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4-14 PICKENS SENTINELJR Eutered April 28, 1903 ut Pickous, 8. 0., as socoud class matter, undor ct, of Oougress of Maroh 3 1879. _OLXXXVI PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUTS 22, 1906. NO 13 BIRTH ORETilt MOON LUNA WAS FLUNG OUT OF THE EARTH INTO SPACE. Site Oned Filled, Perhaps, t6 Great Dusin Now Occuplod. by the P"eiC Ocenn-Latest Ideas of Beience as to Conditions on Onr Satellite. Milllons of years ago the earth was not the land bound, sea swept globe so familiar to-us, but a liquid mass on which floated crust some thirty-five iles thick. At that period, says the Strand Magazine, it turned on Its axis at a constantly lncre.t'.:; speed that finally shortened the day to three hours. When that torrifle velocity was ob tained r),000 cubic million miles of mat ter were hurled off by the enormous centrifugal force, and our moon was born. The cleaving of so large a body must have left some scar on the earth's surface. it has accordingly been sug gested that the great basin now ocen pied by the Pacific ocean was once filled by what is now the moon. Our moon has the distinction of be ing the largest of all planetary sat ollites-so large, lndeed, that to the inhabitants of Mars it must appear with the epith as a wonderfully beau tifll twin planet. Because the moon rotates on its axis in exactly the same time that it ro volves around the earth we are des tined to see little more than one homi sphero. So slow is this rotation that the lunar day is equal to fifteen of our layg. For half a month the moon is exposed to the fierce heat of the sun; for half a month it spins through space in the densest gloom. Smaller In mass than the earth is, the moon's attraction for bodies must ho correspondingly less. A good ter restriail athleto could cover about 120 feet on the moon in a running broad Jump, and leaping over a barn would be a very commonplace feat. A mar in the moon could .carry six times as much and r'un six times as fast as ho could on the earth. Although separated from us by a distance that at times reaches 253,000 miles and is never less than 222,000 miles, we know more of the physical formation of the single pallid face that the moon ever turns toward us than we know of certain parts of Asia and the heart of Africa. Powerful telo scopes have brought our satellite with in a distance of forty miles of the earth. Physicists have mathematically weighed it and fixed its mass at one eighth of th carth, or 73,000,000,000, 000 tons. The moon presents aRpects without any terrestrial parallel. Ilent by fires long since dead, its honeycombed crust seems like a -great globo of chill ed slag. Craters are not uncommon on tho earth, but In number, size and structuro they bear for the most part little resemblance to those of the moon. A lunar crater Is not the mouth of a volcano having a diameter of a few hundred feet, but a great circular plain twenty, fifty, even a hundred miles in diameter, surrounded by a precipice rising to -a height of 5,000 or 10,000 feet, with a central hill or two about half as high. Water cannot possibly exist as a liquid,* for the temperature of the moon's surface during the long lunar night Is probably Dot far from 400 degrees below the zero mark of a Fahrenheit thermometer, and the at mospherie pressure is so low that a gas under pressure would solidify as it escaped. Ice and snow , are the forms, then, whIch lunar water must assume. Because of thme present paucity of water the moon's atmosphere is so ex ceedingly rare that stating effects are produced. Perhaps the most strik ing is that of the sunrise. Dawn and the soft. golden glow that ushers in *. terrestrial (day there camnnot be. The sun leaps fromu tho horizon a flaming sicklo, and the loftier peaks inmmo diately flash iuto light. There is no azure sky to relieve thw -monotonous effects of inky black shad ows and dazzling white expanses. The sun gleanms in florce.splendor, wvith no cloudls 'to diffuse its blindIng light. All day long it is accompanied by the weird zodiacal lIght that we behold at * rare intervals. Even in midday the heavens are pitch black, so that, despite the sun lIght, the stars and planets gleam with a brightness that they never ex hibit to us oven on the clearest of moonless nights at sea. They shine steadily, too, for it is the earth's at muosphero that causes them to twinkle to our eyes. In the line of sight it Is impossible to estImate distanmces, for there is no such phenomenon as aerial perspec tive. Objects are seon only wvhen tho ramys of the stma strikeo them. At