The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-09-09
BRfC-A-BRAC,

Tor the past week.
room.
bids. ' "a ioUei'i"S
The man who ought to "give you fits
our tailor
A misplaced switch When the wrong
boy is whipped.
lhIS autumn all tho browns are to shade
10 yellow rather than rcd.
1es, Ella. policcman's club might be
called limb of the law.
Strike while the iron is hot, but let some
oehcr fellow hold the iron.
"A lady's declining years ore said to be
from eighteen to twenty-five.
We fail to see any difference between n
travelling dress and a walking suit.
There arc hundred kinds of religion.
put only one kind of Diety.
Take cheerful view Of everything and
looN lor beauty in everything
Inc smallest kind deed will return with
tehocf llght upon some darkencd day.
10 be content is not to be satisfied, No
one ought to be sati SIZED with the imperfect.
BE loving and you will never want for
love; be humble, and you will never want
for guiding.
Prudence and good breeding are ncccs.
sary, and most young men suffer from the
want of them.
When the summer resorts fill I'M II bc.
comes more difficult for the boarders to do
so.
Babies cry for the same reason that come
men swear. It's because they don't know
any better.
In what respect might boy on his way
10 the circus be said to resemble n sailor7
In going to see.
No, we can't take time to read q poem
written by fellow who tries to make home
rhyme with cpitomc.
Mere vulgar wealth. without lbcrality
and public spirit, is the bane Of any live
and progressive community.
Public opinion can only be relied upon
TO change, but what new form 1t will take
Is always matter Of doubt
A writer says that "drcss Is womar's
great cGnundrum." 1t is hoped that she
VIII never he compelled to give it up.
In civilized communities they hang
man on evidence. In less civilized com
munllcS they just hang him to q tree.
1t would be n relief to the general public
to bc assured that the battle Of GETTYSBURG
is actually at an end.
NO matter what the water mill may do,
| he hand organ man will continue TO grind
the music that is past.
Ihc New Orleans Pcayunc says a mil
llonalrc is miserably poor in the presence
OF an assessor.
IN just add to the fresh hair fund"
Sad the Indian, rs he took the frontiers
mans scalp.
II every dog has his day, we wish that
the dogs to whom belong these days would
be off with them.
A Philadelphia woman has patented a
!lfc preserving corset This will be great
boon TO women who arc Sin the swim"
10 preserve bouquets put little salt
pctre III the water you use for your bou
quctS, and the flowers will live q fortnight.
II we should have war with Mexico it
Is estimated that Missouri alone could fur.
mSh half dozen reg giments in which evcry
private would be colonel
10 be sincere we must speak as VIC think.
DchcVc as we pretend, act as we profess,
perform as we promise and be as we appear
TO he.
Suppose old DR.. Johnson, the lexicocra-
phcr, were to stick his head up out OF the
grave and hear somebody yell: "Boycott
the sCab."
The man who was discarded the other
day by one Of our fair maidcns told us he
Rad Just met the author of "the beauti-
fulS no.
Cotton picking IS beginning in earnest.
10 the cotton fields are tramping the great
and small, the stout and tall and the little
"rOons' and all.
y man may read law and become n law
ycr he may study medicine and become q
doctor; but if he wants to be a blacksmith
he must work at his trade
When the people get out Of the clutches |
"l money changers, who contract the cur.
rGncy ana run the government, prosperity
will return.
Gen. Bragg, Of Wisconsin, has been
caught i'll some political bargaining, which
he he'd reduced to writing. Ignorance is
bliss.
On October I, 1896, the postal delivery
system will be extended to all post offices
in tho country. There will he free deliy
cry to all places within one mile OF the post
office.
The information comes by cable that
Oliver Wendell Holmes has set down to
table with kings and queens. This is in.
LercStmg as far as it goes, but how many OF
them did he hold?
1t is the little things that fret and worry
us. A thrccycars-old boy may keep man
in perfect misery, whereas no such trial
would accompany the presence of his
cightccn-y -ycars.old sister.
Mrs: Eve and Mr. Adam live in Augusta
Ga. MIR. Abel used to live in Columbus
and MIR. Cain in Jefferson county. But
this does not indicate that Eden. Ga. wna
the original Garden of Eden by any means.
lie was looking for rich wife and
thought he was on the trail. II love you"
he said to her in rich, warm tones, more
than can tell you in words" You'd
better try figures" she replied, coldly, for
she was not so green rs she looked.
The following good one has been un.
earthcd:
"DEAR STANTON: I should like yery
much to have Freeze appointed Colonel,
even at the risk of his not being able to tell
the color Of Julius Caesars hair.
"a. LINCOLN"
This brings tears to the eyes of the aver
age civil service rcfQrmcr.