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Ton Qa. a u.nan TBE HEN I%3 A MONRY-.tAKt,R. She Yroduced 47.119,215 Dz-o Fggs LasL Year I. Iudtaha-bbe Earned 515. 000.000-The Indiana Ch:cken is tributes s Much M oney as the 6lss and tovse Indus-ries. [From the Indianapolis Newb ] The most valuable song sung in indiana is the daily cackle of the satisfied hen. If she and her ally, the turkey hen, were to stop sing ing their- monotonous lay the State of Indiana would be from $10,000, 000 to $15,000,000 poorer every year, and many whole communities m Indiana would suffer a financial paralysis and would wither up and be whisked away by the breezes that frisk around the crossroads. There is nothing in Indiana that distributes money so widely over the State, or that loosens the tight screws on so many small bank ac counts. All of this may serve.as a thought-germ for the man whose habit is to shy a brick at the mother who pilots her brood across his gar - den lot. If the hen were given the job, and were permitted to devote all of her energies to the general public good, - she would mair&tain the State House, the judiciary and all of the State in stitutions, from penitentiaries to bos. pitals; she would educate all of the children in Indiana by meeting the annual public school expenses, and, on top (f that, in a favorable year, she would meet the maintenance of all churches of all kinds in Indiana and discharge their home and foreign mission obligations. Her produe tion, measured by the standard of the dolar, in many years is more val uable than the wheat production of Indiana, and most years she loses the oats yield production at the half way mark. ONE OF THE BEST INDUsTRIEs. Indiana talks a great deal about her Bedford stone production and 'the wealth of her glass industries. The Indiana chicken, through the summer months alone, distributes as much money in the State as these in dustries combined. The Irish and * sweet potato, barley and a half dozen cereal crops all combined fall far short in valuation of her proauc tion. Acording to the figures com piled by- the Government, the value of eggs and poultry grown in In piana last year was $15,000,000. Of that amount it is estimated that the egg crop was worth $7,892,215. Ac cording to the chicken census, In diana is credited with a population -of 11,103,006 fowls. State Statistician B F Johnson has just been compiling his poultry sta tistics for the last twelve months and has just struck his totals. His figures are complied, first, by coun ties, on the township basis. The ag gregiate for the State shows that the egg market production in Indiana last year was 47,119,216 dozen * Wholesale poultry dealers, who cover .the entire State, say that the aver age price of eggs during the last year was a fraction over 15 cents a dozen. On this basis the past twelve months' crop is given a valuation of $7,067,881.21, which is but a little short of the Government estimate. According to State Statistician John son's returns there have been 37,211, 600 pounds of poultry used and * marketed in Indiana during the last year. The wholesalers state that 10 cents a pound will be a fair basis to figure that at. This places the val nation of the marketable poultry at $3,721,160 and makes a total of $10,739,941 25. HEN WORTH MORN THEN PENSIONS. The estimates made by the whole sale poultry dealers on the poultry sold in markets, as a rule, fall a little short of State Statistician Jobnson's . figures, but not much.. Even taking the State statistician's estimate, the good hen, in active pro. duction, dumps a million dollars more money into Indiana every y ear than the Government dof's in pen sions. The money goes, too, where it will do the most good. Many homes in Indian'a are ran by wives who only have the small change to operate on and to clothbe thbemselveF, and if it were not for the chicken money the churches in thousands cf small Indiana towns would close up their doors in a hu.iry. All chickens look alike to most people, but as a matter of fact, when the Northern Indiana chicken meets the southern Indiana chicken two extremes in animal 1l1,e are face to face. The Northern Indiana chicken is worth two cents more on the pound, but the Southern Indiana bird is the one that comes in with the egg money. She is the raw boned, long, lean, lank fowl that ba3 to climb up and down hillsides, and she develops lung, strenuous legi. When she is killed and hung up in market she makes a great show for length, but it is a lean, raw boned, colorless body with long, spindling legs, and along scrawny neck. In the Eastern market, that controls prices, the Southern Indi ana