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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22
LUKE - COLORADO PARK, 1873

"Ot 3 tnRt you re r6adin 2 q nONol2 A DOyO
we'll, darn my skinl
You q man grown and boarded, and histen'
such stun o. that in
Stun about gals and their swCethrnrts, no
wondor you re Thin rs n knifc
Look ut mc!-clnr two hundrcd--and nover
road ono in my lifcl
That's my opinion O. novels And cz to their
lyin' round hero,
They belonged to the lodges dauyhtor-tho
Jedge who cimo up last year
On a' count OF his lungs nm the mountains,
and tho balsam o pine and tlr;
Ana his dnughtor-wCI, she road novels, and
that's what the matter with hor.
Yet she was sweet on tn" Jcdgo, and stuck by
him day and night,
Alone In the cabin up ycr-till she grew like
ghost all white;
She was only Il slip of q thing, or ipht md NJ
upand away
EZ rifle smoke blown through the woods but
shc wasn't my kind-no wuyl
fpcnkn' O gals-d'yc mind that house o. ven
A mile and ha!f from Whites, and jist ubCvo
Mutlingbys mill!
You do2 Well now, thar's n gal! What you
,., saw her? @: com now. thar quit!
She was only bed you boys, FOR to mo she
don't cotton one bit.
But what was talkin' OFF o! tho .Jcdyo and
mis- daught cr--She read
Novels the whole day lonY, and / reckon sbc
road them ahoh:
hn sometimes she cad them out loud to the
JcdVc on the porch whrrr he sat
And twas how Lord Augustus" said this an |
how Lady l!lnnchc' shc said that
But the sickcst OF ali that hnrr,i, WIS n yarn
ar mat they read bout Il chap,
"Lc"ths%r.s!ocHinE', ,Is by name, and II hunter
ana thcy asked me iO bear; but SAYS: Miss
,, Mnhcl, not any for me:
"h'n likes kin sling my own lies, and thut
chap and IghOuldnt agree"
Yet somehow or other she always was sayin' I
o brought her to mind
Or folks about whom she had real, or suthu'
belikc of thct kind:
AND thar warn't no end O the names thct sh"
am phVc mr met summer UP here,
"Robin Hood" Misunderstanding" ''Roh Roy"
u, tel you, the crittcr was queer.
And yet of sh" h9,ln't been spilled, she was
20 harmless enough in her way;
ono '"uiI un, JMG1rr in rrnch +" her dad, and
an" '' worked ne that shot pouch upt ar
A., which the man d"cSu iiv CT kin us.
ana SlIppr1s You t" g 'rn down yCr--r.. would
cradle an lniin's pappoosc.
Yet along O them novels, you SEQ she was
w"s'in and mopn' away,
ANA th"n she got shy with her tonTuc, nnd at
last had nothing to say;
And whenever happCnol around, her f,,cc il
was hid by Il book
AMI ii warn't until she eft that she gavc mo
ch much CT n look.
AMI this was tho way 1t was: 1t was nigh
whcn KEN UP n r.
10 say to IN all goOd-by, for rcckoncd to 90
for deer o.
AT SllIl-nD the tlny thcy left I ahool, ,,,n oil
hr the hand,
tclt bel, and she wa; sick, oz they gave
me to understand. o."
Bu; Just oz passed the housc tho ncxi morn
iHc III dawn some one ~ '0' u
-, With the sun;
MISS Mabel ii was, aionc-all wrapped up In {
mantle of lace
And she stood there sfraiybt i'm tbo ro,1 u,i,
n tourh n fhc ann In hcr rnnn '' WIN
And she looked at me right i'm tbc cvc-I,
seen suthin' like Il l,crorc
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

babe in her arms, she awoke at 8 o'clock
in the morning, and missing her chill d
she began to search around in the bed
Tor 1T, but could not find it at first
This frightened the poor mother so that
she made a careful sea. ch for it, and
when she found it it was suspended be
tween the side Of the house and bed,
cold and lifeless.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

The tonnage of the trading steamers
Of England is nearly three times asgreat
as that of the United States, France,
Germany, Russia and Italy combined,
and her colonial shipping is greater
than tho whole mercantile marine of
France, Germany and Italy. That the
continuance of such extraordinary pre-
ket streets, in Philadelphia, where JEFF
ferson is said to have written the Dccla,
ration of Independence, is being domol-
lshed to make room for a more modern
structure. The worlImen engaged in
tearing it down have found a number OF
gun-hlnts and other roles of revolution.
ary days.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

