us in this Campaign, and we call upon the editors and correspondenlt to lay the matter properly~?before thc people. Let every voter who votes t~o sue tain the Dispensary know that God 'will: hold him responsible for thb orries committed by men under th( influence of dispensary liquor. The election will be beld U nder th following act: "Any County may secure the es tablishmient of a D)ispensary or Dm~s - pensaries, or the reio'al of aDispen sarary. or Dispenusaries within th limits, in. the folio wing manner: uipr the petition of one-fourth of the gjuahu fled voters of each county for an elec tion upon either the qaiestion of thi estaiblishmenO~t or Ibe rofval of Di'j pense ries thteroin being fled wil h thc County Supervisor of each County, he shall order ani election submittingf the question of 'Dispensary' or 'Nt Dispensary' to the qualilled voters of such County, which shall ho conduct. edas other special elections', anid if majority of the ballots cast., be fouud~ and declared to be for a Dispansary, then a Dispensary mays be establioi in said County, but if a tuajority ol the ballots caist, 1)0 found and do clare'1 to be against the Dispensarsj then no Dispensary shall ho estab -lished therein, anid any Dispensary already established shall be closedi Eleoctions under this Section can bh held not uftener than once in fou:i years. "No Dispensary shall bo establisho( in any County, town or city wherei1 the sale of alcoholic liquors was pro hibited prior to July 1st. 1893, oxcop as herein permgitted: Providod, Tha wvhere Dispensaries have been estaL lished until removed or closed a permitted in this Act: Provided, i tax of one-half mill annually is here b vedupon. every dollar of th 00iu of all taanble propor&y In al Ooutdi ee voting to remove or cloe. the D spensiop as~ above proyidem t PLO A F DISC HA D] AVE y bef Big stoc comes. for the purpose of defrayi ng. the ex penses af the enforeement-of-thesDis. pensary law in said County, under and by direction of the Govprnor, said tax to be collected as other County taxes and forwarded to the State Treasurer, to be expended, or so much thereof as may be necessary as now provided by law, for such purp..ses. Any balance remaining unexpended at the end of he year to be returned by the State Treasure r to the County Treasurer of sucn Conn ty for General county purposes, and that the value of all confiscations of coutrabrand goods seized in such County, as determined by the State Board of Directors, shall be paid to the State Treasurer, to be credlited to the fund raised by said levy for the enforcemient of the law, as above provided. And any amount expend edl in said County for the enforce mnent of the D~ispensary law, shall Lbe refuaded to the State Treasurer upon the collection of the tax above levied. Any County voting out a Dispensary, Ishall not thereafter receive any part -of the surplus that mnay remain of the Dispensary school funds, after the deficiencies in the various Coun. ty school funds have been made up, as provided by law. SEc 2 That a1 Acts or Darts of Acts inconsistent with thie Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved the 25th day of February A. D. 1904. D. W. Iliott, 0. M. Abney, W. U. Seaborn. J. P. Attaway. B. Holder. The Overland Limited to California leaves Unioa Passenger 8tation. Chicago, 6.05 r, M. daily arrives San Francisco the third day in time for Idinner. Route--Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Uniou Pacific and Southern Pacific Line. All tick I t Agents sell vi this route. Ask them to do so. Handsome book, descriptive of California, sent for six cents postage. t F. A. Miller, General Passenger --Agent, Ohicago, or W. S. Howell, i381 Broadway. New York .M. Wmn. S. Crane, California Md., stiff'ered for years from rheumatism and a umnbago. He was finally advised to try I Ohainberlin's Pain Balnm, which he did and it e9eeted a complete cure. Tis liniment is For sale by Pickens Drug to re barles Drug Store. W TIME nd we ar arm Imp] RROWS, ISC PLOWS, SIDE HAlVRR( COTTON I GUANO D ou seen the COLE ore you buy. It sa Lk of all kinds of F< leath=B, Hazel Happenings. Editor Sentinel-Journal: I will give your valuable paper and many readers a few dots from this sec tion of the county. There has been, and is yet, a good deal of sickness, but most all are better now. After so much rough weather, the past week was fine, and I tell you the farmers were going with a rush too. Timber is badly broken, split and bent from the recent snow, sleet and ice, the moat I have ever seen. Well, the farmers are vety cool and quiet over the guano question this time. So far I haven't heard of a single load being -hauled. Before, thoy wore trying to se who could beat get ting it home, ana would be boasting of how much they were going to use. Mr. Daniel Winchestor is turn, ing out some very fine lumber at his saw mill