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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-06-16
LOST, A BOZ.
lie went from the old home heartbrton

'te went from the old home hearthstono,
only SIX years ago,
- laughing, frolickihg fellow, sI Nrt...r'.
=, II would do you good to know,
since then we have not see him,
And we say, with nameless pail,
Inc boy that, We knew and loved 80
We shall never see again.
.L'.af ~ .t.a IT,.
One bearing the name we gave him
Comes home TO US to-day,
But this Is not the dear fellow
we kissed and sent away.
Tall as tho man he calls father,
With a mans look in his face,
Is he who takes by the hearthstone
Inc lost boys olden place.
We miss the laugh that made music
Wy herever the lost boy went,
Inns man has smile most winsome,
his eyes have grave intent;
we know he is thinking and planning
His way In the world of men,
And we cannot help but love him,
But we long for our boy again.
We are proud of this manly fellow
who comes to take his plaDe,
with hints OF the vanished boyhood
In his earnest, thoughtful face;
ANA yet comes back the longing
FOR the boy we henceforth must miss.
Whom we sent away from the hearthstoue
Eorever with kiss.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-06-16
L HIn yours Truly,
"HEzEKIAH JONES,
The Fox's Advice to. the Hare.

One day fox discovered fine chance
to capture pullet for his dinner, the
only drawback being the fact that the
farmer had set n trap just in the path
which any depredator must travel. In
this emergency the hungry .Reynard
hunted around until he found q hare,
and, after few remarks on the state Of
the weather, the scramble for office, the
Whitaker investigation and the Turkish
question, he said:
II was just thinking, as T overlook
you, what impudence some folks have. ("
How"
"Why, I met Miss Pullet short time
since, and she boasted Of being able to
out-run YOU"
"The brassy creature I" exclaimed the
hare. "Why, can run as fast as she
can fly !"
Certainly you can, but she's doing
you great injury among your friends by
her stories. If were you I'd see her
and warn her that this thing must stop"
"I'u do it I was built for speed,
and everybody knows it, and I won't
have no pullet boasting that she can out
run me. Come along, and show me
where she is"
"Well, I'll go as a special favor to
you, of course humbly replied the fox,
and, to show Miss Pullet what the foxes
think of the hares, I will let you take
the lead and follow in your footsteps"
AS they neared the coop the hare be-
gan to arrange little speech of greet
ing, but he soon had other fish to fry.
He walked into the trap with eyes wide
open, and ere he had recovered from the
shock the fox had secured his dinner.
"Say SAY I'm caught u yelled
the hare, as he struggled with the trap.
$50 [ Observe" was the reply.
"And what is your advice?"
''To get away as coon as you can p
Moral Every neighborhood scandal
has three lies to one truth. No person
becomes q tale. bearer except to forward
some acheme OF his own. When fox
is anxious to preserve the reputation of
hare, let the hare look out.-Detroit
Free Press.
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HUMORS OF THE DAY,

