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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

The hotel men, II is understood, are
giving three cheers for whcatlcss and
mCatlcSS days. There is Il reason.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

! Nineteen and d half billion dollars
was the value Of our farm products
last year, and that's quite bit of
moneyeeven for these times in this
country.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

ECONOMY is doing without, but it's
hardly good economy to ask the work
1ngman to get along without his wages.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

More uniformity in observing meat
less and wheatless days would pre-
vent man from getting meat or
wheat denied him at one restaurant
merely by going to another.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

OF food in the family by merely hanging
q card in the window.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

London reports turkeys at SIS and
rabbits.at $2.12. Surely this must be
per cwt. 1t can't be each.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

The tanks that won the Cambrai
front were not the kind that crawl
home at . Il. IN.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

The cold wave has taught the coun-
try Lesson which ought to make fuel
shortage impossible in the future.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

If, as reported, the Germans arc
eating dogs, does this mean the elm.
inatiOn of the dnchShund?
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

"Family wash to go up Il general
~ does, on Monday.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

With rare presence Of mind the de-
partmcnt Of agriculture is trying to
change the subject to gardens.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31
Dots from Sunset.

There are some light cases of the Flu
but none have proved fatal vet.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

Porkless Saturday Don't be razor
back.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

Autocracy started the war. Democ.
racy is going to finish it,
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

There is a scarcity o: Cigar and this
is no time to mobilize the honey bee.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

a petition has been filed with the p.
y. Department in Washington to change
the mail route from Nimmons to Sun
set. The petition ask that the carrier
be sent up big Eastatoe one mile before
crossing, thence up Smiths creek, over
by the Sam place, on across head waters
OF Oolenoy creek, on over on little East
atoe creek and then down to Sunset.
This will be great convenience to the
people of upper Big creek, Ready Cove,
Rocky Bottom and upper little Eastatoe
and we trust that this petition will be
granted and put into force at once.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

OCTOBER 81, 1918
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

peopio VI upper Dig creek, Ready Cove,
ROCKY Bottom and upper little Eastatoe
and we trust that this petition will be
granted and put into force at once.
BY special invitation of DR.. r. S.
Porter the scribe accompanied him to
the Greenville hospital where Drs Por-
ter and Black performed an operation
on patient. We were not permitted
to see the operation, but soon after saw
the patient returned to his room and
then Dr. Porter carried us through the
hospital. 1t was a great. but sad sight
TO US, to see 50 many afflicted from the
children to the grey headed. The scenes
OF this trip will ever linger with US.
After the trip through the hospital we
better an institution of this kind could be
fitted up or equipped. The DR.. said it
was about the poorest in the south but
the ground was being broken and the
foundation being laid for larger, more
modern and up to date building where
many moro could be taken care of. We
are very grateful to DR.. Porter for the
trip and hope to take another when the
new building is completed and occupied.
Mr.. j. r. Niece, has returned from a
two weeks stay in Pennsylvania county
N. c. visiting relatives and assisting in
protracted NEE tings.
Messrs r. E. Bruce and Jas. p. Carey
OF Pickens was in our section on business
one day last week.
Squirrel hunters are plentiful this
! Mountain Sprout.'
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

MIR. j. r. Niece, has returned from
two weeks stay in Pennsylvania county
N. G. visiting relatives and assisting il
protracted NEE tings.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

Messrs r. E. Bruce and las. p. Care
OF Pickens was in our section on bushes
one day last week.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

/ so A YEAR, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-10-31

Squirrel hunters are plentiful this
fall.
Mountain Sprout''
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

