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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1883-04-19
Pipe CIGys.

The clay Of which most of the pipes in
this country are made is obtained from pits
either in Woodbridge, n. j., or in Mary
land, near Baltimore. The Detroit and
Canadian factories get theirs from Liver
pool, water transportation making it cheap
er to them than the American product
The white clay is worth $3.50 per ton, and
the rarer red clay, which is dug out at Bon
hamtown, near New Brunswick, \. j., is
worth $3.50 per ton In the pits near
Woodbridge it is obtained from Il depth Of
fifty or sixty feet II is not in regular
veins, but in pockets or Jumps, here and
there amid inferior clay that must be care
fully kept from admixture with it. The
clay that is blue when it comes out Of the
ground-speaking now Of that which is fine
enough and otherwise suitable for pipe
making-tu-ns white when burned, except
ing one English variety, which becomes red;
the white clay turns yellow under TIE ac-
ton of the fire, and the red clay retains is
color. The English clay not oniy Eas,
when in a finished pipe, a finer natural
gloss than the american, Tut it is tougher !;
and. whereas the American viii not stand
moulding well into a stem more than seven
inches long, it Is not at all uncommon to
make stems as much as 80 inches long from
the English clay. For smoking, however,
the English pipe is not 20 good as the 4
merican, being less porous. The most po-
rous, and, consequently, the best clay pipe
In the world Is the Powhattan, which il made
only from the clay obtained in Powhattan
county, Va. : close imitation Of It comes
from near Baltimore, but it is not, in the
Judgment of experts, up to the standard.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04
Life on the Farm.

AS TO its drudgery-whatever has
been the case in the past where there
were stumps to be pulled and mort
cages to be lifted from almost every
hold; when il was n long way to market.
and the buyer paid for produce lin
trade" when almost all implements were
laboriously hcWn out ut homo or clumsi-
ly hammered out by the village black
smith-there is, happily, less drudgery
on the farm now, and less need Of It
every year. Taking the year through.
the working hours Of man on a farm
are no longer than those of the section
hand on the railway or an artisan in the
shop, who has his own garden to hoe
before breakfast or after supper. The
busy lawyer and the doctor in average
practice work longer and harder than
the farmer. The grocer and the editor
and the book-keeper each sees less of
his children in their waking hours than
the farmer who sometimes enyies them
their "easy life"
1t must be conceded, of course, that
the profits of farming are not so large
on the average rs those which arc real
lied by men who are successful in mer
camille life. But, such rs they are. they
arc surer-twenty-fold surer, at least.
large profits are always contingent on
large risks. .-Prdiric Farmer.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04
A war Of ExtermInatIon.


Three or four years ago the waters
OF Mono Lake were the stamping
ground of thousands of gulls, curlews,
and other, water birds, who made It
their home in summer and winter.
These birds laid their eggs and hatched
their young on the islands in the lake.
and save for the occasional Indian 9
trip for plumber they were unmolested.
But it became known that upon the
islands millions Of gull eggs were pro-
durable for small outlay of trouble,
and some enterprising individuals be.
gan an opposition to the outside egg
shippers. These eggs, although TOO
strong for the average egg-eater straight,
were found to possess advantages over
all others in the culinary department,
and the hotel and private family's cook
alike took kindly to the young guls in
their native state. Bodio became 1.-Two
market for the produce. and prices were
quoted as high as two bits dozen.
But the bottom of the egg plant was
encountered one day, and the old Gull
never attempted to replenish the de-
pleted stock. AS result, the slaughter
OF the innocent young birds has dc.
prived Mono axe of much life, and
now the number of gulls is preceptibly
diminishing, the old birds having no
place to deposit their eggs, and if they
are not allowed to breed upon the isl.
ands again updsturbed, tho gull tribe. in
few years at the farthest will be-
como extinct ,--Bodie (Col Free Press.
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1I'Oss7

