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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06
The B0sting Reporter,

Once Chicago editor sent q Wild and
untutored son Of the West, who wore
his hair short and ohewed plug tobacco,
to an Eastern city to report big horse
race. Before the reporter went away
the editor told him to look sharp when
he got to the horse race, because there
would be lot Of awfully srnattreporters
there from New York and Boston, and
1t would ka great sport for them to
scoop" friendleSs and inexperienced
young men from the West. SO the re-
porter said he would try to keep up with
the procession, and went away. When
he got to the horse race he met O great
many other reporters, one of whom was
from Boston. This reporter was very
cultured, but he didn't know scalping
boot from an overhead check, and that
Is really the kind Of culture that O man
needs when he is writing about q horse
race. The Boston reporter was very
kind to the Chicago reporter and told
him what great city Boston was, and
now smart young man had y to be
before he could become a reporter there,
and the Chicago reporter took another
chew OF plug tobacco and winked to
himself. The Boston reporter asked the
Chicago reporter if he had read Emcr-
sons works, and the Chicago reporter
SAID he hadnt-he had seen" Pinafore "
Then the Boston reporter said:
Really, you astonish me- and wont
away to drink some. Deep Rock water
and smoke cigarette. Then the Chi
cago reporter laughed heartily, and said
In the reckless Wabash avenue way :
"I wonder if that duck thinks I am a
sucker that he can play on the end of n
string, l should twittcr that he will get
left if he does" So he hitnted up three
other reporters and said to them :
Lets paralyze the gawk from Chicago
Ihe other reporters were willing, and SO
they all wrote very long accounts of the
races, going right from the track to the
telegraph office, but the Boston reporter
he went to his hotel and had supper,
and then he went to his room, telling
the clerk to send up messenger boy
about midnight. When the boy came
the Boston reporter gave him q long
dispatch, but when it reached the tele
graph Office there was 80 much Other
matter ahead of ii that the wires were
blockaded until four O'Clock in the morn
ing, and by that time it WAS too late tc
get dispatch to Boston in time for the
paper.-Chioago Tribune.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

- MRs. HrnnIE M. CHRIsT1ANoY wrote her
husband letter the other day, but it
wasn't love letter, by any means. She
told him that rivers of blood would not
wash the stain from her which was
stamped into her soul when she gave
her innocent girl-life into his keeping,
and added: H'The greatest suffering I
shave to endure is the knowledge of the
Sdegradation that you have been my
J shusband. "''
THERE seem to be contradictory re-
ports concerning the condition of Sena-
tor Ben. Fill. 1t is known that he was
troubled with cancerous growth on the
tongue, but the severity of, the afliction
has not been generally known. On the
18th Of September a second surgical
} Operations WAS performed, and it rs now
feaned-he will lose the power of speech.
He is being treated at Jefferson Colleee
Hospital, Philadelphia. #t...<.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06
Why American Goods Are Preferred

The growing reputation Of American
manufactures in the markets of the
world has alarmed competitors abroad.
Whatever Americans undertake, whether
it be machine tools, cutlery, silks, -four,
cotton cloth, or any other merchandise,
they make, their brands the leading
ones, selling for the most money, and
universally sought after. The reasons
for this are plain. It is not on account
of the better and more direct processes
employed; it is not by discarding work.
shop traditions and old time methods
it is not by such adventatious aids that
we have achieved 80 great an eminence
that our trade marks are counterfeited
and foreign goods are represented as of
American make. It is because ou1
manufactures have found that mercan-
tile honesty is the only policy, and that
when they attempt to Rdulterate or lower
the standard the criticism of competitors
exposes them at once.
American machine tools of first class
makers are not cut in weight or in work
manship. It is q race to see who shall
discover weak part that can be made
stronger, or q detail exposed to wear
that can be made more durable. The
same is true of cotton goods and silks.
The senseless weighting of both with
adulterants of one kind or another is
not practiced here, for experience
teaches our people that the best is the
cheapest. Mechanical Engineer.
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BeIshazzar and His Brother Bill,