Il am a lawyer" 1 announced, with
the budding dignity quite professional.
Tell me your story"
mo-" she answered definitely. 1.-THE
people who certainly were bribed to
imprison me are distant relatives. l
wish to make them no trouble. 1 am
free, thanks to you. 1 have friends in
the city. l shall be safe with them"
She did not speak again until we
were gliding along paved streets. Then
she again leaned over towards me.
please STOP" she urged, in a calm,
collected tone now, and l did so. She
got out of the machine, leaning over to
collect her bundles. Then she gave me
a grateful glance.
Il thank you from the bottom of my
heart" she said, and somehow 1 longed
to know more of her, as she vanished
around a corner from my view.
l longed to see her far more urgent
ly an hour later. Why, 1 shall have to
explain. I was a young lawyer and 1
was due at the city the next day on my
first test case. OF course l represent
ed my firm, but if 1 met with success
it would be a great start in a promis-
ing legal career.
Briefly, the case was this: Adam
Moore, a lifelong client of the firm,
had died, and the week following a dis
reputable mining promoter presented
his note for thirty-five thousand dol
lars, due on demand, for a half inter-
est in a patent of no value, hawked
around the market unsuccessfully for
some years. The promoter showed
also a signed agreement proving the
deal. This was duly attested by a
stenOgrapher and notary public, Miss
Elsa Deane.
There was no doubt but that Mr..
Moore had held some correspondence
with the promoter, but the daughter
and legatee of Mr.. Moore declared that
upon the day note and agreement were
dated, her father was automobiling
two hundred miles distant and could
not have been in the city on that day.
Further, although the signature was
well counterfeited, it was a forgery.
One contention was that the prom, ter,
hearing of the death of Mr.. Moore, had
hurriedly set up a plot from VIII. h he
hoped to reap a rich harvest.
A singular circumstance was that we
had not been able to locate this Miss
Deane, who had given up her position
by telephone the day after the agree
ment was acknowledged.
And now for the climax! 1 haG set
my satchel and a roll Of documents
comprising copies of all the papers
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19
Stopping the Ex-czaTs Express.

The eX-czarina's belief in the un
5peakable Rasputin proves that she
was of a strongly superstitious turn
of mind, and she is generally regarded
as the true maker of the revolution in
Russia, but an incident which occurred
whilst the eX-czar was travelling from
Petrograd to Moscow proves that the
superstition is not all on her side.
1t appears, says a writer, that the
ex-czar wears a ring in which he be-
lieves is embedded a fragment of the
true cross. 1t was originally n Of
the treasures of the Vatican and was
presented to of the cars prede-
cessors for diplomatic reasons. The
value he places on this suppositious
relic was proved when he accidentally
left it behind him when travelling to
Moscow. He had the train stopped
instantly, a special express chartered,
and a trusty messenger sem post-haste
back to fetch the missing ring, nor
would he allow the train to bulge an
inch till his messenger returned, hours
afterward, with the relic!
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19
HOW CAMEL WAS PERSUADED
Beast, Resented Carrying Bushman's
TeakettIe, and Mas Lead to Be-
lieve Rider Did the Work.

In 1866 camels from India were first
brought to Australia for general serv-
Ice, says Norman Duncan in his book,
Australian Byways." 1t was a happy
experiment. A herd of more than 600
arrived with their Afghan masters in
1884. 1t is estimated that there are
nov 10000 camels at labor in the dry,
back regions of the commonwealth. An
Australian loves a horse and respects
the sturdy worth of a bullock; he re-
CARDS a camel, however, with tolerance
rather than appreciation, and will not
employ so outlandish and perverse a
beast except to the great advantage of
his needs.
1--WE used to think" said Jerry, the
camel driver employed by the author,
that we couldn't get along without the
'Ghans."
"Surely they know how to take care
of camels?' 1 asked.
mo fear !" Jerry scoffed. "They had
a lot of superstitions-like curing a
camel with a necklace of blue beads
and that's about all. The government
breeds better camels now. That's only
natural we're white. l don't mean to
say, though, hat we've bred the devil
out of u camels. Sometimes 1 lose
patience with the brutes.
"a couple of years ago I was travel
ing to the north of this with a train
of four pack camels. One morning
when 1 was packing I found that 1 had
forgotten to stow away a billy can
(bushman's teakettle). When I picked
that little billy can up and made for
the nearest camel, meaning to hang it
on his pack, he began to double and
groan, as if it wasn't his billy can, and
he wasn't going to carry more than his
share, and what did l les anyhow
by proposing to overload a poor camel
that way? SO to make things easy l
switched off to the next camel. And
he began to groan. They all groaned,
Not one of them would have that little
billy can on his back.
swell, I was disguised. Instead OF
hanging it on a pack I mounted my
riding camel, with the billy can in my
hands. He was Mortified. Goodness
how he bawled! When he got up he
was bawling still. Wouldn't move 6
step! And then 1 leaned forward anC
shook hat billy can in his face. AnC
that satisfied him. OF he went with
out n murmur. Why? 1 reckon he
thought 1 was carrying that billy can.'
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19
Ship of Mystery,