The street railway managers of New
York City will test this spring the prac-
ticability of the cable system. But it is
not still an experiment.. It has been
successfully tested in Chicago and San
Francisco.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

ARoHBIsHoP LYNCH, of Toronto, says
that Ireland's impoverishmcnt is due
largely to alterations in the track of the
Cult streGm. He undertakes to demon.
sTate that during the last fifty years the
climate there has changed very much
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

IT rs noteworthy fact that the depos-
Its IN the savings banks in Ireland, which
showed n decrease in each of the four
years previous to 1882, gained that year
within thousand pounds of the largest
increment ever known for single year.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

GERMANY is burying its telegraph
wires, and has already completed an
elaborate system of subtcrranean cables
from Konigsbdrg to Strasburg and from
Linden to Brcsiau, connecting $50 Ger
man towns. The system cost SO 600,
OOO, and IS working admirably.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

A NEW YORK Judge declares that he
will double the penalty to bo inflicted
upon boy brought before him who shall
prove to be cigarette smoker. "Ciqa,
smoking Is bad enough" he says, "but
cigarette smoking is destroying the
brains end health of the young. Some.
thing must be done to check if
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

THE United States leads the world
in its number of cattle, having 39. OO0,.
600, to Russia's 100000 and India +
80, 900, 600. But Russia has 10000, ,OOC
horses, and the United States comes sec.
ond with 10, 500, 600.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

THE old building at Seventh and Mor-
settle down, in some instances an Incl
and more. He concludes by citing tn,
fact that all men agree that women look
better in bathing suits than in stays.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

THE Fronch scheme for flooding The
North African Desert is finally takin;
definite shape and a company is raising
tho necessary funds to carry the project
into effect
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

THE Rev. John Jasper declines to
argue any more on tho scientific grounds
that the sun moves round the Garth He
says that anybody who disbelicves a
plain and unequivocal assertion of the
inspired Scriptures is an infidel, on
whom ho will not waste words.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

AN African spider, which spins silk
like thread, has been discovered, an6
French silk manufacturers talk Of Mt
tempting 10 introduce it in France.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

MARK TWAIN says there is scmcthing
very fascinating about science; it gives
you such wholesale returns of conjecture
for such trifling investments of fact
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

THR New York Legislature has passed
bill donating to Ex-Governor Horatic
Seymour tho chair i'll tho old executive
chamber used by that statesman when
he was Chief Magistrate of the State.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

A COUPLE of hideous savagcs, man anr
woman, have been dragged from cay,
among the mountains of New Mexico.
where they were found two month" az
by Capt. Lovctt, and placed on rx
hibition i'll Denver. They were cutireIy
naked when discovered, frightfnl TO look
upon, and utterly devoid of Intelligence,
pnt possessed of amazing strength. They
seem to be n!!o to communicates Wit
each other by inarticuIote sounds end
gestures AZ beasts do, and though now
tr"cIN6Ie, they arc nanifestly idiots,
They me supposed to be Pueblo Indians
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

THE United States Senate now stands.
Republicans, 81; Democrats, 3G Re-
adjusters, 2; vacancy, l. The vacancy
is made by the expiration of the term of
Hon. Il. Il. Rollins, of New Uampshiro
and his successor will not be elected
until next juno.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

THE Washington Post estimate tina:
100000 is sauandered by Congressional
touring about the country on gauHy
pretenses of official duty.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

THE lighthouse at Sydney, New South
Wales, has an electric light of over
$4,000, 900 candle power.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

A LoUrsYTLLE family contributed some
clothing for the food sufferers 1t was
afterward remembered that in tho pocl1-
OF Of ehild's garment was Q silk hand.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22
%OPICS OF THE DAY.

1T Is estimated that there arc in the
United States 4l5 street railways, which
employ 35, 900 mon.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

