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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21
AMUSING, Blunders.

Blunders on public occasions are often
as mortifying as they are amusing. For
instance g n~i
At @ military dinner in Ireland, the
following was on the toast-list "May
the man who has lost one eye in the
glorious service of his beloved country
never see distress with the other" But
the person whose duty it was 70 read
the toast accidentally omitted the word
Distress" which completely changed
the sentiment, and caused no end of
merriment by the blmder.
Another instance may be quoted, if
only to show how careful people should
be in expressing themselves on public
occasions
A church in South London had been
erected, when dinnG was given, at the
conclusion of which the health of the
builder was proposed, when he rather
enignahcally replied hat he was "nore
fitted for the scaffold than for public
speaking" s
A HEALTHY city must have q perfect
sewage system,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21
BOWLEGGED JOE.
In the dark and gloomy shadow

In the dark and gloomy shadow
or cliff in Colorado
Sat Bowlegged Joe, chieftain OF the IJtns
Frown as black as French oil blacking
o'er his features (beauty laoking)
somber hung-the buck was mad, You bet your boots,
For bis painted, howling whropers
Had been scattered by the troopers
In scrimmage on the range en- hour before:
And bis heart was filed with sorrow
When ne thought that, on the morrow
1hey might come and wax 1t to his crowd some moro,
hound him stood his warriors savage-
Heroes bold Of many a ravage
On the smokehouse of the settler far be,ow
And their murderous oyebals glistened
AS they silent stood and listened
To the curses Of infuriated Joe.
Suddenly the cheftain pointed
Skinny finger, ugly jointed,
At the homes OF Pettiers far out on the nlaiD
There" he oried, "the pale face dwolleth.
and my nostri murder-r-r smelleth,
"hile thoughts Of CORY vengeance Hre my brainln
With yell that loud resounded
Mid the mountain peaks, he bounded
10 ms teet and danced as meier he'd danced before
Vast the war dance he was dancing?
o! what meant that fearful prancine9
would hehood that settlers peaceful home with gore?
Was the dance preliminary
To Swoop down from his eyrie,
Or did the aborigine but jest?
jest? All, no! thousand swarmng
insects were his bronze hide warming
Hold been sitting yellow jackets nest,
KIT Adams.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21
The Pueblo Indians and Their Religious
Beliefs.

The word Pueblo means villages; and
the tribe of Indians that have lived in
this region take their name, Pueblo.
from the fact that they lived in Pueblos,
or villages.
The Pueblos have some peculiar IDEAS
of the future. They believe that at
death they will be carried away in somo
mysterious manner to place beneath q
vast underground lake, where melons
and peaches and beautiful maidens and
horses are in never-ending supply for
the good.
The Zuni Indians have tradition that
they were placed where they arein order
to be out of the reach of the delupe, of
which they have some account. The
tradition relates how the Great Spirit
set them apart as q chosen people. and
preserved them while all other tribes
and nations were drowned. They also
believe that all the people of the earth
are descended from the Zuni thus saved
from the deluge. This tradition has it's
parallel with that given us in the Sacred
Scriptures.
They also believe that in Pecos Ca vii
lage) Montezuma was born; that he grew
up with extraordinary mental powers;
that he travelled n great deal and taught
H0OPiS h'hy Soou enluSS, tlaC ne
usually rode on the back of an eagle and
always went ahead of those who tray
eled with him, and thus was, as was
the star to the wise men of the East. q
guide to them both day and night, and,
whenever the eagle stopped at night,
there was planted m Indian Pueblo.
The sign where the great capital should be
built was the alighting of the eagle upon
n large cactus-bush, and there devorr-
ing a rattlesnal1e. This, tradition has
it, was on Montezuma's journey south.
and was his great and last journey. The
eagle stopped where the City of Mexico
now stands. The Mexican Government
has adopted the alighting of the eagle
as the design of the national seal, and
thus made memorable tho legend. The
same design is also stamped on Mexican
coin. Montezuma never returned from
his southern trip, but in some mysteri-
Gus manner passed away to the land of
the blessed, and since leads his people
by his spirit. The City of Mexico was
founded in 1325.-Nce0 Mcrico Cor.
Chicago Tribune.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21
How to Dress the Children.

