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The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29

mons half hose Of fine" quality, and
OF such character in all RESPECTS as to
challenge competition with similar
goods made anywhere. 1t Is Il notable
advance to be made in SO short Il time
ana we cannot say too much in recogni-
tlon and commcndation Of tho enter
prise OF the new company.
The goods speak for themselves best.
Ihey arc such as any mcrch ant in tho
and pride in thoir quality and finish,
and any lady or gentleman can buy
with full content They compare fav-
orably with any fine" goods OF their
Kind and grade manufactured without
tho State. Their colors arc fast black
and brown, OF French dye, they arc
guaranteed to be stainless" :" and they
have double heels and toes. They
ought speedily to displace all similar
goods made outside the State, and we
hope they will. We advertise them
freely and gladly herc, for the purpose
OF calling tho attention Of our mcr
chants and people generally to them
1T ls both duty and pleasure to pat
ronlze home manufactures OF sucl
quality.
1t is to be noted that the goods il
question are really OF "tino" texture
and arc fine enough for any lady's on
gentleman's wear, as they present tho
general appearance Of the we'll known
!" Balbriggan and other like goods.
Ihey would have mado great sen
satlon" II they had heon exhibited q
lew years ago as the product of u South
Carolina mill. They should command
the trade of overy community in the
State whore they are exhibited now.
They are made, as wo arc informed,
from fine yarn spun by tho Glover, S.
G. Cotton Mills, and are known rs
l6O " needle goods" and ono OF tho i'm
portant lessons they teach is that
Southern cotton mills should put in
mule spinning frames" and make
line and soft yarn. Tho quality of the
yarn which they can obtain, it appears,
ls the only limitation on the fncness
of tho hosiery and underwear to be
made by our local knitting mills
AS we have suggested before, the
population of the South affords q cor.
tain home market for the products OF
hundreds Of knitting mills, located in
our territory, which outside mills can
not dispute with them. 1t only remains
Tor us to make use OF our opportunities
to insure the retention within our
territory OF the millions OF dollars
which We have been sending abroad
| every year heretofore to supply our
wants for this class Of goods. There
are nearly million and q half of pco-
pie in South Carolina alone to be sup
piled with stockings and socks and
underwear, OF different grades. South
Carolina mills should meet this de-
mand in full. The Manning Hosiery
Mill is well prepared to meet large
and important part of it. We commend
It's claims and it's goods to the con-
sideratjon OF oil our merchants and
citizens who desire to support our
homo industries without sacrifice OF
thcir own interests and tastes.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29

STICK TO THE FARM.-A friend of
ours owned good farm few years
ago, about two miles from thriving
city. He and his sons lived on it, and
had q fine home, and were prospering
slowly. But they got it in their heads
that they could live easier and do
better to move to town and 90 into
some business. And they went, rent
ing the farm. They borrowed money
on it and put with what they had cand
started grocery store. He is man
OF more than average ability. They
all worked early and late for success.
Last year, however, was too much for
them. They had to trust out too much
and the laboring people had so little
money, and there was 50 much COM
petition amol e dealers to get that,
that the weakest had to go down. The
sheriff has sold the farm, End every
thing else is gone. They have moth
ing. AS they are particular friends Of
ours, we feel d ubly sorry for them.
Now, my good friends, don't you often
think that farming is poor business
and wish you were out of it and at
something else? And don't you know
that the usual result would be about
as described above? You cannot sell
your farm and put your money into
any business to- day that is honorable
and legitimate and safe that will pay
you as we'll. Let us look this matter
squarely in the face, then, and take
courage and go ahead and make the
best OF our business. There is no
chance to do any better, as q rule, nor
as we'll all things considered, with the
capitaIQ invested. ! was talking the
other day with a shrewd old gontle-
man, who has considerable property.
He remarked g. keep en- 'ugh money
in farm land all the time ~ support
myself and family well it ever, 'hing
else went to the dogs. | risk the res
in business" There is nothing safer
than good farm land. We have got
enough, too, to support us we'll, no
matter what comes. People must cat,
and farmers can always live, on tho
average The greatest business pros
pcct on earth would not tempt wife
and to sell our land or put mort.
gage on it. We have seen too many
friends with great prospects go under.
We will stick to sure, safe thing. a
family out Of debt, owning % good
farm, reasonably improved, arc well
fixed in this worlds goods. If you
haven't got that far along, good
| friends, work for it as fast and hard as
you can. We will do all we can to
help you. Go right to work. now
| Practical Farmer.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29