Belshazzar Smith hada O very bad and
very dangerous habit of walking in his
| sleep. His family feared that during
one Of his somnambulistic saunterings
he would charge out of the window and
kill himself, so they persuaded him to
sleep with his little brother William,
and to tie one end of O. rope around his
body, and the other around little Will
liam. .,..
The very first night after this arrange
ment was made, Belshazzar dreamed
that burglar was pursuing him with q
dagger. So he crept over to Williams
side of the bed, stepped over Williams
slumbering form, jumped out on the
floor, and slid under the bed. He
stayed there while, and then his night
mare having changed, he emerged upon
the other side of the bed, and got under
the cover in his old place. e..
The rope, it will be observed, was be-
meath tho bed; and 1t was pulled taut,
too. Early in the morning, Belshazzar,
about half awake, scrouged over against
William. To his surprise, the move
ment jerked William clear out of bed.
Belshazzar leaped out to ascertain the
cause of the phenomenon, and ut the
same time his brother disappeared under
the bed. Belshazzar, hardly awake, was
scared, and he dived beneath the bed
stead as he did SO, he heard William
skirmishing across the blankets above
his head. Once moro he rushed out,
just in time to see William glide over the
other side. Belshazzar just then be-
came sufficiently conscious to feel the
rope pulling on him. He comprehended
the situation at once, and disengaged
himself.
Perhaps little William was not mad.
He was in the hospital, undergoing re.
pairs, for about three weeks, and when
he came out he had strange desire to
sleep alone.
Belshazzar anchors himself to OH anvil
noW.-Ar0Onaut.
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Making Kid Gloves.

The Troy CN. W Times gives n de-
scription Of glove manufacture in
town near Troy as follows:
In this factory nearly all the stock
used is imported from Franco. The
skins on arriving at the factory are first
put through process of "shaving,"
which is done with broad chisel, and
all the imperfect parts Of the leather are
cut off, The skins are then taken to the
table cutting-room, where thirty cutters
are employed in cutting the skins into
oblong pieces, aftor which they are sent
to the "slitting" room, where the fin
gers are cut and the gloves are ready for
the sewing machines. Thence we fol-
low them to the making room, where
ninety steam sewing run by
women, are kept busy stitching the
seams, and twenty other women are en-
gagged working button-holes and putting
on buttons. The gloves are now ready
for the "Iaying off" room, where q
number of long hollow forms, like ont
n table. IF one were in need of good
warm shake of the hand, he could be
accommodated here, for each Of these
hollow forms is filled with steam, and
gives the gloves that peculiar shape they
have before being worn. Another room
is the sorting-room where the vari-
Gus cOlOrs and sizes are fitted for the
market. In the stretching process is o
peculiar sewing machine which does the
beautiful overstitching Of the seams. In
this factory over 200 hands are employed
and about seventy-fve dozen pairs of
gloves made daily. The glove cutters
average from 1915 to 800 per month in
wages, and the makers (wOmen) from
$50 to $40 per month. A beautiful
glove is now being made called the
mosquetaire, from imported mocha
skins, but dressed in the village, which is
better than any imported glove, and the
day seems to be coming when American
gloves will be known as superior to all
other makes. The skins used will cut on
average about two pairs OF gloves.
New YORK claims Is, 900 seIf-8npport
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06
The Native Miohigander.

