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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-05-22

.',l,n nlCu III Egypt that FL Mehdi
possesses eighteen wives, and that his
Vakccl possesses twonty-four. The Mos.
lens in Khartoum "are Mortified at tho
Medhi's exceeding tho number per.
mitted in the Koran"
A member of Congress, in recon.
mcndlng the appointment of naval
cadet to the Annapolis Academy, states
in his letter to the Navy Department
that the young man will be found fis-
cally qualified, he is sure.
An immense acrolitc fell on tho
Rancho Rcdco dc las Agnas, twelve
miles west of Los Angeles, blowing q
deep holo in the ground. Tho light
was visible from Los Angeles, and the
explosion was heard for miles
Since the commencement of work on
the canal tho population of Aspinwall,
Panama, has suddenly increased from
1,5OO or 1000 TO 5000 or 10000, and
building has extended into the swamps,
where there are no streets graded.
The region south of Cedarvillc, Kan,
is infested with wild dogs, which havo
already killed two large steers, nearly
wiped out two tlocks of sheep, and
eaten two litters of pigs. The dogs arc
more difficult to capture than wolves.
Lcathcroid is new substance manu-
facturcd in Maino principally of cotton
paper. 1t looks like leather, but Is
harder and very elastic. and no amount
Of tossing about or hammcriug will
break it. This suggests its uSo for
trunks.
Mrs. Livcrmore's little book, "WAat
Shall We DO with Our Daughters? P" has
been translated and published in Paris,
quite supcriluously, rs most French
men know enough to marry off their
daughters at the first favorable oppor-
tunity.
Tho Washington Monument Com
mission mas granted authority to m
electric light company to erect ten
electric lights on the top of tho Wash
ton monument. They expect that tho
lights will be SO effective that tho city
will bo illuminated as far out as tho
northern boundary.
The annual rainfall in this country,
according to tho Weather Signal is
lowest in New Mexico (13 inchos) and
California G8 inchos), and highest in
Oregon Gao inchos) and Alabama f30
inches). Tho annual rainfall in tho
British Islands among the mountains
is Al inches, on tho plains 25 inches;
45 inches of rain falls on the west sido
of England, 81 on the east side.
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"A Fight With Il Heron.

A few weeks ago Col. VIM. f.. Sisty,
tho Fish Commissioner of Colorado,
wont to tho State hatchery, on tho
Platte River, nine miles from Denver.
While he was inspecting the hatchery
he saw large, blue heron proying up
c. tho fish in tho box. Ho approached
tho heron, expecting that tho bird
would take alarm and fly; but tho her
on attacked him furiously. Tho bird
was fully as tall as Col. Sisty, and was
so worry swift that he was upon tho man
in what seemed an instant. Hc used
his neck with lightning rapidity. strik-
ing oil tho timo at Col. Sisty's face.
Col. Sisty was unable to do moro at
first than protect his eyes, and tho
blows rained upon his hands and left
thom bleeding. His face was also cut
In places, for the bird was quicker with
his bill than the man was with his
hands. After the surprise was over,
Col. Sisty prepared to assume tho Of
tcnsivo. Protecting his face with
his hat, he rushed in upon the hugo
heron, seized the creature by tho BODY,
and hurled him to tho ground. Then
tho struggle was soon decided, for Col.
Sisty graspod tho hcron's neck, and
held on until his enemy was choked to
doath. Tho heron was takon to DON
yer and exhibited to hundreds Of pco-
pie, who soon learned of the Fish Com
missioner's exploit.
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Extent of the Cars Estate.