ACCORDING to statistics of tho Franco
German war, published by the German
Government in August, 1870, 79O, 72s
German soldiers crossed tho FrercL
frontier, followed during the war by
222, 7G2 others. The soldiers remaining
in Germany were 100000. At the close
of the armistice the German army
counted 936,0l8 mon. The army be-
sieging Paris numbered $780, 900 men,
while tho Paris garrison numbered 23O,-
men. The French lost 333, ,3H prisoners,
1O7 flags, 7,441 cannons, and 855, 600
firearms. The loss of the German army
was 129, 900 men, OF whom 40, 862 were
killed and 88, 839 wounded; 1852 were
killed on the field, and 1910 died in
consequence OF thoir wounds.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22

kerchief with its little owners name
woven upon it. About the Same time
one OF the young ladies of tho family
missed diamond ring, which, it was
supposed, had been stolen from the
house. A few days later an advertise
ment was noticed giving the name of tho
little owner of the silk handkerchief,
and saying that something of interest
could be learned by calling ut a desig,
mated street and number. The call was
made, and the handkerchief found with
the diamond ring wrapped up in it. The
family who lad been at 80 much pains
to return the lost articles to their OWL.
ers had lost everything by the flood.
JUDGE ALLISON, OF Philadelphia, has
held that under the law of Pennsylvania
sale of goods by sample does not
amount to warranty that the article
sold and to be delivered shall corrcspond
in quality with the sample. He saws
the risk is that of the purchaser who
must "beware of the seller in all such
purchases. But he adds that where "s
sample Is made the standard of quality
an implication of warranty arises, az
where the buyer orders goods of tn,
same quality as the sample or the selle,
undertakes to deliver them of the sam.
quality Inasnuch as all the grain sole
IN bulk and nearly all the merchandis,
OF the country Is sold by sample anG
can be traded il with expedition in ne
other way, it might be we'll to hold tn,
sellers to stricter responsibility than i,
implied in Judge Allison's decision.
The Osceola times., 1883-12-22
4 Christmas Legend.

A pretty German legend of the Christ
mas time is told in many of the cottage
homes Of that country, suggestive of
kindly impulse and unscltishness. 1t re-
Llte5 how, on one Christmas Eve, when
the night was dark and the snow was
fall Nc fast, Herman, the charcoal burner
drew h.s cloak tighter around him and
approached his lonely hut in the Voc DIS,
while the wind wiiistlcd iiercely through
the trees OF the Black Forest. He was
poor and worked hard To support his
little family, and many were his cares
aud his trials, which did not how
ever, permit his kind heart to forget the
misfortuncs OF others. Before he reach
ed the little hut, where he had toiled at
his work through many day, he, on
this stormy night, heard a low, plaintive
call, as Of a chl,l in distress. Guided
the sound, he proped about, and found a
liiile one, afone, and shiyering in the
cold, scantIly chid near the door of his
own hut
In reply TO the kind mans tender
wo.ds oi sympathy ut finding the for
saken child where il must needs have
pcrshed of cold aud hunger, the little
little one could utter no reply but
spoke with beseeching eyes the grati-
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SCIENCE.

Prof. G Sormani and DIR. +. Brugna-
tell have failed to detect the parasite of
tuberculosis in the breath of con sump-
tive patients making it appear that con-
sumption is not infectious.
During his late journey in Central Asia
DR.. Venukof discovered the horse, the
camel, and the goose in their wild state.
They showed no fear of man, even after
some of their number had been shot.
Fifty years ago Goethe predicted the
building of the Suez Canal, and stated
that England would take possession of
il when 1t was finished, In one of his
novels, Alexander Dumas predicted the
construction of the Panama Canal.
The antiq uity of magnifying glasses is
indicated by the following passage from
the writings of Confucius, the great Chin
We use the glass to examine the forms of
things, so must we study antiquity to
understand the present"
Volcanic disturbances in the Island of
lschia are usually preceded by turbid
appearance Of water in baths where 1t is
generally clear To detect such change
arrangements have been made for regu-
lar chemical examinations of the baths
as well as of wells and springs.
The scarcity of springs and running
streams IN Canada is ascribed by Mr..
Joseph Wilcox to the fact that ancient
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perceed.'
"The men took their guns and went
out A round or two settled the busi-
ness for the wolves outside, but there
was n struggle going on inside the milk
house. The door was forced open, BY
the light of the moon they saw man
with his back to the wall fighting four
hungry wolves with nothing but his
hunting knife The floor was piled deep
with dead wolves. The man was rescued
and helped into the house. He was COW
cred with blood, and his clothes were
nea lyall torn from him. Itwas Ezekiel
Merryweather, but his black halr was
as gray as badger!
"'Zek'el said Melissa.
"'Mliss said Ezekiel
And they were locked in each Others
arms. Then Ezekiel told how he had
started to come to the wedding in spite
of his feelings; how he was chased by
wolves; how he fought them for miles
through the snow, and finally sought re-
fuge in the spring house. The wolves
clambered to the roof and let themselves
down the chimney and closed in around
him. The terror Of the situation had
turned his hair white, and he had been
rescued just in time
In the midst of the excitement crea-
ted by Ezekiels story, Melissa said:
Dad, this yer's the white-haired man
I'm goin' to tie to. His hairs whittier
than Sims, 10y powerful sight
And old Jobson saw the point, The
wedding came Off at nine o'clock, but
Ezekiel was the bridegroom. The late
Peleg Underhill, used to say that he sup
posed that the .Jobson clearing had a
little the iolliest Christmas Eve that
night that ever was known in this coun-
fry
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the alteration of the Wise Men,

