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THE PICKENS SENTINEL:J01 INA. Entered April 23, 1903 at Plckens, S. C. as secend *lass mattor, aderas of V*agross of Mareh 3,1S79 39th Year PICKENS. S. C., OCTOBER 14, 1909. Number 21 Some Hits And Some Miss. -Revenge is the only debt which it is wrong to pay. -It is nice to be handsome but it is a good deal handsomer to be nice. -A step taken for mother is a pearl dropped into your future diadem. -Take your joy with you 01 vou'll not find it even in heav en. -The best biography-the lifk that writes charity in the largest letters. -Children need love, tender ness and sympathy as much as flowers need air and sunshine. -A happy family is but an earlier heaven. -It is worth a thousand dol lars a year to have the habit o looking on the bright side of things. -To bring what pleasure an<. contentment we can into( every life is the best way to fil our own with beauty. -To make a home happy is an art-an art. a good many peo ple have eiLhel 01'st or ]eve found. -Train your eves to rest on the brightest spots in life. Pass the darkness on the other side. One of t};u1 gst places on ; 'isthle spot mafle sacred by the hallowed iniLuenlCes of those we love in our oxn homes. -If von are a kicker and see the shadows of fLallure in every thing that is proposed to help the town, for heaven's sake go into secluded canyon and kick your own shadow on the clay bank, and give those who are working to build up the town a chance. One-long-faced, hollowed-eyed, whining, caping, chronic kicker can do more to keep away busi ness and capital from a town than all the (rouths, short crops, chinch bugs, cyclones and bliz zards combined. - The father who is "chumy" with his boy, gets down to that eager. inquiring, restless little soul and explains and encour ages, does not need to cut a birch gad in order to maintain discip line; and the mother who symila thizes, cuddles and plays with her children can keep he-r slippers on her feet and her hair-brush on the dressing table. Children need love and sympathy as much as flowers need air and sunshine. - The best way to keep the boys at home is to make it an object for them not to go out to seek amusements, for these they will have. Every farm home ought to be made a very heaven on earth to its inmates. Not alone the farm either, but all the houses in the land. Learn each child's nature, and then work some home charm to keep him in your circle. -Wednesday evening a meet ing of the Colleton County aud ubon Society was held at the court house at Walterboro and the matter of electing officers and a game warden was gone into. There is a membership of 22 in Colleton county, as a result of the recent visit of the state secretary, Jas. Henry Rice. Jr. The following are the officers Paul Sanders Ritter, president: P. M. Buckner, WValterboro, sec retary andl treasurer: T. K. Buchanan, WValterboro, game warden. -Thme following is a very truthful remark. "The mn who gro ws up in his native town is regarded as a b)oy by his elders until he is well started down the declivity of life that ends in a hole. The stranger who comes into a place is more often pushed to the front than the young man who has grown up in your town. This is the reason wvhy so many young men become disatisfied with their home surroundings and long to cast their lot in other cuarters." -How lucky is it that the man in the moon is blind. -The man who could run a newspaper to suit everybody. went to heaven long ago. -There is no way of improv ing a place so much as by en couraging good merchants, good schools and good people to settle among you, and this can not be lone unless you spend your money at home. -The kickers and croakers have no place in a city with the push and progressiveness of our town. The man who opposes needed public improvemehts and itands in the way of progress is rioc a good citizen. --Don' croak. Leave that to frogs in stagnant pools. A few -roakers though are necessary in ,very community to measure the rate of progress at which live an are advancing. -Learned men tell us that in Latin the word "editor" means something "to eat." In the Uni ted States its meaning is alto .ether differnt. It means to scratch around like blazes to get something to eat. -An advertisement is to a merchant very much what sow ing seed is to a farmer. It may teke a little time for the results to become apparent, but they are sure to come. The wise far ner is not, niggardly.with his ieed, nor the wise merchant with his advertisement. -The way the yard sticks rat tled, hardware jingled and our merchants and clerks moved around Saturday indicated a lively day for our business men: and the people that thronged our thoroughfares were delighted in the bargains they had pocketed and the general verdict is this is the place to trade. -The time to have the bright est lamps lit, -he hottest supper ready, to wear the gayest dress es and hunt. up the funniest stories in one's memory, is the cold, rainv night, when there will not be any company, but when the home-coming husband sons, or brothers will doubly en joy the cheer. -The King's Mountain C2om mercial Club together with the prominent and progressive citi zens of that section, held a mass meeting and consumated the plans for laying out and building the road from Yorkville to the King's Mountain battle grond and for easy handling of the folks who attended the unveiling of the monument Oc tober 7. .