The capacity of our ancestors to ac-
commodate themselves to every climate
depended not only on their physiological
faculty OF adaptation, but also on their
skill i'll protecting themselves by artifi-
cial means from the inclcmency of the
higher latitudeS. Houses and clothes
are Il blessing it they answer this pur-
pose by n close imitation Of natures own
plan in sheltering her children from at-
mospheric vicissitudes, but in degree as
they deviate from that plan their hygi-
enic disadvantages balance, or even out
weigh, the gain in other respects. A
swallows nest protects her brood from
cold and rain without debarring them
from the fresh air q human domicile.
too, should combine comfort with tho
advantage of perfect ventilation. and our
clothes, like the furs; squirrel or the
fCather-mantlo of a hawk, should keep
us warm and dry without interfering
with the cutaneOus excretions and the
free movement of our limbs.
Measured by these standards, the win
ter dress of an American schoOlbOy is
nearly the best, the summer dress of the
average American, French, and German
nursling about the worst that could be
devised. At an age when the rapid de-
velopment of the whole organism re-
qnires the utmost freedom of movement,
our children ere kept in the letters of
garments that check the activity of the
body in every way; swaddling- clothes,
under8hirts, Overshirts, neck wrappers,
trailing gowns, garniturcs, hounces and
shaws reduce the helpless homunculus
to bundle Of dry goods, unable to move
or turn, incapable of relieving or init.
in
by the use of its squealing apparatus,
and consequently squealing violently
from morning till night. Outdoors, in
the baby carriage, "cold draughts {"
have to be guarded against, and load
of extra wrappers completely counteract
the benefit of the fresh air ; faint with
nausea and suffocating heat, the little
dummy lies motionless Oh its back, re,
splendent in its white surplice, a fit
candidate for the honors of life whose
every movement of natural impulse
will be suppressed as o revival of bar
barism, and an insurrecGon against the
statutes of on orthodox community.
Hence, in a great degree, the dispropor-
tiOnate mortality in oil northern coun-
tries OF Christendom among infants
under years. In Spanish America,
where lnfantile diseases are as rare as in
Hindoostan, babies of oil classes and
sizes toddle about naked, nearly the
year round and the Indians of the
Tamaulipas, between Tampico and Mat
amoras, raise an astonishing number of
brown bantlings who are never troubled
with clothes till they are big enough to
carry garden-stuff to the city, where the
police enforces the apron regulation. -
Popular Science Monthly for June.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21
Among the Turks.

AS to the character of the Turks. it
has been said by one of the highest con-
sular authorities that the poorer and
humber he is, the better he is. AS ho
gets money and power, he deteriorates.
In the lowest classes you may and do
meet with honesty; in the middle class
es, seldom in the highest, never. The
Turk, above all, is q good host. In
deed, hospitality is enjoined by the Ko-
ran. We may we'll take lesson from
him, too, in politeness, especially in
conversation. If you are privileged to
have an interview with Turk, YOU Will
find him good listener he never ILL
terrupts, and never wastes words to
make talk. When he has finished. he
asks permission to go, and vanishcs. He
is not given to the odious, because
abused, custom of the "shake hands"
His salute, the Temenas, is most grace
ful. He makes the motion as if to
sweep the ground with his right hand,
bringing it to his heart, lips and fore
head, thus indicating that all he has on
earth is yours, as well as showing his
triendliness and constant thoughtfulness
for your welfare.
Listen to O true story illustrating the
Turk in oil his dealings, whether COM
mercially, politically, or as q diplomat
ist. A peasant was summoned before
the Cadi for stealing sack of onions.
CHOW we have thee on the hip, and
thou shalt know what it is to incur our
displeasure. Bismillah Choose, slave
wilt thou pay 1000 piasters, receive
100 blows of the bastinado, or wilt thou
cat the contents of the sack of onions :?
Quick choose !"
"Gracious Lord, I have no money
wherewith to satisfy thee; I fear tho
bastinado, and will choose rather to eat
my onions"
He ate, and was fain to stop, and pre-
ferred the bastinado. After some fifty
strokes he repents, and thinks he car
find somewhere in his house 500 pias-
ters. But this money was not enough
to release him from his troubles; he alto
more onions, then there was alittle more
bastinado. Eventually he received eighty
strokes, ate nearly all the onions, and
paid the penalty of 1000 piasters in full.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21
The Influence OF zoe.