now. Married at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. J. Connie Gravley, on Sunday, Feb. 20th, Mr. Elbert Bowers to Miss Nancy E. Gravley, Rev. S. 0. Sloan of ficiating. After the ceremony the party was led into the dining room where the table was laden with plenty of good things to eat. The bride is one of the most charming and Christian young ladies in this section. She was a prize well worth working for. Mr. Bowers is one of Oconee's young busmness men. Nothmng too much could be saidl about either party. On Mon - day morning the party pulled out. for their future home on Koowee river near 01(d Piokens, whore they will make their future home. The wedding waBs a very quiet but lovely affair. Mr. B. F, Stowort, uncle of the bride, with Miss Mol lie Bowers, sister of the groom, were waiters. A reception was ten dered them at the groom's father, Mr. WV. E. Bowere, on their arrival at the Keoowoe river valley, As visitors and news'are scarce I will close for this time by saying hurrah for Uncle Zeke and his writings. Mountain Sprout. has con e showins lements E )WS, LANTERS, ISTRIBUTORS. COTTON PLANTE ,ves time and moni Artilizers on hand. Very t uce=Moi Letter From Norris. Though news be scarce and the weather windy, there is a consola tion for your correspondents, there Iremains a subject inoxhaustible and always open for discussion, which is the on]- topic of conver sation; cotton, cotton, cotton. It a)pears also that this is a subject which anybody can write on and everybody give advice on, however the opinions, experiences and ad,. vice given by some people who are in position to kno~w whereof they i speak; their voice is as a ''soundl ing brass or a tinkling cymbal." We do not mean to criticise what has been said and written on the] eubject, but t be way it is received by a laige number of those who ) are ini position to act, in whose i hands thero remains the power to control and rule the King cotton. Thiere hats been1 a fe~w organiza tions of the: farmers in Pickens county, and wve have it upon au-' 1 thority that these unions are pro- 1 grossing and working satisfactory to the meombers, which is evidencei inl part what the writer wishes toi inm p r e B 5-M'in union there is strength." Now it has been often repeatedl that there is one class of people that cannot bo organized and they are the farmers. It is ai lamentable fact if true, but yoni scribe wvill not yet accept the 1 statement as a tr'uth. However, if i time rolls ont and the farmers be-i come more servile from year to 2 year, b~eing op~pressed by many, r then we wouIld say that they are I as "dumb cattle driven."t Farmers acquit yourselves like ' men1, ljrepare for tho battle, have a confidenco m i your own seve and l march on to v ictory. D)on't hesi. v tate and wait for other profession- r als to equip you as regulars and E give you assurance that there e awaits for you at the end a romnun- a oration or a pen~sion). t Perhaps some farmors who road a this little piece, through curiosity a if nothing more, will think first, ni "I have already acquintted myself ti like a man ; I pay my honest debts r anid have a clear conscience, I'm \ going to conitiniue in miy owvn way t and take care of my solf the best a we at th( r the larg VER SH( OLIVER CHILI SY RACUSE PLOW S PLO' R, if you have not ny, and will. insu-1 You had better ruly, rrow Ci way I can, others may do as they ploase," in the beginning the writar had in mind that one class especially, for in them we can all confido, they are the foundation of hope of this Southland, and if we could get them to think for a moment and realize that the're are a number of Fellow farmers around thm who 10 not and cannot manage their af airs with snolh discretion and)( pre ~ision, and remernber "the strong ihould support the weak.'' Again hle question is ofton asked "What s the remedy?" To1 this (cluestioni ~ve will offer no answer at present, mnd offor only some suggestions for sonsiderationi. It is good and rofitable to review the past and ftentimes we can get 801lutions of eCrplexing quostions and profit by he dear experiences of others. if ye ill only call to mind a fewv stops takeni by the farmers some ears &Ego to protect and improve hemselves, when all other profes lions were watching thenm eagerly as they (the farmers) were taking top by step and gradually increas ng in number and steadily increas ng in knowledge; thero camne a orpent, better knowni as politics, nd "the sting ol that serpent was leath."' Now the farmers have hecome viser alnd it is deftermihled by the >rganizations that they shall be absolutely lion polhtical, and mauy t ever be thus ; and a nother goo d nldication of goo:1 in those' organi allons, the Growejs' At'sociations1 ro held with openi doors an id the i'armers' Co-operative and Ed(ne'. ional U nionsB are held in sicietb aill I 4hito meni are ehigilo to mn amber h~ip to the oune andu a limhitett num er to the other, ill o f which is fell enough. Wo could gno good f casouns for this, but it is niot neuce> ary. One other suggestion for onsidoration, andl that would bo in e neswor to another oft asked ques, ion. "What good can come out of Farmers' Union, wvhy organizo n association?' 