Ono may form somo idea of the cx-
tent OF the possessions belonging to tho
Russian Emperor, as property immedi-
ately attached to the crown, when
we hear that the Altai estates alone
cover an area of 4O,000,000 dcsjatins, or
over ITO, 900 square miles, being about
three times tho size of England and
Wales. Tho Ncrtchinsk estates, in
Eastern Siberia, arc estimated at about
$4,000, 600 desjatins. In the Altai es-
tatcs are situated the gold and silver
mines of Barnaul, Paulov, Smiiov, and
Loktjepp, the copper foundry at Sasoum,
and tho great iron works at Gavrilov, in
the SalagiroV district. Tho receipts
from these enormous estates are in a
ridiculously pitiful ratio to thcir extent.
In tho year 1882 they amounted to
$4,000 rubles, or little moro than
EOS, 900; while for 1883 tho revenue was
estimated at loss than half this sum, or
about 400, 900 rubles. The rents etc.
gave surplus over expense of admin
iStration Of about l, 500, 900 rublcs. On
tho other hand, the working of the
mines showed a deficiency of over
1000, 600 rublcs, hcnco tho result Just
indicated. A partial explanation Of
this unsatisfactory state of things is TO
be found in the situation of tho mines,
which arc generally in places quite de--
titutc of wood, while the smelting-work3
wero naturally situated in districts
whero wood abounds, sometimes asmuch
as six hundred or seven hundred kilomc-
ters distant from tho mines. The cost
Of transport of raw materials bocamo
considerable in this way. BY degrees
all the wood available in the neighbor-
hood of tho smelling works became
used up, and it was necessary to fotch
wood from distances of over one hun
drcd kilomotors. Formerly the mines
were really penal settlements, worked
by convicts, who were partly helped by
immigrants whose sons were exempted
from military service on tho condition
OF working in tho mines. But since
tho abolition of serfdom this system
has been quito altered, and there is now
great deal of free labor on the ordi-
nary conditions. s.-Lo1alon Times.
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An Interesting Indian Relic.

DR.. Oglcsby, of Fossil, has bcauti.
full Indian relic, which he found i'm
bcddod in the roots of fir troo noar
Mary's peak. The tree WAS about 300
years old, and the trunk was so decay
cd that it could be knocked to piocos
oasily. The relic resembles tho hugo
blado of q knife. eighteen inches in
length, three in width, and ono and o
half thick. 1t is cut out of brown
granite, and has exceedingly tino pol
ish, being nearly as smooth as sculp-
tured marble. The doctor came to tho
coast in 1853, and during the pioneer
days became intimately acquainted
with IN Indian chief, which acquaint-
ancc finally riponod into friendship.
from the fact that at one timo whom the
chief was attacked by vicious grizzly
ho camc to his aid and killed the bear.
This old Indian was worry convcrsant
with the traditions of his tribe, and re-
lated to DR.. Oglesby n Legend which
had bccn recitcd from father to son for
ages, and which stated that at ono timo
a people camo from tho ocean armed
with largo stono knives, and whilo they
slept in their wigwams these
fcrocious invaders would attack and
murder them. The doctor believes
that this instrument is ono of tho
knives described by the old chiof.-~
Dallas (Orcgon) Times Moulttainecr.
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He Sought tho Office.