Poe, like Pope, threw himself into
war with ounces. He hit and thrust at
them vigorously; he exposed score of
cheap pOpularities he was merciless to
tho inexpensive regulations then readily
acquired by every tootler on the whistle
of Miss Eliza Cook. Since the time of
Poe American literature has wonderfully
advanced III the acquisition of force and
polish. American novelists, for exam
pie, almost give us lessons in careful
elaboration of style, in roticence and in
well calculated effects. American poets
are, perhaps, too numerous. That they
get hearing rs they do. and appeal to
really-large public, says much for the
interest of the people in contemporary
verse. In form, in the mere art of versi-
flying, even the minor American poets of
to-day show wonderful versatility and
deftness. Commonplace is much less
successful than it was of old. In fiction,
analysis is almost too careful. We can
not but think that this rapid ripening Of
the American muse (who was raw, un-
informed schoolgirl in the lifetime of
Poe) is due in part to the influence of
that critic. His method is as unlike the
method of Mr.. Matthew Arnold as pos
sible. But he exercised the same kind
OF influence. Like Mr.. Arnold, he in
trOduced some tinge of French thought
and Of French literature into the work
manship OF his countryman. Perhaps
he was not wide reader, and the ele-
ment OF affectation in his nature may be
detected in his quotations OF obscure
Latin authors and in his Oriental allrl-
sions. It is hard to say how much
knowledge was implied i'll these allu-
or he, s,.IN4
Poe dug these sparkling fragments
Still, he Judged the writer's OF his coun-
try with some knowledge of other litera-
lures. AS he was quite ruthless in his
criticisms no did good, but at his own
| cost .-LOndOn NeWS.
DARKNESS, solitude and remorse are
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21
Village Tree Planting,

Our enthusiastic young minister, with
an eye and heart for what is beautiful
and good, devised the plan, and it was
executed to the letter. The sturdy far
mers, old and young, gathered on an ap-
pointed afternoon, and planted goodly
number of trees, elms, naples and ever
green's, about the church.
At the close of the day, the ladies pro
vided sumptuous repast, and the even
ing was spent in social enjoyment
Years have passed away, and so have
many of those whose hands wrought SO
worthily and cheerfully OF that autumn
day. The youths and maidens of that
time are mature men and matrons now.
Fifteen years of toll and care have sprink-
led gray hairs on many head; but
those trees are growing and increasing
in vigor every year-and now, in their
Youthful prime, cast a grateful shodow
over man ard beast. CONNECTICUT Coat,.-
ant.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21
4 Wicked Mans Diary Of His Wife's
Temper.

Monday--A thick fog; no seeing
throughit. Tuesday-Gloomy and very
chilly; unreasonable weather. Wednes-
day-Frosty; at times sharp. Thurs
day--Bitter cold in the morning red
sunset, with flying clouds, portending
hard weather. Friday-Storm in the
morning, with peals of thunder; air
clear afterward aturday--Gleams Of
sunshine, with partial thaw; frost again at
night. Sunday-A light Southwestern i'll
the morning; calm and pleasant at din
ner-time; hurricane and earthquake at
night.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21
Wanted to Find Out.

A burly ruffian, who has already served
five or six sentences, is brought before
the police. Just as they are about to
begin the examination, "Mr. President"
says he, "my lawyer is indisposed. I
call for delay of one week"
90 But you have been caught in open
misdemeanor, your hand in the pocket
of the plaintiff. What could your lawyer
say for you?" ....
Precisely, Mr.. President; I'm quite
curious to know."--Paris paper.
AN OLD lady says it is remarkable the
number of people willing to take foreign
missions, and she fears the home mis-.
sionary cause will suffer.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21

WASN'T it rough on Ella, just az she
was telling Frederick, at lunch, how
ethereal her appetite was, to have the
cook bawl out, "Say, will ye have yer
pork and beans now, or wait till yer fell
ler's gone 2"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21

The F9remR,a's Journal suggests that
the netting which trapeze performers
use to break their fall in case of accident
might furnish valuable hint to the fire
department officials,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21