-Of all places, praise should be most lavishly used in the family circle. How many of us keep all our words of kindness for strangers, for those in whom wve have not one spark of vital interest; and to the hearts depen dent upon us for sympathy and appreciation, have scarcely one cheery word. If we are so nig gardly in the expenditure of the sweet charities of life that we cinnot squander commendations on the home folks and strangers too, by all means let the home folks come in first for their share. -Here is the way the papers wvill write up a wedding ten years hence. "The bride looked very wvell in a traveling dress, but all eyes were centered upon the groom. He wore a dark suit th.tt fitted his form perfectly and in his dainty gloved hands he carried a small rose. His curly hair w-as beautifully done, and a dlelicate odor of hair oil of the best quality floated down the aisle as he passed. The young people will miss him now that he is married. He is loved by all for his many accomplishments, his tender grace and his winning ways. The bride commands a good salary as bookkeeper and the groom will miss none of the luxuries to which he has been accustomed. A crowd of pretty -nen saw him off at the depot. -When you see a banana peel resting on the sidewalk and a fat man unconsciously approach ing it, the indications point to an early fall. --When you hear a man sneer ing at the local papers you can safply bet he don't spend his time making them better. They who don't see a benefit aris ing to a town from its news papers havn't as much sense as a cove oyster, and are of about as much value to a town as a ten pear-old delinquent. -The life of our editor was saved the other day by a silver dollar in his pocket. A crank shot at him and the ball struck the dollar. Now should we hap pen to get shot before you pay up your suscription and there is no dollar to stop the ball we shall always presume you might have sived our life. -Some of our pretty little girls seem quite fond of our cunning little boys, on whose lips the first appearance of what will in the course of time be a mustache, and th( y are reall y imperilih g the lives of these youths in keep ing them out so late evenings. Girls, remember that little boys should alvays go to bed early. -When you want any article of merchandise buy it of a repu table home dealer, that the prof it may remain to enrich the com munity. Send your money abroad only for what you cannot purchase at home. Home tal mnt, home labor, home industry, home capital, and home pleas uaes are things to be fostered, encouraged and patronized. -Too poor to take a home paper Well that is a distressful condition; buy a hen, feed her crumbs and waste from the kitchen and she will lay eggs to. pay for a year's subscription; tben work her up into pot pie and she will pay first cost; so the paper will be clear profit. Repeat this process year after year, meanwhile learn wisdom and cease to be poor. -Twix twilight and dark, up near Manitou park, a maiden sat ombing her bright golden hair, when heated with roaming, all! panting and foamin g,there came; p and squeezed her a big griz ly bear. It did not aifright her, the bear did not bite her, she lay ack and murmured. "O still, ighter dear." Tis~ broke up old bruin he let of f his wooing sneak ed back to the mountains and iid a whole year. Let Us Take Time. Let us take time for the good be kiss. We shall go to the ay's work with a sweeter spirit for it Let us take time for the even ng prayer. Our sleep will be more restful if we have claimed the guardianship of God. LEt us take time to speak sweet, foolish words to those we love. By-and-by, when they can no longer hear us, our fool ishness will seem more wise than our best wisdom. Let us take time to read our Bible . Its treasures will last when we shall have ceased to care for the war of political par ties, and rise and fall of stock, or the petty happenings of the day. Let us take time t.o be pleasant. The small courtesies, which we often omit because they are mall, will some (lay look larger to us than the wealth which we ovet or the fame for which we struggled. Let us take time to get ac quainted with our families. The wealth you are accumulat ing, burdened father, may be a doubtful blessing to the sonwh is a stranger to you. YourI beautifully kept house, busy mother, ('an never be a home to the daughter whom you have no time to caress. DJr.Kig's New Life Pills Am Curing the Fever. Are you all worked out and lasy, Sort o' stretchy like an' old? Are yer innards sort o' sluggish And yer trilbies clammy cold? Hey you nervous fits an' waki'S In th' middle o' th' night? It's th' April fever comin' With its springtime appetite! It's th' blamedest kind o' sickness Thet a feller ever had! 'T ain't no dif'rence who's yer doctof It will git yew gist as bad! It is surer thing than babies Er th' mortgage on th' farm, An' you've got t' quit an' tend it Er th' thing'll do yew harm! You can't fight it down ner kill it, Sassafras don't do no 'good. All th' squills an' sugared sulphur In th' kingdom never would. It's a case of go an' dig it Out behind th' barn er shed And a scootin' t' th' river. When th' sun is sinkin' red! It's a choice o' fish er fever If you're sick go out an' play Where th' zephyrs sort o' cool ye, By th' brook's glad roundelay. Where th' buds is bustin' eager And th' pasque flower nods its blUS You will find a bracin' tonic That'll put new life in you! Breathe it in, b'gosh, an' sniff it, Fill yer lungs an' run and shout. It's elixir of the country, And it knocks th' fever out! Drugs ner nothin' else won't touch ik You have got t' steal away Where th' zephyrs sort o' cool ye, By th' brook's glad roundelay! @--4 Old Man Haskins. Old man Haskins knew what waS the matter with his pretty daughter. but Mrs. Haskins was not so penetra, tive. At any rate, Florentia