The manufacture of a large part of
machinery to replace anything broken
is almost impossible in the limited
space of the battleship's machine
shops. But wondrous feats are per-
formed in the repair ships that &C.
company fleets on stations remote from
dock facilities, states a British war
correspondent.
The repair ship is a huge floating
smithy and machine shop packed with
everything that the wit of man can
concentrate into the space for treating
wounded battleships. These ships en-
ploy some of the best artificers from
our naval dock yards, and are scat
tered in every quarter in which the
British fleet is stationed remote from
dock facilities. The Boche has moth
ing like them, and it has been stated
that no inquisitive Boche has ever
been allowed to intrude his nose
aboard one to investigate its myster-
les and take the information to his
employers Of how the strange feats
performed by the repair ship are ef-
fected. The repair ship is the abode
of secrets.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19
Paw %shoeMorkers More.

The female machine operators en-
ployed in the Birmingham and Walsall
leather trades have been awarded ad-
vances in wages as from last October.
Female machine operators fifteen
years of age and over are to receive
10 per cent bonus on their actual earn
ings. The minimum rate for those of
eighteen years and over, who have
been engaged as machine operators for
more than n year, is to be 10 cents
an hour for hot-wax machines, and IL
cents for dry-thread machines. The
time rate for female operators between
the ages of fifteen and eighteen is to
remain as at present, provided that
after being engaged on machines for
n year the time rate shall not be
less than eight cents per hour. Time
and a half has been settled as the
overtime rate.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

in the case in the real seat of the au-
tomobile, and in the haste of getting
away the girl 1 had befriended had &C
cidentally carried the parcel away with
her own bundles.
1 did not sleep that night. 1 saw the
futility of locating a girl in hiding. l
tried to secure a continuance of the
cas- in court the next morning, but 1t
was refused. The court was fairly In
session when a bailiff came into the
railinged space, where 1 sat, gloomy
and wretched, and handed me a note.
1t read: "Send officers to detain the
nan in a checked suit neal the door,
If he tries to leave. Meantime, see
me-"
/ lifted my eyes. A woman wearing
a heavy veil had arisen and moved her
hand as If to indicate that she was
my mysterious correspondent. 1 went
to her side. Her first astonishing act
was to hand mt the missing package F;
her next to lift her veil. She was the
companion of my midnight automobile
drive.
II am Elsa Deane," she said simply.
II fortunately looked over those pa
pers and was fully enlightened. The
man in the checked suit yonder is the
one of the conspirators who signed the
agreement which / certified"
Her evidence sent the forger and the
promoter to prison and saved my client
thirty-fve thousand dollars. We
spared the relatives who had held her
captive for a bride.
We needed a stenographer at the Of
fee and / told Miss Deane so, and the
firm, approaching her splendid part in
the case, made her an unusual salary
offer.
And in four months I found I need
ed a wife, and who should 1 look to
but Elsa, who had helped me win my
first case.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