WossP" can not bring myself tC
believe that this is u proper expression
1or any respectable person to use to an.
other, In an umnodified form. Yet
"woss, distinctly beginning with q
"W'" and as distinctly rhyming to o
"hoss," is tho accepted equivalent
throuS hout an entire nationality for the
brltons %! beg your pardon!" and
the Gaul's briefer, but rs instinctive
'.Pardon!" If there is ono thing which
the man remembers distinctly of his
childish days, it is the heavy penalties
which attached to the offense OF saving
wv hatf" to strangers. And | can not
allow that what is rude in French and
English become polite because it is
German, and because Bismarck objects
to its being printed in Roman charac.
ters. From the moment when the Ger.
man frontier is passed, the odious mon.
osylable meets you everywhere.
"Noss? fyou ask your way; stNVosspm
II you want to know the time; "Woss ?n
when the bill is called for; ALWAYS
"WossP' The German will never un.
derstand foreigner the first time he
speaks 10 him, and no care or inventive. |
ness on the speakers part can save him
from that interpellatiVe, before he is al.
lowed to explain his meaning. 1t has
ring OF arrogance about it which doubles
the otfense. 1t seems to convex as
much as Lord Burleigh's nod through
Pu1f's Interpretation. 81 am O citizen OF
the most remarkable nation in the world, |
l have all the sweetness and all the
light; all the blood and all the iron,
wagner is mine, and Bismarck is mine,
and Hackel Is mine. am tho finest
KIND OF man going, and drink the most
peer. am the most pertinacious of ere.
ated beings. keep all can get, and I
get all l can keep. colonize earth with
waters, and goVernesses, and clerks,
and l do everything cheap. There are
more OF my bakers in London than there
are In Berlin, and when your Watkin
has, with my assistance, completed his
tunnel, In the teeth of your English stu.
P'dlty there shall be more than there are
IN 81! Germany, for will overrun you,
ana torce you to appreciate intellect,
even II you haven't got any. make |
my fortune out Of you, and then I come
PACK and abuse you as you deserve, |
FINALLY, who are you? / understand
perfectly what you mean, but it's like
your lmpudence to speak to mo, and Won
shall say it all over again. What fhe
dickens do you wantP" I solemniv do
clare that | have heard all this conveyed
over and ever again IN one comprehen-
slvo and stentoric "Woss?" and that
have never been able to escape tho feel
ing OF an intense desire to hit the Woss.
or in the eYe.--3He SDeckat0r.
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Mrs. PartlngtOn and Ike.

Don carry on so," said Mrs. Part
ington to Ike, as she saw him resting
his head on the ground in vain at
tempt to throw his heels into the air,
There was solioitude in her tone, and n
corn-broom in her hand, rs she looked
at him. "You must not act so gym
nastically, my dear" continued She,
you will force all the brains you've
got into your head if You do! You
can t do like the circus-riders, because
Providence has made them O. purpose
Tor what they do, out of mgee-rubber;
an it don't hurt ON at all. They aim (
got bones like other people, aud can
turn heels over head with perfec. inn.
Pnrity. Don't do it," screamed she, as
the boy stood on one leg on the wood.
morse and made o feint as il to throw a
sunPerset you'll deseorate your
aeeE oy and by, with your nonsense.
ma You, u regret it as long as YOU live. $
S aeslsted as the dsnle smiled and
=! 20 . circular piece Of copper bofora
~ gs1ei such potency he'd that snnile,
~ ". ,5a.a htn' 5asksd by the copper, s Zee.
. WY = Nfff -
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necessary Tor that Captain to know what
oottom ne has beneath him and what it
tells him, and he can't tell that unless
he heaves his lead in fine weather, too. -
Alter chewing piece of lemon peel
ana lighting his pipe again, the old
sailor resumed:
l once sailed with an old chap who
heayed the lead every two hours. and
tough work it was in cold weather. He
knew every inch OF the coast. It is n
ReSaan TsFy msPsEesd s2sssd 56fsomnH 5SafHsanH ad agdfdy h
from Montauk Point to Sandy Hook. II
you are inside the mud holes on the
Jersey coast you get pebbles. Then IL.
uncertain of your position in the fog.
you tack to the eastward, you 90 sud.
uenly into 20 to 40 fathoms. Ii In doubt.
you still keep to the eastward, and you
shoal your water again, and you know
where you are, and go back to the mud
holes, and steer N. n. W., and come in.
to port jannuck.
49," But the hardest and most diCicplt
morh ls heaVlng lead on o steamer go
ing ten knots an hour on O cold night In
March in the British Channel. One chan
Stands on the fOrecastle with tho lead.
linen every htteen or twenty feet apart
mon are stationed along the side of the
! steamer to the mate, who stands way
aft. These chaps hold bights of the
| line, so as to be ready to clear 1t in case
Of its fouling. When all's ready the
mate he yells 'Heave!' The chap on
the forecastle chucks the load 0vor, and
sings out, 'W-a-t-C.h!' Each man, as
the lead comes under him and the line
taut repeats the cry, and finally it gets
plumb up and down under the mate"
80 "tWh9t does he dof,'
'Do!" cried the old sailor, indignant
~, evidently exasperated by his recol.
lections, and taking q regular second
mates nip to sootho himself;
'"why he goes into the pilot
house and warns himself, and tells us
poor devils to haul in the wet line, TUG.
gmg like an elephant, and bring tho
lead to him, and then he tells us to 20
and heavo it again, and not so much in
the whole watch as snfter TO keep us
warm. It's all worry fine ashore, that
song, 'To heqve the lead the seaman
sprung, and to the pilot cheerily sung,
by the deep sea nine,' but when l sing
it think of dark nights, wet clothes,
and hasifrozen fingers. ~. Y. Sun.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04
Going to School.

