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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-05

\ GENERAL SCALING DOWN.
Proirssorships in the UnivorsIty Abolish
ed and Salaries Reduced

CoLUMEIA, Jan, 90. A scheme for
| the reorganization of the South Carolina
| university which will probably be
adopted under the new order of things
has been prepared by the sub committee
of trustees appointed for that purpose,
and their report will be considered and
acted u3on tomorrow night by the exec,
utvc committee Of the universities board
Of trustees.
The chief points Ill the proposed
scheme have been given to the press,
and as will be seen, are chiefly in the
line Of the reduction Of the appropria ton
necessary TO conduct the institution on
its new basis.
! Another change. it is understood, is
to have the management of the uniycr-
sity more directly controlled By The trus-
tees lEstead Of as heretofore by The ia
Guilty,
| Under the new plan the proposed ex :
pcnsC5 Of the salaries Of the president
and other officers will be brought down
to $1,000 annually, while The library and
inlirmlry fund is to be reduced to 81 800
~
university are to be cut down to $G.720
y SAVING of -, $50 is to be expected by
aboli>hing the chairs Of pedagoSics, vet
crnary science, mechanical engineering,
pharmacy, bactcroloSv and doctoring
and by dong away with the services of
one tutor, foreman of the machanc shop,
foreman of the blacksmith shop, and
foreman Of the wood shop, reduction In
the salary OF the assistant chemist and
that ot tho secretary. TO this saving is
to be added 81 200 wiped out by reason
of abolishin. the mechanical department,
that sum having been required for rum
ming expenses. 1t is possible 4 further
reduction Of 81, 500 may be made as fol-
lows Reducing from three to two the
chairs Of English and moral philosophy
and rhetoric and logic; by combining
English and rhetoric. and also moral
philosophy and logic; also by abolishnq
the prnlcssorship Of biology and divd-
ing the work between tho professor ol
geology and the president also by COM
binin9 the chairs Of physics and matha.
MATES and employing All assistant pro-
lcssOr.
This reorganization contains so much
amputation and liberal blood-letting in
the way of reduction in salaries that the
friends Of the institution can scarcely be
blamed for fearing that death or coma
t0sc state may cnsue. Whether the full
committee will adopt so radical q plan
remains to be seen, but it is considered
very probable that the scheme outlined
III the above may be adopted.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-05
Mrs. Jefferson Dav!s's Illness.

Of Mrs. Jefferson DAVIS returned to A.
lanta last evening from New York city,
where she had left her. In speaking of
Mrs. Davis, she said that she was III a
very critical state Of health. She scarce
ly eve: leaves her apartment 1T the ho-
tel where she is boarding, and receives
her guests reclining. Heart trouble is
Said by her physicians TO be The specific
cause OF her illness. Her daughter,
Miss Winnie Davis. is with her, and IS
assisting i'll finishing the lilc of her
father. which Mrs. Davis is writing. -
journal.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-05
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That sounds miraculous, and yet one
may become temporarily deaf OH ac-
count Of blood poison settling in the ear
aud then find quick relief by using Is.
Il. Il. O}0tanie Blood Balm.)
John W. Weeks, Decatur, Ca, Writes:
"SiN months ago had pain in my ear
AND in a few daySit discharged matter
Then grew deaf and could not hear az
all. began the use Of b. B. j. and the
running OF my ear soon ceased and |
now hear, while my health is much i'm
proved and | feel tull of gratitude to
God and to the proprietors of so good /,
remedy
). NJ. Ellis, Ga, writes :"B. b T.
cured me Of most stubborn eczema
twelve years"
W. II. Davis, San Marcos, Texas
writes 81 am rapidly recovering from
blood poison by use of of B. Is. B.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-05
Wants u Confederate.

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 25.--Mrs. NJ. T..
Lease, who stumpcd tho State during the
last election IN opposition to Mr.. Ingalls,,
and who is acknowledged to have contrib,
utcd largely TO- the Alliance victory. is
i'll this city. Mrs. Lease, in an interview
to-day, said, referring to her preference
among the Alliance candidates II am
for Harris Of Lcavenworth. The fact
that he is Confederate will not hurt him
with the Union soldiers III the Alliance.
1t is Il part of our Alliance faith to unite
the South and the West. and if We can
elect Il Confederate from Kansas we have
made Il long stride in that direction.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-05
Shotgun Quarantine.

