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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-01-06
BIG FARMING.

A correspondent of the st. Louis Re-
publican tells of the wonderful farming
operations Of DR.. Hugh j. Glenn, of
Colusa county, Cal. The farm consists
of $4,000 acres, $4,000 of which are in
wheat, and has It's miles of fence. The
acreage yield is 25 bushels in favorable
seasons, and this is considered favora-
BILE one. OF this years crop DR.. Glenn
says, although he has on hand $50, 900
sacks, each holding 140 pounds, he
thinks they will not hold his wheat
He has his own machine and blacksmith
shops; boring, turning and planning
machines buzz saws, etc. He manu-
factures his own wagons, separators,
headers, harrows and nearly all the ma
chinery and implements used. He has
employed 80 men in seeding and 100 in
harvest, 200 head of horses and mules,
55 grain-headers and other wagons, $50
sets of harness, IL twelve-foot headers,
5 sulky hay-rakes, IL eignt-mule culti-
vators, Gem seed-sowers, Buckeye
drills, 8 mowers, forty-eight-inch sep
arator, 36 feet long and 133 high, with q
capacity of 10 bushels per minute 1
forty-inch separator, SO feet long; 2
forty-feet elevators for self-feeder,
steam barley or feed mill, twenty.
horsepower engines. The working
force to run the separator is 66 men, 8
headers, % header-wagons, 100 horses
and mules. The average run of the
machine is 1900 sacks, containing 2t
bushels each, per day. The utmost ca
pacity of the machine is 5000 sacks or
1000 bushels per day. The harvesting
force cut and thrash simultaneously,
and in fifteen minutes from the time the
header begins in the grain the wheat is
in the sacks.
THB Pennsylvania Railway Company
| is adding the artificial decoration to the
grandeur of nature by beautifying the
famous Horseshoe curve, near Altoona,
with flowers and foliage plants.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-01-06

CANADA has definitely offered herself
up to the capitalists. She has definitely
agreed to turn over to q syndicate the
new Canada Pacific Company, in per-
petnity, that portion of the line which
has already been built and all informa
tion in its possession, and will grant sub
sides in the form of $2OO,OO0,O0O of
Canadian Government bonds and several
million acres of land along the line OF
road for the sake of it's completion tc
the Pacific coast.
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TALK OYER WHAT YOU READ.

Nearly forty years experience as
teacher has shown me how little truly
know of q subject until I began to ex-
plain it or teach it. Let any young per-
son try the experiment of giving in con-
vcrsation, briefly and connectedly, and
in the simplest language, the chief
points OF any book or article he has
read, and he will at once see what I
mean. The gaps that are likely to ap-
pear il the knowledge that. he felt was
his own will nc doubt be very surpris-
ing. know of no training superior to
this in utilizing ones reading, in
strengthening the memory, and in form
Ing habits of clear, connected statement.
It will doubtless teach other things than
those I have mentioned, which the per-
pons who honestly make tho experiment
will find out for themselves. Children
who read can be encouraged to give, in a
family way, the interesting parts of the
looks they have read, with great advan-
tage to all concerned. More than one
youth know has laid the foundation of
intellectual tastes in New England
family, where hearty encouragement
was given to children and adults in their
attempts to sketch the lectures they
have heard the evening previous. The
same thing was done with books
Christian Union.
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The ManDostecm.

