Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Eutored April 23,,1903 at Picken, 8. 0., as second olsls watter, uider act of Congross of March 8, 1879. PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1905 CHAT AT THlE COUNTRY STORE The Gang at "Four Corners. While Sitting Around the Stove on Sat urday Night They Discuss Gift and the Monopolies. They were sitting around th< stove discussing a little of every thing in general, when Uncle Josh cArfo in and seating himself oi a sugar barrel said : .'Boys, I have been so allfire'd busy this week, I ain't had no ti me to look at a paper, What is the news, any how? Anythmug start ling?" "NO ing worth the telling, Unclg Josh,'' replied John Peppercorn. 'ex,,.(ept I see that them Congrega. tional people up in New.Eigland have sot down on John Raoerfel ler, and ain't agoing to take the $100,000 he offereo 'em for foreign missions. I swar to goodness I'm glad of it. These tusts r b the people and give some of their steal. ings to the Chur to cloak over their devilt- hy he won't, do a thing but m he price of oil a little and] g 1' . back ogain, and more with k w Uncle JoshX tr around and says: "Squire, pass ni over a plug of that air Battlo Axe." Josh took a chew, and rnplied, "It may be all right, but I'll be derned if that don't look a littlo like straining at the bait and swallowing the whole feshing tackle. Whar they going to draw the line? When they pass the basket air they going to ask every feller how he made ins dollar, . and then take nothing buti money from saints? I rekon they can convert the heathen just as well on Standard Oil money as any other, and I suppose that's what they are after, add it they use only money from the righteous, I'll be blamed if I don'C think the devil will draw a full house, for while these sanctimonious folks air parading their virtues, and talking through their bats, the heathen will go to hell, and I don't know, but I kinder think, he will have a mixed crowd any way." "But Josh," pkt in Pop Smith, "thar's another side to this ques. tion-a-sork of moral side. These trusts don't get their money honest 4 and I don't believo it's right to use money gotten that way to advance tho good work . That's the devil ' money." "Well, Pop, [ don't know but it is a pretty good idea to mlake the devil serve the Lord if you can. I dlon't know of any better use for him. 1 don't believe he is as~ blacl< ats ho is p~ainted nohow." "Now, ..Josh)," remarked John Peppercorn, ''you air always on the contrary Bide. You knowv webl as anybody that all trusts and monopolies rob the people. They air evils and should be wipe'd out. You know a man can't boc(,mo millionaire and he houest." 'Aerhaps you are right, John lBut this thing called 'hu c~an na ture' is a queer mixture-Havoe chew of mine, P01)-Its aque thing. Now, if the rich are all dis. reputpblo set, what in the devil'i name are you all trying to get ricl for? But I suppose you will be ar exception, when you get rich. Now if men go into busines., and joir the'ir capital of a few hundred (1l lars, it is a partnership. If theyj invest a few thousand, it air a cam. pany. If they invest a few millions it air a trust and should be wipet out, but it seems tol. that it i the same thing, with a difference as it were. Now, John, we are al good democrats, and it air 0ne00o our cardinal priuciples to cuss &J trusts and monopolies. It are p~ar of our creed. But it strikes me w< - aro doing a little along that lin ourselves. It sorter seems to in that the Stato of South Carolina i running a little monopoly in th whiskey line, and ain't us farmer in organizing, trying to corner ti1 cotton market, so as to g.t a bette prie. C~oiiditions are different froi what .they were when we were boyi Thue business of the world is som' timg nameoinse~ and everybody PLOW TIME And wear Farm Imp DISC HARROWS, DISC PLOWS, SIDE HARRI COTTON GUANO