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The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-04-26
Tho Showmig Naado by the Dis.
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penSnries
Tho report of the State Dispen-
sary for the quarter which ended in
February is being printed. There
are some interesting figures in the
report which were not given in the
newspapers when the document
first appeared. Thoso figures ore in
regard to the profits made by the
Dispensories during tho quarter,
and show how much revenue might
accrue to tho cities and counties if
the law was gwen fair showing.
The total net profits by tho Dis
pensaries in operation whom the
quarter closed was over Sal 900.
1t is believed that next quarter will
show profits Of over $4,000. This
amount will bo indopendant of the
profits made by tho State Dispen-
sary.
The following figures give tho
net profits Of each Disponsary in
the State for the quarter named
Half Of the amount should 90 to
the town or city in which tho Dis
pensary is located and tho .othor
half to the county in which it is To-
Gated.
Abbovillo, $2,551, ID; Aiken, ST.
s70,26; Anderson, $2,060,71; Allen
dale, $421.94; Blacl1ville, $861.66;
Barnwell, $1,063.07; Bamberg,
$681.s7; Nowerry, $1,60348;
Florence, $964; Darlington, ST.
O89.O5; Lowiedale, $144.15: Edge
field, $1,365.51; Lexington, $I81.-
"a; Camden, $326.55; Georgetown,
$1,315.40; Greonville, $2,S26.69; !;
Orangeburg $1,8A.73; Walterboro,
$463.79; Beaufort, $324.05; Sum-
ter, $2,939.23: st. Stephens, 1915.
Sc; Mt. Pleasant, $289.59; Eutaw-
Vile, $446.91; Monck's Corner,
$172.1O; Columbia--J. M. Roach,
$1,221.51, J. Cartledge $982.5S, Il.
A. Scott $1,109.25; Winsboro,
$615.47; St. Matthew's $515.74;
Manning, $1,015.S8; Blacksburg,
$129.43; Chester, S1.341.94; Fort
Motto, $124.99 Charloston-H. A..
Meyer 96.4O, F.Von Santon ST.
o5S.49, G. +. Stcinmoyer $464.54,
Pleasant Hill, $S4.76; Branchvillo,
$3S$65; Williston, $142.23; Ker-
shaw, $422. go; Ridgoway, $264 81;
Summersville, $821.20; Cheraw,
S504.l2; Laurens, $605.G5; Scotia,
1854; Hampton, $329.15; Lam
caster, s6G3.70; Jacksonboro, 1868.
Is; Spartanburg (new Dispensary J
Denmark, $l56.67; Wagener (nev
Disp"nsary) Champain, $l4.76
Union (now tispensary) Greeley
villo (now Disponsary) Kingstre,
(new Dispensary( Luray (new Dis
ponsary; total $41,$63.49.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-04-26
Decree to Sell the Richmond and
DanvillG HenfIronI.

RICHMOND, Va, April 13-Judge
Goff, sitting in the U. S. Circuit
Court today entered decree fol
tho foreclosure and sale of the
Richmond and Danville. The
style of the case in which those
proceedings were taken isthe Con.
tral Trust Company of New York
! against the Richmond and Danville
Railroad Company. The salient
featurs of the decree, as a modifi.
cation of the ono presented to the
court are as following.
Tho report Of tho Master Com.
misioner.remains subject to excep.
tions for thirty days and MI quos-
tions of priority are left open
Separate sale is provided for in the
case Of I'll the Washington proper
ty which, according to tho decree
as origionally drawn is not under
Mortgage to the Central Trust
company.
Tho warehouses, wharves, and
other property at West Point are
left out of the decree. as are also
100000 Piedmont Railroad first
mortgage bonds, and all othcr
bonds and stocks not specifically
covered in the mortgage. This
modification was not made until
after there had beon quiet sharp
discussed.
The question left open as to pri-
critics as already discussion and
not decided arc that tho mortgage
was never legally acknowledged or
recorded under Virginia laws.
There are also question of supply
lines, etc. the decree contom-
platos sale of tho road before tho
first of July, and it is understood
that when 1T shall have been sold
It will be organized under the char
tor granted at tho last session of the
legislature.
Messors. Thomas s. Kenan and
M. Il. Peasants, of this city, and
Mr.. Charles Price, of North Car
olina, were appointed commission
era to make sale.
There may possibly be an appeal
upon certain points in the decree
oy % tho Western Union Telegraph
company, the Pullman Palace Car
Company. w
0feat men are those who nrof,t
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-04-26
Teaeasr'a GalMana..
w. W. F. BRIGHT, Ep1ToR.
"EDUCATION rs A NECESSITY
NOT A LUXURY"

