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The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-18

ana then walked out and returned
nome The Same morning after break.
iast came back to the store and told
| VIII Cotton the policeman said there
was something wrong last night and
wanted to know what it was. He re-
R,leo mat he did not know what it was.
Inc policeman having told me that in
me % early part OF the night Cotton and
~ smith were up there, asked him
II ne vas sure he didn't know that
anytnlng was wrong. Said no he
didn't. l did not find out until Dr.,
Smith came.
My rotations with Dr.. Smith have
always been pleasant, but l can't say
Us mucn In reference to my relations
with ono of the clerks.
deny emphatically returning to the
drug store after leaving Will Cotton
on Col. 4oung's corner until s. 80 in the
morning, when found tho policeman
in charge. Furthermore, take this
opportunity to brand as an infamous
and contemplate liar the person or
persons who by insinuation thus socks
to blacken my life, when have tried
for nearly fifty years to build up a namo
Tor honesty and integrity. About tho
candle, rubbish, straw and oil, people
VIII draw their own conclusion. I had
nothing to do with their placing or ar
rangement.
Since have been in Union if any
know aught against me let them say
so. My friends will bear me out that
my actions have always been to the
plumb line and l have been fair and
square with all mankind, and those
who are disposed 20 give credence to
this falsehood damaging to me and
mine stop and think that he who
steals my purse steals trash" but he
W % tilches from me my good namo
takes that which enriches him not
and makes me poor indeed.
Tho above is my statement. The
people among whom | have lived will
not be hasty in jumping at conclusions.
Before God | have given straight
account. Let Justice rule.
w. M. MEADOR.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-18

capital and labor. There would be
happier homes, too, for there would h :,
moro good fellowship in the world.
You ladies with your carriages could
preach sermon MI around tho city by
taking the poor to drive.
| | don't believe there's man in New
York who can't be reached by love
and kindness. We've got to have u
! ditfe rent style Of preaching to lift this
world up. A little kindness goes a
great way. Try it.
Never look for gratitude and you'll
| never be disappointed.
l remember the first good Samaritan
l ever met. | was sent away from
home when 1 was about eight years
old, to do chores on farm and 20 to
SCHOOL. l was feeling terribly lone
somo and homesick when an old man
met me ana gave me q cent not one of
the little cents we have now, but a big
copper one, and that encouraged me
and made mo feel good.
How can we got into sympathy with
people. DO you want to know the
receipt? Put yourself in the other
mans place.
God taught me lesson once alono
that line which | hope He will never
have occasion to repeat. In Chicnoo
during the Summer had a missi6n
sabbath school with 1900 scholars
Inc season was hot and tho children
aled rapidly. l ofliciated at three and
@ ,our funeral services day, and got SO
used 10 1t that l repeated the service
mechanically. ''oo
One day l received word that q
mother wanted me to go to her ho,,sn
as her little girl was drowned. rnkinT
my iour-year-old Emma | went and
reached the homo. CIV"
IL was drunkard's home. The
lather sat in one corner tipsv. whiIc
the poor mother hung ovcr Tho bodv
OF her child, which had lust been
6rcught in from the river and iav
dripping on a dirty pine table. She
mad no money to bury the child, and T
STOOD there taking the measurement
lor the shroud and cotllu, while tho
mother stood at my side weeping.
-, ielt the house carrying my own
llItlo giri IN my arms. After we had
gone little way she said, "Papa. sup
pose mamma and you were very poor,
ana har to go out to the river cvcrv
day to pick up wood, and one dav
reached out too far and fell in, would
you feel bad ~ | strained the child to
my heart, and said Yes, darling, |
should" Did you feel bad for that
mother, papa ?" she asked.
An, that was putting it in a new
nghC. hurried home with my own
chlld, and then hastened back to that
mother. l wept with her. | read
Gods precious promises | told her of
the beautiful homo where her child
had gone, and when left that mother
had dried her tears. The next day |
went sovcn miles to the graveyard
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-18

oil this long way homo, enduring al
this agony that he might lay his trophy
at his masters feot?''
Lieutenant, snid Miss Rossite,
shortly, eve must go. Mrs. Baxter,
how much do owo you for tho incon
venicnco have caused ycu?"
"Nothing," answered Dobby's moth.
er. Money cannot pay for suffering.
Goodbyl'
Skinny and Joe followed tho lady and
tho officers out to tho horses. Presently
Skinny camo back.
"Whon tho woman wasn't lookin, -
ho said, THAT pompous fcllcr handed
me this an whispered for mo to give it
to DOLBY"
"This" was q bright goldpicco.
That was last autumn. Lijor's broken
wing healed long ago, but it droops a
little, making him look moro rakish
and rascally than over.
THE END.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-18