The native Michigander is good fell
low at heart, but he has his eccentrici-
| ties.
eyes, struck this State over ffsy
years. ago, I" he said to me the other even
ing, as he hunted in his hind pocket
for his plug tobacco. "Tve heard tho
wolves howl, the bars roar, and the pan
| theirs scream"
"You have, CHI
"You bet have2 Yes, sir, and I've
lived all winter on acorns, slept in sum-
mer in tree top, and walked forty-two
miles through the woods to prayer-meet-
Ing"
"Then you must be pious?"
"rPious? Durn my old hide to bally-
hack and gosh all fish-hooks to thunder,
but rayther reckon am. Pious Why,
how in thunder and blazes and tea-ket-
ties could have borne up if hadn't
been pious! Say, did you ever live in
the woods forty miles from the nearest
| human hyena, black or white ?"
| "Never."
"Did you ever have to go barefoot in
snow four feet deep?'
! "No."
"Ever shake with the ager right along
for 284 days, Sundays includedP"
"No."
"Dod rot your pampered counten-
| ance, of course you never did What
did you ever do towards making Michi-
gan the great and glorious State shenow
| is?"
| "Well, I've run lawn mower"
"Run thunder to blazes How many
acres of forest do you 'spose I've out
down p
"Two."
"Two! Why, you onery hyena, my
| old woman has slashcd down over forty
herself, and she's left-handed, at that
I calkerlate, sir-I solemnly calkerlatO
that I've cleared off at least 800 hundred
acres of the toughest kind of forest.
How much tea do you suppose 1 had in
my house the first ten years OF our pio-
! neer life ?"
"Twenty-fve chests"
"Twenty-hv h--lls !" he roared as he
hunted for more plug, "we had just two
| drawings and no moro |"
Couldn't you get trusted Mt the COR
ner grocery?"
"Get trusted Corner grocery Why,
you internal young lunatic wasn't I To-
Gated forty miles from the highest gro
cery That's what I've been telling you
all along. None Of you spilled children
Of luxury kin have any idea of how wo
| ASbSA ~ BOe nholeo LII OllSlA olSA
81 presume not"
"One winter when tho old woman was
sick had nothing to feed her but salt
coon and corn dodgers"
"Oyster soup would have been nice. "
"Oyster thunder Don't keep tell
ing you that L was fifty miles in the
wood?"
Yes, but why didn't you get out 9''
"Git out? What fur?'
"Why, you might got out and Lived
on your mother-in-law and had trot-
ting horse, q plug hat, diamond pin
and high living. You were very foolish
to stay in the woods, where they had no
ward oaucuses, or military parades, OK
circus professions, or ginger beer, or ba-
mana puddings."
We generally end here. The old ma
tive ohokes and gasps and jumps up and
down and kicks his hat into the street
and goes away saying:
"Them burned pampered idiots of
luxury wouldn't keer two cents if the
hull State was growcd up to jack-pine
30 thick that rabbit couldn't squeeze
through p
But next night he comes again to
wrestle me for the championship.-M.
QUAD
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

KoKoMo, Indiana, has been disgraeed.
Dr. Henry @. Cole, the Mayor of that
handsome little city, was shot to death
while stealing four from mill. He had
carried tho fourth sack away when he
was called upon by the Shiriff and others,
who told him to halt, but he refused and
started to run. A volly of shot was sent
after him and he fell, dead. The whole
Il circumstances is peculiar one.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

The London Times, perhaps the best
Known paper in tho world, and certainly
the greatest of all European journals.
published eleven columns on the death
of tho late President, surrounded with
q border of mourning. This is {: mark
Fof respect in our mother country we
ii 'ould hardly have expected. In our sor.
row we have the full sympathy of all
Europe,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06
Keep Them Bright.

Keep your face, your heart and your
home bright. Don't let tho cobwebs
gather in the corners Of the pretty little
sitting-room or the dust accumulate on
the furniture till you can write your name
thereon. No matter what is on hands,
or how much you have to do, take time
at least once day to tidy the rooms, and
gather fresh flowers. You will never
regret it, even though at the close of your
life you may not possess quite 80 much
of the worlds goods as some of your
neighbors. 1t is the best plan by far,
to enjoy life as it comes, and this you
can never do, in a sloven or disordered
home. Would you keep your husband
from evil associations, and your children
from wayward paths Remember there
is nothing in this world 80 attractive to
man as a pleasant home, and smiling
face therein and as for the little feet,
they will not be apt to wander far, so
long as yOur face beams with the love
and solicitude that your heart bears
them. A wife, or mother is queen,
always. Not Of vast domains, to be sure,
and not of society, but of the most sa-
cred spot on earth to every human heart,
of home You never thought of it per-
haps, but it is true, and it is indeed
true also, that there is no more pitiable
sight than one of these "queens" who do
not, either from want of Judgment, o1
lack of will, govern her subjects Alright.
Did you ever see truly happy family,
without loving, w8tchful and affection.
ate wife and mother, at its headP The
father may be sour, hard, or cross.
grained, but if the mother is all right,
thore is sure to be happiness in thai
family Enrn1inGr World
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

