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The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16
At Gay Yulctide.

All hail the genial timo OF year
When every heart Is kind.
When far and near there Is good choaE
And caro- Is left behind.
Old feuds forgot, .Old hates aside,
Now hearty clasps OF hand.
While far and wide at Christmastide
Love reigns throughout tho land.
Forgive. forget. q truce to pride:
Healed are all friendships riffs.
At gay Yuletido on every side
Wore "workcd' for Christmas glfte.
Now York journal.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16

How like the rose petals on which the bee
settles
Her cheeks were! JIcr lips were the
holly fruits dye
BE 1t miStlctoc, dear, n minute or 80,
dcar!"
"A minutc?' brcathcd Polly, with mirth
In her eye.
30 It's. oh. to be handling the holly with
Polly,
With Polly the mlschcvous Polly the
sly!
win Polly. the genius of Ill that Is jolly
a lure on her lip and with love In her
eye.
Clinton ScOllard in Smart Set.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16

Deadshot Dick Any fun in Bar
Creek on Christmas, Bill?
Grizzly Bill--Waal, we had purity
big Christmas tree.
Dcadshot Dick--Anything of much
account hangin' on it2
Grizzly Bill-Three hoss thieves and
two Chineymen.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16
Kind Old M0n.

Ascum--Whnt did that rich old uncle
Of yours give you for Christmas? Some.
thing useful, III bet.
Hauskccp-Yes; q little device for say
ing coal bills.
Ascum-Ah! An arrangement to at
tach to the heater.
11auskccp-No; to keep on my desk.
It's bill lle.-Philadclphia Press.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16
Her New Yenr's GIFT.

1.uella Gladys Rosamond
Ophclia Phyllis May
Swectly resolved to make folks glad
Upon the New Years day.
basket filed with daintiCs raro
with her own hands she bore
And left 1t without word or sign
Before poor friends door.
ut did nor even bear my name,
For that in full. YOU see,
Would quite eclipse the Gift ITSELF"
She murmurcd modcStly.
Joe Cary.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16
Suitable Gifta For Nynmcn.

Silver or silver and glass toilet ,arti-
clcs arc always acceptable to women.
Some Of them are brush, comb, powder
box, cold cream jar, buttonhook. curl
Ing iron, glove strctchcr, atomizcr, per-
fume jar, vascllne holder and hnirpin
case.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16
Then He Took Another.

Comfort Brown-Don't you think It
nonscnsical-all this kissing under the
mistlctoe?
Thomas Tubbs-Sure thing But a
little nonsense now and then Is rel.
ished by the best Of men-and women!
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16
A Synonym.

Spaccr-Givc me a synonym for thu
word Christmas.
Topper (moodily)-Brokc!
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16
The Only One In CnDtiyitv

Museum Patron - We'll. what new
freak have you for the holidays!
Managcr-Thc rarcst thing on earth
the man who doesn't buy moro Christ
mas presents than he can afford.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16
The ()DIy Store in CrccDVinc
That Flies a Flag Is
Barr'S Big Establishment.
That Flies a Flag Is
IA 4 116 SOv*h Main Street,

Fnr nI"-cvnry of space filled up and crowded
with Christi Co"
First NoDrHs Goods, Cnrsts Gloves Goods Ioserv
| ntviwcHr ~' 1''
Scc"l F'oorTrunls, and
ware, tUGl Ladies' COakS. and Jackets and
We tel stock Dolls
cou" sci! them cheaper bought them from whoo
sac er IN tins country Wo going give beautiful
$50 doll to doll
IT'S only SO ore will b entitled to Chance drawing
t. take 'aco Chris Eve. ''o
mo things that are suggestive
GLOW" ana Collar bOXs Ahums Writing
ma cups and Snucrs Teachers Bibles picturr
SI"w hs Paper and Envlopaa Rugs Forks Ash
receivers, Match Boxes Umbrellas Glass. Ware Wcdoe
wood We Building BIocks Coqun lie Boards Teayo Saving
BANKS J"rdnr Purses Pocket Books Wrist Bags, Chi
na Dolls Kid ll, Stuffed )os Dlcssed
Thmbies and Eooks. ~ 1'''
VIC haven space t" qNo every had
o then we would DO certain to count
when you in envIe and took through an hour
well slcnt if do @ - " ~ " '
BARR'S ooo oooDs : STORE,
u4--II6 Main St. GREENVIIIE S. c.
Stradcy & Tarr's old stand.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16
''Higl1 Grade Footwear"