During their stay upon the island of
Java, DR.. Bronson and his youno NV
cling companions took trip on rail
way from Batavia to Buitenzorg, in Or
der that they might learn something of
the interior of the island. While on this
trip the boys observed, among other
things, that the trees in some instances
grew quite close to the track. DR.. Bron-
son explained to them that in the trop
les 1t was no small matter to keep rail-
way line clear of trees and vines, and
sometimes the vines would grow over
the track in single night 1t was nee
essary to keep men at work along the
track to cut away the vegetation where
it Threatened to interfere with the trains,
and in the rainy season the force was
sometimes doubled. "There is one
good effect" said he, "cf this luxuriant
growth. The roots of the vines and
trees become interlaced in the embank-
ment on which the road is built. and
prevent its being washed away by heavy
rains. So you see there is, after all,
saving In keeping the railway in repair"
At several of the stations the natives
offered fruits of different kinds, and near
ly all new to our young friends. They
had been tolG Eiat they would probably
find the mangosteen for sale along the
road they had inquired for it in Singa-
pore, but it was not in season there, and
now their thoughts were bent upon dis
covering it between Batavia and Buiten-
zorg. Two or three times they were
disappointed when they asked for it; but
finally, at one of the stations, when Fred
pronounced the word mangosteen," O
native held up bunch of fruit and
nodded. The doctor looked at the,
bunch and nodded likewise, and Fred
speedily paid for the prize.
Perhaps we had better let Fred tell the
story of the mangosteen, which he did
in his first letter from Buitenzorg
"We have found the prince of fruits,
and its name is mangosteen. It is about
the size OF pippin apple, and of pur-
pie color-a very dark purple, too. The
husk, or rind, is about half an inch
thick, and contains bitter juice, which
is used in the preparation of dye; il
stains the fingers like aniIine ink, and is
not easy to wash off. Nature has wisely
provided this protection for the fruit if
it had no moro covering than the ordi-
nary skin of an apple the birds would
eat it all up as soon as it was ripe. IF /
were bird, and had bill that woul1
open the mangosteen, I would eat moth.
ing else as long as could get at it.
You cut this husk with sharp knife
right across the center, and then you
open it in two parts. Out comes lump
or pul p as white as snow, about the size
of small peach. It is divided into sec
tlons, like the interior of an orange, and
there is q sort of star on the outside
that tells you, before you cut the husk,
exactly how many of these sections
there are. Having got to the pulp, you
proceed to take the lump into your
mouth and eat it; and you will be too
busy for the next quarter of minute to
say anything.
Hip hip hurrah It melts away
In your mouth like an overripe peach or
strawberry ; it has taste that is slightly
acid--very slightly, too-but you can no
more describe all the flavor of it than
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-01-06
OUR JUVENILES.
The L1tILdbu,

The LulIa6y.
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheepw
mother Is singing her baby to sleep,
But the tiny fingers tipped with pearl
Round one another vexatiousy twirl,
And feet 80 cunning, 30 rosy and quick,
are tossing the crib-quilt with punch and kick.
Ana W1de-awake eyes just as blue as the sby
Are saying to mamma, "Iu sleep by-and-byl
And you can't hurt me one wee bit,
Though, trying your sweetest, you patiently slt
And sing by the hour beside mol"
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheeprr
I" Hurry up, darlingI Do 60 to sleepI
Maybe you'll find In the Land Of Dreams
Little Bo-Peep by the shady streams
Waiting for you, with her to 60
After her lambies as white as snow
Hunting through meadow and glen and delA
10 find the dear creatures all safe and well
Out where the lovely harobells grow,
Bleating and feeding to and fro,
A-swingin' their tails behind 'emi:
Lower and lower the shadow dips
Over the forehead, the cheek, the lips;
Lovelit eyes closed at last;
Lullaby, hush-a-hy song is past;
Baby has gone to the land of dreams,
Hunting Bo-Peep by the shady streams.
Mother, unwearied, her vigil keeps,
Dreaming awake, while her baby sleeps
Dreams which the future, perchance, may bring
To her winsome darling and leave no sting
No waking grief behind them.
Silently, tenderly enter there;
God has answered mothers prayer;
Baby, our baby, to-day has gone
into country to us unknown,
There to find, by the shady streams
Which border the city where no one dreams,
Gifts as costly, as rich and rare,
AS ever were dreamed in mothers prayerl
Oh Jesus, who sung her last, sweet lullaby;
Jesus, the little ones friend, be nigh
To comfort us. left behind herl
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VOL. X.--NO. l6.
CURRENT ITEMS.

