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The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-03-29

on the hustle, and we amt got no
right to kick if we get left in the
deal. I'll tell you, John, I can t
see why a man can't become rich,
and at the came time be honest.
"It air not case of q small bus
mess with big profits, but an inn
mense business with small profits
ard quick returns; an immense
number Of small streams soon fill a
big pond, 80 to speak. Now there
is Pop over there; he is q wagon
maker, does small business on
small capital and don't build over
one wagon a month. He has got
to have at least twenty dollars prof.
it on that wagon; ought to have it;
1t ain't any too much. But up in
the West is wagon shop. Those
follars have big capital and bring
into use all kind of improved ma
ch1nery, and build 600 wagons a
day, Now, John, if they make a
profit Of two dollars Oh a wagon
there is a profit Of $1,000 per day,
Figure it out, John, aud you will
find they make millions in a few
Years, and if it air honest for Pop
to make twenty dollars profit on q
wagon, why, amt it just as honest
for the other fellers to make two
dollars profit. The difference are
simply that Pop remains poor and
the other fellers become bloatec
bondholders. They are born tc
luck, otherwise they have got the
''git up and push" III 'em, and take
advantage Of thelr opportunities,
and Of course that would be alright
if it was us fellers, but it ia all
wrong in the other felier. 1 don.
know how that Standard Oil Co.,
do their business, any moro than
know about your affairs, but We
all know they do an immense ohe,
land make a heap Of money, and
reckon John Rock efeller is as hon
est as the average man. Those
church folka say they could take
the money from John, Jr., but
not lrom John, Sr. Now wouldn't
that wag the tongue Of an ox-carti
IF it. had not been for Fathers pile
where would the sons wealth
come from? Human nature is ,
queor thing, amt it2 But mus
mosey for home, for Jane told M
!, to be in early, and I don't care t
rilo the old woman's temper whel
she's sleepy"
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-03-29
Mothors! Muthersi NIo thersl,

How many children are Of this seeson
feverish and constipated with bad
stomach headache. MotheI Gray's.
Sweet Powders for Children vii. always
cure. If worms are present. they Will
certainly remove them, At all drug
gists; CSC. Sample bottle Ieailed FRR&,
Address Allen s. Olmstead, Leroy, N. X,
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-03-29

Tho man who does no more than
no is paid TO DO is usually the man
who is complaining about not getting
what no is worth.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-03-29

If in doubt about a medicine q
wise man tries it on his wife's dog.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-04-27
~. Il. & IL. Ry. 90.

FOR THE NATIONAL BAPTIST ANNIV ERSARY at st.
Louis May 10 to "a inclusive Round Trip tickets Sale May
22nd inclusive at fare plus 5 good to Baptist
Convention at Kansas City May 10 to IT, purchase ticket
this rate good via The Katy to Kansas City and direct route
ST Louis Stop be obtained at Kansas City by dpos
ng ticket and payment small Kays agent par
tculars and plan to go
AMERICAN ST OCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION For this
event to be held at Denver Colorado May 9th 18TH Round
Trip tickets sale May Z and plus
turning May 3lst For particulars about stop and diverse
routes see Kay's Agent
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONNENTION-For this conven-
ton to be held at Kansas City May 10 H. Round tickets
sale fare plus 5Oc May to IL inclusive Good to
leaving Kansas City midnight May o. An extenton of
return limit to June 5h be obtained by depostng tickets
with joint agent at Kansas City and IF Soc Katys
Agent and plan to go.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-04-27

Why not spend your Sundays
at Monte Ne or Eureka Springs
Arkansas, The two most Beau
tiful and Healthful Summer
Resort i'm this section of the
Country.
Eureka Springs Arkansas and
Eeturn S5.35 Monte Ne Ark.
and Return 1896. Ticket on
Sale Every Saturday and Sun
day, good to return Leaving
Eureka Springs or Monte Ne
on Monday following date of
Sale. FOs further information
call on or write,
II. E. Harkrider,
Phone 3O2. City Ticket Agent.
l.. w. Price, ID. p. A.
Joplin. Mo.
A. HILTON, Gent Pass. Agent
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-04-27
NEGROPHOBIA AT NORRIS