chicken is classed as "ordinary." But this chicken has one great merit-she is the most persistent layer known in chicken history. She gets down to work early in the year. Cold weather has a hard time heading off her daily song. NORTHERN CHICKEN IS FANCY. The Northern Indiana chicken is graded on the market as "fancy." She is a short-legged, plump-bodied, tender fowl and when dressed she has good color and it is for her that the stewards at Delmonico's and other fashionable places are looking. It is said by poultry dealers that the Big Four Railroad, as it cuts thi ongh Indiana and Illinois, and the Penn sylvania through Ohio, is the divid ing line between this vastly different northern and southern chicken popu lation. Eastern dealers, it is said, can tell by sight from what side of the railroad the marketed fowl comes. Indiana is the very heart of the chicken belt, and the Indiana chick en and poultry and egg shipments compare with those of any other State. It is claimed that the finest chickens grown in the world come from the prairie sections of Indiana and Illinois, and from a section in Michigan. It is a fact that a chicken is seldom better than the soil it is raised on. . IFFLUENCED BY ENVIRONMENT. The poultry men say that a chick en is never better than, the people with whom it associates. However, the~difference of the st ock in I..diana, it is said, is due entirely to the dif ferent opinion northern and south ern Indiana people have concern ing the chicken. The southern In diana people think the egg more valuable than the chicken, and they use the egg laying varieties. The northern Indiana farmers, who have more corn and grain to feed, think that the chicken is the most valuable. The result is that, while the north erm section has a greater ~ chicken population, the southern section pro duces more eggs. Of course, there are exceptions to this sectionalis-n rle-fancy grade 6hickens are raised in southern Indiana and poor ones in the northern section, but they are exceptions to the rule. E~UTHANABIA. The Passing from the Mereiless to the Merciful-The Great Purpose gr Man to Make the World a Little Bet ter by Having Lived in it. The following is a Sunday editor ial from the Riebmond News by Alfred B. Williams: "It is a soft, musical word from a Greek root born far back in the forgotten years and among the lost peoples who felt the the same unut terable longings we feel and were trying to make language to express them. It means to die gently and easily. Its significance is to pass to glide as we do in half waking dreams-imperceptibly and without fear or pain, from the strife and turmoil here to an everlasting peace, from the dangers and the labor, the fears and the toils and the many burdens to an unibroksui and a dream less rest. In a momenT, with the~ expirationi of a iseah the heart i at has beaten so hard again.s ihe hr ats so many times witb dread or hope or suspense or arvguish may be still.-d to be aroused no more to tumxulu os throbbing. The breast that has been strained with sighs and thbat has ached with grief may be trai quil and the body rack..d with pain way find release and fre-dem at d I.'zg repose. That is the hope of Euthanasia, of .inviting death. A womasn in1 Chicago who was a member of many women's clubs committed suicide the other day and left behind her the one word, "Euthanasia," and one of her associate members printed in ustification of her act a poem with the same name. The substance of it is that when the cranker is at the heart of the rose it is better to scat ter the petals while they are yet fresh ad beautiful arnd fragrant than to see them wither; that when the bird is vinlces and the glona .f its pnn mage is gone and its life represents nothing but silent suffering and < pathetic waiting for the end it should be made to die quickly. Doctors have discussed the same subject in their most secret thoughts and in their most serious gatherings frequently kept from the knowledge of the general public. Often it is a question with honest physicians when ] a case is hopeless and the patient I longs to be released from the agony of living whether with a motion of i the fingers, one single swift touch of the hand where no man may know, and the decision is between the man responsible, the human being under his care and the Creator of both, the suffering shall be ended and death brought with merciful swiftness to end it all so far as present life and the doctor's skill and knowledge go. This is a question for the doctors. They may know when a life can meaa nothing but a short period of agony or fear and they are responsi ble for what they do in that most solmemn and