know Douglas-Stcphon A.p Yes,
indeed, / knew him when he was a
young man." said tho Rev. John Fisk
in recent interview. "Ho had Just
opened law office in Jacksonville, ILL.,,
and l was studying with him. Ono
morning as | came into the Office Doug
las stood with letter in his hand, and
was gazing at it intently, thinking
about something. Ho broke out finally
with: i have just got q letter from
Vandalia saying that thoy aro going to
eiact an Attorney General day aftor to-
morrow. If had horse and little
money ! would go down thore and see
If l couldn't get it, Vandalia was then
the seat of government, and was sovcn-
ty-iivc miles from Jacksonville. told
him, We'll, there's that old gray horse
OF mine, and Ivc got about So, and il
mat VIII do you any good you're well
come to tho horse and MONEY Ho
thanked mo and accepted the offer.
10 catch your horse and I'll GO g
got up the horse and Douglas started
i1o had about twenty miles to 90 beforo
he struck tho prairie. He had to rido
through this in tho darkness of tho
night, but ho wanted to got into Van.
dalia as soon as possible. VOL, he not
only got there, but no got elected. It
was tho first Office no over held. After
that he kept rising from ono position to
another, just like so many stops going
upstairs.
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you throw it of at ALP Didn't YOU
know your own propertyP
Eyes, but it was all so sudden, and
you told me to throw it, and"
But tho roar of laughter that greeted
his explanation broke short his sem
tencc, and he was voted a leather med
al by the passengers.
l was convinced there was some OK
planation for the old mans conduct.
for was personally acquainted with
him, and knew that no was as honest
as tho day was long. About three
weeks after I saw him at the depot,
and questioned him on the subject.
81 thought, said he, rs his face
grew round and red, and his eyes
twinkled with mcrriment, II thought
should die to SEQ that follow hyper
round after his valiso and hustle on
board the train again. l didn't expect
to cause 80 much troublo.n
"Wcll, whcro was your valiso ail the
timeP"
"Oh, the driver took it without my
knowledge and put it on top of tho
stag atSgo: m He's IS, been &c, carrying it round
mcnt Good dayn " Boston Globe.
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from exposure TO the sun, and saw no
difference in the yield.
In portions of North Carolina nine
teenth century methods have made but
little progress. A recent letter from
the state says many of the housewives
still 'follow the cotton with thoir own
fingers from tho stock to tho stock
ing"
Grass means cattle: cattle means
manure; manure means rich lands:
rich lands means good crops, and good
crops means prosperity. This is tho
history of the world. Seed part of
your farm down to grass and see if the
assertion is not true.
Gravel or coarse sand is as much
needed by fowls as ordinary food.
With this thoir food is rendered di-
gestiblc. When tho birds arc confined
to close quarters, especially in houses
with wooden floors, the absence of
gravel will quickly become apparent in
tho fall away in flesh and good health
of the inmates.
Evory weed that secures growth on
the field deprives the soil of SO much
fertility and robs the crops of that de-
grec. Tho labor of eradication is also
creator the stronger the weed, and it is
well-known fact that the majority of
weeds are not only gross feeders but
tenacious in habit, doing moro injury
in occupying and seeding the ground
than by dopriving it of its fertilizing
clements.
Of the SO, 100000 people in japan,
nearly 16, O0O,000 in 1880, were farm
ers, in almost equal proportion of both
sexes Since 1868 the people own tho
land, paying the tax for it to the GOV
ernment. Thrce-tcnths of the titled
land is In tho hands of small propric-
tors, who, with their wives and children,
do nearly all the farm-work. The plow
in common use is nothing but spade,
with narrow blade about three feet
long, There is fine climate and
much fertile land in Japan.
A Kansas correspondent of the
Prairie Farmer Mr.. Jacob Nixon, in
answer to request for something to
prevent wire-worms from injuring sood-
corn after planting, advises the trial of
n pint of coal oil to the bushel of seed.
He finds this remedy cffoctual in pre-
venting moles from following the
planters marks, and also tho prairie
squirrel, or striped gopher. Corn thus
treated gives no trouble to horse or
hand corn-plantors.
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becoming Acquainted.

Two old negroes become acquainted
in way that shames formality. Meet
ing for the first time, thoy look at oach
other The ono remarks SO tho othor
can hear him:
"Doan belobo knows dat man, but
his face is mighty 'miliar."
Then tho other one says: Seed dat
man somcwhar, but KANT place him,
IoWdy do, genormanp'
"Poroly; how is it wild ycsso'fp"
libp" "
"On dc Pryor place. Whar docs
yerso'f 'zidop"
Ion do Avory place. How's all yor
folks2"
"Porcly, thank yer; how's oil wld
yosso'fP"
"Porcly, 'bloegcd ter yor."
After this thoy arc old acquaint-
ancos, and novor fail to groet o9ch
othor as friond.
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German Student Pompos,ty.

A party of American travellers were
on the railroad platform at Heidelberg.
Ono OF the travellers happened to crowd
a Heidelberg student, when ho drew
himself up, scowled pompously and
said:
"Sir, you arc crowding; koop back,
SIR"
Don't you like it, sonnyp" asked
tho American.
"Sir," scowlod tho student, "allog mo
to tell you, sir, that 1 am at your sor.
vice at any timo and place"
"Oh, you arc at my service, are your"
said tho American. "Then lust carry
this satchol to tho hotel for me-"
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HUMAN NATURE,

Many boy, says o writer In the
philadelphia Teacher, gots to himself G.
bad name because of the rapidly do
Veloping faculties within him seokin0
employment. Much of what passes for
Juvenile depravity may be easily nc.
counted for. Mischief Is not mcaHnogs.
it is mtsdircctcd energy. Intentional
Wrong--doing Is generally tho farthest
from tho boys thought. The force of
temptation and impulse ovorcomog his
own choice and powor of resistance,
while tho imprudonco, ill-tompor, or
reckless haste of tho teacher sometimes
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A Talbot farmer and his good vito
lost thoir reckoning last Sunday, and
tho farmer drove to Easton with q load
of marketing while his holpmato stayed
at homo and finished up the family
ironing. Finding the stores and market
house closed, he inquired tho carse,
and being told II was Sunday, bo ex-
claimed: Good gracious! anI my
wife is at homo ironing" Whom tho
church bells began to ring bp made q
bce-lino for home to report 10 Mrs. Os-
man and stop tho ironing. - Grcensbo-
rough (Md Times.
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Canada's Treatment Of tho Indian