Mr.. Editor:
On last Monday | left home for
Muskogee coming by the way of
Morris, |. r., at which place |
tosk passage on the Frisco for
Muskogee. While at Morris
waiting for the train became
hungry and went to a restau-
rant, and ordered meal, offer
ing at the same time to pay for
the same. To my surprise the
man refused to sell me a meal
on account of my being a Negro
Now this poor yap who has just
located i'm this land and whose
whole outfit is not worth $50,
starts in with his hellish pred
judice to condemn the Negro. If
the merchants of Morris desire
the trade from the Negro farm
ers around the place they must
frOwn on such hellish rascals as
these who will drive trade from
the town. If the good sense of
the merchants can rule the pre-
judice of such damphOols as
this would be cheap hash singer
and his like, then the town will
prosper and receive the patron
age of the thrifty colored farm
ers nearby. Otherwise their
trade will go elsewhere and the
trade of the half handed, delapi-
dated cuss who thinks he runs
a restaurant will be poor recon-
pense for it.
Allen Kelly,
Grayson, l. Il.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-04-27
g, Washin gton.
THG TAILOR

Has move in the rear of Jones
building, and has just got in a
new line of samples. He is pre-
pared to make your suits. Clean
ing and pressing done on short
notice Suits cleaned 81 so to 80.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-04-27
The Growing South
West.
NJ. K. Il II. h. X.

"No other section of the Uni
ted States is advancing SO rapid
ly in population, agriculture,
railroad construction and marin
time commerce as the South
west. Texas is now the lie iding
state in state in railway mileage
and Galveston stands second
among American ports in the
value of her exports. From
Munsey's for March.
We have lots Of information
obont the Southwest. valuable
alike to the investor and home
Ecker. We may make it posi-
bic for you to get in touch with
just the proposition you are
looking for. 1t will be our en-
deavor to do SO. If you are in
tarested. tell us what you want,
how much you have to invest
and we will gladly furnish the
information free. Send today
for a copy of our free book,
The Coming Country -
GEORGE MORTON,
General Passenger and Ticket
Agent.
Box Oil st. Louis, Mo.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-04-27
OUR
Business Principles.

We aim to so conduct our
business that cause for COM
plant shall not arise; but if
sometimes it does, we ask no
greater privilege than an oppor-
tunity TO rectify it.
If you give us an order we
propose to do you work that
will satisfy you. We expect to
increase our business with the
public by time devoted to Fence
Weaving. Each succeeding day
an added degree of perfection
will be rewarded a marvellous
increased demand for our pro-
ducts. We entreat careful
perusal of our work.
Phone 1S6.
LINN & HARDMAN,
SIS S. Second St.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-04-27
G1lz1
FROM HERE TO THERE.
Special Excursion to
OKLAHOMA CITY
Base Ball Game
Sunday April 80, 1905.
Leave Muskogee $40 a. m.,
SITS

Special train returning will
leave Oklahnma City, 6:3O p. m.
Tickets will be good going and
returning only on Special Trains
April 30, 'O5.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-16
PUNIsHING FOR CONTEMPT.

Can a court or judge be considered above criticism on the part of the pub lie or the press? If so, who Is to judge of the extent to which criticism may go before it becomes contempt of court? And under what circumstances may an individual be punished for con tempt? In Darmstadt, Germany, re- gently a judge complained that one of the lawyers looked at him 'in d highly disrespeetful manner" and for this act the lawyer was called up and a fine of ten dollars imposed on him for con- tempt
 We have not seen a record of this case and do not know the circum- stances or particulars. It is not stated whether the lawyer scowled, grinned or sneered at the honorable judge, or whether he merely winked his other eye in the direction of the bench. No disrespectful language was used by the attorney, his only olfense being dis
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-16

