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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-02-06
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TIE STATEOF SOUTH CAROLINA,p
County of l'iciicrs.
BY }. B. NeWbcrry, Esquire, Probate
Judge.
Whereas, n. J.WiIIiamS and ! p. Rob
inSon mace suit to me, 10 grnnt 'h,;n let
tcrS of ;limnistltri0 ion Of the state Cf md
effects of William Williams. dccc.: 81.
Ihr&" &r" therefore 20 cite am. nin.0A-
ISL all and sirgu ar ti!c kindred ;nt 2.cli-
tors OF the said William Wii'iA!n., : =
cea#cd, that they be ana ippr"y 5e,o"c
me in the Court OF Probate, 70 u" helG c.
pickcnS G. H., :. &. on ihc ca ]ny Of
February next, after ru;&.""!i,. nc"cof.
ut II O'Clock il t., !orrnJcl., 60 G;.oW
cause, if IN" ,hcj Pave, ryi:y thc SAD .it
minis1raloA sh"u!l MOI ~ granted.
Given U1|'. e. l.,nu hi; tbu i.;h day
oi january, :-mU i,0E nj, $50.
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SSuH5s2oSS Notices.
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seed oats for sale cheap.

W. H. Nix, ut Easley, has lot OF fine
seed oats for sale cheap.
a Nasal Injector free with cach battle
OF @hiloh,s Catarrl. Remedy. Price so cts.
G W Earle, druggist
FOR DYSPEPSIA
Use DrOwn'e Iron DltceRs.
Physicians recommend it.
All dealers keep 1t. SIG rer bottle Genuine
h"' rndc mark and crossed rodlincs on wrapper
"liackmctrack' II lasting and f.acrant
perfume. Price 25 and50 cents. G w
Earle, Gruggis:
Shiloh,s Cure will immeniaic.y relieve
Group, Nhocping Cough and Bron cbitis.
q W Earle, druggist
NeurHigic Persons
And those troubled with nervousness regiltnR
from care or overwork win be reljeVet. by taking
BrofU?'S IRON Fsitters. Gopu,no
has trade mark and crossed rcd lines on wrapper.
For Dyspepsia and Liver Compiaint you
have printed guarantee on every bottle
OF Shiloh NitulizCr. Itncycr fails 90 cure
G W Earle, druggist
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GtTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
~ COUNTY OF Pic xENs.
Court of Common Pleas.
Louisa Rhodes ct al, Plaintiffs,

NN0ml IIOIdcn CC NI, Defendants,
In pursuance Of an order issued by
Hon. L. B. Fraser, Presiding Judge on
the 22d day of January, 1890, alt persons
having claims against tho estate Of Mica
Jah Alexander, sen. deceased, are hereby
notified and required to prove the same
before me on or before the FIRST day of
March. or be forever barred Of any bene-
fits under said Decree
J. NJ. STEWART, G. C. P.
Jan 27, 1890. 4w
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