AT the beeir ming of tho ,u,.
century the Bible could bo stndioS dp.vs ont
only one fifth of the earth's nonnlo';aoy a oy
NOW 1T Is transla ted into janomn'unn, d,
whtch make 1T "cccssibIo to nine ston,sS> :"
OF the worlds inhabitants. 'o''h' .
. "A paper bicycle has invaded t,,,
ned. Paper fibre, similar to ,hn@
soinctlmes used in the manufac,urr -
railway carriage wheels. is emn,cv,,r
Tor tubing, aud is as strong as anv IN
-Iho period of a generation" ho.
peen lengthcned. 1t used To Ec 3n
years, aud later increased to 81 Nov
scientist says tho average term y,
namah Io lie has Increased in the In, ;,
oo years from 32 to ~ years.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-18

P0Or 1WCr SD1Ung up 1CfU. terrible
HORT.
and then tho crow would give him such
q whack with his big bill that it was o
wonder that the victims unsuspicious
brains were not knocked out, and with
great shout and Tapping send the
chicks scuttling away as if for dear life.
This was repeated many times, tho
chickens never seeming to acquire wis
dom by SAL experience. even tho unfor.
tunato VIII had been nearly scalped on
tho prevj' J day appearing to have for.
gotten al .dy where he got his sore
head.
Lijer sconcd to derive much satisfac-
tion from enticing the passing wild
crows to the homestead by seductive and
inviting caws from the top of the tall
cottonwood and then treating his guests
very shabbily. Wheu several Of them
would gather within herring distance,
he would basangue them loudly, per-
haps upon tho error Of :heir ways. The
visitors, with heads atilt. would listen
with solemn intentness as If to the words
Of an oracle, and the lecture would go
on till the appearance of some one from
the honse would frighten the strangers
away, when the patriarch in tho tree
top would send after them derisive
"whoor-hoor.ha.a-aW
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-18

"But l didn't" protested Dolby.
Deed an double, | didn't!''
And the pompous appearing officer
looked into tho lads honest, troubled
faco and felt that no told tho truth.
''Nliss Rossiter," he began, "isn't it
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-18
WIN her and saw her little ono laid in

" WIN her and saw her little ono laid in
sobnnf n@e was the last Of my Sunday
Iionool scholars that over was In ia awav
mu 2auPer grave. told tho story n.
nn,,;is Hiaooath. school. and, poor as nv
IN t"pr,s n,s, were, we raised money enough
"ro uv purcnase plot containing fiftv
f,t"vos, fot w and as they wcro fiilei nnothc'.
practtcSi t want good samaritans with .
q St'loI, lot Of q k1nd oh of sympathy. Taere',
now. A man sneap is al Find 81 d of christianity
if it doesn't n cout % always t; willing to holp
Get rid of that So sort any ~ thing:
tn tnfo the kind of sympathy wv with uno u geI
ioiiow- w-oelng that will show tTn hi,n y1uf
you love him and fetl for him ''''n 'oa1
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-18
IAIJ E.
By TOM P. MORGAN.
(Copyriybt. 1890, by tho Author.] ]