respectful look. It may be that he souinted. but the honorable judge con- sidered himself made light of and the lawyer had to pay for it. He should appeal to the courts to lay down a code of looks that will not be offensive so that the lawyers may not run future risks.
 It Is true that this was in the realm of the Kaiser, where the people enjoy less liberty than here. but in our own country there have been some near ap- brooches to this case. The case of Senator Patterson. of Colorado. has made some stir in the newspapers. He is editor of a Denver newspaper and had cartooned and criticised the su- preme Court in a way that was highly offensive to the judges who fined him $1,ooo for his offense. refusing to allow any defence. He is trying to get his case before the United States courts. but we do not know how he will suc- ceed.
 Not long ago two editors of country paper in Missouri sharply criticised a decision of the Supreme Court in railroad case and were fined $500 each. with the alternative of paying the fine. going to prison or making an abject apology. One of them refused to pay or apologize and his friends paid for him rather than have him imprisoned. The other had no money to pay his fine and no one to pay it for him, and being in bad health he made the required apology rather than go to prison.
 These and other instances we might mention are not quite as unreasonable as the German case. but they show that judges in our own country are of- ten disposed to exercise their powers of punishment for contempt in way that looks harsh and unreasonable to the layman. The honor and dignity of the courts must be maintained. but 1t Is sometimes very difficult for the citizen to say where the danger line lies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-16
HOW TIMES CHANGE.

On the 10th of the present month oc- cured the oentennary of William Lloyd Garrison, the great apostle of aboli- tionism. and in many portions of the North. especially in New England. the day was celebrated with a warmth and enthusiasm that seems strange to us of the South. just as 1t seems strange to us to see them paying honor to the memory of John Brown. Even such a conservative paper as The Portland oregonian says that he belongs to the noble army of saints and martyrs
 Well. we beg to dissent from both propositions. He was not a asnRrtyr be- cause he died peacefully in New York in 1879. Still less should he be called a saint for the whole theory of his be- lief was. to put 1t plainly, robbery. Slaves in the days of his activity were as much personal property. legally and constitutionally. as horses were, yet the theory and superstructure of aboli- tionism as taught by him was that the slaves should be liberated. If it could not be done en masse he helped them to escape from their masters and find refuge among friends of the Garrison stripe and thus rob their owners, Abo- litionism was robbery in its last analy- sis, and no man of his day did more to forward the system than did William Lloyd Garrison.
 The mutations of time and the changes in human sentiment are strik- ingly illustrated by some incidents in Garrison's career. That he should have been hated in the South was natural and logical for his efforts were directed to the robbery of the South. If he had | visited any of the most Southern States in those days he would probably have been mobbed. as was nearly done to him in Baltimore on one occasion.
 But it was in Boston, refined and cuII | tured Boston, almost the centre of the
 anti-slavery sentiment and in the country of his friends and sympathizers that he was actually mobbed. This oe-
 cured on october 21. 1885, when he was set upon by an infuriated populace.
 beaten. stripped and otherwise mal- l treated, and 1t required all the efforts of his friends and the city authorities to save his life. It was only saved by getting him to the jail, where he was
 locked up till he could be spirited out
 of the city. It was partly because of his extreme abolition sentiments and | partly because the trade of the South
 was extremely profitable to Boston. That the mob failed to put him to death
 was not the mob's fault That was the |
 statues are erected to his memory. and the communities which wanted his life
 are vielng with each other in doing
 honor to him. Verify times change and
 human sentiments change with them
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-16
WE DO NOT KNOW.

