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Pickens Seutiuel-Journal UBIMSHUD EVERY THURSDAY MOBNING. -BY The Sentinol-Journal Company. TuoMP5oN & RIoEmr. PnoRs. j. L,. o. TuobMPSON, EDITOR. Subscription $1.00 Per Annum. Advertising Rittes Reasonable. Sntered at Pickens ruotoffice as Second Olass Mail Matter PICKENS, S. C.: THUtSDAY, NOVE311EI 7 1907. Ganderbone's Nov. Forecast. Ctopyri,-h t 114 1-% C. It. Qithi. .Lotng we've wIited for Noveme)(it when the winds are swift aind chill, when the first-coine sntowH if winter drift along the window-sii; when the 1111te finds pi -m11n111o(1ia waiting fm hi Itt w the lk(, it (I the pies we ge(t re(1 itle ih !os thAt mother used to niliko. livery)ody fonld of mince pies lIees lii)IV, feeling good; Now and then ain old subscriber Comes up) with a load of wood. WiIntr's coming, and the bad boys In the : choolrooim sing and date, For the teacher cannot feaze them When they wear their winter pants. Not etuber was the ninth monthb in the old ioman calendar, and gets it' Jnane from novenm, meaning nlin The ber, which we would spell burr, was added by Nimrod, the quail bunter. le had an Irish setter with which he hunted in Novem, and the dog got so many burrs on its tail that be called the month November. Like all burrs, this one stuck. November's place in the calendar was change (1 when Thanksgiving as invented. The Rotiimns de)ated this in the senate. Some of the senatorN thonght November should cont.inIIue the ninth mouth in the year. Tmll keys. they pointed out, were large enough to eat, ald there was enougb to be thankful for by that time il, the year to go right ahead with tht. irewoiks Ind the esealloped oyster. Cicero had been very sileit all tlis time. W;hen the senators who want ed to observe Thank iq.(ving thee. mDO-thiis 1'4re CJhristmnas had said all they had to say, he arose and dis. posed of them forever by simply say imig: "But eran berries won't be ript.!' Tho hills are painted redl and gold, The frost is hoar and white, The moon is Hailing white and c->d Across the skies of night: The Fish and H~arriman dispute Wili becomei a imortal strife; Instead of proxy ballots, They'll demand Each other's life', So er.ch wvill take of strychnine A good and deadly lum s, And then they'll shake the dice to see Whict gets a stomach pump. Thle president has gone for game and killed a lady bear, the days are growing short and soft, and hazy is the air; the country editors who once had mottoy' m their tills, are selling all their diamonds now to pay their paper bills. Sagittarius the Archer is the zo diacal sign for November. His nam. is from the Latin word sagitta, mean ing arrow, and is typical of the sud den cold shooting into the earth and causing the turnip to run for the cel Jar like a whitehead. From the first to the twenty-second of the month the sun will be in the constellation of Scorpio, which is Mr. Bryan's uinluct-y constellation, andl will make it diffi.' cult to tell whether he is coming or going. From the 22d to the 30th, theo sun will be in tile constellation of Sagittariuis, in whlich Mr. Taft and the White House are at nobelion, and he will look as if he would finish about fifth. On the 14th thle sun will rise with the transit of Mercury on its disk. F3or 8 hours and 86 minutes the i'li,'.t wil leberibo a short chord on ,,,gai bn-rn hmb11 of the sun), causing street, and Standard Oil to tell every. thing. Mercury, which will be an evening. star during the first two weeks of the -month, will tile of lovers and bugg). riders on the 14th, and will b, a 11o1orniug star for the rest of the mont l, it wsill cast enough light on keyholt-s for sp*rts to liud them without using a futnel, and will look with tnt,-minp into the chambers of mollycoddles and milksoip. The girl who su(d a summer man Where cool sea breezes course, Will keep on suing- in the courts And capture her divorce; The wvateied railroads will conltrive To have a few, more wrecks, And the ptess wi)l print more lists of names With broken btcks atid nwecks. The loving maid will feed le r b'-aen on good dyspevsia fudge, tihe farimr with t ho smokehouse will touch ulfi his hick'. y tum ndg-; the procltiniittioni