AONAVASS vi Ahh DA
WHEN things go to D K how O D they
B come
MANY o man who thinks himself @
great gun is nothing moro than big
bore.
"KEEP cool and you command every
body" remarked ST. Just He stood In
with an ice company.
A BOY who won't try is like truth,
because the boy won't endeavor and truth
won't end ever, either.
MONEY men, Of many minds,
Take to "Btraddles" and TO " blinds"
Many fish come in to see;
Many gullS they prove to be-
-Lo,OeH Courier.
AS A RULE book-keepers are ink-hned
to be pensive. Will some one kindly
tell us if blushing seamstress is not a
flushed sewer?
'THERE is no disgrace in being poor"
we are told, and we're bowling glad of
it, for there are enough other disadvan-
tages about it, without that one.
MAID of Yonkers, ere we buss, tell me,
will you make fuss?-New York NesUs.
Man of Gotham, ere you risk your life,
tell me, will you inform your wife,
Yonkers Gazette.
A RICHMOND physician says that if
people will take bath in hot whisky
and rock salt twice year, thoy will es-
cape the rheumatism and colds. But
wouldn't that spoil the whisky?
DIsGUsTED man says: "Why don't
hotels find some substitute for the ever
lasting beefsteak for breal1fast?" Bless
you, lots Of 'em do. Cowhide is the
favorlte substitute. Post.
HER name was Eva, and when Charles
Augustus called the other evening and
asked her to be his darling wifey, she
gently thrust him from her and sweetly
said: "Not this Eva. Some other Eve.
Good Eva"
A RHODE ISLAND Clergyman was given
permission to sing "The Sweet Bye and
Bye" in an insane asylum. Many pa
tients were moved. So was the clergy
man. A lunatic moved him clear down
stairs.
"H1l where did you get them trous-
ers?" asked an Irishman of q man who
happened to be passing with remark
ably short pair of trousers. 81 got
them where they grew" was the indig-
nant reply. "Tnen, by my conscience" {"
said Pat, "you've pulled them year too
soon"
In BOSTON: Hsthetic young lady
"By the way, Mr.. Gosoftly, have you
read Bascoms Science Of Mind?" -
''N-n-naw. I'm not reading much now
a-days. I pass my time in original
thought" HIsthetic young lady with
much sympathy)-"How very dreary, to
be sure"
IT WAS their first night aboard the
steamer. cat last" he said tenderly,
eve are all one, out upon the deep
waters of the dark blue sea, and your
heart will always beat for me as it has
beat in the past?" "My hearts all
right" she answered languidJy, "but
my stomach feels awful"
''PR1soNER, you are accused of having
stolen the complainant's pocket book; do
you plead guilty or not guilty?'a Guilty,
your Honor" "What was tho motive
that impelled you to commit the crime?"
81 had note coming due next day, and
could not bear the thought of having my
name dishonored!'
WHEN husband becomes angry and
swears before his family, he is not sc
much to blame; he doesn't know how it
sounds. His wife, really, is to blame
she ought to swear, too, to let him hear
how it sounds. Isn't this sound logic?-
Rentatcky State Journal. Well, we'll
be-ahem-yes es-that-is-we'll be COM
PEELED to say that it is.-tSteubenviILe
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-06-16
The Two Girls Of Frostburg.

Two young ladies for the past four
years have had control of, b farm of one
hundred and sixty acres near Frostburg.
They have plowed, sowe reaped, built
fences, raised hogs6anS. lperformed the
other countless duties & incident +o a
pastoral life. lin addition to their ont
side duties the care of O. widowed and in.
valid motlte1s has been. ..a,s tax on fheir
energies. gOneI of tas q 81 8 sboe Stnoal
maker, and al woSk. of that Kind Sised bv
the family is ysxecnSed bSs her The
house in which thex live sSs large and
roomy, yet these two girls, whose ages
by the way, are twenty-five and twenty
have made all the carpet, and made Il
well, too, painted number of farm
scenes and family portraits in oil, and
filed up the otherwise vacant spots with
wsxwork, etc. Besides, the fact that
they are good musicians, the fact that
they never ok your refined ear with
ungrammatical remarks, is also note
worthy. Go to that much-abused village
Of Punxsuatawney,a and, after inquiring
for the location of Frostburg, walk
In that direction just three miles and
you will reach the homemade home
of Emma and Marrilia Black. - PittS6a1r0
DS8patch. a@'aa@ ft@'arI tpa'.. - . }
ss"TIs hard to part from those we
love-" and sometimes it is even more
difficult to get away from those we don't
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-06-16
A sroNrrcAEr but melancbolv 90,

A SIGNIFICANT but melancholy COM
ment upon the value of the work actual
ly accomplished by the much valued
Boston schools is found in the fact that
prominent lawyer who wished copyist,
recently was forced to reject a large
number Of applicants who had graduated
from our high school, for the simple
reason that not one of them could spell
common words even tolerably. - Boston
Courier.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-06-16
Weddlng AnniYeraariea.

The wedding anniversaries are as fol.
lows: First year, iron; fifth year, wooden;
tenth year, tin; fifteenth year, crystal ;
twentieth year, china; twenty-fifth year
silver; thirtieth year, cotton; thirty-fifth
year, linen; fortieth year, wooden; forty
fifth year, silk; fiftieth year, gold; sew
enty-fifth year, diamond. .--.''''T
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-06-16
NEWS GLEANINGS.