DARKNESS, solitude and remorse are
grim and hateful company,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21

sewage system. WIZ
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-19

The nomenclature of future discoveries by the United States Coast Survey is not, as heretofore, to be left to chance or to the self -glorifying pride of the explorers sec- retary of the Navy Hunt has just ordered that no naval officer is to change the name of or give name to any island, cape, rock, shoal or other natural object on the coast, without referring the matter in official form to the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, who will give it due confederation, and en- deavor to do justice to all persons con- cerned.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-19

A man who will steal tombstone of a dead mans grave is not much nobler than the man who will steal coin of 8 dead mans eyes. John Shaver, 8 marble cutter of Mill waukee, has been charged with stealing at least six tombstones from 8 cemetery and with effacing the inscriptions for the purpose of reselling them.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-19

The appointment of William F. Robertso,
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-19

Berlin society is evidently the real thing. Herbert Bismarck has been received back with distinguished consideration, while the wife of another man, with whom he ran away. hes deserted and dying in Vienna.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Nobody seems to envy ex-Senator Platt.

The special correspondent of the London Tunes thinks that the number of persons killed by the Scio earthquake does not greatly, if at all, exceed 1000, and that this estimate is possibly too large.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-19
Frisbiea & Hart, $50 and 852 State Street.

$50 and 852 State Street. New Potatoes, Peas, Ber- MHud da Onions, CWcumbers, Tomatoes, String Beans. Spring Lamb, Turkeys,& ,&c. Fruits of all varieties. Try the Durham Cream cry Butter.
 ap2s
 School Books A USED in the public schools at low rates AA BABC0CK'S, s7 Orange Street. pnY9 1Qt Palladium RuildtnQ,
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-19

Democratic organ of the State, says in it's issue of the 12th inst. "The Hon. Jeffer- son Davis would have been elected to the Senate in 1876 if he had been willing to &C., cept, and again he would have been elected in 1880 if he had not persisted in declining. The time will never come when Mississippi will withhold any honor within her gift from her greatest and best beloved son. If that be treason our northern brethren will have to make the most of it''
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-19
WHAT THE CLOWN MOULD HAVE
 SAID.

Look at Latta, with her legs
 Able legs
 How they tintie tinhie' tnke ie those taper Psg'; While tn. In spsBgss snciF %i1 tbsf of mite and might All her stockings seem to twinkle
 With CT. stalline delight
 ke ping time, tiIne, time,
 In an scrobatic rhyme, To the kok-kickabulaton that light though on By the legs, legs legs. legs,
 Legs, legs legs
 By the jinGling and the wrigglng of the legs
 -RdnsdS City Times. One of the fruits of the Senatorial dead lock-'tPairs"
 ''Know herr" "Oh yes" '.Is she New Yorker ?" Well, yes-not native. She's New Yorker by vaccination. ."-Puck ''Did you call your brother liar ?" asked the stern parent, and the culprit replied Well l said he was sewing machine agent" Barnum's Zulu chief had the etfrontery to ask for weeks leave of absence in order to go home and vote ct the recent election in Indianapolis.
 A knowledge of Greek and Latin is 8 great thing in the cure of elaborate and gh- priced diseases, but a poultice is the best thing for blind boil -Neao York C0nanaer- ciGs 4doerttser.
 An old bachelor who died recently left a will dividing his property equally among the surv1v1ng women who had refused him. Because" " said he. Ito them owe all my earthly happiness"
 Amiable husband Cwho has just finished moving). "Where are my slippers, dear ?" Wife. ''They came along with the third load and that load went to the garrett Hus- band. 'And where is my piper" You'll find it in one of the bal rels of crockery in the cellar" Husband. And where is my comb and air-brush ?' Wifi. "Jane ofraIk k1 children's shoes" Husband ,entally solil- oquizing). "What a woman my wife is She never went to college and yet she knows everything. ."-Bro0hlyn Eagle.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-19
Price Four Cents.