Houston, Tex, Jan. 2G.-While
smallpox is prevalent here, it is not cpl
demic, but the citizens OH San Philip
street, between the city and the pest
house, yesterday inauguratcd a shotgun
quarantine on their own hook and neither
State nor city officials can break through
except at the risk Of life. The matter is
serious, and the hot-headed citizens will
have to be convinced OF the mistake be-
tore the blockade eau be raised.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-05
COLLEGE TOR WOMEN,
COLE NaEsgA, s.. e..

This College and Institute for Women
and Girls opened October under auspices
more favorable than its most sangune
friends hoped for. The grounds, buildings,
appointments and furnishings are unequal
led among boarding schools in the South.
The historic old Hampton or Preston place
was bought, the mansion repaired and re-
flied, a larger and finer building construct
ed for the chapel, domitories and recitation
rooms. A corps OF teachers uneXcelled in
ability and experience is now teaching in
the College. From the 1St of January to
1st OF February offers q convenient time for
new pupils to cntet, who are charged only
from date of entrance. For terms, &c,
address the President, the
REV. WIN. II. ATKINSON,
Columbia, S. &.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-05

padgGtt Paws The FREIGHT.

! luugOtt lUIG tlU plUlgnl' =,
"a GREAT DEFER THAT NAY NOT AGAIN
i BE REPEATED, 80 DO NOT DELAY, /
j STRKE WHILE TIE Iron IS Hot" =.
3 Nrito for Catalogue new, and say what
Spapur you saw this advertisement in. }
4 ReGiember that | sell everything that
ggoos TO- furnishing a homc--mUnuiactur
ging some things and buying others in the !
SlargeSt possible lots, which enables ple to {.
kWipo out all competition. !
SHERE ARE A FEW OF MY START
! LING BARGAINS T
Z No. Flat top Cooking Stove, full
SSize, loX17 inch oven, fitted with 81 pieces
Soi ware, delivered at your own depot,
Sail freight charges paid by me, for
sonly Twelve Dollars.
: Again L Will sell you hole Cooking
SkanSe 13Xl3 inch oven, 19x26 inch top, fit
TED with 2l pieces of ware, for THIR-
hTEEN DOLLARS, and pay the freight to
Syour depot. :
EDO NOT FAY TWO PRICES FOR:
Z YOUR GOODS.
i will send you nice plush Parlor suit, !
Swalnut frame, either in combination ors
banded, the most stylish colors for $3.50, :
Eto your Iailroad station, freight paid. /
i L Will also sell YOU nice Bcdromos uitg
sconSiSting of Bureau with glass, high
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StaDio, cane seat chairs, canC scat and
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Sto your depot.
3 Or will send you an elegant Bedroom
aSult with largo glass, full marble top, for
$3.50, and pay freight,
SMiice window shade on spring roller 5 10
sHiegant large walnutS s day clock. 400!
w "iliuI lounge, 700
ahace curtains per window, LOO
3 cannot describe everything in small
Sadvertisement, but have an immense store
containing %, 600 feet of floor room, with
$Waro houses and factory buildings in other
apartS OF Augusta, making in ali the lar
SgeSt business of this kind under one man
:agement in the. Southern States. These
SStorcSand warehouses are crowded with
Sthe choicest productions Of the best facto-
trleS. My catalogue containing illustrations
.of goods will be mailed if you will kindlys
SSay where you SAW this advertisement. IL
Spay freight. Address, !
: l., r. pADGETT. 4
$;Proprlctor Padgett's Furniture, Stove
: and Carpet Store, {;
kl11O-l112 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. I
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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-05
IhC Cause OF Her Insanity.

lIUNrINGToN, w. Va, Jan. d.
-Four months $50 this city and ncighbo:,
Ing community was flooded with LARGE
amounts OF spurious silver coin. De
tcctivcs were put at work. and the coun-
tcricls were traced to Mrs. Gertrude
Russell, the wife Ola prominent busi-
ness man living in Ohio, opposite here.
Mrs. Russell was arrested in West NIr-
ginia and indicted in the United States
court at Parlcrsburg. She was convict
ed, bat was released on q motion for Il
new trial. During the last few weeks
her disgrace has prcycd upon her mind,
and she has become raving maniac.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04
Judge to Prisoner.