trying of all hours. With them it is a matter of minutes. With many other people who think of euthanasia it is a matter of incal culable years. Nearly all of us have thought of it at one time or another. The long and silent and dauntless sleep beneath the sod seems very restful. The refuge from the toil and the burdens and strife, seems very easy. It is only the near est drug store or firearm or. the blade or the always convenient water, and it is all over, so far as this life is concerned. Yet has any one of us the right to say or to think that his or her life is ended, that the opportunities for its usefulness are gone? The rose be neath its fragrance and its beauty has no soul and the poor little bird has nothing but its song and plum age to give. Are we not more than they? Did not the Chicago club wo meu who commended the act of their associate forget that the human mind and heart and soul abide in the hu man frame and that while they live they may be consecrated always to the highest and sweetest and noblest purposes and may bring forth the grandest results? They have but a narrow and dark ened view of the purpose and the meaning of human life. The rose dies soon when separated from its parent stem or at the coming of theI canker or with the passing of the summer day or the breath of the chilling #mda from the North, and~ its fragrance pleases the senses a mo ment and is gone forever. The song of the bird lingers in the ear briefly and is forgotten. The hand, the tongue, the countenance, the eye of the living man or woman may do good as long as they are living and make results here and for the life unknown and beyond. None of us having life or sense or faculties are helpless for good. Many a dying hour has exhaled fragrance ex pressed in a beautiful life, a triumph ant death, years later, and in the glories of resurrection and realization of the dearest hopes of our race. Many a blighted life has borne fruit and blossomed never to be blighted or faded. Not one of us living may say that our days of usefulness or of hope are gone. Always there is work to do for the poorest and feeblest and weakest and most disheartened of us. The roses and the birds die with the seasons and the times of their lives. The lives of any of us may be made to yield beauty and fragrance and VIRGINIA THE V-RGN -C ) HALESON,.0 nusic which will go across the hid len river and carry memories of us tnd propitiation for us and win nercy and love for us at the Great White Throne, where all will be judged, and in the sweet, calm fields >f Eden all of us hope for, where the wicked shall trouble no more and he weary be at rest. Life may be iard , as it is often-and those es :eemed most fortunate by the world which does not know what we have :o bear as our burlens, the bidden burdens being the worst of all, may leave the hardest it all may be cruel and desolate and hope Less for ourselves. Yet- it may be made fraitful and beautiful and 3plendid in results if we can forget Durselves and remember that after all it is a matter of whether we will. The woman who sought euthanasia was seeking rest, unmindful of 'he work she had to do. There is a world full of poor sisters of hers needing help and a sister's hand and voice every moment of their sordid and miserable lives. If she had gone to the almshouse as an inmate, help less and pauperized, she could have found somebody more miserable than herself to'-colnfort and strengtlh n and lift up. Euthanasia-the peaceful and painless gliding out of life and its troubles-is sweet to the ear and many times sweeter to the thought of us, because to most of us our troubles sometimes seem heavier than we can bear. Yet it is but rank cow ardice after all. It is a miserab'e evasion of responsibility. Dream as we may and hope as we may in yonth and remember as we may in age, t;e grand purpose for which each of us has been brought into the world through the travail and suffering and danger of some woman is to make the world a little better be cause we have lived. in it. That is the foundation idea for each of us to begin with. If we do begin with it, we will not lose it. If we acquire it, however late, we will tiud that we are n,eve-r too poor to be u erul, mkver too-old or too feeble to oe help'ul, never while we have b eat i anrd strength in us past doing what we were sent to do, no matt.er wbat oum rcord.s may show. It is for each of us to live and tc do and to hope. The Alniighty and mysterious power may be trusted and r I : . DYSPEPSIA.I CONST IPA TION. ROUES itETORPID LIVERj GILDER & WEEKS -THE (ESTABLIsHED IN I871.) Capital---- -- --$150,000.00 Suplus and Profits - 96865.88 General banking business ransacted with promptness. Special attention to collections. Correspondence solicited. Savings Department. Deposits allowed interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum from date of deposit. Interest payable January 1st and July 1st of each year. M. A. CARLISLE, Prest. T. .S DUNCAN, Cashier. J. W. M. SIMMONS, Ass t. C'r W0EEDULE IN EFFECT AFTER JUJE 2, 190 . Daily-Except Sunday. Lv Glenn 8priags..................9 00 a mn Roebuck........................... 