HuMoRs of the day-Small-pox, sart-
rhcum, etc.
DAMMIT is postoffice name in Sewer
county, Tenn.
A NEwLYwEDDED husband says it
should be called matrimoney."
SOME Philadelphians named their
Colorado silver mine the "Scooper,"
and the name proved prophetic. They
have been scooped.
No WONDER the misor desires to take
his gold with him beyond the grave.
when even "death loves shining
marc. "-Turncrs F1lIs Reporter.
THERE are in Philadelphia 434
churches; in New York city, 354, and
in Brooklyn, 240. In no other Ameri
can city are there more than 200.
FARMERS in Dallas county, Texas, Sc
cure artesian wells, flowing six feet
above the ground, by boring to n depth
of between sixty and seventy feet.
A CALIFORNIA woman, seven feet tall
and weighing 200 pounds, broke ho1
heart for love of little runt of map
wearing No. boots and leading poo
die by chain. n.-DctrOit Free Press.
INSANE by over-study of the Bible,
young man named Pierce, of Theresa,
Jefferson county, N. Y, imagining that
his left hand had offended, deliberately
c"t off every finger.
SMALL boy Crushing in front of young
lady wearing large poke bonnet, and
staring her full in the face)-" You've
lost your bet, Charlie; I told yer it
warn't an old woman"
Docs chased the murderer of their
master, ut Navasota, Tex, but only held
him fast when they caught him. The
human pursuers were less merciful, for
they hanged him to tree.
THE medical student of Maine must
dissect before he cAn become an M. D.,
but the law provides that no bodies shall
be dissected except those of executed
criminals, and another law abolishes
capital punishment.
AT Exeter, England, young farmer
has been sent to jail for month for
shooting n rabbit on farm of his own
occupation, while q man brought before
the same bench for brutally ill-treating
his wife was fined s shillings.
The Philadelphia Herald says that
the women of that city arc busily en-
gagged in getting up political clubs,
They are about two feet long, and only
appear on parade when the husbands of
the women came home late at night.
AN old English miser named Rhodes,
who began making money as n rubbish
gatherer, and lived and died IL squalor,
has bequeathed 100000 between tho
Royal Free Hospital, London, and the
National Lifeboat Institution, leaving
his relations penniless.
SOME philosophical paragrapher has
been struck with wonder at the persist
'encc of mothers in teaching their chill
dren to talk, and the equal persistence
with which they endeavor, few years
later, to keep them from exercising their
talents in that line
THE word "wclcome" on the door
mat or worked in silk floss and framed
to hang on the wall, does not always
mean that the relatives, even unto the
third or fourth generation, may como in
at all times and make themselves per-
fectly at home. c.-BoStop GIoGe.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-01-06

A YOUNG man in Georgia has taught
the public lesson in respect to the
danger of hasty generalization. When
Tanner triumphantly tasted for forty
lays the conclusion was jumped
to that the limit of life under priva-
ticn has been very much understated.
Acting upon this assumption, the
Georgia man. Tuck Jackson by name,
refused food, expecting, no doubt,
he would live forty days, at least.
But alas for the force of Tanners ex-
ample. He died on the seventeenth day,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-01-06

ting into Bayou Lafourche about twenty
miles above it's mouth, and extending
nearly three miles farther west, into the
back waters of Timbolier bay. This
gives safe and easy inland navigation to
Bayou Terrebonne at point about twen-
ty miles from the gulf.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-01-06

WASHINGTON has had a building boom
this year. So far 625 new buildings have
been erected, against 511 for the same
period last year. A large number Of
public men are building handsome resi-
dcnces Mt the capital.
, 1881-05-09
GREAT BRITAIN.