I AVE you seen the COLE before you buy. It s4 Big stock of all kinds of F comes. He ath=B on the hustle, and we ain't got no From Central R. F. D. No. 2. right to kick if wo get left in the Mr. Editor: I noticed a letter deal. I'll tell you, John, I can't from the Rev. M. L. Jones in the see why a man can't become rich, Sentinel.Journal a fow weeks ago, and at the same time be honest. and I was very glad to hear from "It air not a case ofa small bus- him through the columns of the iness with big profits, but an im- good old county paper. I have mense business with small profits known the Rev. M. L. Jones for a and quick returns; an immense number of years. number of small streams soon fill a There are a few cases of measles big pond, so to speak. Now there a. i ection. ;e nr Holliday is Pop over there; he is a wagonhaabdcsan ifdLn, maker, does a small business onsoofJF.Lnaohaabd small capital and don't build over csbtte r etn ln one wagon a month. He has gotfne to have at least twventy dollars prof- el oenol ilstbc it on that wagon; ought to have it;ansygieuprhbio.fI it ain't any too much. But up inudesadtemnigoth the Wetst is a wagon shop. Those wr rhbtoi en owp flla havo big capital and bring otadt tl h aeo n~i into use all kind of improved ma- uto iur n fyuwl chinery, and build 600 wagons anoismefthvrynswo day, Now, John, if theymake a camt epoiiinae i p~rof it of two dollars on a wagonltlecsofsknswilbth there is a p~rofit of $1200 per day. frtoe opeciewiky F'igure it out, John, and you will Wlmyeicmtne hne find they make millions in a few css fwikyi eddi years, and if it air honest for Pop es fscns t a etrb to make twenty dollars profit on a ue.Tego oktlsu ob wagon, why, ain't it just as honest mraeialtigsad s for the other fellers to make two )'oiontawhnamngs dollars profit. The difference are dukh ste sn hse simpy tht o remins oor n fo ther setan. Ihenryos Hlidas the oher fller becoeblate m adr cAsfome, a Linre ando bondholders. csT, ut hey are ge ohbiinsbu mntn aong lackothewiso(hay ave ot t etrritliksoe oeou will indac gi u ad ush i mandtae eunestn hemmbeaning of uthbe advanage f tho oppun word~ teprhte n inaltins to wieo and f cursetha ~vold e alrog t andython mtoprte alof witoxi. wron in he oher e~er d ntico, smei gaof the seryg te lw kno ho tat tanardOilCo. pce otton proibt iit on do teirbusnes, ay mre hanI "lt care" o ticke, wild be r eo knw bot ou afars bt feirt seough to.peciewiky 'an mae ahea ofmony, nd coeu mbisingane Ihanet reckn Jhn Rckeelle isae lon sen B. ifgo whie. saneeddi a cat a theaverae ma. ashe corrscknens uita Tattb church folkd.sThethgyod booktakellills ot de the oneyfro JohJr, btelpera e i sallrhigo and this thatywapinhentonguewhfnan mancart? , sipt hant boenspan for othe' pl Ier thn te purpoeity wa her othl f el seon'melted t ud aebeiceil condoefrm? hma are sa rtaltf(h~ ebreo uc, orthring, ain't have But te rc .Y hdntdn h and mofcours hat forl bae tldrigh t heoudfrisurigon tofb in arsflyr, d I nt car toall )0' esas ct eru wrgi the o hoer' eper whe donovrh'ty, oIapl ~ 81 eepy. ' ' llmadenfor Afrr male, Ivamc a pro --*-~ -- ---l~'hib ltionsbt In savm nota ex-. I indoub abou a mdici et us (Jdfremebrad th~av tust Obe Itemper risi.onhswiesdo.2cate ikns all tns. Iwlo has coi e showin lements I 3WS, PLANTERS, IST-RIBUTORS. 'COTTON PLANT] wes time and moi ertilizers on hand Very ruce=Mo A Defective Honor Roll. Rock Hill Herald. There are always two sides to i question. There is appearing ii the local papers a list of non mes 01 farmers who have agreed to reduc( cotton acreago 25 per cent, and this roll is headed "The Honor roll.' Qaito correct, and I do not wish tu berate this effort in any way. I wish, however, to pomint out a fict in justiee to some farmers who have not put down their names and by not doing so appear to be aainast tho movement. I refer to ihose who last year plan ted a smnailecr ac reage