&c" gresham w. S. Holman, of In
did, died on the 22nd inst, at his
residence in Washington, after q
months illness. Mr.. Holman was in
the 10Th year Of his age, and was just
entering on the 3lst year Of his CON
nection with the House, where he was
known as "tho great objcctor." He
has generally been q mcmber of the
committees on war claims, commerce
and appropriations. At tho last sos
was chairman Of the committee on
public buildings and grounds. He was
chairman OF the committee appointed by
the forty eighth Congress to inquire
into Indian affairs. IN the fifty second
Congress he was chairman OF the com.
mittee on appropriations, and in the
fifty-third Congress was chairman OF
tho committee on Indian affairs.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29
WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN.
The Weather and Crops for tho Week
Ending April II, 1907.


The following is the report OF the
weather bureau for South Carolina
during the week ending April l7th
Tho temperature averaged two de-
grccs per day below normal during
the past week. The day temperatures
wcro warm and the nights rather cool,
with light frOsts on the mornings OF
the llth and 10th, which, however, did
no noticeable damage. Tho highest
temperature reported was S5 on the
18th at White Hall the lowest was 30
on the 18th at Liberty and Saluda, and
tho State mean for the week was GO.
The normal for the same period is ap-
proximately G5.
The rainfall during the week was
light over the entire State, and fell in
scattered showers during Wednesday
and Thursday. At quite number of
places no rain fell during the week.
The heaviest weekly rainfall reported
was 0.69 at Greenville. Twenty-Five
places reported somo rain, the average
amount boing 0.19, and the normal for
the week Is approximately O.82 OF an
inch. Rain is needed to bring up late
ly planted cotton and for gardens, also
to soften the crust on heavy lands that
| were, until recently, too wet to culti-
vatc and which baked in drying. The
| light rains did not interfere with farm
work, which WAS uninterrupted during
| the entire week.
There was moro sunshine than dur.
ing any previous week of the season.
Partly cloudy weather prevailed or
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
and generally clear weather the rest
of the week. The percentage of posi-
bic sunshine for tho week was 80, anG
! tho normal percentage Is about 70.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29
HOMEMADE HOSIERY.
Progress ofthe Knitted Goods Indus
try I'm South Carolina.
News and Courier.

News and Courier,
We have had the pleasure of seeing
and handling some Of tho products of
the Manning, S. c., Hosiery Mill,
which afford most gratifying evidence
Of the progress Of the knitted goods
industry in the State.
A very few years ago there was not
so much as single pair of coarse
stockings or socks knitted by machin-
cry within the boundaries OF South
Carolina. Then a concern which em-
ployed convict labor in tho Penitentiary
introduced the business In the State
its cXampl3 was followed successively
by some cntcrprising citizens of Che
raw and Charleston, who embarked
in the manufacture OF comparatively
coarse half hose, for mems wear, and
made a conspicuous success OF their
venture, and now the new Manning
mill presents both women's hose and
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29