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cupying. Within certain number of min
utes the book will be brought to him at that
seat, in one of the 20 long blocks of desks,
etc., which radiate from the center of
the plan. There is good accommodation.
for upward of 600 or 700 readers, each
having provided for him library chair on
castors, blotting pad, his own special ink
stand, rack, pens and pen wiper. He can,
by merely asking for them, have as many
books-ln reason-as he chooses to req qulre.
The trustees, we'll supplied with Govern
ment funds, provide all things necessary for
the equipment of the student-but brains
Of this final requisite each lady and each
gentleman has to provide the due amount
for her or himself, and to carry on the work
of research, study, compilation or original
composition in profound silence, allowance
being made only for occasional sneezing, a
stray cough and blowing of the nasal organ.
Speech" said the sage of Chelsea, us
silvern, silence of gold" and if ever that
oracular dictum needs special enforcement
it is here among the daily host of full 800
devourers of printed matter, many of them
belonging to that charming sex to whom
word of whispered talk is as the very
breath of life and happiness.
SOME OF THE STATISTICS.
During the year 1856 (of about 300 days)
upward of 800, 900 volumes were handed out
for the use of readers, under the great dome,
books of all ages and sizes; on all possible
subjects; in all languages, living and dead;
and for a wide variety OF purposes, if one
may conjecture on so obscure point. Some,
no doubt, are used for downright actual
study, to gain knowledge of the author as
whole. Some are dipped into for five or
ten minutes to verify a reference; some
4 lxy Fa.y he nr
even years, for translation; and some. again
not few-are never even once opened.
Why on earth they have been printed out
in the catalogue, asked tor, found and
brought to this solitary student, and never
looked at, heaven only knows. Ivouch for
the fact only. For three whole consecutive
days did 1 sit next to young ascetic in a
velvet shooting jacket; each day were three
large folios brought to him and solemnly
laid on his desk, and there they rested until
6 P. M, untouched; while Juvenis read a
novel fetched out of neighDoring shelf and
refreshed his outward man with an oc-
casional sandwich and a glass of sherry,
which he fondly imagined that no eye
beheld, bnt his own. If he should ever
chance 10 meet with this number of The
PITTsBURG DISPATCH, he will surely be
amused with this easy transit to immortality
and rejoice more than ever in the old tag
Sic itur ad astra.
NO LACK OF EVIDENCE.
If he doubts the truth of my sketch of him
and says that he opened and read the folios
on the days when l was not there-let him
appeal to that charming young student from
Girton, who sat next to him, robed in
dainty gray dress, with white rose in her
bosom, who was steadily grinding away at
quadratic equations for her next "exam."
She will agree with me and find Juvenis
guilty as sham reader at the British
Museum. He had much better subscribe to
Mudie's, and honestly read and enjoy his
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A FAMOUS LIBRARY.
Something About the Reading Room
of the British Museum.
THE COST LESS THAN A MILLION.
Dimensions of the Dome and the Arrange
ments for Comfort.
FACILITIES FOB HANDLING BOOKS
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. +,

WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.
For 40 years past I have been a fairly
steady reader under the great dome OF the
quiet and grand old room in Bloomsbury,
England, so well-known to countless stu
dents, scholars, poets and literary men, not
only throughout England, but most Euro
pean nations. can therefore speak OF it as
a place that know with all its peculiar
ways and usages; its especial features, ad-
vantases and comforts. Many and many
long day have 1 spent there; many happy
ones, and many day of downright, hard
toll.
Since my first day there it has undergone
many changes; but changes needing no fur
ther notice here, for the simple reason that
they have all been for the good of the read
ers, and have left it in that serene state of
quiet and easy comfort which will benefit
the nation that owns it and the age of intel
lectual progress which it adorns. The only
question in the minds of some men is
whether the accommodation for readers there
is not too luxurious and comfortable cast
tor the student really in quest of knowledge
who come TO work and not simply to while
away an hour over the last new novel, mag
azine or review.
THE ACCOMMODATIONS OFFERED.
Of the general plan of the reading room,
the various libraries adjoining. and helping
to feed, it. glance at the accompanying
ground plan will at once give clear idea:
In the center OF the room, at A, are the at
tendants, major and minor, all men of edu-
cation and intelligence, always ready and
able to give valuable information. To one
of these the reader presents his ticket (duly
filled up from the catalogue), naming the
exact title of the book he needs for study,
signed with his own name, and having
noted on it the number of the seat he is oc-
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novel in broad daylight, every day and all
day if he thinks good. But under that
grand old, quiet dome, with its mighty
treasure of million and half of printed
books-all waiting to be read-neither he,
nor any other of his butterfly tribe, has any
right to appear. He is simply out of place;
as grasshopper might be in conclave OF
the royal society.
1 have called the dome "grand," and not
without reason. 1t has a diameter of 14O
ieet and is 100 feet high only inferior in
the former respect to the Pantheon at Rome
by two ieet, the giant st. Peters itself being
only 139 and st. Paul's, London, 112. To
the imexpressible comfort of all readers, old
and young, male and female, they can
breathe freely air as fresh as any bottled
atmosphere to be found in Babylon-out of
the surrounding 1.250,000 cubic feet, or
wander into the suburbs of adjacent library
rooms and still find $50, 900 feet of space to
the good.
COST OF THE LIBRARY.
Taken in round numbers the total ex-
pense of building up this mighty dome and
its adjacent libraries which feed the central
stream of books in daily demand was $780,
900; paratively small sum when one
calls to mind how vast the store is and the
countless host of readers it supplies with
food not to be had elsewhere.
We talk calmly of a million and a half
of printed volumes. and may we'll be in
clined to boast of having found accommoda-
tion for them all in such fashion that any
single one OF them, from the tiniest 1S mo.
to the most gigantic folio--can be laid
hands on and brought to the desk within 10
minutes. So we'll has the work been done,
and so perfectly does the whole machinery
move, that Juvenis calmly reposing in his
cozy chair afirms it to be as easy as clock
work. Oil the wheels, and wind up the
huge and complex horolage-and the thing
is done. Bravo! Juvenis. That point be-
ing thus easily settled-perhaps you will be
good enough to say how the chief librarian
is to find room for his ever increasing
family which at present is multiplying at the
rate of 40, 600 new volumes per annum-and
in this prolific age of book-making will
soon rise to still higher figure.
EVERY BOOK PRINTED.
By act of Parliament, with which Pater-
noster row dare not trife copy of every
volume printed within the realm of Great
Britain must be forwarded to the British
Museum, so that there is no chance of the
tremendous yearly influx being in any way
checked. And the worst of it is, not that a
copy of every readable, good book must find
its way to the great storehouse in Blooms
bury, but also a copy of every volume Of
trash, however vile or worthless, has a right
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as against you. But il you go on with il,
beware! will not be made to look the fool.
If you are going to be ruined you can be
ruined by yourself. I warn you frankly,
that at the first sign of it, shall put N.Y.
self in the right BY commencing proceed
ings against you. Now, of course, know
this, that in the event of a smash you would
be glad enough to be rid of me in order that
you might welcome your dear Beatrice in
my place. But there are two things to re-
member: First, that you could not marry
her supposIng you to be idiot enough to
wish to do so, because / should only get
judicial separation, and you would still
have to support me. Secondly, if go, Efie
goes with me, for have right to claim her
at law; and that fact, my dear Geoffrey,
makes me mistress of the situation, because
l do not suppose that you would part with
Efie even for the sake of Miss Beatrice.
And now I will leave you to think it over"
and with a little nod she sailed out of the
room, completely victorious. She was in
deed, reflected Geoffrey, mistress of the
situation" Supposing that she brought
suit against him where would he be? She
must have evidence. or she would not have
known the story. The whole drama had
clearly been witnessed by some one, proba-
bly, either by Elizabeth or the servant girl,
and that some one had betrayed it to Homo
ria ana possibly TO others. The thought
made him sick. He was q man of the world
and a practical lawyer, and though, indeed,
they were innocent, he knew under the cir
cumstances few would be found to believe
it. At the very best there must be terrible
and shocking scandal, and Beatrice would
lose her good name. He placed himself in
the position of counsel for the petitioner In a
like case, and thought how he would crush
and crumple such defense in his address
to the jury. A probable tale, forsooth!
Undoubtedly, too, Honoria would be act
ing wisely from her point of view. Public
sympathy would be with her throughout,
He knew that, as it was, he was generally
believed to owe much of his success to mis-
handsome and high-born wife. Now il
would be said that he had used her as lad
der and then thrown her over. With all
this, however, he might cope; he could even
bear with the vulgar attack of a vulgar
press, and the jibes and jeers of his political
and personal enemies, but to lose Efie he
could not bear. And if such a case were
brought against him it was almost certain
that he would lose her, for, if he was worsted,
custody of the child would be given to the
injured wife.
Then there was Beatrice to be considered.
The same malicious tongue that had revealed
this matter to Honoria would probably re-
veal 1t to the rest of the world, and even if
he escaped the worst penalties of outraged
morality, they would certainly be wreaked
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GREAT MEMS DEBTS.
How Ruins Choate and Daniel Webster
Once Raised the Wind.