times there may be observed spots which darken after sunrise and gradumally disappear .toward sunset. Trhey cannot be caused by shadows, for shadows would be least visible when the sun is directly overhead. They app~ear most quickly at the equator and 'Invade the higher alti tudles after a lapso of a few days. In the polar regions they have never boon . seen. What are they? Organlo life resembling vegetation, answers iPro fesser Pickering of flarvard tniver sity, vegetation that flourishes luxiuri antly while the sum shines and witer at night. A single day, it may be urge4, is not sufflceontly ilong for the develop. mont and decay of vegetation, but six * teeni hours on the moon is little more than half an hour on. the earth; a day lasts halt a month and may be regara ed as a miniature season. The expressions "Uaileluiah" ad "Amen" are said to have been itntr* duced Into Ohrlstian worship by, #t, Jerome about~ A, D), 0M ,. ASIMM.1 SUFFICIElR 11OULD KNOW T"1s. F..Ioy's nJonley and Tfar las cured many eases of asthma that were consid. or d odeless. Mrs. Adolph Bueing, 701 Weml Tpird.9t., Cavenmport, Iowa writes: "A s'VOsO cold contracted tweivo (i ars ago was neglected until it finally grow Into asthmn. The best moetical kill available could not give me muore than temporary rtlief, Foly's Honey anIidI Tar was recommended( an(I one flaty I actit bottle entirely cured ew of asthma I %n hich ha(d been growmg)L' on m foil twelvo f years. If I lhad taken; it at tho start I would h .hvo noen saved yOnre of titi'or itg." Piekens Drng Co. 1 PICTURESQUE ALGIERS. All 1ts 8treetiv Are Stairens4e, and All Are Safe. lIero Is a pretty plctue of Algiers by Frances . Nesbitt: "Now it is poe siblo to go safoly into even the darkest and remotest corners, and they are dark indeed. A first visit loaves one breathless, but delighted-breathless, because all the streets are staircases on a moire or less imposing scalo-the longest is said to have at least 500 steps; delightful, because at every turnt there is sure to be something un usual to a stranger's oyo. The newer stairs'aro wide and straight and very uninteresting, but only turn into any t old street and follow Its windings in and out between white walls, under arches, through gloomy passages, hero a a few stairs, there a gentle Incline, al- s ways up and always the cool deep 0 shade leading to the bright blue of the r sky above. "Being so narrow and so steep, there are, of course, no camels and no carts. i Donkeys do all the work and trot up r and down with the strangest loads, I though porters carry furniture and c nost of the biggest things. Up and a down these streets comes an endless a variety of figures-town and country t Arabs, spahis in their gay uniforms, d French soldiers, Italian workmen, chil- p dren in vivid colors, Jewesses with I heads and chins swathed in dark wrap- s pings. "Interesting beyond all these are the Arab women flitting like ghosts from I one shadowy cornet- to another, tho t folds of their haicks concealing all the I glories of their indoor dress, so that in < the street the only sign of Iiches lies in a the daintiness of the Ftrench shoes and I the fact that the halck is pure silk and a material."-Chicago News. t After Long Yearn. 1 After long years werk is visible. In i agriculturo you cannot see the growth. | Pass that country two months after, and there is a diTerenco. We acquire i fliiness and experience incessantly. Every action, every word, every meal, Is part of our trial and our diseipliuo. We are assuredly ripening or else blighting. We are not' conscious of thoso changes which go on quietly and gradually in the soul. Vo only count the shocks in our journey. Ambitions (die; grace grows as life goes on.-Fred erick W. Robertson. MILLINERY going foi Ladios and Miss - 3) and 4 cents ribbons lot. Bi 1 lot 25c white corded Madras at 1 Don't forget that we have jusi -inducements both in prices and tar LEAD ERS ON THE SPIRE. ThrHilinn Incident In the Life of Jainem Freeman Clarkn. When Jaimes Freenman Clarke- was at young man he visited .4alisbury, Enigland. Here tho beiutiful eathe tIrai lifts its spiro 401 feet ilnto the ir. The spire Is topped by a xill, and ) the ball stand's a cross. From the rounid the hall looks like an oraan'ge. >ut Its diameter Is really greater than i man's heIght. Workmon were repairing the spire. 4ir. Clarke saw thinem crawling round he alim steeple in the golden v.