"the alteration of the Wise Men"
We never wonder to find those grave
and reverend seniors clad in early Italian
or medieval costume, presenting, on
bended knee-a salutation unknown to
the East Jewels and confect'ons of the
| manufacture of the streets of the jewell
ers" at Florence, or the Don Platz OF
Cologne. What, if under porticoes,
which the Romans only built, horses are
waiting which the Magi would not ride,
and the Madonna smiles upon the wist-
ful travellers in Greek "peplus,' her
features and the features Of her divine
child profoundly European?
What of all this? We are no more
disconnected than to know that the
three wise men died and were buried at
AK -Chapelle We listen to the tale
like children who hear an under-mean-
ing in every word of their narrator's
story. Beyond and behind it all is that
eternal revelation, that inefiable mes
sage OF love, which is the heart and soul
of the religion which sprang from the
manger and blossomed on the cross.
Worlds wisdom falters in the presence
of that truth which the best of us can
only half comprehend. Tell it as ye
will, Signori, the painters Tell it as ye
list, Monsignori, the preachers
At this season of Christmas we shall
listen as to our children, who say that
ON the Christmas Eve the dark-eyed
oxen talk together in the stall, and the
bird who stained his breast red with
chirping on the cross sings all the night
long in the fr thicket What might not
be, indie d, in picture or reality, on the
anniversary of the night when the shep-
herds tended their ilocks by jordan,
when they heard, or seemed to bear,
out of heaven that voice which frightcd
Pan from his Greek forests, and Apollo
from his omcles? GLORY to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good will
toward men" Divine ambessagc =.
Angus, and awful utterance 49, sounding
down to all time and languages the dia
pason of the harmony of heaven and
earth.
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glaciers swept away from the rocks Of
the country large part Of the sol leav-
ing but little of the material, which, in
countries where springs and streams
abound, shuts up the rain and melting
snow, and afterward gradually gives ont
water thus stored.
Mr. Meyer, of Paris, claims to have
invented a paper indestructible by fire,
Specimens have been exhibited which
had previously been placed four hours
in a pottery furnace. Mr.. Meyer has
also invented incombustible colors and
inks. The invention is likely to be of
great value, and the incombustible paper
will be in demand for wills, deeds, ac-
count books, etc.
Recent experiments as to the time
necessary to digest different meats and
milk resulted as follows: Raw beef and
mutton are digested most quickly; for
half boiled beef and raw veal, longer
time is necessary; thoroughly boiled and
half roasted beef, raw pork, and sour
cows milk follow next; fresh cows milk
skinned milk, and goats milk are still
less easily dieested while the longest
time is required for thoroughly roasted
and boiled milk.
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TREED BY WOLVES.
A Pike County Christmas sketch.
BY ED. MOTT.