How Ruins Choate and Daniel Webster
Once Raised the Wind.
Once upon time Rufus Choate was in
Washington and had spent all the money he
had with him, besides exhausting his bank
account by checks on it. He and Daniel
Webster were alike in respect to bank ac-
counts, that they knew no other use for one
than to proceed to exhaust it. But Choate
needed money, and went to Webster to bor-
row some. "I have got a dollar" said
Webster, musingly, and then he added,
'But see here, Choate, you say you want
$500. Make out your note for that amount
I'll indorse it and Corcoran & Riggs will let
you have the money"
Choate Immediately agreed, when Web
ster continued: "While you are at it you
may as we'll make the note for thousand
and give me $500, too" And so the note
was drawn, and, remaining alwa Us unpaid,
is retained as souvenir in the banking
house of Corcoran & Riggs at Washington
to this day.
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THS MAN-EATING TIGER.

An Instance of the Extreme BoIdness of the
Animal When Hungry.
New York Sum-
The man-eating tiger is often extremely
bold. At Aliwar in the Metal district of
India lately woman was cooking at fire
on the north side of the village, not over ten
feet from the door at which her husband and
three children sat, when a tiger, who had
come out of the ravine and kept the cover
OF some bushes, sprang upon her. This was
just at sundown.
The spring of the tiger knocked the
woman into the fire. He seized her by the
foot and drew her out and. although her
clothing was on fire, he took hold of her
shoulder, gave her body twist to throw the
weight on his back, and was off at q run.
The woman must have been killed by the
blow of mis- paw as he sprung, as she made
no cry.
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understand that will not have this 90 on,
in your own interests and mine. Why, what
fool you must be- Don't you know that a
man who has risen, as you have, has a hun
dred enemies ready to spring on him like a
pack Of wolves and tear him to pieces? Why
many of even those who fawn upon you and
fatter you to your face hate you bitterly in
secret, because you have succeeded where
they have failed. Don't you know also that
there are papers here in London which would
give hundreds OF pounds for the chance of
publishing such a scandal as this, especially
against powerful political opponent? Let
it once come out that this obscure girl is
your Mistress
''Honoria, 1 tell you she is nothing of the
sort. 1t is true 1 carried her from nv room
in a fainting fit, but she came there in her
Sleep"
Lady Honoria laughed "RealIy, Geoff-
rev. wonder that you think it worth while
to tell me such nonsense. Keep it for the
Divorce Court, if We ever get there, and see
what jury says to it. Look here; be SEN
sible. am not a moralist, and I am not
going to play the outraged wife unless you
force me to it. do not mean to take any
further notice of this interesting little tale
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NAV be that the bills were new, and that
their beauty appealed to him, but at any
rate Sage held these bills in his hand tight
ly clasped until the plate got close to him,
and then thrusting them spasmodically into
his pocket he put the silver dollar into the
plate with jerk. Bristow caught his eye
as be did so, and Mr.. Sage whispered:
II can't do it, Bristow, I've got s., 900, 900
lying idle in the bank, and I'm not getting
cent of interest on it. I'd like to do it,
but l can't
Russell Sage is said to be one of the most
even-tempered millionaires in the United
States. You notice no change in his features
alter bad day in Wall street, and if he
makes a pile he does not become over
elated. He is a man without enemies, and he
is sort of father to the present Congress
men when he goes about among them. He
calls each member "My son" as be lobbies
IN favor of his charities, and be has a sort of
patriarchical patrOnizing air about him
which is fatherly and brotherly aud almost
motherly. He attributes his good health and
sustained vigor in his old age largely to his
habits.
MR.. SAGE'S HABITS.
He gets up and goes to bed at about the
sa me hours the year round, and he rises be-
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though under such circumstances l have
little right to expect any from wife be-
lieving herself to have been cruelty wronged.
Let me add that nothing short OF the COM
pulsion of court of law will suffice to un-
seal my lips as to the details of the circum-
stances (Which are, I trust, misunderstood
alluded to in the malicious anonymous let
ter of which you inclose copy"
That very evening as the Fates would have
it, Lady Honoria and her husband had a
quarrel. AS usual, it was about Fife, for
on most other subjects they preserved an
armed neutrality. Its details need not be
entered into, bit at last Geofrey, who was
in a sadly irritable condition of mind, fairly
lost his temper.
'The fact isl he said, that you are not
fit to look after the child. You only think
of yourself, Honoria."
She turned on him with dangerous look
upon her cold and handsome face.
"Be careful what you say, Geoffrev. tits
you who are not fit to have the charge Of
Efie. Be careful lest take her away from
you altogether, as can if l like"
What do you mean by that threat?" he
asked.
"Do you want to know. Then I will tell
you. I understand enough law to be aware
that wife can get a separation from an un-
faithful husband, and, what is more, can
take away his children"
again 1 ask you what you mean," said
Geoffrev turning cold with anger.
81 mean this, Godfrey. That Welsh girl
is your mistress. She passed the night of
Whit-Sunday in your room, and was carried
from it in your arms"
SIT is iie!" he said; "she is nothing of
the sort. I do not know who gave you this
information, but it is slanderous lie and
l.. ffar fos
Nobody will suffer for it, Geoffrey, be-
cause you will not dare to stir the matter up
for the girls sake if not for your own.
Can you deny that you were seen carrying
her in your arms from your room on Whit
Sunday night? Can you deny that you are
in love with her?"
"And supposing that am in love with
her, is it to be wondered at, seeing how you
treat me and have treated me for years?" he
answered, furiously. 1T is utterly false to
say that she is my mistress"
"You have not answered my question:"
said Lady Honoria, with smile of triumph.
"Were you seen carrying that woman in
your arms, and from your room at the dead
of night? Of course it meant nothing, moth
ing at all. Who would dare to asperse the
character of this perfect, lovely and intel
lectual schoolmistress? I am not jealous,
Godfrey"
81 should think not, Honoria, seeing how
things are"
ST am not Jealous, repeat, but please
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to claim a place there and insist on being