- Glass in geography, come forward,
an, III case an Of you drop n pencil,
look out of the window. or utter a
cough, viii. keep the whole school in
nj recess. Now, then, where is Green
| Cheese Crcck?'
| They give it up.
"What! None Of YOU able to an
sWrr that question? Here are twenty
toys who expect to become business
n"u. and seven girls who will become
wives and mothers. and not one of you
know tha: Green Cheese Creek rises in
Tie southeastern part of Hindostan, and
flows III northwesterly course for
:" c9teen miles and twenty-five rods
a,II rmpties into Ham River! You
Lurs woIld look nice starting out rs
|: wye s, doctors and book-keepers,
wo ldn't you? Go to your seats, and
~ punishment each one Of you must
VI te fifty words and give me the name
q! every Preside Of the United
Sl>;cs.
Glass in arithmetic, step this way,
a:.d be careful how you step or you
won't get any dinner to-day. Now,
James, what is. rhomboidP"
Il don know. sir"
OF don't! You arc expecting to
grow up and become II clerk in cloth
ing sore and YOU don't know what
rh0mOOd is! A rhomboid, sir, is
para lc.oGram whose opposite sides only
a." equal. and whose angles are not
right angles Take your seat. and don't
you dare look ND until you have com
m'tted seventeen paEcs OF history to
memory.
Now, Thomas. what is the amount
du" on note for Si67. l93. given for
one year, one day, one no; and nine
t"nths III mute, and bearing seven
ard three clcyenths per cent interest?
Come, now. answer off-hand,"
"Can,t do it, sir."
"You can't? Only Yesterday YOU
told mo that you intended TO run
grlStm'll when you grew up, and here
you can answer simple question in
mathematics! You'll never be able to
run one end of IL corn shelter, and /
might as well tell You so now. Go to
yonr seat and cipher out 100 examples
in vulgar fract onS.
"Class i'll ancient history, now adj
vance. When was the first rebellion
ms?"
No answer.
LANES, Henry, Charles, Samuel
what None OF you able to answer this
question 1ou are preparing to 90 out
into the world as insurance canvassers,
telegraph operators, bank clerks and
Board of Trade spectators, and be-
hold your ignorance! What would any
OF you do in case you were walking
through an alley on dark night twen-
ty years hcnce and some one should
suddenly stop you and ask you this
question? The class is dismissed. How
the noxt generation will manage to run
stores and factories and kcep the
whoels5 of commerce and progress NOV
ing ! don't know" ."--DetroiE Tree Press.
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At n bad Time

Commander J. B. Coghlan, U. s. NJ
writes writes to us from the Navy Yard at
mare 1Sland,I CAL: IAN enforced resi-
nence OF Two years in California made
me the subject of most painful attacks
Oh rheumatism. Consultation upon nv
case by eminent Naval and other sur.
geons failed to afford me the slightest
reilet. Or. Hoyle recommended to me
81. Jacobs on, the happy result Of the
use OF which was my complete and
Wondertui cure. Washington ID. C)
Army d Navy Register. '
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04
TIE CHRISTMAS TIME.