Of Gold" In 1t he urges bashful sutors not to wait until they are gray for a
marriage ceremony Girl stenOgraphers also he advises to make the most
of the opportunities in their offices.
For example, read of Annie, who typed an "Alr Castle" in the "Crater
of Gold"
Mother, 1 have fallen ii. love with Mr.. Zackley, my employer. I could
not help it. As 1 thought 1 had n chance to win his love and didn't wish
to embarrass u relations, l haven't let him suspect my love. 1 might give
way to ears and reveal my love; 1 fear to return to the office"
MY dear child, replied her mother, "you are sweet and sincere You
have been doing your work 81 well it may be that Mr.. Zackley loves you.
Being al honorable man, he is afraid to declare himself for fear of a re
fusaL Such men would rather face a lannon's mouth than a laundering
No from a woman.
and do nt act 81 formal. Place your hand o. his arm carelessy let a little
love light shine in your eyes and say in a cheerful voice, I al ready for
work again, Mr.. Zackey'
INSTEAD of cuHivatng a deferentel demeanor assume a companionable
attitude. This will break the ice. If Mr. Zackley has serious intentions he
will meet you half way and soon both of you will be happy in each others
love-"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

plan to read when the wal is ended" He saved his money until he had
$685. in bills real honest to goodness currency Of the good old o. S. A.
He had been living in the suburbs. He decided to broaden his field of
labor and came to Cleveland. So he came, his worldly possessions in his
arms. 1t IA n difficulty to move-he had his extra pants and sweater in
one parcel, and his old shoes in the other. His savings he had tucked in
the toe of n shoe.
On a preceding visit he had selected a lodging place at tn Sangamon
street address. Joe found the right building, but he inadvertently stepped
into the wrong haLway-he n at 500 Sanganon street He Knocked at
the door, and, receiving no response, laid down his bundles and went to the
rear, with which he was better acquainted.
Joe had no difficulty in finding the ear entrance at 57. He went up
stairs, passed through the fiat and wen o n the front landing. The bundles
were not there.
Joe was troubled, but decided to sleep over it. Then he informed De-
tectve Sergeants Joyce and Smith of the police.
1t turned out that the detectives deductions were correct for they found
the shoes n a pawnshop. And the money, all unconscious o. its danger, was
still in its hiding place.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

men. Not a n hour, day or night, but the mansion is under the watchful eye
of guards. Just outside of the White House grounds looms up the immense,
whiish-gray state, war and navy building. No ne is allowed to enters except
employees, and they must each morning be identified by a passport, contain
ing their photo. The rooms are full and the corridors take u part OF the
overflow, Hundreds IF lew clerks, mostly stenographers. typtstS, have
been added to the force. At the door there are guards to examine ones pass
silent halls echo to the ceaslesst tramp of Fastening feet and the bang, bang
Oft the thousands of machines pounding nut letters. And through all moves a
ceaseless stream of khakicOlored mn with stern faces.
Nor does work stop at night. After darkness settles over the city a flood
of light pours out Of the windows, and into cool shadow of the gray silence
there drifts the whang of the whirrng machine and the glitter of electricity
telling that Uncle Sam is Still grinding his sword.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

rants, wher there are brig ghS
and music for tired and strained nerves. Washington has nothing of the kind
The few restaurants that do offer music are managed by mn who car see
n o reason why anyone should want to be ut after ter o'clock at night. They
lock their doors.
Theaters lin Westinghouse city of 100000 populaton-are United to two
houses playing legitimate attractions and frstclass vaudeville house
When a real. attraction comes the demand for seats is so great that the box
office finds no protest when the prices are boosted generously.
Washington is still a village, in that its pleasures ire family pleasures
Little social groups find enjoyment in each others society, but they rarely
venture away from the boundaries of their own little community.
The widest excitement that is offered to a girl in Washington is the
afternoon promenade on f street. Up and down, up and down they 60 all
dressed up in their fnery. Some, of them tote little dogs along, and some of
them tote mothers; but up and down they go. 1t is Just a fashion show. Each
girl goes out to Zee what her neghbor has sin the way of icy clothes. On the
corners they gather to gossip for a few minutes and pass I. The time of
the gay Loharo has passed. He used to be a par. Of this promenade, but
now he has gone to war, or, if he hasn't, he finds o pleasure in the F stree
romena1
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