effect than Is supposed by those wht
have given the subject little Or NJ
thought. 1t begins to be realized tina
our national prosperity depends to {
great degree upon good roads, and ir
most of the older States we may conf.
! IDENTIFY look for q thorough reform in
the present methods of road building.
This applies to railroads as we'll as to
country roads. All of them were orig.
inally built with view to economy
and with the expectation that both
would be improved upon in location
and construction when Increased traffic
would justify. That time has arrived
in many States and sections. Owing
to the vast extent Of the United States
and the comparatively sparse popula-
tlon we can not expect for many years
to come such magnificent roads as they
have in older countries, Eng land, Ger
many and France, for instance, but we
can and should begin now to lay the
foundation for system of road build
ing that will ultimately load to that
result.
One OF the most powerful stimulants
to the movement for good roads is the
wide rise and growing popularity of
the bicycle, and it has made zoalous
converts to the cause of better roads of
thousands who would give it no thought
as u mere economic question. But the
patrons Of the wheel, unless they are
assisted by the general public, will be
apt to expend all their energies in the
construction OF bicycle paths instead
Of wagon roads. The profits of the
farmers and the lumbermen and the
pleasure Of the wheelnen and wheel
women can all be equally subserved by
building first. class macadam or telford
roads. Five thousand dollars will build
mile Of macadam road in the most un-
favorable location and it would be far
moro profitable to expend this amount
to build one mile Of durable road than
to scatter the same amount in tempo
rary repairs over fifty miles Of road
way, as is the general rule.
This matter of good roads should re.
ceive the careful attention of every
person because the interest OF two
thirds of the people Of the United
States are directly involved. Some
radical action on tho matter will be
taken within q few years. 1t should
be thoroughly studied to the end that
when action becomes necessary it shall
be intelligently directed. Our coun-
try is too old, too prosperous and too
rich to make any more pioneer eXper-
imcnts in road building. Our exist
ing highways are Il reproach to our
otherwise highly developed civiliza-
tion. They must be brought.up TO the
standard of other lines of progress and
tho work must begin soon.-Daniel w.
Baird in tho Trudesman.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29
"A train was rushing through some

"A train was rushing through some
swamps in northern Indiana. The
track was fringed on either side with
" cat tails" literally thousand OF their
brown heads bobbing around in the
breeze. A small boy eagerly drank in
the scenery. He was evidently o city
bred boy, for he presently exclaimed,
Mamma, | didn't know that sausagcs
grew In that way"
Will the Panama Canal be built
after all l? Dredges are at work, ma
chinery has been ordered and paid for,
and about 5000 men on the payroll
have to earn tho money by good, honest
toll. There arc no sinecures for any
body, and no taint of scandal Is attach
I'd to the new regime.
The Archbishop of Canterbury
will deliver into the hands Of Mr..
Bayard the log Of the Mayhower,
which the Consstorial Court recently
decided to present to the United States
OF America.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29

Perhaps had better say just here tina
] have long since ceased to write com
positions for the school girls or to as
sist the boys in their debating societies
| wish sincerely that l had time tt
help them, but l have not know
how it is, for used to got help myself
But some OF these letters are anus
Ing. One received few days ago is
very urgent to have my opinion upon
the propriety or impropriety of u chris
tlan man digging storm pit and get
ting In 1t when the cyclone gives its
warning. Is it sinful or not to show
such lack of faith in God? He says
they are making a church question of
1t In his community. l have had sew
eral letters asking for assistance in
guessing tho missing word that the
Constitution offers thousand dollars
Tor. These letters, OF course, are con-
tidential and some beg me not to men,
tion it even to Mrs. Arp. But the
delicious humor in one of them is the
offer to give me half the reward II
will disclose to her the word. That is
very like the generous fellow who told
the boy that If he would furnish his
own hooks and lines and bait he would
give him half the fish he caught.
Since my last letter about how to
raise children was published | have
had several very comforting cpis-
ties from friends and some from
strangers. Rev. William II. Strick-
land makes mention Of several families
from old Gwinnett whose children are
all grown and are esteemed by all who
know sthem as good peopie--honest,
law abiding and temperate. He names
the three sons and five daughters Of
n ri M ~.
eight children OF Rev. D. Ii. Moncrief,
one OF whom now lives in Atlanta and
has five sons and five daughters, all
grown up and all good men and women.
John and Mary B. Sammons, his wife,
had thirteen to grow to maturity, and
they wero all good. How rich those
parents were!-richer than Vanderbilt
or Astor. And so were the children Of
ID. w. Spence and Wash Allen. One
had eight and the other ten.
Well, now, one of tho reasons is that
all OF those families came from old
Gwinnett, and most of the children
were from that old Sammons stock
that lived on Alcovy creek when | was
a boy. The first couple e1er saw
married outside of my fathers house
was Jim Dunlap and Rcbecca Sammons,
aud Jim Outmurried himself when he
country wedding, and it was big one.
They had turkeys and roast pigs and
pound cake amazing, and they hau
thousand dollar candlesticks all about,
for every likely negro boy had torch
But my wife aud | left there forty
six years ago, and did not know that
these good people had had SO many
children. May all such be perpetuated
| And | have q good letter from Buena
Vista, telling Of old Dr.. Reese, who
has raised seven boys and two girls,
and they are all good, sober, Industrious
Christian children, and had a gentle
Kind, loving, Christian mother, who il
now among the angels. That is it
after all-the mother-the mother
the gentle, kind. loving, Christian
mother.
So am encouraged to recall my ap
prehension concerning tho black sheer
being in all large nocks Of children.
BILL ARP.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29