was "all run down" and nervous. She screamed when the cat jumped off the chair be hind her, was afraid of burglars and moths and wept dolefully when the Italian peanut peddler went by with his shrill steam whistle. It was when Old Man Haskins paid his gas bill that the light of intelli gence penetrated his head convolu tions and "put him next," as the slang parlance is. Then he recalled several little inci dents along about midnight and 2 a. m. that heretofore had merely disturbed his rest. That was why Haskins called on the young man's father im mediately and, incidentally, that is why after a solemn conclave, there was much chuckling on the part of two old cronies and a glass or two of something old from the cob-webby re gion underneath the residence. The young man was much surprised next morning to receive a sudden sum mons from the head of the firm to go to a distant state for a month. There were tears and more nervous ness up at Haskins' house that night, but he went, at last, just as the chick ens were crowing for a poet's sun rise. When he arrived a day later at S-- and received among seven let ters from Florentia, one in a bold, business-like hand, the cruel wretch opened that first. This is what it said: "My Dear Boy: "I have just been wondering if young people don't have it worse now than they did when I was in my adolescent age? "Anyhow, the gas bills seem to be larger! "You will be absent a month, your father tells me, during which time I hope to keep Florentia in bed most of the time. I calculate she will be about even If she snoozes twent-two hours a day for thirty days! "During this time, also, I have ar ranged to have your bed moved from your father's house to our house, and will speak to the county clerk about the license that he may know when he sees you coming what it is you want most on earth, and not sub jugate you to embarrassment. "As I have no particular objection to you as a son-in-law, and expect to feather your nest slightly until you have given evidence of desiring to move to one of your own, I hope, in the future, that you will, out of re spect for me, be a little more careful of the gas! "If I have to marry my daughter to rescue her from being loved to death, I am your future and affectionate father-in-law, JASPER HASKINS. "Well, I'll be," but the young man didn't finish the sentence. On the contrary he walked down to the telegraph office and wired Florentia: "Home on the midnight express. Meet me!" When Old Man Haskins saw the telegram and noted the hour of arrival he finished the aforesaid ejaculation and then hurried down to the county clerk's office on important business. Classified. Irate Citizens, to Judge-"He called me a boiled lobster!" Judge, eyeing prisoner 'carefully "I'll fine him $10. I don't see anything boiled about you!" Might-Have-Been ConflagratIons. I note by one of my exchanges that another of those conflagrations "which might have proved one of the worst in the city's history" again has been averted. Yepi It takes more than one electric fan o makera n ely summer. COME TO GREEN' Railroad Fare Refunded Within Fare One Way Here isi Buy $25 worth For cash, all e and part at another, within thr< chants named below. Not nec Get Rebate Book with first pi corded and wheui $25 worth is book to Secretary of Retail Me of Railroad Fare. Buy From A China, Glassware, Etc. Gilreath-Durham Co. Drugs and Sundries. Bruce & Doster Drug Co. Dry Goods, Notions, Etc. J. Thos. Arnold Co. Barr's Dry Goods. R. L. R. Bentz. Hobbs-Henderson Co, Hovey Smith. C. D. Stradley & Co. Furhiture, Etc. L. A. James. Symmes-Browning Co. E. S. Poole. Buggies, Wagons, Etc. Markley Hardware & Manufacturing Co. R. N. Tannahi!l Co. If you don't inidersfan Information C1 GOORYv1118 Retail rfle JOHN WO( Olu Over S1ith & BrisIow. C _F4 Cordon County, lie better, h'ave better sub-soil a than your lands. The reason a practical farmer in the coun 200 pounds of fertilizer to the.: Many of them use only acid. for sale. Some rare bargains il year. Delays are dangerous. come and see for yourself. W Calhoun, (County Seat of ing town of 2,0oo people. Lo ta. I refer you to the followiu showvu them the goods. J. R. Keith, W, M. Chasta cAL.gouL- -' T. M. E CHARL Musical and OCTOBER 2! RussiaN Symphi The b)est organize - in talent ini the Unji by a splndid chorus and1 female voices. Specil Rates from All P Ask the Doctor. Ask the Banker. VILLE T0 TRADE! Radius of 40 Miles; Paid for distance Over 40 Miles. ~he Plan: tt one time, or part at one time, 3e months from any of the mer essary to buy all at one store. irchase, have each purchase re entered in Book take or send rchants' Association for amount ny of These: Clothing. Hall Brothers. J. 0. Jones & Co. L. Rothschild. Smith & Bristow. Stewart, Anderson & Merritt. Jewelry, Etc, Bruns-McGee Co. Lumber, Etc, Oregon Lumber Co. Office Supplies. Seybt-Lanford Co. Millinery, Coat Suits. TThe Ayers Co. Shoes. Americus Shoe Co. Henderson-Ashmore Co. Pride, Patton & Tillman. i, write the Secretary. eerfully Given. ',Ieui tsf. guo0c1at1o09 )D, SEC'RY. Or. RI Rd aSkIbgIon Sies. Ceorg Ia, Farms, nd are much cheaper, per acre, of the latter is that we haven't ty. They don't plow deep and icre would scare rr ost of them. [ have all kinds and size farms sold before rented for another Don't take time to write ire me when you start. Gordon County) is a fast-grow cated 8o miies north of Atlan g men of your county. I have in, Pickens, S. C., R. F. D., 4, 3OAZ, CAL.O.K ". ESTON Festival Week. 5-.30, 1909. mY OrchestrA ! di and most uniform ~ed States, supported of two hundred male oints in South Carolina. Ask the Preacher. Ask the Lawyer.'