Shoes Of exclusive quality. Such
Such shoes as arc only possible by a
combination Of the Et st material -
best dcsigncrs-bcst workmcn.
StriC]V best Uuolitv Chooc ,l,.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16

Many OF our lady and gentlemen
patrons arc fastidious drcssers and
can afford and demand strictly
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-16
[ High / / i.
q ]" "a(1e
Shoes S

initiated but clua!cd In showing complete stock Of
such "IIC1II GRADE FOOTWEAR we stand alone in The
city, The and best in the shoe creation to suit the
pocket book awaiting you here They worth seeing
You welcome whether you buy not for we take orc9t
pleasure in showing this elegant to al! callers.
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WORDS.

When 1t comes to opening up a new
 country" remarked the Observer of Events and Things, there is nothing
 can beat a volcano" States man. . The anxious mother-Are you sure
 my son has appendicitis? ,... .-.. The eminent specialist-We can tell you better, madam, after the operation. Life.
 The teacher-What were Noah Web
 ster's last words? ....s i-. The scholar-I don't remember just
 what they were, but know that all be-
 gin with a Z.-Yonkers Statesman. The Modern Way.-'I wish to marry
 your daughter said the young man.
 The old man was a sensible old man. Can I support you in the style to
 which you have been accustomed?" he asked.-Puck.
 Natural Inquiry.-He-rd like to meet
 Miss Bond.
 She-Why? .......- q hear she has thirty thousand a year and no encumbrance." 'Is she looking for onew-Life.
 "So you regard navy as means of promoting peace and friendship?" Certainly" answered the statesman. You can see for yourself how pleasant
 and sociable nations become when a
 navy goes around visiting. g."-Washing- ton Star. .s....
 You must at least give that actor credit for originality q do,' answered MT. Stormington
 Barnes. eff you were to let him have
 his way with performance of Hamlet you'd never believe that Shakespeare wrote the play.''-Washington Star. ;"Ah." he said to her over their ice cream, it is very sweet, but not, SC sweet as you.' s3s Tt is soft" she returned promptly,
 but nos so soft as you" And it is cold" he concluded, "but
 not so cold as you" ."-Philadelp
 Press. -r @ She-And are you really so much bet ter since you returned from your trip abroad? s~@ @<7 yena-yr-. ss He-Yes, indeed! I'm quite another
 man, I assure you. a -tz4 She-Well. I'm sure all your friends will be delighted to hear it.-Chicago Daily News.
 The Princes in the Tower were trying to fathom their uncle's motive. But why do you suppose he wants to
 murder us?" asked Edward.
 q don't know" returned his brother,
 "unlesss somebody has been trying to
 tell him some of the bright things we get off."-Harper's Bazar.
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ANOTHER RAY OF HOPE.

It Is related that much interest has
 been aroused in London by two surgi- cal operations which have resulted in
 marked change of character in the patients. One was that on boy of good family who had developed strangely brutal instincts. A clever surgeon examined him. with care, To-
 cated what he considered the seat of the trouble. removed piece of the skull, and thus relieved the deforming pressure. The Lad was restored to his parents a normal and lovable child. The other case was that of a soldier who, after an injury in skirmish. de- veloped a propensity for theft. An op- eration on the brain cured him. This is interesting, and apparently important. If people can be radically changed for the better by operating on their skulls the sooner such operations
 become as numerous and as successful as the operations for appendicitis the
 better. Goodness knows there is need
 enough of such changes as seem to
 have been made by the London opera
 tions. And there are people who need
 wholly new heads with wholly new
 contents. It is perhaps too much to
 hope that they can be furnished with
 what they need, but perhaps something
 can be done SO that they will not be
 quite as thick, or thin, as they are now.
 Further reports Of mental and moral
 changes made by operations on skulls
 will be awaited with deep interest.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-25
QUEER DOINGS.