When young man, who had always
borne good name in the community,
stood before Judge Severance, at Mankato,
to receive sentence for his first crime. the
judge said to him:
This kind of duty when required of a
court is always painful, and sometimes it is
aggravated by the peculiar circumstances
that may surround the case. l am
aware that l cannot pass sentence upon
you, no matter what it is, without being
criticised. l am aware that whenever l
have had to pass sentence upon human
being in this court house it has always been
criticised by parties on one side or the
other. In this case expect it also, but if
there is not to be such criticism shall have
reason to believe that the utter and final
dissolution of the world is at hand. 1
will give you the benefit of everything that
l think can be consistently considered. l
appreciate that you are now young man.
l appreciate that you have young and
beautiful wife whom you love dearly. 1
am cOnsoled also by the reflection that. not
withstandlng this disgrace and the impris-
onment that is before you, your wife will
stand by you loyalty under the disadvan-
tages which surround you. and when your
punishment is over you will be reunited and
commence your life together anew. l have
the very best of evidence to believe that
this is condition that will follow your
punishment; that is, that your wife will be
restored to you. am often accused of be-
ing too merciful, but when the last book is
opened and our actions are all to be judged.
and we See two long columns one contain
ing the names of those who have been too
merciful. and the other containing the
names of those who have been unmerciful,
l want my name to be found among those
who have been too merciful.
l know that upon one side there are per-
sons who, having been injured by crime,
are likely to be deeply incensed against tie
person who committed it. for it works great
hardship to them. l also know that on the
other side there are persons often affected
with maudln sympathy for the accused
and demand that an unnatural degree of
mercy should be shown.
These things [ cannot consider, and must
not allow them to affect my action. have
but one single tribunal to answer to on this
occasion, and that is my conscience. must
impose upon you such penalty as will vim
dictate the law, and that will deter others
from doing the same thing. [ also recOg-
nize its purpose to reform the person Of
Tending. When you have served your SEN
tence, so far as the law is concerned, you
will have fully attoned for your offending.
--Mankato Review.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04
THE DOWNWARD ROAD.

A year or so ago man went out of this
prison with pretty fair suit of clothes.
about forty dollars in money. good bust
ness education. and strong body. One
would think fellow fixed as he was ought
to get on in the world. He went straight
to St. Paul. got drunk, and in less than a
week was dead broke. Then he went to
was so very warm that his collar melted
down at the top and warped up at the cor
ners. and he did MT have second shirt to
his name. Now. limp and dirty collar is
strange gentleman seeking clerical situa-
ton, and he did not succeed. He man.
aged to live along for several months by
doing odd jobs and borrowing dollar now
and then from good hearted people. but all
the time his clothes were becoming more
shabby. He finally called upon young
man with whom he had slight acquaint
ance and related his woeful circumstances.
The acquaintance was poor himself, but he
knew where he could find his hard-up friend
a job at handling goods at S1.75 per day,
and he gave him dollar to tide him over
to the morrow. He did not fancy the pro-
posed job. but his friend told him that he
could not expect anything better while he
was so shabby. The situation was secured,
but our man did not come as he had prom
ised to. Weeks had passed by when one
day the Office door opened and breath
closely followed by statue of animated
rags and whiskers carrying a Scared and
battered valise walked into the room. But
there is no use of repeating the tale of
woe. the many excuses. and the final
request for a quarter with which to buy
food. This is what he had come to
within a few months after leaving the
prison bright, clean, healthy man. it all
came from having good time the first day
out of bondage. Had this man looked for
situation before he looked for fun, the
probability is that he would have travelled
upward to responsibility instead of down.
ward to degradation. He did make one
more attempt to rise, but it was after death
had laid its hand upon him and the poor
fellow is now dead. 1t is not necessary for
us to mOraliZe upon this for others.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04