n,. A1tci1nlsllOp CHOKE.
l..,s. .,sstlS. May S.-Aschbishop Crokc, In a
In, NJ, hp%ao'a'e4 yesterday, says: "Let the
hot t. W. ~ hese Its second reading, lit cau-
h vi, II Committee be brought into sucl, shane
eoan..'. ". eoamenl 1t to tho good sense Of tho
.oana " INTO harmony with the leaders Of
IND yqollc opinion iii ireland, both law
tds,e. M se.sses'astlcal, lot 1t bo refactc,i ma in.
iore n~ un~ae, 70 20 what It pretonls, and thero-
"s oaf approval and support"
Tha THE wNoGu NAN,
UDonn"as" supposed to 10 q relative OF
a.ued iah.' .Iossa' arrested here Yesterday, Is
HaIon,i,s. 'a Leancy, not Levy. lilo Is o
L,s,a Hill all opponent Of ths Luud
M, TO be ARRESTED TO-DAY.
testat ~ ~ several other pcrsous will bo at.
hsnt mss'ny Sn'''ay, ana Among them ara nromI,
'ess ue Tie Land League,
Tn nn.,. HELD FOR TRIAL,
Eslr.sm maSlstesaal inquiry lel,l aatnrf,ov nj
Il tthsa Il. q resulted In the com,nittni for tr1ri
sho !, .sslle lsar Assizcs OF j. i s;or,s"n
Coercion IL" ~, ~ u hilmalnhaln jail, under tho
nusder ~ y, y. o., the charge Of melting ttle
u.s,' 'allued proprletors Il, Mayo,
Aehasi fss,,, a,aAEsra oy yAllAEls.
Qasum ~ ,u'npol's, Jamea Gibbons. and .Iohn
hare bee,. A.snsfs living near Koscoun,o,,.
0ltaisn y arrested under Tho CosrcIon net
>ea to Galway. ~''s'o" NV
ha, .irs, pILLoN's ATHEIST
ri tu oa,s. Check to lawlvsness. 'rna uup,-
'aees decreased lust week.
has tq.htd,,e. eaAo1AAI BANNING
s'eoeh my Cath, Ala at,,h
, 1881-05-09
TIE HOLD RELIABLE"
III thf Editor Of Th4 Chicago Tribune.

HEADQUARTERS II. i ST, JoE X H., RAM
nOLpIt BLUFF, Missouri River, May H.
Should solao Of your many readers drop In
on Ms this bright morning, 1t would bo dtiil-
cult for them to realize that they were cc11-
tered within the bounds Of civilization. Upon
this beautiful bluff, within lvs n,iles Of the
future great Chicago Of tho West-kansas
City,-we haye q city, approaching, III tlla
way OF construction, In every respect that
which couldbo found ~ tile terminus 0fs0lne
far Western railroad. As the waters OF the
great Missouri, the King Of alt rLyers, ca1nu
rushing Oh In ulafr sualneas, llollses, tioltls.
rallEoa!ls. ind everything tllat otters.! . , 70.
Hotng to bed at night happy aud peaceful,
aud awoke only to ttnd their ali nj easy prey
to the fearful ulctnent.
driving 4s from placa, t0 place, VIZ finally
blaif On tho shore Of the Missouri, With
water FROM threu to twenty foot on either
wloro we arc NOW located one of tue largest
cities oil tha rlver-tho city Of Kalllulpil-a
sA!pptnk polnt for the people Of ths Interior
ns WILL as,a receiving potlit f9E low1r @M @M 1lyeF
yolld Tie rlyer, al,d as tho West offered bot
ter conditions for farmlnx. oll0 by one the
families left, Until now we find one old man
the so!o occupant with ourselves, -
quarters for our otllcers only, but BY degrees
havo enlarged until nuw w0 hive llonsas for
this accommodation Ut SN men, with tele-
Erapll uttlcrs, restaurants tstattta BY entsr-
tents, otc.. aud everything necessary tor the
e0tnturt uf the occupants 1T uur cAllyas city.
The passengers nre transferred with very
littia delay, and II hardly secnts pcssibe,
usen to ns. that 10 many people, 20 much
baggage, express matter and freight could
bu handled In Single dny with 10 llttEe delny
uiia W llltlv truu6e. The roads from CAl-
cAgo to UtlInha lluye been blocked, aid we
hIva been Obliged to hclp these roads unt by
taklnx their passengcrs, u pleasure, assure
you, from money view. The steamer
Anlilo Cale IL our onlY RELIEF. She makes
, 1881-05-09
CROP PROSPECTS.
8p&e{a{ Nspa&eh 10 TAs Chicago IfihpHts