THE ball in the President body, which
was found just back of the heart, was
fully foot and half from the point
whore the eminent surgeons had located
1t, which goes to show that the surgeons
we're about as much at sea about the
matter as persons Of much less profes-
sional knowledge would have been.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

Mr. Wm. HYDE, editor of the st.
Louis aRe1oub Iicct1e, has been connected
with that paper twenty-five years, he
having been its original sole editor and
reporter. He was one Of the first Jour.
nalists in the West'I He will celebrate
tho twenty-fifth anniversary by taking
needed rest and trip around the world
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

a. SINCE we have ascer tained that Marvin,
who is in iailat Richmond ] Ind, NJ oaarried
eighteen different women, We have con-
cluded that men become bachelors from
their own choice. We don't mean to
Say that girls will marry anybody at all
That's not the idea. We can't explain
it, however. .,,..t. 49,. ...,....'.s
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

Two diminutive brothers, named
Sporling, have just entered Hillsdalo
College, Michigan, christopher, y the
plder, is eighteen years old, is 3d. inches
m height and weighs 37a pounds. The
other, Edwin, is fifteen years old, weighs
492 pounds and is 42} 4nehes tsll.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

The statement that poIygarny is be-
coming obnoxious, to Mormons and they
are entertaining thoughts ofiexterminat-
ing it, u.s. rather hard to credit, 9 Thats il
we understand it, is the foundation upon
which their faith is built, ! ~. ,,uf~.s,.. .
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

PERSONALLY President, Arthur has
many warm friends. Up tonthe present
time he has, been the head, of the. law
firm Arthur, Philips, Knevals & RAN
som. He is widower, 'his7wife having
died some two years ago! .27c = .f'd.l
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

TaE Detroit Free Press wants the
CoVernment to introduce opium among
the Indians. Chinamepv die by vtAe
hundred thousands from the Shabit of
OPIUM eating. .. ra Law ,sv.,., 4il
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

PRESIDENT ARTHUR, for the present,
will not occupy the White Hoase, He
will reside with Senator Jones, Of Ne
vada, in one Of the granite buildings
erected by Ben Butler, near the Capi-
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

THE New Haven Register puts 1t in
this shape: "Josie Mansfield is fitting
about the gambling halls of Paris,
Stokes is in the oil business, and Jim
Fisk has one of the finest monuments
in the State of Vermont" '@' - ~
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

KAm.odu's San FrsnciHso0 F 1 sconaresaa.
tion have voted not to grant rant him leave
to go on O lecturing tour, although he
has signed contract at 5000 a night
He. will probably resign his pastofate.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

QUEEN VICTORIA is worth about $3.50, ~
oOO,0oO..s We have been 7 judggiinQga nQgas he's
fortune: by the ways' she: ives -
called upon by suffering humanity and,
we tiidn'tthink twas stearsthstg much. :,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

The late Lorenzo 'Delmonico made
$4,000, 900 keeping a restraurant, but he
never set up meals for, fifteen cents, not
by any means. His memory is dear
only to the rich. ."'2 " ""[ Tn'2Hm
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

In HIS inaugural address, President
Arthur intimates his purpose to pursue
the policy indicated by his predecessor
in office, forshadowed during his briei
administration. ..- -7ar - D, ~.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

THIS is little too too., Says ltha, De-
'troit Free Pre$$.:s "DavidS Davis thas'
just had reunion OF B1oom1ngtoii. .-He'
took dose of alum" we lsappose At;
brought him all together.7aH ~ go Ts,ls 3
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