In a recent, issue of The Portland oregonian we find an editorial begin ming this way: The knowledge how old the world is is very modern" Pass ing by the peculiar construction of the sentence, its accuracy Is certainly dis putable. Evidently the writer meant to assert that we now know the age of the world, and nothing could be more misleading than such statement.
 If we discard the chronology set forth in the Bible we are absolutely at sea without chart or compass. The scientists who presume to judge of the age of the earth by examination of the rocks. the earth deposits, the animal or vegetable remains. or by any or all of these methods, do not pretend to agree or to claim accuracy. The re- mains of some prehistoric fowl or anil mal will be discovered. and different scientists will express themselves as to the time that has elapsed since it was buried, but none of them will state his reputation on a positive date. They will differ by millions of years. One will say that the specimen was buried probably ten million years ago." and another may put 1t at a hundred mii- lions. They may all agree that an i'm mense period has elapsed. and that is all Hew, then, can The oregonion im- ply. as 1t plainly does, that moderns know how old the earth Is? And that paper goes on in this style:
 The ancient literatures are full of stories of the creation of the earth and the human race. and those tremendous tions away from the date of the writer who describes them. The classic na- tions recited genealogies of their he- roes runlng back to the gods that made the world. and the Jews kept record of their own descent from Adam. Now we know that the aeons of the earth's existence surpass the compass of imag- ination. We are convinced that no his- tory runs back to the first man. Our species originated millions of years be- fore Adam offended Jehovah in Para dise and the final change from monkey nook 'in in southern Europe, where shei- tering mountains tended off the glacial icecap descending from the pole; but when or where, no record has been Kept and no inspiration has revealed. some where and at some moment the monkey ceased to be beast and became 2 man. In his primal manhood he lived un-- counted generations, leaving no record of himself but his bones.
 With due respect to a generally ac- curate contemporary. we insist that we do not know several of the things it says we do. We do not know that the human species originated millions of years before Adam" for we positively know little about it. We do not know Nz1 lad wnNRd monkeys, and we do not know any thing about it all, when we come down to the real truth of the matter. The scholars and the learned men can req son and calculate from what they find on or in the earth. and may convince us that the earth has existed for an im- mensely long period, but to say that we moderns have a knowledge of the age of this sphere is absurd.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-16
MT. Pnrsona Here.

Erastus J. Parsons. the young Talla- dega man. whose name has just been welt as District Attorney for the Mid dle District of Alabama, spent yester- day in Montgomery with his personal and political friends. non -committal in reference to political developments. "I have little fear of my name not being confirmed said and only purpose of thanking the friends who aided me so materially in During the day Ar. Parsons visited the Federal building sand for while was spectator in the United States Court room. He was cordially greeted by number of the officials. He left for Birmingham last night.
 Mir D. c. Almon of'Decatur and Mir. E. B. Almon of Tuscumbia are regis tered at the New Mabson. ". :: Senator T. Sidney Frazier. of Union Springs. Is visitor in the city.
 MT. J. G. McGowin and family of Chapman. are in the city. Mir. W. c. .Griggs of Brewton is reg istered at the Imperial.
 Mir. W. D. Kimbali of Hamburg, Ala. is visiting in the city.
 MT. T. ], Pinckard of Birmingham is visiting in the city. MT. H. D. Boyd. Jr.. of Troy. was in town last night.
 Hon. c. c, whitson. of Talladega, is in Montgomery.
 MT. Alex r. Black. of Birmingham, Is in the city.
 
 Mir. L. W. Farrow of wetumpka D, in town.
 Judge A. H. Aston. of Clayton, is in town.
 cry, o'"-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-16

Knoxville Journal and Tribune. should be permitted to vote who will make merchandise of his ballot. The senti- part of 1t Is that every politician will admit Its truth and yet refuse to sane tion a law to that effect. Not only disfranchised, but the man who buys It should be disfranchised along with him. How many candidates for office would dare to stand up in public and whenever has State Legislature passed such drastic legislation. The explanation is that most of us declare cable only to the other fellow. The vote-buying by Democrats doesn't appear to be half so bad to Democrats as 1t does to a Repuhiican--and vice versa. What we need is the same kind of honesty in politics we practice in our business and in our personal relations with our fellows.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-16
TNDEprNprrr FARMER.