DWIGHT. ILL.,, May 81 have been ali over
my fields this beautiful Sabbath afternoon,
Everything tllat Inns been Gown Is up. ani
covers the ground with luxurlant green,
Flno prospects for good crop Of grass.
Corn lands aro froul one-half to t!ree.iourttls
plowes,. Many farmers will commence
plantng on te Morrow d,.s soc sta s!st tne
Joliet tolegrnplls ttlAt papar =" that the
spring wheat i. tlat Vicinity VIII average
twelve bushels to thn aeEs 1Es iGW ~ % aSiS ,s,
boon soWn. aud Ia hardly yet out Of, tho
ground, Is even too big story form plow:.
EoIde4to swallow. I h0po that he has not
uuie 'ills other estimates OF yields OF thB
spring -wheat crop through tho same specta.
cle8.
OArl.lSvl11.E. Il /. May 8.-:rha ratn of tho
past few days las improved the prospects Ut
u.e wInter wheat crup % per celt, mud It IL
now extracted that ~ ayar.sgo crop Wy be b'
aid g1ass Is looking .til,e, The prospect for
tha farming community was neyer better.
, 1881-05-09
TIE NEW TARIFF.


PARIS, May 8.-The ncw general tariff Inns
been oillcially promulgated.
THE MONETARY CONFERENCE.
In tic Monetary Conference yesterday, the
0orulan delegates declared that Germany
recognized tho cxpctlicncy md necessity Of
arriving Mt Nh understanding with England
III viuw Of the direct ana Important relations
between the two countries, md tho fact that
tho London market Is tho place where Ger
man accounts current nru ltqnldatcd.
cE1tNusC1t1.
At tho Monetnry Conference Saturday, Ger
nuschi proposed that NIL States, Including
England, should mike known What profit
they hive made since 1874 by buying silver
below sixty poncc, and coming It ut
par. No said this return might serve as
basis for restitution to Germany OF 1N,000, ,0uo
marks which tslle would not hnve lost,
Ind bfmetallfsm been established III
1871. l1e pointed rs MI Illustration
to the profits made By the United States
In coming silver. 1lo proposed thnt Germany
should cal! In her old thnlcrs and Issue notes
Instead.
Horton suggested that similar particulars
be givon relative to go1i. The proposals
wero not voted OIL, but entered on tho Mill
utes 10 as to como under tho cognizanco Ut
tile Governments.
, 1881-05-09

EVANSTON. ILL.,, May S.-'Tllis morning in
the First Methodist Church the Commence
nient week Of the larfu.t Biblical Institute
WAS '1sslescd IN by tho sermon, which was
preached By the Rev. Alexander Martin,
d. d.. LID, President Of Asbury univer-
sity. On the roStruuI, WHICH WIS ornamentel
witl. ilowars, sat tis speaker, the lsey: w: x.
Ninle, I'rusideut Ut the Institute tho Rev.
y. =. st. .'utr, Iresidunt Ut .lIanliue
University, anil The Kuv. a. w.
!'olten: Tho text was tnkall fruln
II. E0rinthtaiiH, W, II: 'srl1n love
Of Gnd cnnstrainctt, MS" from Which lie
speaker ilatia MI eloquent atldrcss, closing
witt, NJ appeal to tbs SulIinr Glass. who were
Beatetl IN il bntty III the front pews. III the
evening tie Rev. u. 9. st. .lnlan preuched tho
nl,sl,laI Institute sermon to very lnrge n,l-
s(teNge. T0-lnurrnw evening tho Heck lIalI
Missionary Society will hold Its regular a,l-
nllnl session.
, 1881-05-09
RUSSIA.

