The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-07-24
An Amateur Carpenter.

In my opinion every professional
man should keep chest of carpenters
tools in his barn or shop and busy him.
self at odd hours with them in con-
structing the varied articles that arc
always needed about the house. Thore
is groat deal of pleasure in feeling
your own independence of other trados'
and most especially of tho carpenter.
EVcry now and then your wife will
want " bracket put up in somc corner
or othor, and with your new, bright
saw and glittering hammer you can put
up one upon which sho can hang O cast
iron horse-blanket lambrequin, with
intlexiblc wator lilies sowod in it.
A man will, if he tries, readily learn
TO do great many such little things
and his wife will brag on him to other
ladies. and thoy will mako invidious
comparisons between their husbands,
who can't do anything of that kind
whatever, and you arc $50 handy"
Firstly, you buy n set of amateur
tools. You do not need to say that
you are an amateur. Tho dcalor will
find that out whom you ask him for an
easy-running broad axe or q groon-gage
plumb line. He will sell you set Of
amateurs tools that will be made of
and tho saw will double up like pioco
of stove pipo.
After you have nailed board on tho
fencc successfully, you will vcry natur-
ally desire to do something much bet
ter, more difficult. You will probably
try to Greet q parlor tablo or rustic
settcc.
made very handsome bracket last
week | of 11u - =
In fastening it together, If L hadn't in
advertently nailed it TO the barn floor,
| guess | could havc used it very well,
but i'll tearing it loose from the barn,
so that tho two could be used separate
ly, | ruined bracket that was intend
ed to serve as the base, rs it wore, of
! lanbrcquin which cost SO, aside from
the time expended on it.
During the month of March I built
IN lcc-chcst for this summer. It was
not handsome, but ii was roomv, and
| would be very nice for the season of
1881, l thought. 1t worked pretty
! well through March and April, but as
the weather begins to warm up that
lcc-chcst Is about the warmcst place
around the house. There is actually q
! glow of heat around that icc-chcst that
| don't notice elsewhere. IVo shown
it to several personal friends. They
seem TO think it is not built tightly
enough for an icc-chcst- My brother
looked at it yesterday, and said that
his idea of an icc-chcstw was thai it ought
to be tight enough at leas. to hold the
larger chunks of ice 50 that they could
not escape through the pores of the icc-
| box. He said that he never built one,
! but that it stood to reason that n rc-
frigerator like that ought to 10 con-
structed so that it would keep the COWS
out. You don't want refrigerator
that the cattle can get through tho
cracks and cat up your straw berries on
ice, ho says.
A ncighbor of mine who onco built
q hen resort of laths, and now wears q
| thick thumb-nail that looks like q Bra
2il nut rs Il memonto Of that pullct cor
raj, says my icc-chest is all right
enough, only that it is not suited to
this climate. He thinks that along
Behring's Strait. during the holidays,
my ice-chest would work like q charm.
And even here, he thought, if l could
I.ecp tho fever out Of my Ghost, thero
would bo less pain.
L have made several other littlo arti-
cles Of vortu this spring, to tho con-
| struction of which / have contributed
q good deal of time and two fingcr
nails. / hayo also sawed into my log
several times. Tho leg, of course, will
get we'll, but the pantaloons will not.
Parties wishing to meet mo in my STU
dio during tho morning hour will turn
into tho alley between Eighth and
Ninth streets, enter the third stable
door on tho left, pass around my Goth
ic horse and give tho countorsign and
three kicks on tho door in an ordinary
tone of voice. Bill NYe tn DcnVer
! Opinion.