*ter ioon like bugs on a bean stalk. Tho mpulse came to him to ellim the pire and stand on the hnorizoatal beam) if the cross. Accordhurly at dus;k. vhen the workmen had left, the young inerlean slipped Mi and iado his vay up-the stairs to the little wiudow vhich opened to the workmnen's stag ng. To run up the acaffoding to the gall was easy. Then eame the slightly nore bulging curve of the hall. A Port platform gave him foothold. He eachei up, put his hands on the baso >f the cross and pulled himself up. Lo gain the cross arm was merely 'shinning" up a good sized tree, and oon he stood on the horizontal timber md, reaching up, touched the top of he cro8. After enjoying his moment of exalta Lou be slid to the foot of the cross, nd, with his arne round the post, lipped down over the great abdomen f the ball. Ills feet touched nothing. 'hb little plank from which he had eached up was not therel Herm was a peril and one for a cool ead and sure eye. Of course he could ot look down. The hugging hold that ,o had to keep on the bottom of the rose shortened the reach of his body nd made it less than when he had tood on the plank and reached up to he cross with his hands. Ho must rop so that his feet should meet the lank, for he would never be able to ull himself back if he should let himn elf down at arms' length, and his ewt hung over empty air. Now his good head began to work. le looked up at the cross and tried 3 recall exactly the angle at which he tad reached for it, to make his mmi ry tell him Just how the edge of that quare post had appeared. A few aches to the right or to the left would noan dropping into vacancy. Plending his head away hnek, he trained tile eye up the cross and fig trod his angle of approach. lo cau lously wormed himself to the right nd made up his mind that bero direct y under lisi feet ibust be the plank. ien ho dropped. The world knows hat hd lived to tell the talo. Good LadieR' Horse. "You told 4uo he was a good iadies' iorse," angrily said the man who had nade the purchase. "He was," replied the deacon. "My vite owned him, and she's one of the )est women I ever knew."-Chicago lecord-Herald. JUST A a song. We are closing. one Saiilors whamt sold for 25 and 50 eta 5 cent ribbon 21 cents. Ii you ? redu~ction on w] [io. 1 lot omnbroidlered Mull, tine to close at 38c. 2 picco P'onguo $1.25 bell received solid car-load of Rook Hill mnS. ITI-B IN LOWPRICES, A NOBLE ENEMY. TAbe leato of Aoicrauiat, a Moslenl listef of Africa. France was never in greater danger of losing her colonies in Africa than during tho wai' with Germany in 1870. The troops were recalled from Afriea to take part in the conflict that was going on against France, 1111d Alg'eria was left alnimost defenseless. The hour for which the Jeunu(lled racets had long vaited had come, and it a holy war had beeni proclaimld it is prohable that the French wouild havo been driven froi northern Wfrica. But the tribes did not rise while the Frenchlie had their haids fill'. onl the other side of tho Mediterranenn, and the fiet wAis duo to their fidelity to a solemi pledge. When the war broke out a chief of great ifluenceo among the tribes, Mo krant, gave his word to the governor general of Algeria that thero shoili lie no inaurrectioli while tlhe.' war lasted. T 'hat word was faithfully kept. Dias tor utter disaster followed the Prenc arms. The defeuts of the war cul iniated in the surrender of Paris. But iot a mnf of tho tribes of Kabylia stirred. The Moslei's faith was plighted; the Moslem's faith was kept. When, however, the last battle had been fought and the treaty of peatce signed, Mokrani, "thon released from his word, gave the goveruor general notlee that in forty-eight hours he would declare war. The French armies, released from duty at lomie, hurried across the Mediterranean. The end was inevitable. Mokrani, seeing that all Was lost, put himself at thO hend of his warriors and fell lighting lin the front rank. The French erected a monmnililent to mnrk the spot where their nobo eneiy pelrished. Where lie Wan. "To whalt do you attribute your good health and remarkably rbuAt condi tion'" "To regular liabitt and early retir ing."1 "Then you have been so situated that you could carry out theso excellent rules for the preservation of tho health?" "Oh, yes. I was In- the Illinois pent tentinry for twenty-three years." Cleveland Plain Dealer. nlnIn43teoest ed. "What a sp1lendid woi mal sHIM is I" "I am glad to think you have got such a wife." "Such a wife! Why, mal, you have no idea of he'r genierolsity. When I was poor she rtfused to imarry nme Labenuso sho was arrald of leing a bmirlods' upon m11e, but tie luionment I Cane into my fortune she cou1inletetd at onice. WhrIlat do you thilk of thlmm loti kui, d iits'" ExcUitng. Percy-I an tired of this life of ease. I want a life of toil, danger, excite mient and adveiture! "Oh, this is so sudden! But you may ask papa."