Rlowi Winds Of Winteri Blowi
Stretoh forth your view less hands,
And waken every living thing
Through all those frozen laniai
The branches of the gnarled oak,
The hemlock's swRying limb,
81 trees and shrubs. wake those to Join
IN one harmonious hymn; Na
For IS not this the Christmas time.
Tho loving, hopeful Christmas time.
Tong waited for, with faith sublimet
Fsll fasti 9 tieecy snowi ...... ..
Thy ministry is good: .. . ...
The earth our greater human needs
Has little understood.
With ehy deft fingers weave ~.
Arobe, OF faultless seam n
And white, as angel vestments arc,
w ,Whlch the poets dream;
SorlO the earth receives King,
mnna thou, Snowl robo shalt bring
To grace the happy Welcoming
Fly switterI o yc Cloudsl
Thcough all the realms OF air;
Chase Day and Night the world around,
= And tell II everywhere
40 peoples, landS--a Christ is born
For cYery race and creed
n Living, sSmpathlzing SOUL
The very Christ they need
That this Is now the Christmas time
The loving, hopeful Christmas time.
When want Is sin and greed q crime, 7
Beat Iasti o throbbiug Hearth
And yield! . stubborn Will
An @ S9Gs g9oa time, He came at last,
AS came, With pleasant words and weys,
Tho worlds Redeemer, guest:
GeHe mamma to tho hungry soui.
Ard to the weary, rest
~ gave 70 the world such hopes and chce,
As prophet tones or lips OF soor
Gould never breathe IN human oar.
Vain Is your task, O sYindsi
Ana yours, y tieecy Snowl
An vain tho swift winged Clouds
Upon their mission go;
In vain, o throbbing Hearth
Is prayer, or song, or creed,
. OnDlC6C Dy Loves sweet ministry
hsre hnd the Christ you need.
BY sweet gruoe, aud this alone,
Ills praise shall sprondfrom Zone to zone
iii All the earth His sway shall own.
Ira T.. Sherman.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04
An A.RSkn COnl Mine.

Near Cape Lisburne, at the "Arctfc
coal mlne," twenty tons Of coal wera
dug and carried aboard in sacks ir one
day. These mines are within the Arctic
circlc' some distance on the American
slde, and arc plainly exposed from top
20 3ott0m In the face of q perpendicular
nlnh, about 100 feet in height. Their
widths are from three to twenty feet.and
suc9 as are under ten feet are pure coal.
While tnoSe over are nearly so, slate be.
ing shghtly mixed. The veins pitch at
an angle Of about forty-fve degrees,
ana are numerous. On the tundra. or
grassy plain above, the ledges can he
tollo"ed Tor miles, and after pitobin1
oown tho precipice they can bS traced
across the sandy beach until lost in tho
sea: Such as taken by the Corwin waa
surface coal, lying about In great
o99nks' Weighing one-half ton or moro
whlcn had to be broken up before heinz
handled e was somethinU hotUnnSS5 tS
'N'thiacite and bitum.nous, b,rneJ ,UoIi
and made but little smoke, aItbono,h %ett ~
left great dGal Of ashes. In bonSii,", ~
IL IeIG ouE little dirt, and TO-. use It gave
excellent satist action. 1t Is Thought fbat
depth viii shcw 1t TO be fine onalitv ~
anthracite 1oal. These mines hSve bean
known: . whalers for some wears. ard
now that steam whalers are COMING ;n;o
vogue hey win probably bs well patron.
zed. -.
The speculative sharps Of New
York have organized a Izlober ring. The
Gatl will cut tGair syastlbsbA on R.--N.
4 ..--s-reg y. #
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A Cnaa Not nexond MoIn.

Or. n. H. Hinsdal'. Kenawee, H., adyIStS us Of
a remarkable enr3 OF consumption. He sayt: "a
nsfghEors wife was attacked With violent Jung dis.
ease, and pronounced beyond htlp from Qniok Con-
sumptlon. As last rsoTt the family was puT-
gu1ded to try Dr. Wm. Hsll's Ba sam for the Luogs'
To the aStonlstm ,nt OF all, by the time she had
used half d, bottles she about tee house
doing her own work. say hor a. her worst and
had no idea she would recover
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04

T&TGT ~ pepton1x' ser tonic, the ON,
J'rpRrAt~. u beef containing It's entire nutri
Gcus ProperAeS 1t contains blnod-nnkin2
'"rce generating and h:e snBt aiming pro critics
"'aln&bls for indigestion, dyspepsia perVOn,
p'oStr&tiOn. and all forms OF general debility
A,so in ell onteoblod conditions, Hhsthor th.
rH"ult of exhaustion. nervous proStrAtion, over
work or Rcute diDeaAo, particularly il resulting
from pulmonary complaints. CRSWell. Hazard
= Co, propristors, New York. Sold by drug8istS
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"A young gentleman who was pledged
to take young lady to q party re.
marked 70 her oli the afternoon previous
to the event that he was going home to
take sleep. in order TO Be fresh.
That's right, - che replied; "but do
not sleep too long, "WhyP' ho
asked. Because. che answered, al
dc nes want you to be tea fgeVh, ''-a,
FRfEaastpbfa SladaN LEaar 10y ~
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wataon,a NeurnIsIn King.