public. Dorman B. Eaton makes a spirited defense of civil service reform: Prof. W e Sumner states very clearly the argument for free ships; Frederick Douglass writes of
 The Color Line'; Desire Charnay. of seTbe Ruins of Central Anleriea" Dr. Austin Flint discusses the benefits of vaccination: J. M Mason asserts the lawful power of the gov ernment to regulate railway charges and finally, Prof. E. $. Morse sets forth the eyi dences of the exist nee of man upon this con- tinent in prehistoric times
 The Atzantic Monthly for June has several features which will commend it to A host of readers. Besides liberal miscellaneous of the social stories by Miss Phellps and Henry James, jr., there are two admirable articles Tor the season-"A Taste of Maine Birch 3 A thoroughly characteristic outdoor essay. bv John Burroughs, and "A Spring Opening, a charmingly descriptive article, by Edith Thomas paper which deserves the atten. uon or every one interested in social science IS 'An Indoor Pauper," by Octave Thanet. d. H., In paper entitled Bergen Days. contributes very interesting account of Nor. Weg1an life and character John c. Rones who IS peculiarly qualified to write upon mill tary subjects, in paper entitled ssWho Lest Waterloo ?" describes the various manoeuyres ana movements of that fateful day with clear ness and precision. 'tOver on the T'otber Mounting" by Charles Egbert Craddock. is an engaging story of southern life and scene ry. Richard Grant White writes of ssFrencb Tragedy" The reviews of new books are varied ana interesting; there is a diversity ., o, readable nrlef essays in the Contributors Club; and the number concludes vitb Q touching poem in memory of Mir Fields. The second number of the Atlanttc, under Mr Aldrichs authorship, does great credit to his care and judgment LAB
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
A Joxrul Announcement

to suffering millions Is the glad tidings that at
last . certain cure for piles has been dscoy-
cred. 5O0, 200 persons who have used DIR.
Silsbee's Anakesis. pronounce it infaslible.
Doctors Of all medical schools prescribe it in
practice empires and noetrum venders coun-
terfeIt and initiate it, and all, without excep-
ton, admit that it is entitled to the name of
Medical Miracle" Nothing in medicine is
more simple. rational, prompt and certain. 1t
Is not an accidental blunder Of inexperience
but the scientific solution OF q most difficult
problem, by an accomplished physician Of 40
years practice and study. Anakesis is q
happy combination OF q soothing poultice
supporting instrument and curative medicine.
Ii aileviates at once the most excruciatiny
pam; 1t holds up the raw. sensitive tumors,
and by firm. continued pressure and medica-
ton applied to the swollen veins is able to
cure the most inveterate cases of blind or
bleeding piles. The inventor of ..Anakesis''
may well be regarded as public benefactor,
and sufferers from this terrible disease will
thank Us for calling attention to discovery
30 worthy. 1t is not less singular that in the
circular concerning Anakesis, full directions
are gwen for PREVENTING Piles, q fact never
before observed IN any medicine the propri-
etors wished to sell ..Anakesis" il sold bv
druggists everywhere. Sent free on recent
OF price tI00 per box; samples qratis by p.
Neustaedter d Co, Box 3946 New York sole
manufacturers Of "Anakesia"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
More Parers of Tacks.

He was coming down John r. street,
Detroit, with ''crick" In his back, wob-
bic in his knees and a thumb tied up IN a
rag. Perspiratlon had wilted his collar
and made his flannels crawl up, and each
knee carried the marks of dust. At Miami
avenue he halted a pedestrian, got his ach
ing back against the lamp-post, and asked:
''Sir, do you suppose that George Wash
ington ever fell down stairs with a bureau
after hIm and on top of himl"
Il don't think so.'
''Did Daniel Webster ever turn an old
ingram carpet tother side up, and haul it
around, and pull bls blamed arms off, and
pound his thumbs to a mash IN tacking it
down9'
Il never heard that he did"
And, sir, do you believe that Henry
Clay ever lugged burned old bedstead all
over the house, papered bedrooms, daubed
around with paint and lifted stoves until his
eyes stuck out like lemons on Greeley hat
81 never heard that Henry was any such
man"
''No, of course you didn't, and yet you
and the rest of the world wonder why
don't get up and perorate and philosophiEe
and theorize and thunder around like an
earthquake. Look at me. Feel of me !,
Go acne as ache, wilt as wilt, and then
tell me what earthly chance a man of
moderate means has in this world for
securing the laurels of fame. Yes, sir, and
be hanged to you, sir, and even now I'm
on my way down town to buy white wash
brush, two pounds of putty, a peck of lime
and four more papers of tacks."