A curious religious performance is going on in Russia, where they have curious religious performances. There has been considerable excitement there lately over the canonization of the new saint, St. Seraphim, whose body has been exhuned and transferred to spe- cial receptacle. It appears that the minds of the faithful have been much troubled by pamphlet, published by a society hostile to the Orthodox Church, denying that the body is sacred at all, inasmuch as it has not been preserved from decay. According to Russian tra- dition, a body, to be holy, must be in a perfect state O. preservation. The Metropolitan now writes letter to the Novoye Vremya, in which he boldly acknowledges that only the bones and the hair of the saint were found in the grave, but that the sanctity of the de- parted is fully established by the many miracles performed, not only in connec-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-25
Goin' Barefoot.

It's more fun goin' barefoot than anythin' I
 know. There ain't single mother thing that helps
 yer feelin's so. Some days stay in muvEer's room gettin'
 in her way; An when I've bothered her so much she sez, "0h, run an play" I say, "Kin i go barefoot?' En she says, Nen I alwuz wanter holler when I'm pulIin'
 of my shoes! If y often go round barefoot there's lots O
 things to know Of how t curl yer feet on stones so they
 won't hurt v so- .u, nu,.,.u -,
 at a touch, Jes plunk yer feet down solid an it don't
 hurt half so much. lose my hat mos every day. I wish I did
 my shoes Er else wisht I was so poor hadn't none
 to losei Burgess Johnson, in Harper's Magazine for August.
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THINKING TT OVER,


 The liquidation of 1903 has given the
 reckless pause. Colossal stock water-
 ing schemes which depended for suc- cessful Notation upon the guilibility of
 the American public have had a severe blow; the "indigestible" securities find
 no takers; the promoters of these enter prises have been compelled to market their own holdings; banks are wary about lending money on industrials,
 and promoters have been compelled to sell good and sound securities in order to obtain the money with which to
 bolster up their undertakings.
 The ordinary. citizen could view this
 liquidation with equanimity if it were not for the fact that the loss of confi-
 dence which comes from depression of values has it's evil effect on general business; but when the recent liquida- tion has been calmly considered men will, on the whole, decide that perhaps it was most fortunate thing that ii | came when it did. The railroads are beginning to talk about crop conges- ton in the west, business is sound and
 healthy, and, though the gamblers have
 found that the paper fortunes so easily
 got together are as easily dissipated
 the western farmer, with his granaries bulging, will be oblivious to Wall streets furry; the ordinary citizen will be none the worse for it, and in the long run the country will be conducted on a saner basis, speculation will be checked, and we will be less likely to encounter violent disturbances of the | market and loss of confidence from the overthrow of these wild enterprises at | time when perhaps they would cause real disaster. g~@ When it appears that persons who thought themselves rich from specula- l ton are canceling passage to Europe by
 the hundreds, that yachts are going out of commission and that diamonds dc l not find so ready sale as last year, we are disposed to regard the rude awak- ening as a salutary lesson, which posi- lively had to be learned unless we were | to plunge into the abyss of gambling The business world is learning many salutary lessons these days. Peaple are just beginning to see that in the past few years an entirely new and forbid. ding class has appeared on change and
 in the marts of trade. The very same kind of persons who formerly haunted
 the race tracks, the gambling dives, ol
 at best the bucket-shops, have somehow ! come into possession of vast sums oi
 money and have been plunging on Wal street and in the promotion of trusts just as they punted over the gambling tables, and without whit more sense of responsibility or conscience or char. l acter. For time the fact that these
 men had much money seemed to blind the general public and the shrewdel business world to their character and the character of the schemes which they backed; but the end is approach ing. They have been found out.-Phila- delphia Public Ledger
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is resting upon retiring to the under surface when it's hunger is appeased. In fact it remains here all day as rule, crawling out to feed at night, when most of its enemies are asleep. This caterpillar has curious trick of mak- ing little bundle out of bits Of leaf, cut off and then bound together with sIlken threads. The bundle the insect carries about with it from one part of the leaf to another. adding to it as he goes. The object of this curious perfor- nance is not known, but 1t is thought that the bundle. moving about the end of thread as it does, may serve to take the attention of enemies away from the insect itself. &
 If the caterpillar happens to be one of an early brod. it will enter the chrysalis form and become butterfly the same year; but if it belongs to a late brood. it will roll up leal, fasten 1t with silk, and make for itself a neat and compact little house. in which 1t will hibernate until the spring.
 ERNEST HAROLD BAYNEs.
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THE NEW YORK GHETTO AS DE.