THE circumstances am about TO tell
didn't happen within my recollection.
got 'cm clean cut from Uncle-I should
say the lsto Mr.. Peleg URderhill. Peleg
didAtknow them from personal recol-
lection, either, as he hadn't fell heir to
any grandfather at that time, and wasn't
in that part Of the country. Peleg's
grandfather's name was Ezekiel Merry
weather. At the age Of twenty-five he
was young man living over on the head
waters of the Little Bushkill.
"He was romantic sort of fellow.
He scorned q life Of toll, and chose the
easy and luxurious existence that comes
of living in brush cabin and chasing
the fieet-footed denizens of the dim-lit
forest from ridge to ridge, and bringing
home their hide and tallow. He was
an original Pike County hunter, and was
known to clear a. high a. fifty dollars
some years with has gun and traps. No
body knew where he came from, but he
was extremely shy and modest.
"He had very black hair, and was tall
and wiry, and all the girls in the back
woods were stuck on him. The fellows
wcre Jealous because he was rolling up
wealth 10 rapidly, and because he cut
Fem all out at the stone frolies and husk-
ing bees. A family named Jobson had
found their way from somewhere or 9TH
er in Jersey to, that part of the country,
and settled near the Monroe County
border There was old Jobson and his
wife and his daughter Melissa. JoDson
had uncovered about an acre of earth on
bis iract, and built him a house, a barn,
wagon shed, spring house, an obser-
vatory fifty feet high, and three miles of
four-foot-wall with the stone the acre
According to the late Peleg Underhill
Melissa must have been sumner. She
was way upin all the accomplishments
of the district, which ranged from twirl-
ing haP'ack TO picking panther out
of tree with the old mans flintlock
rife. The pastimes and plea ,ures OF
budding Pike County maidenhood in
those days were few, and it were great
reward for Melissa to get the promise
. iror her mother that If she would pile
70 much stone wall while she was rest
ing from pulling turnirs she could 'shuck
the hide oA'n the next wolf that dad
fatchsd in Or il she cut and piled sufii-
cQnt stgye wood before she went to work
hoeing the 'tatev, she might hold the
pig at the next Christmas KILN while
dsd sack it'
ut was one day in the fall OF 1901 that
Esekiel Merryweather first struck the
JotDon clearing and met Melissa. She
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was having holiday aud enjoying it
in shucking wolves. The wolf crop was
good that season and old Jobson's traps
were generally full. Ezekiel fell in love
with her at first sight. She fell in love
with him, too, and he got to taking in
the Jobson clearing pretty regular on his
hunting expeditions. Finally he asked
her to marry him and she said she
would. He laid the matter before her
old man.
"Wall, scarcely; you can't have Miss
said Jobson. 'Noyoung squirt of bush
whacker don't tie on to her if her dad
knows it, and her dads up to things
what's goin' on round here pooty giner.
ly. When Miss goes away from this
paster lot it'll be with some gray-haired
old fellow as knows what to treat her to-
She don't splice TO nobody but gray
headed man, an ye mout jest as well
bait yer trap in some ether swamp,
Zek'el.' asss
"That was great blow to the young
people," continued the Sheriff. Ezekiel
struck out for the woods, and Melissa
shucked wolves with heavy heart. BY
and by Sim Smith of Pocono met Melissa
He was ON the upper side of fifty, gray
as rat, and owned a farm. When he
asked old Jobson for Melissa, Jobson
said
"'Ye've draw'd the proper bead the
fust time, Sim. Ye've hit me plump
back o. the fore-shoulder. The gals
your'n.'
melissa hadn't anything tosay in the
matter, and the wedding was fixed for
Christmas Eve. On that night the popula-
ton of 3 townships was at Jobson's-l6
people in all. Squire Morgan was there
to tie the knot. Ezekiel Merryweather
was the only absentee. il was ene
moonlight night and cold rs Greenland.
The wedding was to come off at nine
o'clock. Every little while the bowling
of wolves could be heard on all sides Of
the clearing. That was nothing un-
common, though and nobody thought
anything Of II. About eight O'clock the
bowling was more than usually loud and
prolonged in one direction.
"Wolves is hungry, tonight said old
Jobson. They're closiu' in on that deer
pooty reg'lar, ! reckon
"The bowling came nearer and nearer.
"'Blamed il don't think they're goin'
to take the lecf plumb through our turnip
PATCH said Jobson. We'll, let 'em 20.
We've got other business besides carin'
Tor a passel o. onery wolves tonight;
hay, Simy F4ll
"1he wolves came closer and closer.
Their snarling could be heard in the
house. But no one ever took the trouble
to look out of window. The bowling,
and barking, and snarling kept on, and
the sound showed that they were not
moving. Melissa went to a window and
"'why, dad sait She, chem wolves
has treed suthin' in our spring house.
They're thick aroun' it, and some of ems
goin' down the chimley.'
"'Sure enough says Jobson, they've
duv suthin' inter the spring house, sar.
tin. Wall, boys, take yer guns. We
mowt as well stop this yer noise fore We
The Osceola times., 1883-12-22
PERSONAL.

The Prince of Wales is forty-two years,
old.
The Empress of China is famous top
spinner.
Abrar. s. Hewitt declines to be BOOM
ed for the Presidency.
Simon Cameron is TO woo the balmy
breezes of the South this winter,
Queen Victoria is having painted a pic
ture of the battle of Tel-el-kebir.
Ex-Gov. Stanford, of California, has
one of the largest vineyards in this coun-
try.