The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1913-05-08
Liberty Route ).

Mss Tee Davis is at home
after her term of school as prin
cipal at Gates.
Miss Nina Griffin will be
found at home now after her
term Of school as assistant al
Gates.
Mrs. S. G. Gassaway and
neice, Miss Coda Reid, spent
Thursday with Mrs. P. N. Dur,
ham, of Six Mile.
Mrs. NJ. \. Goudelock, Miss
Narcissa Clayton. Mrs. Elizabeth
Williams, Mrs. Brown Goude.
lock, spent one Saturday recent
ly with Mrs. S. G. Gassaway at
her country home, RIVERSIDE
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Mauldin
called on Miss Narcissa Clayton
one Sunday afternoon recently.
Miss Cora Reid has returned
to Riverside after a three weeks
visit among relatives in Biz
mingham, Ala; Atlanta, Ken
nesaw, and Cornelia, Ga. She
had the pleasure of going to see
the scenery and improvements
of Tallulah Falls while visiting
in Cornelia.
This is the day when the
microscope is more generally
used than the telescope. We
have discovered that the house
fly may have more influence on
our social life than the flight of
a comet across the sky. Also
that it often requires the aid of
a powerful magnifier to measure
the man with the little hammer.
One knocker can do more real
damage than a thousand boosts
can repair. We find the knock
er everywhere-in our families,
in our churches, in our business,
in our cities and towns, among
our friends. If we are about to
make an investment the knock
er is present to discourage us.
He is like the old woman in the
story, who, when q case Of con-
tagious disease broke out in
town went among her neighbors
and said: We'll, if you haven't
got it you will soon have it."
You can't saw wood with a
hammer. Hammer throwing
should be encouraged in every
town. Throw it into the river
or any other out of the way
place. Don't knock. boost. The
world in which we live is in
creased by building up, not by
tearing down. The law Of all
life is, First the blade, then
the ear, then the full corn in
the ear" It is a world in which
it is ordained that acrons should
go forward to oaks, huts become
houses, tents temples and babes
men. The first wheel was but
the forerunner of our modern
Pullman train; the town the
nucleus of a great city. Most
of the worlds inventions and
really great men have been vic
tins of the knockers discour-
agement. Dryden, who found
ed the Prudential Insurance Co.
was looked upon as crazy when
he submitted his plan of indus
trial insurance to those who had
capital to invest But the time
c e when the trademark
"Gibraltar," of that company
was known all over the world.
The men who predicted wire
less biography and the flying
machines a few years ago We're
considered fit subjects for the
insane asylum, No one is of
much help to the world nor is
he the best adviser, who de-
nounces all things, nor is that
man who holds that whatever
is right" the most useful. The
first manner of man will hunt
for trouble. Not that he may
administer the remedy for it,
but for the purpose of finding
something that will justify his
miasmatic faith in things. On
the other hand there are always
plenty Of things to be changed.
and these, like lost golf balls,
will not cry out where they are.
do you know there's lots of
people,
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