Since his death first. class story is told
of Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby. The Iamented
clergyman was manly, athletic individual,
besides being minister. Once he found a
burglar in his room. With his own hands
the muscular preacher captured the fellow
and bound him. Then he marched him to
the police station. At the trial DR.. Crosby
gave evidence against the thief, and he was
duly sentenced to the penitentary for a
term of years. Then it was that the sturdy
Christian got in his real work. He began
to write letters to that burglar. and once in
while visited him. He labored with, in.
structed and helped him. In course of time
the doctor became satisfied that his burglar
was prepared to be respectable citizen.
Then he went to the governor of New York
and secured his pardon. The eX burglar
to-day is a useful member of society.--St
Joseph Gazette.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04
The simple truth is, we are not in the front

The simple truth is, we are not in the front
ranks of any profession because we are too
lazy to cultivate the germs of greatness
which nature has planted in us. 1t is not
lazness of body but of mind that holds us
back. And if we would be among the sue
cessful we must commence at the beginning
of something and prod our minds into &C.
tivity and into obedience to our wills.
There is no better place than right here in
the prison to begin the training of the mind
to obey. DO not say that you have no
means of cultivating your mind, for that
would not be true. We have never known
a man here who showed any signs of an
earnest desire to cultivate his mind but who
readily found the means of doing so.
Everybody seems inclined to help the fell
low who is trying to help himself. 1t does
not matter so much what you study as that
you do study. for the benefit will be in the
training your mind will receive-the power
it will give you to think. And when you
have gained the power to think we'll you
have achieved the first essential to success.
Pope says, strength of mind is exercise,
not rest" and Spencer says. lit is the
mynd that makes good or that maketh
wretch or happie. rich or poor"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04
ssNIY MIND Is MY KINGDOM. >,

Every man is ambitious to stand in the
first rank of his calling no matter how high
or how low that calling may be, but the
ambition alone will not place him there.
We frequently hear young men saying,
would like to be good lawyer. or good
doctor. or a good machinist. or good
scholar or a good something else. 1t
is not always possible for a man to
be what he would like to be. but it
is certain that he can never be anything of
account unless he first puts himself into
special training for the work he is ambi-
tious to do. The great trouble with all of
us is, we want something for nothing; we
wish to pose on the hill of fame, but we
want the law of gravitation reversed so that
we may be carried up by the weight of our
bodies. Unless we set out to thread the
tortuous path that leads up the hill. we
will remain in the slough until we sink back
into the earth from whence we came-like
the toad-stool, and just as worthless and
unmissed. We would be the great LAWYER
astounding the courts with our wisdom and
eloquence. but not the boy who sweeps the
office, dusts the Shelves runs errands and
copies soulless old documents for the priv
ilege of learning how to be lawyer. We
would be the lordly statesman, but not the
young fellow who works liFe slave nights.
mornings and holidays to pay his way
through college. We would be the brilliant
author. but not the unknown fellow who
sits in an attic and writes and writes and
re- writes on crust day until his writings
are accepted and his reputation made. We
would be the scholar, but not the student:
the foreman, but not the apprentice. We
would be great if 1--WE were not so small.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04
TO THE PUBLIC.

THE PRISON MIRROR is a weekly paper pub
lished in the Minnesota state prison. All matter
published In its columns is contributed by the
inmates. except that properly credited. Its sup
port must come from the outside as every inmate
Is given a paper without cost. 1t is published in
the interest of the prison library and after paying
for the printing outfit, contributed $3.50 to the
library fund the first year. Its objects are to en-.
courage Individual intellectual effort, provide a
healthy journal for the inmates of this and other
prisons and, above all, to acquaint the outside
world with the needs of the prison by rejecting
its inner life and thus aid the of moral ad-
vsncement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04