With ono cX,optiOn, tho members Oh
tho Baxter household wero honest and
upright. Though life had been some
thing of "A struggle with them since Mr..
Boytpr's DEATH they had met thoir
trials bravcy, and after each day Of
struggling, when night settled down
over the little weather beaten house
under the tall cottonwood tree, they
cou)d 20 to rest with the simple salts
faction Of feeling that they had done
their best.
The day was fast approaching when,
tho time of residence required by tho
government having been fulfilled, the
homestead claim wculd be their own.
Their small crops, cultivated as we'll as
n boy whose VII perhaps WAS greater
than his ability could cultivate them,
were sufficient for their modest needs,
and if their means were scanty their
wants were carefully kept down to
them.
They owed no one. They hated no
one unless it might bo Indian jim, the
worthless half breed whose chief fond
ness was for dirt, begging and stealing.
three things that the BaXtcrS, with one
exception abominatcd. They feared no
one except perhaps some OF the pomp-
ous, straight backed oniccrs OF the prai
rio military post of Fort Beal, three
miles away, and Of these the younger
BaXtcrS, with the same single uXccp-
tion, stood moro in awe than fear.
Mrs Baxter was II quiet, painstaking
woman, who worked hard to make both
ends meet in the humble household
Dolby was an old manniSh chap who
did his best to fill his fathers place.
And little Martha was faithful at her
tasks, helping at the dish washing,
mcnding and sweeping, and dropped
seeds for Dobhy's planting, fed the
chickens and assisted at whatever else
her hands found To dc"
But there was one inmate of the liitlo
weather beaten house who, though evil
IDENTIFY considering himself one of the
family, took no care to emulate the
prohity that marked their daily life,
and apparently feared neither the law
nor tn" commandments This was Iii.
jer, who WAS far from being sanity in
spite Of the pa'riarchial nam" II" borc,
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''P, p. m. M" \. IN.
Trains and 10 carry elegant Pullman
eieeplng cars between Columbia and q sh"villo,
enronto daily hetwoec jacksonville and Ginrin.
natl.
Trains leave Spartanhnrg, \. & G. division.
n0rthbound. 42 q: m. H.ii p. m, G:iS y, ~.
lVestibule Li1nitcd): sru:hhound I?:gi a. M
8:l6 p: M, II :57 q. M. tYestibule I.i,ni' eds
Trains leave t4rcenville, y. and G. division
northDounu, 40 Il. M, 2:al nn $50 -. m.
tYestibuled I,mi! e:) sout'bound, lea D. m.
d:2O p. M, l2:2S p. IN. tNcs:ib"lcd Ln:itc,n
Pullman Service.
Pullman palace stepping ears on Trains 85 and
8, 81 and %. on A. and &. division.
w. H. GREEN, j. NJ ClJLP
Gen. Superint endcnt, Traffic Mg'r
Washington, u. G. washington. n O.
" A. TURK, II. HAhDWiCK,
Sen Pass AGt. A:''t Gen. Pass. Ag't.
Washington, -. 9. AtInntn, Go
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est heart to beating wildly. II didnh
see your ring at all, ma ami"
"You must have seen it whom you
placed tho pitcher of water on tho stand
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-01
Barker Was Right.

At Tuesdays meeting of the Board Of
Estimate and Apportionment, Mayor
STRONG and President BARKER of the
Taxes and Assessment Department dis
agreed over the resolution to take $21, $40
from the moun apportioned for repairing
Grammar School 80 for use temporarily as
a high school. 1t Is customary for the
Board of Estimate and A~pportionment,
in some cases Of urgency, to make trans
fers such as was asked in this case.
But I" do not believe in the use of gram
mar-school funds for high schools" said
Mr.. BARKER in explaining his vote against
the appropriation. "Itake the position I
have upheld for many long years, that the
parents Of children who can afford to send
them to the city high schools can afford to
send them to college or other high-grade
institutions. 1t Is wrong to ask the city to
pay for the education of such pupils"
The city Of New York is expanding this
year for the College of the City of New
York, for salaries of professors and officers,
books and supplies, support, maintenance
and alterations, 1885, 600. The city of
New York Is expanding this year for the
maintenance of the Normal College $780,
600. The first care of the city of New
York In the matter of education should
be the grammar schools, otherwise
the schools of the people, and with
out inquiring into the question of
appropriations for high schools 1t seems
certainly unwise and unfair that any por.
tion of the money appropriated for gram
maj schools should be diverted to the use
of high schools anywhere. Grammar School
62, at 157th street and Courtlandt avenue,
in the annexed district, is one of the new
uptown schools. erected in 1890, and To-
Gated in a district where the population is
increasing rapidly.
The position taken by COMMISSIONS
BARKER ia n which citizens generally
will applaud.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-01