"A young society woman. Of Marion,
Ind, has been adjudged insane by q
commission and will be sent to an
asylum. While suffering from mental
alteration recently, she armed herself
with q revolver and created q sensa-
tlon by holding up q crowded street
car. She was placed under arrest.
-Ihe Supreme Court Of Missouri
mas decided that women are eligible to
hold any elective Office in that State
rom which they are not specifically
debarred by statute.
"A supposed insane woman threw
nor two little children from q ferry
boat Into the river at st. Louis, and
then followed them. The children
were rescued, but the woman drowned.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29
The President has appointed Harold

The PRESIDENT has appointed Harold
M. Sewall, of'Maine, to be envoy extra
ordinary and minister plcnipotentiary
to Hawaii. Harold M. Sewall gained
prominence during the last campaign
by reason OF his advocacy of the Re-
publican ticket and platform, although
his father, Arthur Scwall, was the
nominee of the Democrats for Vice
President Mr.. Scwall had the en-
dorsement Of the Maine Senators for
the Hawaiian mission. He was DEM
ocrat until two years ago, whom he
became Republican. He Is about 38
years old and Is q graduate Of Harvard.
---------suE. e.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29

DO not oil what you are going to
do; II you do not do it, the people will
laugh st you.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-17

BAKER. - Experienced foreman. good
worker, wants steady position on all
kinds Of bread rolls and cake: distance no
object. Sl2 Washingtor-st.. bakery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-17

WORK WANTED.

STENOGRAPHER and TYPEWRITER
Quick. accurate. with good business
Judgment: several yeas experience: with
rood house: best Of references. F. o. BoS
81 Jersey CITY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-17

SEAMSTRESS and chamhermaic; can GO
all kinds Of family sewing. also wait on
a lady. frst-class city reference. JohN-
STON. ~ Columbus ave
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-11
BRIGHT BITS.
Daddy, can whisky talk?"
mo, of course not"

Daddy can whisky talk?''
mo, of course not"
Then why did Aunt Maria say it was
telling on you more and more ?''-Pick-
Me-Up.
-Frenchman politelU-You speak
French, 1 understand
American (modestly)-Yes but L don't
speak French that you UNDERSTANDABLE
York Evening Journal.
-Margins-T heard that Nosutch
Wyrde has failed.
Bearish-Yes. He lost all his money.
Margins-Who got it?
Bearish-Weu, his wife got most Of it
Up-to-Date.
Our typewriter girl asked the boss if
he couldn't tighten her work this hot
weather. what did he say?" "He told
her not to hit her typewriter keys so hard
and to lick her postage stamps only on
the corners."-Chicago Record.
Jonah, having emerged, looked admir-
ingly at the big fish. You are certainly
a bird" he remarked
The whale, for his Pc looked with
equal admiration at the pwptet. Speak
ing of birds" he rejOined, you are some
thing OF swallow yourself. Judge.
-visitor-what! He is three months
old, and you haven't named him yet?
Mrs. Wheeler-No! You see, it's this
way: l want to name him after my BIZ
cycle, and John insists on naming him
after his. l guess we viii have TO com
promise, and name him after the wheel
mother rides.-Puck
You have such faithful; wife, too"
said the intimate friend, reproachfuliy.
"She stays right by you, no matter how
low down you get"
Il know it," tearfully replied the peni-
tent Jagway. There are two things that
will never desert me-Mrs. Jagway and my
appetite for liquor. '-Chicago Tribune.
First Fly-Well, the season is nearly
ended and Wen soon be gathered to our
fathers.
Second Fly-rve got a great scheme to
tickle somebody nearly to DEATH when
shuttle off this mortal coil
First Fly-Whats the program for your
last sad rites?
Second Fly-Going to suicide in the cake
batter, and get myself baked in as a rails
in.-ChicagO News
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-11
Personal.