The Auditor will soon furnish
tho chairman of Board of Trustees
with q list Of polls returned to him
IN eoch school district. Tho law
aova oach Auditor shall make out
and forward to the Board OF Irus-
teos of each school district within
his County correct list OF tho
POLLS returned from thoir respec-
tivo districts. Tho school trustees
shall examine carefully said list
and report to tho Auditor as soon
practicable, the names of all per'
sons who shall have failed or neg
lected to make returns, and it shall
be tho duty of the Auditor to entol
upon his books the names OF al.
persons thus reported to him bJ
Boards of Trustees"
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''"d 80 p. m, tVrs'ihul"d Linlitcd);
""hhonrd l,52 n. IA 4.O5 p. M, 1898
m. Vcstihulcd LimteD.
Trains leave Seneca, a. & G.. Division.-
"r'hh"nnn, 1000 y. m, and 2.3l y. M:
So"f'ho""a, 3.ol 5 m.., and 5.45 p. m.
PULLMAN CAR SERVICE.
Pn'iml" Palacc 'lceping Caron Trains
50 and 36. 81 and 38 0, a. & G. Diyis-
on.
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Washin9ton,D.C
Y. E. McBEE, Gent Superintendent
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HAAST, LaGc Manager.
Washington, DC,
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-04-26

The Greenwood Loader says q now
paper will soon be started in that
place, by w. w. Thomson and s
r. Britton. There is nothing like
opposition in business, especially
the newspaper business.--it takes
money and brains to run q news.
paper successfully.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-04-26
LITERARY CURIOSITIES.

There arc number Of words in
the English Language that con-
tain all tho five regular vowels
though it might puzzle any ono to
think of ono at short notice. The
following may be given as exam
ples; education, reputation, regu-
lation emulation, perturbation.
mensuration repudiation. Besides
these, there are several words that
contain all tho vowels including
the "y," Of those we may mentlon
revolutionary, elocutionary and
unouestionably. The word indi-
Visibility may be noted as a poculi-
ar word, for it contains the letter
81" six times. Mississippi and
Tennessee are zach spelled with
the uso of four ditfcrent letters, al
though one contains oleven letters
and the other nine. Cchnapps, a
word of ono syllable and eight lot
ters, contain but ono vowel. There
are no words in tho English lam
guage of moro than eight syllables.
OF those containing that numbor
We may mention in incomprchcn-
sibility.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-04-26

In the following stanza the only
vowel employed is the lettor "i.'
The subject is.
THE APPROACH OF EVENING.
Idling sit in this mild twilight,
Whilst birds in wild, swift visilA circling
skim;
Light winds in signing sink, till, rising
bright,
Nights Virgin Pilgrim swims in vivid
light.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-04-26

afeat mon are those who profit
8ne most from the fewest mistakes,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-11
HORRIBLE CARGOES.
Life on Bone-Laden Ships Rendered AL
most Uncomfortable.