ETyI.- :. G-+--s--++-+------ 20 TvEsg .g#-a
There are 8,456 masons in Alabama
Jacksonville, Ala, has asexcellentwater.
works! -; -.. 'a" ..-... ..r "
Aberdeen has the largest hotel in the
State OF mississippi. = .~'H'i |"" ,..
Alabama ranks fifteenth in the pro,
duction of iron.
There are Eve hundred Sunday-schools
in Mississippi. -
There are IL 100 miners at Pratt Mines
Ala, 17bfbeing convicts. ~ ~.
Birmingham's (Ala,J assessments for
1881 double those of 1880.
The Texas and Pacific railway track
is now laid 292 miles west of Dallas.
A large furniture factory is being
successfully operated in Shreveport, La.
Macon county, Alabama, is out of
debt, no one in Jail, and the sheriff
spends his time fishing. ...'.>.;
Cattle, in considerable \ numbers aro
dying below Chattanooga, Tennessee, of
oohi0 uhkuOWu UlS6aSe.
Enough sweet potatoes will he made
in Florida this year to supply the Uni
ted States. = - ; - ! -,
A mammoth hotel is to be erected at
the Hot Springs, Arkansas, by com
pany from Maine. 3. },:l =.
Six hundred new horses and miles
are required to supply the demand at
Abbeville, S. O., every year. r.,4
Twenty'nine hundred and fifty agri-
cultural liens have been filed in Fair
field, S. c.. =
The members Of the broken bank at
Aberdeen, Mississippi, have been indic-
ted under the new statute which makes
it penal 'offense to. receive money on.
deposit in bank when in a failing con,
dition. k. ~
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and Mes
senger reports the arrival of member
OF the fish commission with 100000
shad, which were promptly placed in
oCululSSe river. ,'
Knoxville CTenn.) Tribune: United
States Senetor Howell E. Jackson, of
Tennessee, has purchased the elegant
residence of w. B. Shaw, on Vermont
avenue, Washington, at a cost of
$4,000.
/ ClaAins University, at Orangeburg, S..
O., is for colored students exclusively,
and is supported by the State. Connec-
ted. yithSit, by special act of the Legis-
lature, is branch of the State A Agricul-
tural College and Mechanics Institute,
the university as whole being directed
by cooperating boards of trustees. The
university has three departments-col-
lege, normal school and grammar school.
The total number for 188O-81 numbered
388. Connected with the university is
the Baker Theological Institute, where
young men are trained for the ministry.
General Francis A. Walker, superin-
tendent Of the United States census,
telegraphs to the Enquirer-Sun, of Co
lumbus, Ga, that a clerical error has
been made in the population of Column
bus. 1t should be 10, 1923. The Enquirer
Sun says that this is correct according
to the returns made by the enumerators,
but adds: "We are confident that it
falls short of the population of the city
by more than two thousand Inhabitants
Within three-quarters of mile Of the
court-house there is a population of not
less than twenty thousand people, but
we can not claim them, even though
nearly every one is directly engaged in
business in the city," "....:.. f....
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Salaries Of British Ministers.

The salary list of the British Govern
ment shows the relative rank assigned
to Washington Us a diplomatic station
by the European powers. The British
Minister at Paris receives an annual sal
ary of 100000; at Vienna, $40, 600 at
Constantinople, $40, 900; at st. Peters
burg, $4,000; at Berlin, $35, 5000; at
Pebin, $50, 900 at Madrid even, $27,-
600; while at Washington Sir Edward
Thornton is obliged to live on $25, 900
and very considerable number of al
lowances. In point of grade the Euro
peans rank Washington practically with
the missions to Brazil, to Japan, to the
Hague and to Lisbon. ... ...
LEEoHER says eve pray too much. "
THIS explains why the average news
Taper mans breeches always bag at
the knees. .--IEt4sVtLLe Sunday World.
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TIE following Is placarded in the
theater at Durango, Col: "From and
after tn1s date all persons who wish. to
gain admittance to the auditorium of the
Coliseum must leave their weapons at
the front bar, where checks will be
given for them" ..f
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-06-16

| The following will show at a glance
the rulers. There were often n number
of queens, and, as space is limited, only
the actual rulers names are given:
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TO- P1CKENs S: g, THURSDAY, JUNE IS, 1881
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-31
GLASS EYES.