treaty under which the Bannocks accepted
their reservation expressly allowed themt 10
hunt upon the unsettled lands which they
formerly occupied. And this treaty ante
dated the existence Of Wyoming as n State.
It was plain, therefore, that the Indians
were exercising rights for the possession Of
which they had given a valuable considera-
tion. Still, they were under obligation to
obey their agent and not to be absent with.
out permits, and during their visits or
other absence from the reservation, they
should take care not to violate tho game
laws of the State.
On the present occasion the Indians seem
to be indulging in an outing. such as they
have enjoyed for SO many years, but 1t is
not charged that they are violating the
game laws or other laws Of Wyoming. So
far as 1t appears, they have no hostile intent
whatever; but the nearest settlers are
naturally ap~prehensive, with so many In
dians loose. 1t was therefore a judicious
step for Lieut.. Col. RANDALL to go at once
to HALEY, to learn the reason of the gather
ing there.
1t Is said that q commission Is now
dealing with these Indians for tho sale of a
part Of their reservation to the United
States. 1t would seem desirable, there
fore, to take this occasion to purchase
all hunting or roaming rights which they
may have, or may have reasonable grounds
for claiming. under old treaties, 90 that
alarms like those Of year before last and Of
the present summer may not occur.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-01
Tho Drop in Wheels.

Wheelmen who read THE Sun yesterday
are happy. They learned that, from now
on, the term $500 bicycle will relate to a
fiction only. The old-fashioned price for a
certain machine, which has been maintained
up to now with peculiar stiffness, has fallen
to $75. It has seen It's last century, the
New York manager declaring that the re.
duction is made in order to enable the COM
pany to compete successfully with the ire
mendous cut in prices recently advertised
extensively.
The era of high.priced bicycles IL rapidly
closing and the time is very near at hand
when American wheels Of the very best
quality may be bought anywhere in the
country for $75. In fact, It would surprise
nobody II, within six months from now, the
best wheel obtainable may be had, direct
IRON its makers, for the still more reason
able price of $50.
In the cutting of bicycle prices, which
now promises to be sven more general
than 1t has been, there 10 one class of riders
who will mourn, namely. the cyclists who
have pledged themselves to pay INSTALL
ments on 800 wheels until their owner
ship Of the machines is complete. But for
every one who will lose by the reduction,
hundreds will profit by IL and, as for the
business welfare Of the manufacturers, they
have looked after hat with sufficient
shrewdness in the past to warrant the be.
lief that they are we'll able t. protect 1t
for some time to come.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-01
Another Farmers Trust.

The Populist and Popocratic farmers Of
Minnesota have long been palpitating with
wrath against trusts. The Hon. IaNATIUs
DoNNELLY, tho Sage Of Nininger, has
pumped much %eloquence on the subject.
The Minnesota Legislature Of 1897 gave
anxious labor to It. In tho universal
enormity Of trusts, the enormity of the
elevator combine was said to be peculiarly
monstrous. The amount Of indignation
which has been poured out over the size
of elevator charges in Minnesota and the
heartlessness of elevator ~monopolists has
been unlimited. In short, II anywhere mo-
nopoly had determined foes and elevator
trusts were held to be devices of SATAN,
Minnesota was the place.
1t is no surprise, therefore, to hear that
in S~letten, Mimi, there is n Farmers Ele-
vator Company, which buys wheat and feed,
and makes money doing 1t. The folks who
below at trusts have no objections to a
tight little trust of their own. Now this
Farmers Elevator Company is an exceed
ingly tight little trust, and the tale Of it's
profits will bring water or fire to the
mouths Of a the anti.monopolists and
trust-baiters from Buncombe to Zanyville.
The profits for last year were between "a
and 20 per cent. on the capital, and besides
this generous return on the investment, n
stock dividend Of 100 per cent. was divided
among the lucky little farmer-plutocrat
shareholders. "This," says the St. Paul
Globe, would bring the dividends up to
4s or so per cent. on the capital invested,
a rate not exceeded, we believe, by any
COMPANY In the { elevator combine'"
If these great profits had been made and
this fat stock dividend declared by an or
binary elevator trust, not a Populist or
Popocrat in all Gopherdom could nave
slept for fury. There would nave been
special all-night sessions of the Populist
State Committee, and probably a special
session Of the Legislature would lave been
asked for. But as the ~monopolists In
the Farmers Elevator are farmers, not a
word will have to be said about or against
them. A trust of farmers, like a trust
of workmen. is admitted even by most of
the pitiless hammers of plutocracy to be a
good and al innocent trust, although an
amendment to the Minnesota antitrust
law, excepting combinations of farmers and
laborers from its provisions, was unaccount-
ably killed in the Legislature.
Fifty per cent. a year mad by a Farmers
Elevator Company is only a reasonable COM
pensation, the result of reasonable charges.
Made by an ordinary, wicked, Wall street
elevator combine, such q profit would call
for a new and more stringent law against
trusts and q vast conflagration of language
from the stern d~estroyers Of monopoly,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-01
Governor ATKINSON of Georgia went to th.