IL TUNs TVU V UT LILY nWVUnVD
visiting cards" said Mrs. PenL She then scruinized her caller closely.
1T is that" said the girl. 81 just stopped in to tell you that your hus-
band and 1 are to be married in about an hour. 1 thought you might like to
know about it."
The girl then calmly seated herself and said she guessed she'd have the
rector perform the ceremony himself in the Pn home. Mrs. Pu called the
East Fity-frst street police station. When Patrolman Geiman reached the
Pl home, Miss Livingson jumped to her feet and exclaimed:
"Oh, look at the pretty copI Now 1 guess we all go to the police
station"
Paroman Geiman took her to the station, where the lieutenant on duty
teephoned Bellevue hospital for a ambulance. 4
The girl asked what they were going to do with her, and when she was
told she would have to go to Bellevue for q while she laughed and said:
"Oh, 1 know. I'm going % be observed, Well, I'm not crazy, but go ahead
and put me in the psychopathc ward. It'll be q fine psychological expert
ment"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19
oratltude E~verywhere.

Livingstone, who spent most of his
life in a hostile wilderness among viii
famous slave traders and cruel heath
en-. nevertheless said "a kind word or
deed is never lost" There is no ex-
GUS in civilized surroundings, notes an
exchange, for the complainer who In
sists that everyone Is ungrateful
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

Salaries range from $1,000 a year upward. The consequence has been a in
efficient stenographic corps for Washington. The rush of work is so great
that 1t been impossible to get efficient stenographers and girls who never
made mor than $40 a month re now drawing from 500 to $3.50 per month.
But life isn't altogether gay for the little stenographer even though she
works short hours for long pay She has lost the gay life of her home city.
No matter what the city, it is gayer than Washington. The town has not
awakened to the possibilities thrust upon it by the "a boom and consequently
there is an utter lack of amusement facilities.
So your little chewing gum friend is right here In the war capital working
a a salary that perhaps might even tempt you. her former contemporary of
the stronger sex. i
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

ing how a language slips away from one, isn't it?'
The language seems to have merely slipped away" from o many persons
that there must have been a time when all Americans spoke French. Per-
haps OF these persons who ire merely brushing up their French are like
the pool player who, after dramatically chaHdng the cork tip, misses the cue
ball and tears the cloth of the table. and then delivers himself of this:
"There "a a time when l played SON pool-beIeve me-, son pool!
Man! there We're NO pockets too small or too far away for me to drop the
balls into as fast as 1 could shoot EN-. 1 always had a great gallery when 1
played and men would walk ten miles on a muddy day to see me put 'em in.
Once 1 played q game with De Orc, but I didn't give him a chance to shoot
But 1 haven't had q cue in my hand for some time and am a little out of
practice"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

No doubt many persons at n time or
another learned to repeat something
like I'll fait beau temps" "passez moi
du PAIN" "avec plaisir," "sil vous
plait." Which, of course, constituted
familiarity with the French language,
a rather small and easily acquired
language, to be learned sometimes in
lessons or thereabouts. Current
conversation runs something like this
"Oh, yes! you see, I'm just brushing
up on my French I find that l have be-
come a little rusty; it is really anus
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

HpptHTS 10 DC III VACVIIeHI HVHIIH' IH0
two great iron gates by which entrance
is gained to the approach of the exec
utive mansion and kept locked and
within reach is constantly a sturdy
cop. 1t is at these gates that the
pickets have so often had their battle
with an indignant crowd. There are
few people about the house and only
the family and a few friends enter.
When the president takes his drive
down Sixteenth street he is always ac-
cnmnanind NV Seuarnl Secrat Snrvinn
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19

girl Who SAID II Wunteu 10 see MIS-.
Pell at once. She rose and bowed very
formally when Mrs. Pell entered the
room a few minutes later.
"My name, madam" she said, sis
Bertha Livingson, nineteen years old,
unmarried, living in % East Ninety
ninth street. Do you recognize this,
madam"
She held out a visiting card upon
which was engraved alfred Duane
Pell, D. D."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19
Win Truth by strenqth,

We think that we shall win truth by
striving after strength, instead of
knowing that we shall gain strength
just in the degree that we become
true.-Philllps Brooks.