THE NEW YORK GHETTO AS DE- SCRIBED BY A DENIZEN.
 Everybody. with exceedingly rare ex- captions, in the East Side Ghetto can read and write at least one language. Most of us speak, read and write two. and the number that can communicate in three or four tongues Is by no means inconsiderable. Even our Vicious or degenerate" class is not an iIlitsrate class. It is made up. for the greater part, of native Americans who, through evil associations and unwholesome sur- roundings, have drifted into wrong paths. Happily. the number is very small, compared with our total popula- ton of four or five hundred thousand; yet these few have contributed much more than their fair quota to the disre- pute which the Ghetto has earned in re- cent years.
 It is not strange that a section of the city which presents the greatest per- centage of school attendance, which turns out the prize winners in the pub lie school competitions year in and year out. which furnishes from 80 to 90 per cent. Of the entire attendance of the City College and Normal College, and which furnishes from twenty-five to fifty per cent. of the students in Co., lumbia and New York uniyersitles-is it not strange, I repeat, that such a dis trict should go down into contempora- neous history stamped and condemned with the stigma of ignorance and moral degeneracy? Is it not wanton insult to the thousands of Jewish lawyers, physicians. school teachers and engi- neers who have seen the light of day on the lower East Side, for the "settle- ments'' to come to us with their Chris tian workers" that they might ''re- deem' our children?
 Where is the home in the Ghetto that has not diploma on it's walls? Where the cold, bare room that has not it's am- bilious student? Where can you find the reading room in the Ghetto or out of it that has not it's crowds of Jews, read ing, studying. learning? And yet we are "The submerged!" "The scum!'' Comparisons are odious. sometimes yet might we not with pardonable pride ask that the great East Side be compared man for man, group for group, with other poor sections--Ldttle Italy, Klein Deutschland, Hells Kitchen, Cherry Hill or Little Turkey? Have we any thing to suffer in the comparison? And yet, in the popular mind, we are of the slums. "-Menorah.
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craze which for the past four years has governed the entire copper region, gambling in mining stocks Is universally induged in. In this section it would be difficult matter to discover an in- divtduai who does not carry a line of Arizona or Other Western copper stock. Men, Women and children, ministers of the gospel business and professional men, Iaborers and servants girls, in fact the entire population, talk dream and deal in copper, and expectantIy looks forward to the day when the good for tune will favor them as others have been favored.
 In tracing the history of this specula- tive epoch the immense fortunes result ing from the copper production of this region has constituted a sufficient stimulus and incentive to explain the present craze. Option dealing is, how ever. rather a new phase in the meth ods of mining stock transactions here, but while not indulged in to any great extent by the moneyed men of the cop per country, who buy mining stock as an investment, the great body of the laboring men in and about the mines and the population generally deal in futures to the full extent of their in come.
 While it is impossible to secure de- finite information concerning the amount of money invested by the people of the copper country in the different mining projects of Arizona, bankers, brokers, and men who are in a position to speak authoritatively, state that the aggregate amount will reach the im- mense of s12.OOo,OoO to $15,OOO.OOO. This enormous amount of money has been taken from the copper country during the last three or four years and put in to development and mining companies in Arizona, Mexico, Utah, and British Columbia. The great bulk of it has gone into Arizona properties. Calumet Correspondence Milwaukee Sentinel.
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4 CHANCE FOR 4 HEw MORGAN.