When the seven-hundred-ton Aus
by the Norwegian fruit steamer Breid-
ablik and brought to New York
couple of months ago much curiosity
was expressed as to what could have
caused her crew to desert her. With
the exception Of being partially dis
masted, it was in perfect condition,
says the New York Tribune. and the
loss Of its masts might have occurred
after the crew left it. 1t had JAILED
from Egypt with a cargo chiefly made
up Of Old bones, and 10 word was heard
OF it until it was picked up Off Hatteras
by the Breidablik. All the bark
papers and every scrap of food he'd
been taken from it and the fate Of it's
crew was a mystery. The experience
Of the three-masted schooner Wallace
j. Boyd, which recently arrived at
Philadelphia from Montevidco with a
similar cargo of old bones may afford
an explanation Of the mystery sur
rounding the Villa. The crew Of the
Boyd say that nothing could ever III
luce them to ship again Oh q bone
laden vessel. Within few days after
leaving port the vessel became infested
with scorpions and other pestiferons
bugs, which came out of the cargo and
penetrated every nook and corner OF
the craft. The men we're driven from
their hunks in the fOrecastle and every
effort to rid the schooner of tn c
plague was unavailing Five or six
times a day all hands were compelled
to strip, bathc and change their cloth
ing. but the smaller insects held Or ia
spite of all this. On day which was
! damp and warm the torment was aC-
gravated by tie appearance Of large
green bugs. which swarmcd over every
thing and continued their ravages
until port was reached. 1t is believed
that the creatures were in the
bones when they were gathered on the
Argen inc plains, and the excessive
heat of the hold during the voyage
through the tropics caused them to
breed in enormous numbers and forced
them on deck. 1t is possible that the
crew Of the Villa was driven from it by
81 rilar cause and met worse fate
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de la Plata, charged with the duty OF
attending to American interests in
adjacent territory.
The Ranger, which sailed from La
Libertad recently for Corinto, Nicara-
qua, is assigned to the west coast OF
Central America, where revolutionary
outbreaks are so frequent, while the
corvette Kearsarge, now en- route from
New York to San Domingo to afford
protection to American life and prop
erty in the threatened uprising there.
will cruise about the West Indies. and.
until relieved by the cruiser San Fran
cisco, along the east coast Of Central
America. The Philadelphia and the
Adams are at Honolulu. The ASiatic
or China station. which has become so
important through the hostile feeling
of the Chinese toward Americans over
the exclusion law, has six vessels at
tached to it, and it il -xpected that the
Machias, now at Brooklyn, will sail
soon to join them.
The North Atlantic or home station
has nominally five, but actually only
one vessel in commission to it's credit,
for the San Francisco is on her way to
Rio, the Kearsarge is bound for San
Domingo (Which can hardly be called
| a ''home" port, although within the
lines of the station), and the Machias is
destined for China. The dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius is therefore likely to
be the sole war vessel left for service
on the eastern coast of the United
States, and the practicability of the
| Vesuvius as an effective battleship is
in serious doubt. At the maynard at
Mare Island, Cal, the old Mohican is
fitting for sea service, presumably in
the South Pacific The coast defense
vessel Monterey is also at Mare Island.
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Assassination BIZ SOmh.

Valiant, who hurled bomb in the
chamber of deputies in Paris recently,
paid only thirteen cents for the can
lister that contained the explosive, says
the New York World. There are other
deadly missiles which the anarchists
have learned to make. and the ordinary
cane or umbrella will conceal them.
The plan is to take the cane or UNI
brella into the theater, store or stock
exchange and lay it upon the floor Or
counter. The setting of it up in it's
natural position will cause it to ex-
plode with fatal result.
The head of the cane holds two glass
vessels, oblong in shape, and each filed
with an explosive liquid harmless in it.
self so long as it is kept away from the
others. The cane is carried by the an
archist in perfect safety by being held
horizontally. But when lifted up and
placed against the wall the fluid in the
upper bottle runs into the lower and
the explosion takes place.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-11
MUST HAVE SECRETARIES.
Society Wome No Longer Able to Aeep
In with Their Correspondence.

Up with Their Correspondence
A great deal is said about how let
ter-writing is lost art, and lovers o.
bygone days take great pleasure ana
pride in pointing to the nuaberless
epistles written in the past generation
and then contrasting them with the
little scrappy notes scrawled In the
very illegible handwriting of to-day.
Within the last few years the utter i'm
possibility of any society woman at
tempting to keep up her own CORE
spondence has been thoroughly proved,
and the New York Herald thinks that
of all the fields of employment open
to women that Of private secretary Is
most desirable and one OF the most re-
munerative. 1t is a post which re-
ouires business ability, great tact,
clear handwriting and thorough
knowledge of compositions. The
schools and colleges are beginning to
realize how important it is to train
women to fill these very positions, Tor
every year sees the demand increasing.
Some women require that their secre-
taries shall write hand precisely like
their own, so that notes of most lntl-
mate character can be answered by
the secretary without giving otfense,
as would probably be the case should
the receiver of a note for an instant
fancy that anyone than the person to
whom the letter had been sent had
answered it. OF course this position re-
ouires the most absolute trust, for the
secretary is of necessity intrusted
with the most intimate affairs
of her employer. The world has GER
tainly changed since the time when 1t
was generally believed and universally
stated that no woman could keep Sc
cret, for many are the cases in this
city where another person has charge
of my ladys private affairs and never
has there been known a time as yet
when such confidence has been abused
The duties of secretary are manifold
and require cOnsidera BILE knowledge OF
society and it's requirements. She must
know to whom cards should be sent,
must keep up a visiting list and be sure
when invitations for receptions and
dances are sent out that none OF the
dead friends are invited. In some
places the secretary has charge of the
household affairs as we'll.
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NO SOFT-HEARTEO GOVERNORS.
Chinese Pirates Beheaded with Neatnes 5
and Dispatch.