In a conversation some days ago with Tax Collector Eicheiberger of Randolph County, an old citizen, he stated that such encouraging conditions as now ex- ist among the farmers generally. AL most without exception they have corn. meat and everything that is necessary for another year, and are thoroughly independent. Another encouraging fact. and one which surprised him in many instances. was to ind such a large number of the farmers with sur plus money on hand. and this was not confined to the whites. but many of the colored citizens had plenty of every thing and money laid by for emergen- cies.
 Aside from the good effect of such conditions on the farmers themselves there were two other results. one fa- vorable and the other somewhat embar- rassing. The first is that the advanc- ing merchants find their occupation gone in a large degree. If the farm- CTS need anything more than they ai- re ady have they have the money to pay caSh for it. and do not need to ask fa- vorA from tho merchants who have heretofore supplied them with means to make their crops. While this is not favorable to the merchants themselves all must see that it Is a splendid condi- ton for the farmers to be n. With plenty of supplies at home, most of them out of debt, and with money on hand to pur chase any extras they re- auire, those people are in the best cir cumstances that a rural population can be placed tn.
 The inconvenience to which our in- formant referred is the scarcity of la- bor and the difficulty of procuring it. While v0ry large majority of the population, white and coiored, have their. own homes and plenty to live on they refuse to work as day laborers, or as hired labosers of any kind. and hence all kinds of labor is scarce and hard to get. One good result of this condition, though. as we look at 1t. is that there Is little danger of return to all-cotton farming The farmers see the advantage of having an abundance of home supplies. and they know that a large crop of cotton requires more la bor than diversified farming does. and requires 1t nearly the entire year. As a result of these varied conditions it is practically certain that the farmers will not depart from the good lesson they have learned this year. but will continue in the good way and remain independent, seif-suporting and con- tented.
 What is true of Randolph is true of most sections of AlAbama. so far as our information goes, and 1t is the most satisfactory and encouraging condi- tion thae has existed since the war. An independent and self-suPporttng rural population is the great strength of a free people, and if our farming friends have fully learned how to main- tain their independence and live at home" they have accomplished an in- lcalculable good for themselves and for l Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-16
Sidewalk pencilinss
. PIea For remperance.

AE4 VT GmVGEuhN%e
 Mayor Teasue yesterday received an anonymous letter. carrying a pathetic plea for help. The letter was post marked Montgomery and it was m tho handwriting of a woman.
 It begins with temperance poem and ends with an appeal to the Mayor to have stopped in Montgomery the sale of whiskey to habltual drunkards'
 The poem and letter is as foiIows' There are days and nights that are
 filled with pain
 When hope has wholly hed. .,s When the friends I treasured ana
 thought were mine
 Have vanished as though they were When the cup of sorrow and cruel
 Is fiied to the brim with pitiiess > thoEns.
 No use to argue in Christ-like strains
 With a soul that is dizzy with grief. No promise of old brings the palsied
 Or the thought-raeked brain relief. If you want to fill your churches full
 Go close up the bar-room door, For that's what empties the house of
 And pu closes the .school-room door. It has closed the door to my only
 It has shut out the last faint hope. :. It has cast me adrift in desert of
 woe.
 Where I blindiy and tremblingly I have prayed and waited and prayed
 again
 Til faith has given way to despair. For fourteen years is a long, long time To walt for an answered prayer. A drunkard's home is forsaken by God His wife lies crushed heath his His children, beggared and" set adrift
 In careless If Christian land. There. is no use to argue, impiore. ad- When heart lies heavy as lead. There's no use to close up the bar
 room door.
 When its victims are cold and dead.
 Won't you please stop the sale of whiskey to habftual drunkards? Have mercy even as you have power. There are refined Christian women all over the land no doubt and here In Mont somery positively who are fighting the unequal battle with drunkenness. No pen can desoribe my own anguish. It drives helpless women and strong men to suicides graves. Robs little children of an education. makes them laughing-stock for their playmates. For pity's sake help the habitual drunkard's family by making 1t a heavy penalty to sell or give him any thing to drink and by making this so public that whiskey-sellers will take warming.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-16
THE SQUARE DEAL.
One Who ourh, ,o x


 William D: Haywood. Secretary of the Western Federation of Miners. and one of the leading spirits in the formation of the Industrial Union, is quoted 6y The San Francisco Cali as saying that trades unions nSm are as much out of place press ana the stage coach.
 Trades unions" he said. '.are notb- They. are trusts just as much as tSe attempt to restrict the supply of laboy wages. Through the apprentice svsp tenn they are making tramps oS b;yn- dreds of young men by denying them the right to learn a trade. They at tempt to to !, diState Stat , to employers whom o shall pay. They do not permit er,, ployers to, give men a chance to better fheir conditions. " "e''eI 'aThe American Federation of I.aho,. people say the American Labor Cnion that we w.,ninr. have r6fiY been holding up the the Haywood was the leader in tba or rr,,,- , pie Greek ssns troubles and sent out speak CTS and tet'erS asking aid from the unions.