to claim place there and insist on being
taken in.
And now. when my space is all but e1-
hausted and the inexorable editor of THE
DISPATCH graciously says, "Stay thy
hand" L find that I have as yet left un-
touched host of topics connected with the
great library, that cry with loud and en-
phatic voice if but for passing notice.
Topics they are, indeed, of the most enticing
aspect and most rare value; without which
my picture would be totally incomplete
graciously pleased to let me deal with in
another column on some future day. Per-
haps, by that time Juvenis will have made
up his mind how to provide for family in
creasing at the terrible ratio of 40, 900 per
annum. B. G. JOHNS
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THE ALASKA BLACK BASS,


Alaska is sportsman's paradise. The
black bass is abundant. A writer describes
an experience as follows: sour bait con-
sisted of needle fish (sand eel with us), OBJ
tanned at low tide and dug from the sand.
The hooks had barely sunk beneath the sur
face when both poles were suddenly dashed
into the water by some unseen thing of ap.
parent great weight and strength. How
they pulled, plunging down, then drawing
the line beneath the boat, and darting di-
rectly for us.
''We at last conquered, and with the two
lines twisted together we pulled into the
boat two large and beautiful black bass
Our luck continued until late in the even
ing. The catch amounted to some
thing over 80 fish, ranging from one to six
pounds in weight"
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ACCUMULATING FAT,
Men of Active Hnbits Likely to Suffer as

Men of Active Habits Likely to Suffer as
Indoient Ones.
Fat seems to be accepted nowadays as an
indication of self-indulgence and Incidence,
but little observation overthrows the be-
lief The famous Daniel Lambert weighed
more than 700 pounds, and was not quiet 6
feet tall, his vast bulk never seeming to in
commode him. When he weighed over 400
he walked long distances with less fatigue
than was endured by his companions who
weighed comparatively nothing, and until
shortly before his death he was active in
field exercise. He never spent .,us" time
in bed, sleeping less than eight hours in the
"a, was moderate eater, and drank only
water.