\ reporter Of the Chicago Inter ocean has been
investigating the trade in glass eyes. From the
leading dealer in the West, firm which has sold
glass eyes Tor many years, he learned that there
vas as many as a thousand wearers of them in
that city, and that from six hundred to eight
hundred eyes are sold every year. The best ewes
are made at Uri, i'm Germany. the rnonuf7cturo
cehteIlilg at tHaI place on account of the occur
renee tnere OF nne slllcaes and other minerals
needed IN the business The German ewes with
stand the corrosive actonNf fears and other sacra
tons better than those male in France. AT Uri
are also made vast quantities. of ewes used bv
'dAdermlstS IN mounting birds, animals and
other natural history specimens besides a suDer-
LOT quality OF glass marbhs, known to bows as
"SaIes. Inc artificial eye delicate she'll or
case, very light and thin, anC concave so as to fit
over what is left of the evebaI The she'll i ont
from a hollow ball or bubble q glass fine iris i
blown IN and then the whole is delicatev re-
The trade in Chicago has underao,e q curious
change twenty years ago there were sold more
uarl eyes than light, but from that Priod on the
SAFE OF dark eyes has been peTceptblv diving out
Now nearly all are light eyes, say twe,,t Nrht to
one dark. In Boston the percentas- is even
larger about thirty-five blue or light eyes to one
brown; while on the other hand in New Orleans
fifty brown or dark eyes are sold to enc light
Regarding the change of color in Chicago, of
course fashion has nothing to do VITA it, No
one has yet decreed that parte-cOloIed optics
snail be the rage. The change SimUlV shows
IRat the influx of population has been from the
E,.t lt principally and from Northern Europe.
,'.,,G+ISicdl operations are performed much more
I,hIIHully than formerly. Time was when il was
.r eIet necessary TO take out the eye entirely
i, S, ~ the artificial eye became fixed, CLASSY, star
eve caiiS,. NV amputatiOns of portions of the
the glass eve riS9friaed in very many instances, and
quite naturally Eo3n the stump, which moves
an eve will keen two lmes those who have lost
tutes. They win use one force artificial substI-
SinaH pupii, and another for nigSS iSIlI . VII Mi.I "
large pupil TO Offset the dilation ne with Il
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and away they go.-The advantage of this anna
ratus is that you hang up the glass like this and
then you can shave at leisure See what good
lather this makes We'll, our three Graces arrive
at Dover, and then dear Miss Manvers makes her
bow, and the pair-Of turtle doves 90 off together
only land now please attend, for come to the
point of the story only Miss Valdane, for whom
Mr. AIintOn was sent, and over whom he to
exercise the tenderness of parent with the au-
thOrity of a guardian, does not accompany that
gentleman to London"
"Tben who are you ," / almost shreked
"FeIix Arne. And now, my good fellow, the
farce is PLAYED out and III take OF this trumpery"
fell back in my seat and watched, WIN GzZy
brain, the shedding Of the feminine ana assui'p-
| tiou of the masculine attire.
I t'You internal rascal ~ at last l said.
"Now I'm not going to mind anything you say
Tor dare say you rather hurt Inc tLliS
was well arranged, and has answered capItaly-
NOu teIl your employer that it's sort of use
/ making any further fuss about me. was mar
hried To his daughter some months 60 but did not
intend 1t to be known yet, only his precipitancy
altered matters. Some day We'll tell him how we
managed IL. We determined to have some fun
ont of the gentleman sent to fetch Mrs Ame
home and, as he had been 50 good as 10 pay both
our fares back to England, we could not do less
than provide him with company 70 town. VIII
YOU play a game of billiards with me while | wait
for the next train 70 Dover? Don't say so, if
you'd rather not. Tickets That gentleman has
mine, guard. Ia-ta. sorry you've not time fOra
game. Best love TO papa-in-law." And taking
his pOrtmanteau, he saunterel down the station.
II How got my story told Headquarters don't
Know. Mr.. Baskerville first frCWned, then smiled.
and finally rOared. I entreated him to keep my
failure from the other clerks. Ii was not such
pad affair after ALL ATne gentleman by
birth, and some uncle of his, delighted at having
an Honorable for a niece left them some money,
and believe he settled down as a country gentle
man Lord Naldane has, however, never forgiven
them.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-31
CARLYLE

stern gray-naircd Prophet, naEfer Il, bzarre,
Wild with heavens wrath ag., nsI our latter days
Dead in the upest sum ner oi lly praise
Thou vert as some old Hebrew kar,
Reared by Gods hand TO preach Or nendOus war
Uron all shams and mocKeries licl raise
Ther puny doubts 70 check Fa Prs fearless Ways-
FIeachc- of Rightlousness, Truths ayatAr.
Dead. Yot tev surely VIII uo iei die,
Those whom t-..p loveds. mot. vh. yet love thee,
Those children ~ tae new dem1or.cy,
Born in "A modern age who reeis must try
To live with thy heroic cha a.ry
Yet make tne world moV one.rl nd be free.
The London World.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-31
LOVE LAUGHS AT LccKsMITHs.
a coNFIDENrrA1 W olEBz', TALE.