IT IS something of a remarkable
coincidence that the death of President
dHrfeld occurred upon the, anniversary
of the battle Of ChickamaugaS where he
was most distinguished for gallantry.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

THREE sisters we're snnarfietl i'm one
wedding at st. Louis, and tho occasion
required eighteen bFidesfaaids. AS n
matter of economy, the scheme was q,
success ..-----.--
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

THERE is little doubt now about the sue
cess OF the Mrs. Garfield lI9suna { started
Dy Mr. Cyrus W. Field. Subscriptions
are poWing in literally.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

M!AssAohUsErrs, Minnesota, Missis-
Sipplt S,pla Ohio, Virginia Ssrsa gSyYiseonsip
eleeh Governors this fanNW WksE SsE
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

THERE has been SO much said about
the Boston, girls that people shereabouts
are getting, rather anxious to see one OF
them. Theyareall said to be Z" ""testhetio
Of the utterly too awfuIly too" brand,
and while we do not fully realize the
meaning Of the expression. we hold that
ut must be something awful. We know
we should never be able to converse
with them, as they have for the most
partl,diBcarded English for the dead Ian.
guages, excepting some of the big words
in.Webster that nobody knows anything
about A Boston correspondent says
"Thoy are self-poised, ready for any
emergency, and carry mental quivers
full of sEmersonian tracts. They are
largely ceramical and music and philosol
ply are general accomplishments" Hs
thep adas: s'They wear red nnits on
their hands, and blue or red leggingsp"'
Well, wen. '' = D .'-' : =, 3. ....'. u. =
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LIE late President was magnet TO-
wards whom all hearts ea were irresistibly
drawn. He was Of tie peo1ples es'sSF
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

MRs. GARFIELD has passed so, many
days OF suffering and anxiety, at the
White House, that she is heartily sick of
it's surroundings, and now expresses, the
hope that she will never be required TO
enter it,again on any OCCASION. sgons,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

AN unsneezed sneeze, when it is there,
wants to come and can't, is decided,
more interestingEthanv the uplsissed kiss
the aesthetic poet has gone crazy over.
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GENFFRAr BuRNsrDn's 8 w&r horse, Major,
that bore him through the war, was
killed the other day at ProVidence. So 1t
had become helpless, and tho General
had arranged for it's death whenever it
could be killed without his knowledge
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

OUR National calamity has been. of o
character 80 overwhelming that We had
almost lost sight Of the suffering pre-
vailing IN Michigan. However, we are
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grnsBsd &025o able & sataate That tbo3q15bbI o3q15bbI
ilo eVerywhere have responded very lib
orally to the call for aid.
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themselves be picked out as the sanat:s
dates of the Republican party for Presi-
dent and Vice President 80.
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z VI x N % y
r,n tHE Cook Fund has reached 81 1000.
Ihls required 1000 contributions.
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TOPICS Of re DAY.

CAMPAIGN enthusiasts seems to be at
low ebb. 80 Sat@
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WoN'T it soon be time to commence
complaining about coid'weathef?" T7
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GENERAL SHERMAN is anxious that
short work be made of the Apaches.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

LINCOLN was shot on the anniversary
OF the fall of Fort Sumter.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

THIS BIT Of biography sis of renewed
interesti,. At college Chester A., Arthur
had determined to become lawyer. Ac-
cordingly, upon graduation, he went to
n law school at Ballston Springs, and
there remained diligently studying for
several months. He then returned to
Lapsingburg, whore his father then re-
sided, and there studied law. In 1851
he obtained situation as principal of an
academy at North Pownal, Bennington
County, Vermont. He prepared boys
for college, all the while studying law.
Two years after he left North Pownal, or
in 1858, student from Williams Col
lege, named James Il. Garfield, came to
the place, and in the same academy
building taught penmanship throughout
one winter. 1t was singular circum-
stance that, after nearly quarter Of a
century, both these men should meet at
d polical convention, and unexpectedly to
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-06

New YORK claims rs, 600 seIf-snpport-
ing women.
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The native Michigander is good fell
low at heart, but he has his eccentrici-
ties.