Capt. John Windrow, an old sailor of
the Pacific. tells this to the Tacoma
Ledger: "While l was in Shanghai
along in 1853 or 80, the ruler of the
city equipped two steam gunboats for
the suppression of the .piratical traffic.
One Of these he put in command Of an
American. The boats had been out on
a cruise for several days. and early one
afternoon they returned towing thir-
teen piratical junks which had been
captured. l went aboard to see the
prisoners the boats had brought in
An iron rail led around the gunwale
of each of the boats, to which were
shacl1led two hundred of the most vii
demonstrating Chinese / had ever
seen. Justice tosuch fiendish wretches
was swift in China in those days, and
the next morning they were led out for
execution. In spite of the horror of
this wholesale beheading the execu-
ton had streak of the comic in it..
Two Chinese assistants of the eXecu-
toner carried a large bamboo pole.
The condemned Chinese were in kneel-
ing posture and the assistants would
clutch Chinaman's queue and take a
half-hitch around the bamboo pole.
Then, each putting the pole on his
shoulder, they both would suddenly
rise up. stretching his neck away from
the prisoners shoulders. The execu-
toner stood ready with drawn sword
an Topped off their heads with as
much Indifference as a farmer would
have about cutting cornstallSs. Little
baskets were ready, into which head
was placed, and in this manner the
heads were hung on the walls outside
the city gates,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-11
Long Reigns.

According to the ''Gotha Almanac"
which has just been issued for 1894. the
queen OF England has rcigned LONGER
than any other ruler in the world. hav-
ing assembled the throne in 1887. Next
TO her in point of time are Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria and Fred
erlck, the grand duke of Baden. The
monarchs who have rcigned the short
est time are Prince FREDERICK Of Wal
Geek and Duke Alfred of Saxe-Cobur :
Gotha. The oldest monarch. accord
ing to the ''Almar ac,'' is the pope.
Who is more than eig ty-three years OF
age. The grand duke of Luxemborr,r
and the king of Dem, ark. respectively
seventy-six and sevc-,ty-five years oi
age, stand next to him in this regard.
Grand Duke Karl hlexander, who
lives IN Weimar, is forth in point of
age, and Queen Victor.l, with her sew
enty-four years, is the fifth Oldest mon
arch. The youngest crowned heads
are the little queen of the Neither
lands, who is thirteen, and the king of
Spain, who is seven and half years
old.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-11

IVNr HISTORY. by men who actually served ant
ought in the struggle.
Short stories of Romance, Travel Experienc,
ind adventure by leading writer's
EditaTi0!s uphoiling the cause of the veterans
Ind maintaining the highest loyalty to the Govern
nent and the promotion of the best interests of thy
Whole people.
Washington Ne2cs. Full accounts of what h
akng place at the seat of Government: careful re
ports of all important matters in Congress and TIL
Executive Departments; gossip about public men,
Household Department. Editsa by lady o
National reputation.
G. 4. r.. W. X. c.. and S. of y. ye,cs, NOR
hl and complete than published by any other paper
agricultural department., carefully editet
~ practical men,
General Nescs, carefully compiled
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is strictly non-partiZan
md thoroughly American. 1t believes in the creates
!ood TO the greatest number of our people, and tn
highest development of ns,i.utiOns-in NatiOna
nifty and exalted loyalty
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-11
TEXAN HOSPITALITY.
The Passing Stranger Always Invited
and Taken Care (kf