to the plow than t heir neigh barsa who ha~ve signed the pledge. Mr. A planted twenty atcre to~ the plow last yen and Mr. B lante1d fourteen. Now Mr. A enn red uoe his acreago 25 per cent, non~c still plant 0n0 acre more to the p1. .w than his neigh bor M r. B, who doesn't sign the pledge, but con tinues to plant a fair and reaon. able acreagA, fourteen acri-s ja.t as he did last year. Now is it fuir to the latter to be hold up to th' pub. lic as selfish and unpalriotic? I claim not' The agreement would have been fairer had thf'y asked each farmer who would not pla~nt over fit teen at r.es to the low'~ to sign his nn',. T1hen the namesa of Rome who are not on the list, but who will not overplant, could bo on the list with instiee to all. An Ontlooker. The County Singing Co~ivantion. The County Smgin~g Conivention1 will moot with the Pram-.rs Crook Baptist ehurch on Saturdny before the fourth Sunday in A pm i, 1905, at 10 o'clock, a. m. Let all ask God's blessings to rest upon the c ,nvenition) and1( come with a~ deter, miniatioin to have one of theo best convenitions5 we have over hua., and we will have it. L~aban Mauldin, (Ch. V. x. (Com. Found a Cure for liudig, w Ion I use Ohamberlinin's Stomachl and1( J/iver T..blets for indigesiion and1 find tl~ hL'i.oy enit my case better than n, y lysin i a remedy I hravo ever tried avid I haive used mnany different remedies. I am nearly fifty-one years of ago and have sutTerod a great deal from iindi--eation. I can ont amiiost ainythuing 1 iinat no0w. -Geo. WV. Emory, Rook Mills, A'a. For~i sale by Pickena Drug Co E 're's~ nrng Store. ne att g the larl 4VER SH' OLIVER CHIL] SYRACUSiE PLOW PLO 'R, if you have not 1ey, and will insu You had better truly, uOWC i The News From Rock. Mrs, Adaline Sutherland, who lias been quito sick at the home of her son, A. C. Sutherland, we are glad to state, is improving fast. Born uin'o Mr. and Mrs. 11. A. Roper last week, a fine girl. Born unto Mr. and Mrs. Georgo Sutherland, on 16th inst.. a fine bov. Miss Josie Chastain, who has been sick the past fewv we3ks, is out again, to the dolight of nilnier. ous friends. B, F. Hendricks spont last Wed nEsday night with his brother, E. D. Hendricks. Well, you know I thoeghit I would marry and not have to keep the hall any more. Married at tho honme of the bride's parents on the 19th inst., Mr. WV. V. Chastain t~o Miss Can nie McJunkin, A. L. EIdens, N. P. officiating. We hope the bar'quo on which they glide will nIovPr break. A flourishing school is going otn at Newtown under the carcful man agement'of M iss Inez McClanahani. We are glad to state that Le-i Simpson, who has been) confinied to isi bed is able to be out uagain. The farmers sure are putting in good time whule tihe good weather lasts. I guess they are going to raise all the 6-cont cotton they can. Mr. S. F. Keith is having a nice dwelling oeocted on his farm. Mr. James Heond ricks is con tractor. Born unto Mr. and Mrs. Mark Jones one day last week, a fino girl. Mr. B. , come1 often, I certainly (10 like to read your intoresting let ters. M r. 1101 Mattisun and danigh ter, Mies (Carie, have been sponiding ai low (days wvith relativos aroundfl~ Rlock. I am glad to sea that the corread pondents aro putting on now'I life. WVhat has become of Unclo Zokr? I haven't seen anything frown him lately. Wishing the readers and corres pondents of the 8-J much sumcos. M untain Gi.. --The main who does no more than ho is paid to do is usually the mu who is complaining about not gett'ig what he is worth. rest line of DW N. . . 