-Life. 1E I ughter Sale of T A TIME WVI of our largest seasons in this d<( at 15lcts. Rleady to-weair Tiats ni Rea4ly-io wvear hatsa what solt Big Values: 8 to 10 cent ribbon 5 coats. 15 want some extra Ribbons or at ifite dress goods ju 40c qualIlity, to cl0s0 out at 25c. 3 p Net, pink andl tan only, to close at 37.3 Ladi(s Belt~s at i s5 at 50c. 50Cm anid 75c beitfi Huggies, Studebaker Wagons, Star Le RW?E LEUTENANT BOWMAN, h . nd Adj S PE-BI-NACORE ifiM 4th M. S. M. Cav. Vola., writos from Lanhamn, Md., as follows: "Though somewhat averse to patent medicines, and still more averse to be coming a professional aflidavit man, it seonms only a plain duty in the present instance to add my experience to the columns already written co.ncernling thu eurative powers of Poruna. "1 have been particularly honellted by Its use for colds In the head and throat. I have been able to fully cure myself of a most severe attack Ia forty-elgh~t hours by Its use according to dIrections. I use It as a preventive whenever threatened with an attack. "Mombers of my faily also use it for like ailments. We are recomnwund ing it to our friends."--C. W. Bowman. Pe-ru-na Contains no Narcotics. One reason why Poruna has found per rjanont use3 in so many homes is that it oontains no narcotie of any kind. It can be used any length of time without Re quiring a drug habit. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The H-artman San itarium, Oolumibus, Ohio, for tree medical advice. All cor respondence held strictly confidential. Itouagh on the U.Nunt. Lord Freoihmch-A h, count, (1id you make a favorablo hn~pression on the father of the hei'ess? (Count -Broken --Fvornbmie! Why, wvhen I told him I was looking for bis daughter's hand ha snid ho thought I was looking for a hii :i lut.--Cliencugo News. Perfectly Secure. An old( farmer once excusedl him self for sleeping under the rector's sormlonis by observing, "Lor', sir, when you areO in the pulpit we know it is all right!"--- London Standard. KSTORI Seasonable Go IEN MOST N] par ment and we are going to c 'hat Roldat 75c to $1.00, at ts. I at $1.50 to $2.00, at $1 00 iIn Ribbons. to 25 cent ribbon 10 cents,. 25 t I extra 1-at, you can buy it for a st the thing you loco Linen Z'iphorin, grocn, tan, 20o (j c. 2000 yards figured Lawris (3 al (our Own Prce at 35c. '25c and 35c bolts o ador Steven. Disc Ilnrrows and Ghbat -FOR TWO -Endel's Gre Begins Saturday,. Jul HiQgh Grade Following our usual custom every sumt tirm stock of High-Orado Clothing, Trot 33 1 3 per cent less than tho orginal prii closo our storo to mark our goods-they i can Iigure the prico yourself, take off ori and the suit is yours. The entire stook of AT ONE-THIJ This season's goods-Men's YC ing-Nothing Reserved: Blacks, I suits. Every sale has a purpose. this sale is to clean out every sprin on hand and we have put the pri them. You cannot buy the same prices anywhere in South Carolina. JuIly 7th, at 9 a. m., for Two Wee] and bring the cash-we will give money that you will go home happ All Clothing go in this sale, I No goods on approbation. No goods charged during this st All alterations must be paid for < H. Endel, There are Pictui and F For a photog1 sCnse, just as th feature sharp atn is what I give. Only the best be found in my patrons, their ret of my good work. I do framing a N. D. TAYLORI ods, E~EDED). lean upj the remunants. Retady-to-woar hats what sold $l.00) to $| >'40 cents ribblonA atI 15 contS. 50 conti .song. wanft these hot days. ifatity, to olosqo at 12.ic. 1 lot Pongoo S.i a(1 8i valuos, wvill go for 5c the yard. niy 15.Th lanlooga Roversible Disc Plows, and we are ROW( PICKENS WEEKS ater Sale y 9, at 9 A. M. Clothing kier we will place on sale our ou sers, White and Fauc.y V(sts at 30. It is not neccessary for Is to ire marked in) plain fignr1es- yo o third arid pay us the diflorence ULOrHING goes in the salo ?D LESS! uths - and Childrens' Cloth Blues and Plaids and Fan. y Our purpose in holding and summer suit we have ccs ol them that will move grade of goods at these The sale opens Saturday, ks. Remember the place you such values for your y. Come! %othing reserved. Lie. luring this salc. 12o South Main street, ireenvilee, S. C. res lhotographs aph that is true in every e camera sees you, every d clear, every detail shown material that is used vill work. My Imy satisficl )eate&d orders, is ai attest id enlarging. -asley, S. C. I ribbo~n 25 cents 1k, amall figures, sold for in a positioni to offer y~on1 S. C.