The Passing Stranger Always Invited In
and Taken Care Of.
''The latch string hangs OUT ex-
pressed the hospitality of the southern
frontier in the days ''before the war"
If traveller rode up before the fence
that separated the log cabin from the
road he was greeted by "'Light,
stranger, 'light!' Without this salu-
tation no one dismounted, but it was
rarely withheld. Mr.. Williams, in his
recent book, ''Sam Houston" thus de-
scribes the impulse of hospitality,
which made every traveller a guest
during the early settlement of Texas
The traveller who rode up to the
front fence was instantly invited to
alight. His horse was staled out or
hobbled to feed on the prairie grass
and the visitor sat down to exchange
the news with his host. The coffee
mill was set going, if there were any of
the precious grains in the house, and
the hopper in the hollow log to grind
ing the corn. The venison or bear meat
was put on the Goals and the ashcal1e
baked.
AFTER the meal and the evening pipe
the visitor stretched himself on buff
falo robe on the floor with the mem
bers of the family and slept the sleep
OF health and fatigue. In the morning
the response to any inquiry as to the
charge was: ''You can pay me by com
ing again
The story that a certain hospitable
settler used to waylay travellers on the
road and compel them to visit him at
the muzzle of a double-barreled shot
gun was only humorous exaggeration
OF the instinct for hospitality which
characterized the community.
The visitor was living newspaper,
who brought the only news obtain
able, and was a welcome relief to the
monotony and loneliness of the wilder
ness
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-11
CHEATING THE SLOT MACHINES.
Hundreds of Bogus Pennies Inserted. Sup

Hundreds of Bogus Pennies Inserted. Sup
posedly Made by Italian Commentators.
From time to time references are
seen in the daily papers, referring to
the difficulty experienced by the ferry
companies, car lines. etc, in disposing
of enormous accumulatiOns of ordinary
copper cents. The reader is very apt
to remember this, particularly if in
exchange for dollar bill he is re-
turned ninety-1ive One-cent pieces by
a conductor. As matter of fact. saws
the New York Herald, there is no cx-
cuse for the item. much less for a car
conductor or change-tallcr in unload
ing his weight of copper upon the al
ways more or less abused passenger.
The United States Subtreasurv. at
wall and Nassau streets. makes. and
has mrde it practice for years. OF .ex-
changing minor coin for United States
money OF large denomination, and it
has many regular customers who are
so served. There are a number Of GU
rlous things about cents as they come
to the sub-treasurv In the first
place. they are quite extensively coun-
terfeltcd This may seem strange. as
the profit in counterfeit cent is neces-
sarlly small. 1t is true, however. new
ertheleSs, and is supposed to be the
Work of Italians, who, more largely
than any other nationality, seem to
favor the imitation of our minor and
subsidiary coin. The Brooklyn and
New Jersey ferry companies, the ele-
waited railroads of both New York and
brooklyn and the various slot-machine
companies are regular customers for
the exchange of cents for other money
at the sub-treasury. At times they
turn IN enormous quantities. the slot
companies alone ranging between one
hundred md twenty-five and seven
hundred dollars day. AS might be
expected, all sorts of oddities in
the way of coin come in with the
quantity taken in the machines In
addition to the counterfeits are scores
OF mot one cents of war times. meta
discs and foreign copper. Austrian
money predominating. As the cope,
cent is simply token, no matter VIVA,
It's condition is. it is redeemed at pa,
If it can in cny way be identified a:
United State money The popularit,
OF the slot machine a wear or 81
ago brought about curious cond;
ton OF affair in the country. Thi.
was nothing hort of cent famine.
Inc headquarters OF the company is i.
New York, and all agents sent taei,
cents here for redemption, which
drained the country of its supply ant
overstocked the minor coin vaults O
the subtreasury here with cents.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-11
UNCLE SANS BIG FLEET.
IL LIS Scattered ALI Over the Earth Pro-
tecting American lnterestS.

IL LIS Scattered ALI Over the Earth Pro-
tecting American Interests.
AT no time within recent years has
the United States government been so
well represented in foreign waters by
an armed naval force, nor SO poorly
provided for in ships at home, as at
present. Three big cruisers are at Rio
Janelros two more are on their way
there, and this number will be in
creased to six by the monitor Mian-
tonomoh The gunboat Yorktown is
at Callao, Peru, and the corvette AL
lance has sailed to join her. from La
Libertad. The old Yantic is stationed
permanently at the mouth of the P;o
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-11

In London. when a lady wearing
tiny silver star meets man with a
liver star. she will saw How dive do.
Drot cr?" and he replies: low d We do,
sistcr?' Either is then privileged to
extend any cOurtnev or ak anv favor