The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-18
PICKENS, S. c., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 49, Vol.
The Old Scrap-Box.

MIR. Peters, q somewhat eccentric old
merchant, stuck up notice in window
OF his store that there was "boy wanted"
and the card remained there great
while before he got the boy ho was after.
John Simmons, and Charley Jones, and
one or two beside, were taken for few
days, but mono of them stood trial.
Mr.. Peters had n peculiar way Of trying
them. There was a huge, long box in
the attic full of old nails and screws, and
miscellaneous bits of rusty hardware,
and when now boy came, the old gen.
tleman presently found occasion to send
hlm up there to set the box to rights,
and judged the quality of the boy by the
way he managed the work. All puttered
over it moro or less, but soon gave it up
IN disgust, and reported that there was
nothing there worth saving.
AT last Crawford Mills was hired. He
knew none of the other boys, and 80 did
his errands i'll blissful ignorance of the
long box" until the second morning of
his stay, when in leisure hour he was
sent to put it in order. The morning
passed, dlnner-time came, and still Craw-
ford had not appeared from the attic.
through p
to do"
"All right; it is dinner time now; you
may go back to it after dinner"
After dinner back he went; all the
short afternoon he was not heard from.
but Just as Mr.. Peters was deciding to
call him again, he appeared.
I've done my best, sir" he said
'and down at the very bottom of the
box I found this" "This" was n fiv,
dollar gold piece.
"Ihat's queer place for gold," said
Mr. Peters. cts good you found it
well, sir, suppose you will be on hand
tomorrow morning?" This he said,
putting the gold-piece in his pocket.
book.
After Crawford had said goodnight
and gone, Mr.. Peters took the lantern
and went slowly up the attic stairs.
Ihere was the long deep box in which
the rubbish of twenty-five years had
gathered. Crawford had evidently been
to tho bottom of it; he had fitted in
pieces OF shingle to make compartments,
and in the different tills he had placed
the articles with bits of shingle laid on
top labelled thus "Good screws"
Pretty good nails" "Picture nails"
'Small keys somewhat bent" "Picturc
hooks. "Pieces of iron, whose use
don't know" So on through the long
box. In perfect order it was at last, and
very little that could really be called
useful was to be found within it. But
MIR. Peters, rs he read the labels, laughed
and said, eff we are not both mistaken.
[ have found a boy, and he has found q
fortune"
~nh fha
from the window and was seen no mor,
Crawford became the well-knowp or
rand-boy of the firm of Peters & Co
he had little room neatly fitted M
next to the attic, where he spent his
evenings, and at the foot of the bed hung
a motto which Mr.. Peters gave him
'It tells your fortune for you, don't for.
get it, he said when he handed il TO
Crawford; and the boy laughed and reaG
1T cnriously. "He thatis faithful in that
which is least, is faithful also in much
All this happened years ago. Craw-
ford Mills Is an errand boy no more. but
the firm is Peters, Mills & Go. "a young
man and a rich man.
THE GEAR OF RUSSIA moves in q mys
terlous way, not only in his own domin.
ions, but also when he leaves them. Ii
is surprising that he reached Copenhagen
on visit to his father-in-law, the King
OF Denmark. No announcement has
been made of his leaving st. Petersburg,
and no account had been given of the
time or circumstances of his departure
All the millions of his subjects, excepting
n very few favored persons, will be
astonished when they hear of his being
beyond the frontier of his empire. Bnt
he doubtless knows that it is safer for
him to travel in mysterious way thar
In any other.
DIR. Fl. f. HAMILTON SAYS that III
least once a day girls should have their
halters taken off, the bars let down, and
he turned loose like young colts "Cal.
isthenics may be very gentcel, and romp.
ing very ungenteel, but one is the shnd.
ow, the other the substance, of healthfuJ
exercise"
SALES ROOMS,
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