It is little early for a through train
 to the North Pole, but perhaps some
 new Morgan may yet find it profitable
 to promote a railroad to that cold spot.
 A rather notable railroad has just been
 completed in the far North. Its prim-
 ary purpose is to bring to seaport iron
 ore from the mines near Gellivare, an inland town of Sweden, which is nearly fifty miles north of the Arctic Circle. h. cidentally the new railroad will open to summer tourists a route through a re- zion that is now wild and comparatively unknown. From Gellivare the road ex- tends in northwesterly direction to Ofoten on the coast of Norway. Gelli- ware is described as being in the center of vast forests, and iron-filled hills. The
 new road means that summer and win ter the wealth of the region will be at the command of the industrial world. There is a railroad from Gellivare to
 Lulea, a Swedish port high on the Gulf
 of Bothnia, and some distance south of Gellivare. z In point of distance Lulea is more convenient than Ofoten, but for
 five months in the year the harbor of
 Lulea is icebound. Hence the building
 of the railroad to the Atlantic by Eng
 fish capitalists whose purpose is to in
 sure supply of Swedish iron through
 out the year.
 Good work. Wall street is just now
 not in the mood for "digesting" the "se-
 curities" of a railroad to the Pole. but
 perhaps it will feel better in it's inter-
 for department by and by.
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tion with his remains, but with the soil in which he lies buried, the stone on which he prayed. and the water from the well which he bored-by all of which many believers have been re- stored to health.
 Of course nothing like this could hap pen in the enlightened United States. Still, there are occasionally some rather queer religious doings here.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-25
4CUIE.

The attack of indigestion which has been affiieting Wall street became acute yesterday, and there was trouble. Two of those who have been trying to help pull the patient through had to give up and lie down, or lay down. as the com mon speech hath 1t. And there may be others who will get tired out. It is a sad state of affairs, and what con trast it presents to that other state of affairs when ''the Street" was in ex- trayagant health and leaping for joy and profit, especially profit! It is a pretty sick transit, and no mistake, but the situation hath it's consolation. It forcibly teaches some good old lessons which have been so obscured that they almost seemed to be abolished. There was a time when it seemed possible that one man could own and run the world, and that the best thing to do was to leave all and follow him. Many who did it find that they have left all in sense that they didn't intend when they started out to follow him. There is woe and work for them where, there was erstwhile abounding and bounding hope and pleasing dream of rich ease. It is too bad that they are in such case, but it is good thing to have it again made plain that the tulip craze and the South Sea bubble were not
 really legitimate, and that their failure was not an accident.
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The London Referee tells the follow ing amusing story: A portion of that paper was blacked out by the Russian censor. As the article was absolutely harmless the editor wrote polite letter to the Russian authorities asking for an explanation. The reply sent from the office of the press censor was that the following paragraph was objected to: So far as the Czarewitch is con- cerned, this animal occupies an absurd position. He has no chance, and the sooner he is added to the list of dead 'uns' the better" The press censor begged to point out that to refer to the czarewitch as "this animal'' was only insolent, but to suggest that he should be murdered or added to the list of "dead 'uns" was infamous. It was only when the editor explained that he was referring to horse and a race and
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AnvERTIsING RATES

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each in- sertIon. Five Cents Word for full weeS
 DispIay advertisements. per inch. one in. serrion, Sl.20: each suDsedlent insertion, ~ ceDts; one week. $40; one month, SlO' one year. SO :.
 Obituary Notices, n prose or verse. 70 cents per line Notices of Births. Marri- ages, Deaths, and Funeral. 50 cents edcn. Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to theit own immediate business fa,l matter to be unopjetcionahiej. and their contracts do not Include Vents. To Let. For Sale. etc.
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not to the heir to the Russian throne that the Referee was once again allow ed to be delivered to its subscribers in the dominions of the czar.
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On the headwaters of Buffalo Creek, iii Natural Bridge district, Rockbridge county, Virginia, resides a farmer of considerable means. who owns many broad acres. B1ackberries are abund- ant in this field this year, and it is said the farmer declared he would marry the Grst woman found gathering berries ill his fields on Monday morning. That morning thirteen women were in the field gathering berries and, strange to relate, ten of them had not before been seen engaged in that occupation. Each of the women claimed. it is said, to have been the first on the ground at work. according to the word passed around" by the owner of the land. The people of the community await the re- suit with interest.
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While in 1890 6s.7 per cent. of the mileage of street railroads in this coun- try was operated by animal power, now only II per cent. is thus operated, 97 per cent. being operated by electricity and 1s per cent. by mechanical trac- tion. s@,*. 4i +