Canadian statesmen say that tho In
dians in the States would not COS. any
moro than they do if COZ r15s boarded
them all at the Fifth Avr"ue Hotol,
whereas in Canada each Indian costs a
little less than would keep Il private in
tho army. There arc a!:o:;t :. quarter
or million Indians spin up into little
bands, whose reserves are sprinkled
over tho land like the lakes OF Maino.
Tho government keeps an account with
each band, sells for them what lands
arc not wanted, and holds 5000, 900
in trust for them.
1t instructs them in farming, pro-
vides them with implements, seeds and
cattle, instructs thoir children, and
feeds all who need food with pork and
grain. Already tho homo farms, whcro
the saVages were shown how to till tho
soil, arc rapidly boing closed up, and
the rations of food arc being with
drawn from one band after another as
tho Indians manifest ability to store
and preserve their crops through tho
winters. Nearly all the Indians do
something toward sclf-support. Some
make baskets, others make snow shoes
and toboggans, others sell furs, others
mako barrels, others catch fish, and so
on. Five years ago the Blackfcct were
on the warpath. Now almost every
family has house and farm.
During the present session Of Parlia-
ment Sir John Macdonald introduced
u bill to complete their civilization and
convert thom into politicians by an act
Designed to "train them for tho oxer-
cise of municipal powers. Tho up
shot of tho whole thing, rs Senator 4.
w: Ogilvic put it tho other day, is that
"tho United States means we'll, but hor
agents hold that no Indian is n good
Indian except dead Indian, while
Canada believes they arc human be-
ings, and that it costs less to treat them
kindly than to fight thom. Nv Y. Sun.
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LIBRARIES FOR EVENING SCHOOLS.