Judge Shafter recently addressed jury
thus: Il wish to state, gentleman, that to
my mind it is very improper for an attorney
who has successfully defended client to
thank the members of the jury for acquit-
ting him. If they have acted cOnscien-
tously they have only done their duty. and
thanks are out of place. II they have not
acted cOnscientiously. they are criminal.
and thanks then become worse than foolish.
Then again." continued the Court, II have
word to say to the jurymen themselves,
and that is, that do not consider it at all
proper for them to shake hands with and
congratulate the man whom they have ac-
quilted. 1t is unnecessary. if not improper,
and hope to see no more of it in this
court. San Francisco Examiner.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04

ormation and proposed good citizenship by
persons Immediately preceding their de
parture from prison is equally valueless.
The lesson of it all is. that if we desire to
be happy and prosperous in larger life,
we must qualify ourselves in the life we
now live. whether in the world or IN prison"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04

When man becomes thief he usually
does so to avoid the trouble of providing for
himself, and the state, seeing his futile eff
forts. sooner or later provides for HMM
the penitentiary.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04

The body of E. NJ. Haskell, who died
twenty years ago. was exhumed the other
day at Mortified and was found to have
grown a beard twenty three inches in
length. His wife says that he had no
beard at the time of his death.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04

Owing to the efforts of Mrs. Mary J..
Corse, four new subscribers have been
added to our Kasson list this week and four
big dollars have gone rolling down into the
lonely depths of our hollow treasury. THE
MIRROR is very grateful and will try to re-
turn good for good.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04

An inmate recently discharged from the
Elmra refOrmatory made such poor rec
ord while confined that he had to serve his
full maximum sentence. On the date of
his departure he wrote to the superintend-
emit
leave you, changed and better man, to live
decent, steady normal life, free from inordinate
ambition and evil passions and desires. To be a
good. substantial citizen of the community in
which live, always ally of the state and al
ways on the side of law and order. These are my
highest aims and strongest DESIRES
Those are noble purposes, but evidenti-
ally there is nothing, no capital, behind to
carry them out. The philosophic editor of
the Summary makes the following comment
upon such cases: 1.-The repentance or good
purposes, of criminals on the eve of their
departure from prison is common fact
that vigilant prison officers observe. OF the
genuineness of these expressions no gener-
Gus and intelligent officer can have any doubt,
but subsequent observation shows that
the repentance is valueless in most cases..
Genuine as that impulse is, it does not carry
when the temptations and strain of contact
and competition in free life comes. Unless
the man has, by his ''walk and converse
tion," as the religionists say, built into his
being the strength and character that con.
stitutes him Christian, his death bed ut
! tefances. however sincere they may be, are
, OF little worth. The protestations of ref
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04
Her Nationality.

Her Nationality.
us your new nurse Irish, French, OF
German, Freddie?"
'Well, fink she's bwoken English. y
Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
The advocate., 1891-12-23
Through Sleeping OarB-KAnSaS City
Hot Springs.

Commencing November 10, the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway viii resume its
through sleeping Car service between
Kansas City and Hot Springs, Arkansas,
athe Worlds sanltaEium and Resort"
through the beautiful Indian Territory
and Arkansas valley via CoBeyville,
Wagner, IT. Gibson, Van Buren, Fl
Smith and Little Rock. For tickets, de-
scriptlve and illustrated pamphlets, and
further information call on or address
tho companys agents or Il. Q. Townsend,
GsnerAl Passenger Agent, st. Louis
The advocate., 1891-12-23

ForidG Real Estate Journal, Arcadia,
Fla, with state map. loo. Cheap homes.
The advocate., 1891-12-23

The Holsteln Is now generally acknowledged to
be the best all purpose animal FOR farm use. The
Huron Herd contains choice anlmals from the
best milk. butter and beef strains Of the Holsteln
family. Young bulls and helfers for sale at
ali times.
geldlngs bred from Imported French Coach
stock now placed on the market.
W~Well improved farms In LeayenWOrth,
Atchls0n and NemahR counties for sale or rent
Address, ID. II. ANTHONY,
LeAvenwOrth, Kan.