9 45 a mn Ar Spartanburg ........................10 00 a Lv Spartanburg.................... 3 45 p ni Roebuck......-................. 403p m Ar Glenn Springs.................. 4 45 ..... S RlRimpAo P"resdL. I OAROLINA C NA CHEMCAL CO3. ONI B US.A. 'p.. V.. * -* ~ .~ must be trusted to give the results. It is our part and our fate as men ti and women living in the wcrld and Y born of women to meet what may el come bravely, to accept the inevita- ai ble decrees of fate gallantly when e: we must, and with chgrful hearts and unfaltering courage to do our parts to the end, trusting to nature tl or the doctors to release us to rest ij when the proper time comes." !I Liberal railroad rates to the great State Fair will be mad" Fair week. IF YOU Va ;m; with this gargle your throat often it Keep fact always fresh in; For Cuts, Mashes and Deed only to apply Qexican Usi a few times and the soreness be conquered and the wound< To get the best results you of soft cloth with the linimeni wound as you would a poultic . 25c., 50c. an~dQ:. KEEP AN EYE O *. s diseases among .your fowls use Mxi SOUTI R IRD A @te sade Uwe. Resece of b. me em NOR TH, E AS Uigh-CIaae Wesebhee Tu.la between New Teuk ad!3 Cemeaate and VIeeAda I New York ad F8e.64a. .It ad svaah. ee yea svamak. ueeriew DIAm#gCae Serve. Uameelleat .eevise ad Lew eewat a.4=th Carolia a e EmposIste. WIater T.ewSst Tieebte bodmaed eatee. &. . AR&WZOE, emveUs msseger Ag., a. W. uvgrT am. Sessager A S . sein.W ' U, mes HEMIOAL 00M F'ORT __T_ MOST ECONOMIC? --LOWI "I -. ~W.4AI~ 33j ~ ly .. Do not miss the opportunity to ike your family to the State Fair. oung and olc will be instructed and atertained. All immoral, gambling Ad questionable features are rigidly rcluded. Do you wish to see the progress e farmers of the State are making diversified and intensified agri alture? If so, visit the State Fair, et. 28th to 31st. :. ul of Mexican Mustang Lin ltoa glass half full of water and will quickly cure a 8or Throa& 0 this tour memory: all Open Sores, ant iniment and inflammation wim d flesh healed. should saturate a plecS and bind it upon the e. 00 a bottle. and aes,Bumblefoot or oth in Mustang Luniment.. EI E RN ,WAY HIGNWA T.M th ad PIeasaee bh with the a a Y and W EST. a. The=hscebcs rw @u4leaie, vt* ss. sltats via Atlat and via q via ELa h:bweg. Sa w.4B tlohm.ad .u neead en als Through Tes*ame. eS8tate and W.eSt'nd >H Reseta new en asie e W . .TAI,@a. IPANY AANAGENENT PRT PRIES - (E -stern Standa Soutbbound. rthboun d Sch dule in Effect August 26th 1902 STATIONS. 8 40 am Lv Atlanta (s.A.L) Ar. 8 50 pm I0 50 am Athens 6 19 pm 11 65 am Elberton 5 17 pm 12 5 pm Abbeville 4 06 pm 1 22 pm Greenwood 8 85 pm 2 15pm Ar Clinton (Din'r) Ly. 2 45 pm (O.AW.O.) 10 00 am Lv Glenn Springs Ar 4 00 pm 12 15 pm Spari anburg 8 80 pm 12 2 pm Oreenville 3 26 pm (Harris Springs) 1 12 pm Waterleo 2 35 pm 1 421 in r Laurens (Din'r) Lv 2 7 pm 22 53 52 85 Daily Frt Dly ft Ex Sun. Ex sun A.v P.M. :. A.y 600 202 Lv Laurez. Ar 1 50 00 6 1'; 207 " Parks Ar 142 4 50 C6 40 22 ..Clinlu :.. 13' 4 30 6-8 234 Goldvi;e 1 17 351 9708 2 41 ..Kinard. 1-10 34(. 7 17 249 Gary.. 105 881 726 254 ..Jalapat.. I n 322 800 3 10 b ewberry 1246 800 '.8 25 3 21 Prosperity 12 32 22 J8 42 3 34 ....Slighs.... 12 23 202 8 55 3 39 Lt Mountai n 12 19 156 AM. 9 15 3 61 ...Chapin... 1219 1't9 924 357 Hilton 1202 129 9 29 4 Ul Wl?ite Rock 11 59 1 24 931 4(7 Ballentine 1154 115 9 52 4 17 ......Irmo..... 11 46 100 "i 02 423 ..Leapharl.. 1140 1248 -1080 445ArCol-arblaLv 1120 12. pm am 4 55 LvColurr bia (A .0 L.)Ar 11 eo 6 20 Sumter 9 59 9 20 Ar Cbarieston Lv 7 00 Trainea3 and 52 ar i'e at.d depart froa new union depot. Trains 22 a r d bt5 f om A. C. L. frelght depot West Gervais str.et For Rates, Time Tables, or farther informs tion call on any Agent, or write to - W G. CHILDb, T. M. EMERSON, President. TrafBe Manager. .1. F. LIVINUMTON. H. M. EMBBON, Sot. Agt. en'l Frt. A Pass Agt. 4'Yn bl. S C. WIlzniryt1n. N. 0 ATLANTIC COAST LINEl CONDENSE: taCH E1 'LE. WIL1FOTO2. N C., u'y 2 8',.1502 Tbroul, Trains Charleston to Gr enville No. 12. No. 53. 7.00 am.....Li...lharlest4u, s.. ..... 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