-Gustave lie Rouge. Partisan literary
man, proposes that the rich shall send
their half-worh clothing to a "vestry of
arts and letters'' ia order that needy art
lists and literary men may get them free.
The son of the late Sir John Mlllais.
former president of the Roya. Academy,
viii treat English art critics 70 novelty
In biography Of his father, TO which all
of Milais' models are TO contribute remin-
iscences.
The late Senator George of AIississip
pi, had the southern accent in his speech
to marked degree Son" he would say
TO his committee clerk, ''cain't y shut tn
do'E Pears [ me, in reason, y could T
yd try right hard"
The Prince of Wales at the last meet
ing of the Royal College of Physicians hav-
ing been solemnly elected a member of
that august body from now on has the
right to commence medical practice IN the
united kingdom without any interference
on the part of the authorities
John D. Rockefeller was recently con-
demned for refusing to aid the distress
which was so prevalent in the town of
Virginia, MINI. 1t has now been discov-
cred that instead of sending check for
el'VVV as Mr. Carnegie dld, Mr.. RockeIel-
Ter sent an agent to investigate, and on
his report opened mine at that place
and hired many of the starving men.
AT no time since his accession to the
throne has Emperor William been more
unpopular among the officers and soldiers
OF his army than a present. 1t seems
that at st. Petersburg he was so anxious
TO create an agreeable impression upon the
car that when the Viborg regiment, of
which he is honorary colonel, marched
past during the view at Krasnoie-Selo, he
exclaimed: What would l give TO have a
regiment in my army that could march as
pearance as my Russian regiment of vi
borg! To make matters worse, this ut
terance has been reproduced in the Mill
tary Weekly Gazette, which is the Off
cially recognized press organ OF the Ber-
lin war department.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-11

AT the meeting of the board of county
commissioners on Thursday. the petition
of the Georgia Car and Manufacturing
Company asking that lands west of its
works be drained, was favorably acted
upon. This favorable action of the board
is a vindication of the assertions of the
Morning News with regard to the neglect
Of dranage contiguous to the city, and an
evidence that the board is beginning TO see
the facts as they really are. The car COM
pany's petition was filed on July 8, last,
and has since been before the county COM
missioners. That the board recognizes the
Importance OF nearby drainage, and the
necessity for prompt attention to it, is in
dieated in the wording Of the report. 1t
Will b observed that quite large area is
covered by the favorable report, which
says:
THAT the draining of Telfair swamp
and IFS tributaries to connect with the
Minis swamp canal be adopted as a part
oil the system Of drainage Of the county
IN ne plans proposed by the assistant SUI
pcrintcndent. That the committee on
Ctainace and the county attorney be au-
thorized 10 obtain from the owners of the
LAM the rights-of-Way for said drainage.
ard that the construction of the sald
drains lie commenced as early as possible
after such rights-of-way have been OBJ
tanned
Attention is invited to the fact that this
proposed drainage is to be done in sec
ton recently visited by the special com
mittee from the grand jury, and in which
ore OF the committeeman declared 1t was
not possible 10 lind 'cupful of water"
Nov that both the chairman Of the
board of commissioners and Mr.. Kehoe
are away from the city, and 1t cannot be
charged that the whole matter is person
al or political" those members OF the
board who are still with us should give
their attention to the drainage around the
city. Ii they are unable TO stop the Buck
halter business, they may be able TO bring
about a fair division of the able-bodied
convicts between the Barony of BuckhaI-
ter and the city of Savannah. 1t would no
doubt be gratifying to the taxpayers TO
see even half of the convict force at work
for the protection of the health of the
CITY