This Is Of tho best RENE dies for Neuralgia ever
BTOnted. A lady who hal tried many other things
lthout relief, tried Neuralgia King and was cured
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04

Western lightning can melt man 8
suspender buckles and not Jump the
man oil his feet. Tho West is favored
locality.
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That Ruahnnta OF Mine

Is three times the man he was before he
began using Wells Health Remover. 81.
DoN'T DIE IN THE HOUSE. "Rough on Rats"
Clears out rats, mice, reaches, beG-bugS. 16c.
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When Russian is too lazy to scratch
Tor living he has himself arrested for q
Nihilist.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04

THE Eubit of running over boots and shoes
corrected with Lyons Patent Heel Stifeners.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04

The hMenGum Uondon) corrects a
statement made by Mr. G. II. Rockwell
at he last meeting Of the American AS
sociation for the Advancement OF Sci
ence, that Caroline Island, in the Pacific
OceaL. was discovered by CAPTAIN
Mares n 1874. That journal declares
that the discovery dates back to the last
century, and the honor belongs to
William Robert Broughton, q distin-
guished navigator, who was ut ole time
companion of Vancouver He discov-
cred This island in the course of q yoy-
ago which began in 1795, and bestowed
upon 1t the name of the oldest daughter
OF Lord Spencer who was then First
Lord of the Admiralty. Mr.. Rockwell
pointed it out as q suitable station from
which TO observe the total eclipse of the
sun in Nav next
To WASH towels with colored borders
let them soak in a pailful of cold water
containing ono teaspoonful of sugar OF
lead; ; let them remain ten minutes be-
rore washing; to make the colors look
clear and bright, use pulverized borax
IN wash water, very little soap and no
soda. To wash red table linen, use tepid
water, with n little powdered borax
which serves to set the color; wash the
linen separately and quickly, using very
little soap rinse in tepid water, con.
tanning n little boiled starch hang to
dry IN the shade, and iron when almost
dry
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HEALTH is WEALTH!

On. x. G. WRsrs FRRVn AnhIH TnEArnuH1.
Peeiao Tor Hy.teriA, D!srnsss Cenvulsions Nervous
Rental Depression, LoSs Of Memory, PremA.
decay and death One box will cure oalss
hnSh BOX contains ono month'S treatment. One dollar
oox or aa boxes for Ave dollars by all prepaid On
,sOs~ Il price; w guarantee 'i1 bcxeH 70 any
sSmPAnied with Ave dollSrs, We Will SEND the pur-
aheI eur written guarantee to return tho naon ey IL ho
y oH -; =: LUhH. CharlOstOn, o. q. ordosS 81
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The speculative sharps OF New
York have organized a Izober ring. The
eatl will cut tGair sYs.tbslA On I..-N.
q, kfcagRfts -. s7gq''--,-
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EN- s;s 4! a. SGiI;s':l;:: g:

GR0 A WEEK. $12 day at home easily made.
ID HCoStly outfit free Address True CO. Aua1lsta
"A selling Pictorial Books and Bibles Prices reduced
B per cent NATIONAL PUBLIsHIsa Co., Atlanta, 0e.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-17

The Philadelphia Times moralizes on
the fate of the managers of the last re-
publican presidential campaign in Indi-
ana. ItrecogniZes the hand of retribution
in the fortunes which have pursued this
exceptional band of patriots:
''Ill luck appears to attend the outsiders
" no were prominent in the management
of the indiana campaign in 1880. Dor
sey's troubles are well known. Brady.
who, though a nominal resident of the
state was really as much of au outsider
as any of them, has also had his share of
grievances in connection with the ex-
senator from Arkansas Gorham and
Filley have not been indicted or tried, but
they have made themselves so thoroughly
ridiculous that they are the laughing
stock of the country. This is worse than
all, as the practical politician would
rather be thought knave than fool at
any time. Among these importations
was one S. I'll. Russell, of Texas, then
United States marshal for one of the dis
tricts of that state. He was ruthlessIy
indicted few months ago for embezzle-
ment, Just as any other man without DO
litical claims would have been if short in
his accounts. Strangest of all, he was
convicted in the face of the fact that he
had been the republican candidate for
congress in one of the hopeless democratic
districts of that state, and has been sen
fenced to two years Imprisonment in an
Illinois penitentiary