0 ,ED TU RN PLOWS, TURN PLOWS, 3TOCKS, W SHAPES, HOES AND RAKES., you should examine it, and re you a stand of Cotton . . haul guano before the rush One Way to Cure Drunkenness. and keep quiet. If h is in a very A spocial dispatch to the Mlacon bad way an o.licer may escort him Teh-yrn ph from Hawkinsville Geor- to his home or call a cab, put him gia, informs the reading pubH of in it and send him therm' The cir cumstancps have to be peculiarly the sudden, anid p)res3umiably of the; fggravating before he is taken to violent death of Jamea Graham the guard house and locked up. We are told that Mr. Graham was Yet tho latter actionit I 'Yet ~ ~ ~ i thehitrato mtl) onle a "highly respcted white farmer.'' which oliould be taken in ill cases. It, is also said that, "while h stood Why siend home a man whose pres. w ;ell1' in his comun ity, his family n m the street is a threat to had left home for sal'ety,'' uwn himself andl~ to society. Mr. Graham's to( the fact that he had haen~ drinuk- fai 1y had left huis hi )use, because ing. While wve desplore the uuitime- it was not sado to remain there. It ly taking of Mr. Grahamui, it; sem is mjf safe fm- anyb~ody to remain to us that the statommIts we hian' unider' the sam a roof withb a man quoted, concernjing him and1( hiis who 1is drunk and not undor re virtues and v ices, fiurniish legiti- strainit. The nt umberloss crimes mate occasion for considleraLiion andl~ commintedI by driunkardsg~ iuflicienit comtinent. pr oof of' this assertion. 10 i an nteestig ad simn" Drunkonness is itself a crime, cant circumfstuance tha~it, Mr'. Grahamdr anti the meni who are guilty of it I 'stood well"' amuong his neighibors, sol otetdpbil n despite the fact that it was not eafe privately as trimials, pfurll tem-d forhi fmiy o omininth perancoO societies wvould exercise sam!'e house with him .l* i- u n nmselves in obtaining legislaticni fortui mitely' truew, too that Ius as~o against tho abuse rather than infrqnotl hisoad ofe On~ime'o against the use of liquor, they would infreuentl heas of eti ae''acomipl ish bstter results. men, ani' d even 'genitlemen'~l, who are Eder~0 ('xist inig law drunikonness dangerus whiean mthir cuip~. It is, we beliovo, a misdemeanor, but. is nots tranige, oft course, t hat drunk-~l it is something more than that, Tho ards should( he aun1i1ted( a monalce man iwho is guilty of it should be 190. only to0 society but to thoso who promptly and severely punished, It have t hit umost ur'gent,~ claimis upIon khould be impossible for any man thmrproectou nd ove bu itto get drunk and still be nhighly (does not seemn to) u1s a wholly an- respected." The man who gets onml~ouiscircumnst.atico that, in spite drunk is not only guilty of repul of thi.4' fact, manny ot them shl ive an otmpad onutu contnuo o s~andwel m teirhe deliberately makes of himself an set'eral em)Umui1ties anid that, they enemy to society. lio should .be dboulld be highly respOctoed' treated accordingly, not only hy his ja i, in ouri estimation, a hopeful aqanac:,btb hs hs .an .ispimg ig ofthetims tatduty it is to protect tile publio publc opinioir is beginning to hold against dangerous characters and mn .geator ropr'ehiensioni than it for-agitthhrm hedo Th merly dlid drn~uuikenness and as the proper place for a drunken man is dIrunkard. Pro~gress in this direc- a cell, and when he is put in 'one tion is, however, being mido but popl n ihu ero ao slow Thecas of r. raha ishe will quickly cease to be "highly one10 m poinlt. A man may still respected." WVhen society no longer.i7 haLbitual ly or pcriodhically drinuk topemthmtoc mihicrm excess withiout losinig cast as com- werithmuntoym he i cikey plotly a howoul dowei' heenough cease committing it.--Ngws guilty of a loss objectionhute, dan- n ouir gerous and gratuitous crime. The adCuir law providosa the public with somne a y 1eaild n[ t at thasat small protection against him, but feverihi 'and constipated wilth bad ' 'if he is still "highly renpected" in, stomach headache. Mothe.i Gray's' . Sweet Powdors for Children w&ilv he commrunity no legal cogmzancee cure. it worms are preseinth 11 ia taken of his ,iffenene. Ordinari.. certamnty remove them. At a'*"~ lyv 'the ponlie it 11 h im t' o emove onl" dannAinB land nm n