The comparatively small attendance
Mt evening public schools in Chicago
and in all our cities whore such useful
agencies have been established, is to bo
dcplored, for tho advantages to the
older boys and girls who have to work
oil day is obvious. In France, the eve-
ming schools established by the govern
ment are very largely attended, and
the fact is partly due, perhaps, to
the system Of free libraries connected
with tho schools. There arc about ton
thousand of these free libraries, which
contain the most valuable books on ev-
cry practical subject, fully up with tho
times and constantly increasing through
purchases by tho government, and the
gifts of private individuals who arc in
tcrested in popular education. These
local libraries arc open to all who wish
to use them fourteen hours out of tho
twcnty-four, and they are generally
used by tho working people in the eve
ming. In most of our states some effort
has been made to establish district
school libraries, but for the most part
these collections are poor and unsatis-
factory, being composed largely of cast
Oil literature, second hand obsoloteness
which, as has recently boen shown by
Prof. Tyler, disgraces even such great
state rs New York. Good FREQ Libraries
attached to each ward school and opon
In tho evening would effect reforma-
tory work whose value would far tran
scend tho oxponso CT keeping them up.
--Curret1t
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Did anyone ever think how much
space is required to bury tho doadP If
ono would be contented with n grave
two feet by six, $500 bodies could DO
inferred in ono acre, allowing nothing
Tor walks, roads or monuments. On
this crowded theory Sondon's annual
dead numbering 1,120. would fill
234 acres. ,.,s..-.,,srzngaR
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Oh.
half .
other, all
tho two halr>
bulgcd up and .
formed parachut.
brella. leaving me 81,
TIE STORM BEATEN Pa.
i realized for q momcn.
had answered my prayer. Ia,
truth flashed upon me that was ~.
down so fast that it nearly took my
breath. | was too heavy for the para
chute. Then l saw that tho canvas
had split again, and suddenly another
frightful sweep of tho storm toro tho
parachute into tattors, and was hurled
headlong down through tho clouds.
closed my eyes and prayed. and diod
going down, thinking of loved onos at
homo. My poor body foil into q wild,
lonely, and bleak swamp, ten miles
north Of tho northern shore of Lako
Superior, whore it slowly severed,
separated, and scattered by tho ebb
and flow of tho waters, until it has
now returned to its original earth.
My spirit entered spirit land at once,
where it has now been lodged over
since.
81 am slowly working my way up
to higher circles and to higher life.
| have boen happy ever since my COM
ing here, and have not changed my
mind but that somo day some one will
discover method by which tho air can
be navigatod. 1 am obliged TO YOU for
your kindness, and will be pleased to
talk to you again when our Dyes meet
hero or elsewhere. l have other
thoughts, too, of dear ones for whom I
am waiting in peace and happiness.
Good-byc.'
"Now," continued the young medi-
um, 'tho face vanishos with smiles.
He must have been good man on
earth. l sec that he never drank or
swore. but led an exemplary life. He
was brave, warm hearted and gencr-
Gus"
In few moments the young modi-
I'm was out of her clairvoyant state,
and soon aftcrward tho company do
parted, considerably impressed with
tho story.
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Austin, Texas, boys amuso them-
solves by dropping cats from tho Colo
RADIO bridge into tho wator forty feet
below. Some arc killed by tho fall,
but tho most of them survive to furnish
tho ncxt days sport.
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through that gap, rs throue.
In a Mississippi levcc, the FLOOD
order pours in and browns tho Ill.
And, rs soon as possible, the princ;-
pal, man Oh woman, should havo fixed
periods of instruction with tho higher
classes Of tho school, Every bright
child will be gratified by tho compli-
ment of being enrolled In the prinnci-
pals class, and many dull or medio-
Gre scholar will do better work with
the hope of reaching it. Tho last alb
surdity is reached when famous teach
er Is placed over several hundred chill
drcn and dozen assistants to be re-
liovod entirely from the work that has
mado him famous; too oftcn compelled
TO waste his energies in school-book-
Keeping and matters of detail. All
work of this kind should be reduced as
much as possible, in quantity, and ci-
thor distributed among tho entire corps
or assigned to principals 8 clerk; leav-
ing tho superior teacher and ruler Of
tho house in n condition to do the best
possibl blo work in tho organization, in
struction aud discipline of the cstab-
lishment.
On the otner hand, q most destruc-
tive mistake is often made by shutting
the principal entirely in the highest
room, leaving no time for supervision,
or cvon for observation Of what is going
on below. Anybody can see how help
less the teacher must be in this posi-
ton; deal with material which has pass
ed through aserics of rooms over which
he has no control--ignorant in fact of
W.T. is being done In any of thom.
Jne attempt to instruct such q class is
q perpetual struggle with insurmount-
able difficulties, which, sooner or later,
cXhausts the patience and destroys the
efficiency of the finest teacher. In too
many of our smaller cities and in somo
OF our chief towns this arrangement is
made with n purpose. The assistant
teachers arc thrust in as matter of IA
voritism, and, of course, resent super
vision and work with an eye single to
please their own trustee; the principal,
often woman, being ongrossed by tho
same degrading occupation. Tho gen.
cral superintendent is sometimes q
weak man, kept in place by ambitious
trustees on account of his weakness,
that he may not interfere with the plans
of ambitious members of the board; or
"Boss, who aspircs to the mana ge-
mont of every room and the personal
supervision Of every teacher. Whilo
this may be done in o. place of moder-
ate size, the attempt to handle tho
schools of city of even 10000 people
In this way is q mistake which becomes
more apparent with the increase of
population.
Supervision is the backbone of every
system of public schools. But no SUI
perintendcnt or principal can teach
school over tho hoads of tho room.
teachers. Neither can the room -teach-
er be wisely indulged in an "indepond-
enco" that isolates her pupils and
breaks up the harmony of the school
family. Here, as everywhere, wo want
''the goldon mean"
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IF some mon would treat their wives
as we'll as they do their servant-girls
there would DO fowor divorces" SAYS
tho indianapolis Times.
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- NAfftsSs fff1
peopis
thsE Ae
nd lucrative
end two or
aayills
An
In stuN
Was told I.
For white
And on his atl.
Appeared this
A railway spans tho
And climbs tho mouh
Before Il savage sway a.
, From prairics broad to o.
And high up in tho contnon.
Arc now w-mndc homes flllCd with,
And lol as Midas, misor king,
Beseeohing gods in days OF old,
"2ss Riven tho power whonco anything
Ee touched turned instantly to gold;
SA by the weight OF labors wand,
Transfgured Is the desert land.
Upon tho plains tho black hords swarm.
Where'er tho genial sunshine falls;
From eastern workshops, field and farm,
Armed mon attack her mountain walls,
And oarth yiolds up tho kcy that unlooks
Her vainly hidden treasure box.
From babyhood Wyoming loaps
Strong limbod and vigorous in hor might,
And jealously her freedom keeps,
In watch and ward on mountain height,
Wo hail tho land of all our lovo,
Minorva from tho brain OF Joyc.
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tho |,
control y.
imburso it 1Ul tu.
Boston Journal.