Governor ATKINSON of Georgia went to the
Nashville Exposition last week. Col. Boz SHED
DEN, Col. Sim BLALooK. and tho rest Of tho
Georgia Colonies, blazed out with wreaths Of
gold and sheeny black plumes and mounted
upon mettlesome chargers, won hearts at every
STEP" A notable day for beauty and chivalry,
and Governor Boz TAYLOR made 1t still more not
able by q speech even fuller of melody and mo-
lasses than his speeches usually are. Take homo
a sample:
at is q beautiful timo for Georgia to visit Tonnes
see. 1t Is tho time when spring pillows her head In
the lap OF summers and 10 lulled to sleep among the
roses and honeysuckles by the music Of tho happy
harvest song. It ID the time when the souls OF love
melt together in q single thought. and their hearts
beati in unison to the rapturous melody OF love. 1t 10
the time when the ows como homo in the evening
fragrant with the breath OF clover blossoms. 1t is tho
time when the humming birds hum and the wood
peckers drum and tho bumblebees humble around.
I think that Georgia was tho original Garden of Eden
and Atlanta was its Jasper gate"
The Hon. BOB TAYLOR has been kidnapped
twice since he was Governor. Onoo by tho
honeybees and once by the Taffy Trust in
Knoxville.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-01
Tho independents Democrat.

Our esteemed contemporary, the NeD
York Times, has dived into the abysses of
mind and brought up two issues which it ex-
hibits proudly to the independent public.
One issue is the Hon. FRANK s. BLACKS
unstarching Of civil service reform. The
other issue is the Hon. FRANK S. BLACKS
appointment of the Hon. LOUIS +. PAWN as
Superintendent Of Insurance. Sternly, and
yet with undisguised joy on account of the
approaching rebuke of vice and coronation of
virtue, the Times remarks that the ballot
exists. among other purposes, for the pun
ishment of such offences" rs the unfortunate
Governor BLACK has committed.
1t has come to be the general impression
that the ballot exists solely for the purpose
OF allowing the Mugwumps to satisfy them
selves from time to time that they are
not growing unduly numerous, but the
lOftier objects discovered by the Times are
recorded here none the less gratefully. Let
us admit, once for all and without u shud-
der, that in the municipal election in this
town next fall the ballot will he used to cx-
press the fury of all the boroughs against
Governor BLACK and Mr.. PAYN, and the pas
slonate yearning of all the boroughs for a
civil service which wears the brightest and
most rigid Chinese reform gloss. At least
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-01
The Scare.

Although, according to Governor STEU-
of Idaho, the number of hammock
Indians absent from the Fort Hall reserva-
tion is about 800, and although there are
rumors among the settlers that these
absentces are holding ghost dances, yet
there appears to be little reason for ex.
pecting serious trouble, inasmuch as there
is no evidence yet that they are out for a
hostile purpose.
The affair recalls the troubles at jackson
Hole, two years ago, in which the Bannocks
were concerned. At that time u party of
them were arrested outside their reserya-
ton by a Wyoming Sheriff and his posse,
on the ground that they were violating the
game laws of the State. While under ar
rest several of them attempted to escape,
and were fired upon with fatal effect. There
was fear Of an uprising of the tribe to take
vengeance on the whites, but nothing of
the sort occurred. Their agent was able to
maintain complete control over them. In
fact, 1t was suggested that the red men were
In need of protection against the whites.
Atthattim 1t was clearly shown that the