'lost of you far 1ers will adlmit when you refused > soll your cotton for certain rices and steps wvoro being taken Vest of the hiississippi river, first o organize the cotton growers into ni associatioa and then that BIG ST rest line c WN. . 0 ,ED TURN PLOV TURN PLOWS. TOCKS, vY SHAP.ES, I-TOES AND you should oxami -o you a stand of C< htul guano hefore )mpany mioveimenIt Cross3d OVer thlis side of th, river, as a 'result wo see the p i.4ade stationary for a fow weeks and then gradually erawliug uj). but. you will 'my that was Ie caulseO wef3 refused to) sell. Indeed it, was in pairt, but with it a "cut in acreago pledges" and immediate organizations of tieo farmers in the cotln grIowing 6tatos. All of these actions wore a1 power conlCen trated, and~ if these prel imary steps taken~ could accomplish any thing, wvhat is it you coldln't ne comnplish by permianen'it orgaiuza tion? Farmeuirs, you aro being watchecd nlow anid ne~xt year you are going to be tried as ''by fire;"' indeked you have boon tested inr pa rt this sea-< son, butL alas for you next year or I the year fOl lowing if you don't c take stops to fortifty you rselves against that wh ich is th reatoninig 1] you-a lowV price for c )ttoin next year I. hi .11 conchluiioni wo wouli d say that tuo abovo is writteni in) good y7 faith and with the hope of on1e re- a sult that s'.mie who is a faurmepr and)( a as yet; has notl considered soriousl.y y that hie is in any dlanger, anid if ho 0: has realizedi this danger thinks I1 thuero is no0 relieb, ta ho may re- a conisider a n.uai that theri do- T1 poui lind stil more responsiibility upon Ihin, and that hie will bo winner a IL .th 11 nd0( if hei wvill put1 horth kh liSis effrs. E PlIuribus LUnum. 0 Away Wiht It. "Rn m, ginl, branidy and wdiskcey led tlnetiv', enenuies to mankind, a h y dIstroy 11101 lives thain wars, I quo0'- fr omi memory, not hav og read theo above sentuence in irty yt'aw, perhals. -l Wh~at) n s ounid ing fact, if it isu a lact. I was e umni nat ing, as Bill Arp usod( to a ay, of the terrible destr-notion of ife mi the two conitending arm ies ,f the Japraneso and Ruissiaiis, and vonderinog if the progress of civil zation and humanitarianfamn would vor become so .strong amoog tho :hlfferent nations of the world, that such wvholesalo slaughtor ot life would not be tolorated. I know of the fatal results of ourunor tunatoe war botwenn the American ORE RAKES, ne it, and )ttOn . .. the rush 3tates; I havo read of the British, Boor war, of hlin hundreds and housands I hat wero slain, also f various Wars, with horror a the number of qcoths, to say noth ing of tho seriously wounded left to suffer out their existence hera on earth. Then I have thought of the language of the great states man, Webstor, 'Rum, Gin, Brai dy and Whiskey are destructive leinmies to mankind. They (1o siroy moro lives than wars, famn inies, and pest ilence." Wirnit anr appalling fact for all itatesmencu to lace; and nothing )einig douno to stay that red-handed lestroyer of human life; no nation, io State, 1no church, or body of :hurches, to raise their voices ini lie namro of ,Jesus Christ, and do hire that the mnanufacture and ale of this (doath deahing flmid mst be slopped. But our beloved lte of South Carolina has taken (lid of it andI says to all her citi ns, "It is wrong for you, any of Ou, to sell intoxicating drink, but i a soverign State we wvill sell it, a good profit too, so whenever >uI feel a little dry just step into is of our (dispenisaries and get a ask of "red eye," as a citizen you re a partner to the sale, anyway." his is the exact condition that mifronts us in South Oarolina. I in glad, however, that one legis turo has given tihe citizens of ich county tho right to vote on te question of dispensary or no ispensaryv. I am also glad that >me of our church nmen, preachers ad other goodl citizens have do. dod to make a~n effort to release ickeus county of ,this gigantio hiskey hiouse. And now, fellow citizens, Liet us, aving the teost interest of our ounty: our homes, our children nd our churches at heart, study ioll this impor tont matter. Do we not know that the twenty housand dollars paid for whiskey sach year in this county is paid by non, mostly. whose families need ivery dollar they can1 got, and we know that oftimes it would be bet tor for the husband and father if the money which ho pays for whis key was burned in the fire, because it does him a great injury. . o ist . ius take a fair unbiased view of the situation, and vote as we pray Lord help us.