In the year 46 Pa been some seven wears a
clesS in the bank 81 which Mr. .skerville was
tie principals and very shrowd cute old fellow
ht was, I can tell you. 7 had had some troubles
then, and was Looked up0n as grave sedate
young man. I'm Consequence OF Ibis gravity of
manneI and chaE ter for steadiuess, | had been
several times employed tn little matters of a con-
ideutial nature, and my conduct in these had
been approved
One afternoon iu the latJernar- of August, in
the year ; speak %, was sitting at my desk with
not very much O. CO. I haC aeen thinking a
good deal about my own all and had gone
back over ground rather painful ior me to tread,
and was therefore rather sad hat sunny August
afrernogn
While ] was meditatiug an lly drawing fig
ures on my oo-ting pad tie bank messenger
came TO me and sa.d that fr skerville wished
20 speak me. J wen into private room.and
ound hia seated at his De I, and in an arm
~ II beside him -at g middle age0 invalid-look-
Ing u.n. whose handsome ce wore peevIsN ex-
pre2i1 that secmeC r1 l- pcru anent \
M bskervilIe said-
-l1ls ny Lord is -h. e tleman whom I
saoQ-a hav. the Er-ateE co1fid nee in employing
lu the lattc.H
The str, ar locke 20 me languidly, and
slightly ucired DIS heal as bowed.
h4 er young ior l work, is lie not, Bas-
$50 rar..I doa't ink Mr. NIinton is
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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-31
. ECoNoMICAL PrxIsHMENr

rather novel and certainly an economical
i'iooe OF furnishing persons detected in the COM
mission OF minor crimes has recently been adopted
IN the vicinity If Greenville. s. c. The worst of
tnese cases Is that of a colored youth named Dor
rtt Banks. As a,,umber Of vSnn Whit .1i
girls were returniu4 from. school - tboir 6r,1
IN the upper part Of She coantv OlltIo ,f+,r,,,i
of the 4th instant, Banks ordered thu, -, LIZ
seized the talest aid prettiest of the [art,- oIT
torcibiy kissed her ulOu the cheek ThEnT1,Lar-
of Che girls probably 6pterrnd him, from, I'i'i1'
ing others in the same .,yov The orirI bas
home and informed her ftvher of the indirniE -
which she had been subjected The parent ~
once visited the house of TN, ossaiIant and suIG
mitted the alternative to his father Of nuhIicIv
thrashing the boy or submitting him 10 a crimi-
nal prosecution. The fo~mer was accented and
the boy was secured. \. tough hickory in the
hands of the father of the little miss whom the
negro had insulted made the woodland echoes
rfig. The hOgging was Administered i'm the
presence of the whole hOlsehold and several
neighbOrs who assembled To Owitness the unusual
procedure. \ similar settlement was made a dav
or two ago between merchant and negro man
who had stolen n ham of bacn The thief ad-
mitted his guilt, and agreed to Nbmit to have 80
blows delivered upon his bareback This was
promptly and thoroughly DONE atd the State was
saved the expense of a prosecution, while all
parties were perfectly satisfied.
Galveston widow is about to marry her fiftI,
husband. Her pastor rebuked her for c0nttmplat-
ing matrimOny soon again. ''Well, L inst
want you 10 understand, if the Lord keeps on
taking them will, too" was the spirited reply
-N4-e->4--
Two allopathic physicians one homeopathic
and one eclectic are serving amicdbly together M
committee appointed by tht Connecticut Legis-
iature to draft medical praGiee act.
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Two allopathic physicians, one homeopathic
and one eclectic are serving amicably together n.
committee appointed by the Connecticut Legfs-
ature To draft a medical praGte act.