HofAlt ESTEfsTAfNEIl9.
d: PETERSBURG, May S.-'rhe Car and
n.allha ~ have entertained ut (iratzscl,tna tho
!u!Rlsh anil Persian Envoys Extraordinary
Ma'to congratulate tho Gar Oil Ills nGccs-
a9u to the throne.
oES. sKonELopy AND srAfF
Iosea at krasnovotlsk April a} and left tho
TSa Ssa' uay ior st. Petersburg, y!a Astraclln,,.
sae principal lea.iers OF thu Tekkes will
e'ne 10 sisls city shortly.
A1kItEsTED,
~ t"o Soaths were arrested at Clarkofr the
.a 'hsF' Tor distributing revolutionary
''~'a@a1'on In religious procession.
THE IRWa,
~ tae authorities Of Ekaterlnoslay May 4
N,nS ,musae 9he use Of the bouloyarts as public
5saaeaaao 5ssa because Of tho persecution of tho
h,,,. TIE CAR
H. H. .si 'asolmed Senate ofIicor that Hereafter
rtssa 'slst'on WILL be required for Its laws only
~'' oeS are Ut exceptional Importance.
h.. OrEN,
sall'ag vessels, ' - '''" op''' t''
, 1881-05-09

and nfter he had Inspected the bnles Of the
said:
"Wo drive the spin oakuup here, and II Il
,ist.sf 10 devote tsIreo hours to spinning the
oAkun that tlley. would drive III the remain
Ing hnurs of their !ley'a. work, btt tho ma
c1ifne-spMn material d1spel,ses with this
hut they lost tllelr polnf, though there arc
some ynta4 wl!err tlicy were more aucccss-
ftl1. That white tHntcrinl that yUu see there
Is spun cotton. which Is used for tho finer
work. for instance. It Is never used utiler
WATER"
The reporter learned that tho yard was emf
uloyfng @D nlon, aud that the dry-tlook sbusl+
having about afi the work they could do
throughout the season.
, 1881-05-09
AUSTRIA.

CONTINUATION OF THE rEsr1viriEs.
VIENNA, May S.-'rho festivities over tho
marriage nj Rudolph and Stcphania COLI
tiNtc. a. splendid Statp ba'l wis given at
1toEburg Inst night Tllc Emperor a,Hi It'll
purlAl family, tho King ind Queen Of the
Delg1ans. t.nny foreign Princes, Rudolph
mud StoI,l,nne, MID tho diplomatic corps
wcro present. 3.
ENrllus1AsM or THE rol'uLAcE.
Rudolph mil Sieplsnnle to.tlny received
tlcputntluns from the Hungarian {Austrla,)
nisa Crotian Diets. ard delegates from w.
rIolls districts in tlio Empire. All appeared
In tlletr national costumes. rhey wore
rnnged nlong the galleries Ut Sc!lnnbrnn,l
Castle, dawn Which tho bride and bridegroom
md Royal party passed, and c0ilyersetl with
members OF oncll delegation. Tho Castle
Inns been surrounded by vast crowd OF
people since carly morning. III tic after
ll0oi, II popular fete III tho I'rnter was made
tho occasion Of MI enthusiastic uc1honstrn-
tton. Tho Immense crowd which, despite tic
threatening weather, assembled Mt NOON, coll
tlMllally increased until b o'clock, when
THE 1all'EntAL co1srE0E
Of forty-eight carriages, containing tho Elm
pcror and Empress aid bride anil groom, all
tho distinguished GUESTS now here, and Court
tllgnitarics, appearetl. The crowd a,ll entl,u-
saslu was such tint tho procession only
navel with tue greatest difficulty. the pro-
cGssfon wus an hour III travcrsing shnrt
distance III tho prater to tho place where tho
I}nrg0tnNster OF Vienna awaited It. On Its rt-
turn, after perpetual sioppnges, Tho ELL
peror, percelyfng tho fmpossibItty OF innk-
Ing way through tic enthusiastic thr0ng, Or
tleretl deviation from Tho prcarn,,iged
rOute, The f(tu terminated Mt 10 o'clock