will Como out, 1and the hired 'mnu will put the turkey's4 head upon tie bl(ck Ind amputate hi foot. Tihe flower for this month will i, the chrvsanthemum, and the bird -tone will be the topaz. A red or p;nk chrysanthemum is Ihu symmlbol of love; a white one sigui ies Irith, and a yellow one despair. W hen you wear a yellow (we, It means that the gas bill has come in. If you were born in November, you will be thrifty, ambitious, stromng and earmiest. If born in the latter half of the month, you will be brave, kind, honest, just. generous, quic (if temper, and have a keen sense ol humor. But you can never be pre, ident. This is a great disappoint ment, but you can't have everything. The lucky days of the month will be the 5th, 11th, 13th, 22d and 25t . Any of these is a good day upon which to begin a trial mnarria.te. Tbe unlucky days will be the 6th, 1>r1b, 20th, 29th and 30th Cover the himneys up on all of these da3s, or the stork may bring you a pair of twins. The day to buiy mining stock will be the 31st. This will be a very busy month. The trusts will try and arrango it o nobody can live, the moon wil " e full on the 19th, and the woalf wi I take up its winter quarters on the front porch. Hurrah, we'll all sit down to feast Within three weeks or so; The rich will have their turkeys i hen, However high they go But most of us wvill sit around And eat a piece of crow. Anid then December will arrive, with wintry winds and raw, the pa pe will he busy then retrying .Harmy 'Thawi; the boys wiml go to Sunday. school a-flying then, because, it won't be very long until they hear from Santa Claus. PRoGREsSIvE DOMINOCAlI D PAn-rIEs will be the rage this winter, The sale of this new household game is breaking all records. Dominocards make an . ttractive Cbristmas preBs ent, to test the skill of riults om amuse the children. Serst postpaid for 50 cents. Sample piece ard par ticulars free. Miore agents wanted. Write to-day. Dominocards Co., 1807 Choteau St., St. Louis, Mo, Not Quito Clear. A well known cler-gy'man of Bostoi w~as once talking to some friends witi reference to the dlesirability of chiron ological coherence in Ideas in the fernr of written statements, whlen lhe ob ser'ved that there are times when this method becomes a trifle too sugges tive. "For instance."' said the speaker, "1 once heard a minister in New Ilamp shire make his usual Sunday morninig announceiemnts as follows: 'The funeral of the late and mudl lamented sexton taikes place on Wed nesaday afternoon at 3 o'clock. "'Thlanksglving services will be held in this chapel on Tfhurseday morning al 11 o'clock.' "-Lppincott's. A Changed Bird. An Irishman who wasn't much of t hnnter went out to hunt one day, and the fi'st thing he saw to shoot at- wam a bluohivy sitting saucily on the top oi HelpiH elpi I m Fain Thus cried the hair. And a kind neighbor came to the res cue with a bottle of Ayer's . Hair Vigor. The hair was saved! This was because Ayer's Hair Vigor is a regular hair mcdicine. Falling hair is caused by a germ, and this medicine completely destroys these germs. Then the healthy scalp gives rich, healthy hair. Tho bost kind of a testimonial "Sold for over sixty years." Mado by -1. U. Aye'r (Co., Lowell, Waise. Also muutfacturorn of J SARSAPARILLA. U.N.~RRY PECTORAL. 1 'en&ce. Ie 1i zed aw'ay at tile bird and thlen walhel or to pick it up). What Ite happened it) ind there was a d fead rowihhe raisd crel'lly at 1ri's1 lngth. k :11 it % with 1 Inz zled air. 11'in11lY he remarillked, "Well, begobs. liil ye was a itoille lookil burd hur h ( lew ther lithers off o' yerse!" uiges Library. Ridiculous. "Aiong the Quakers." said Mis Wise, "I helleve the men wear their hats in Church." "Tow rldielous!" exclatimed lmiss CIlday. "As If atny one ouild possibly be in terestedI in lmen's lts!"-Phla deMIlha Pr-ess. The ien in this country -who begin by knowing it ail generally wind up by asking the way homie.--Atlanta Con stituition. The Cause of Many Sudden Deaths. rhere Is a disease prevailing in thil country most dangerous because so dccep tivc. Many suddec. - dcaths are caused I:7 it --heart dievwe, p1lcmoni-1, heart -"-failure or apople.y Xf ~ -are often the rcsult of kidney diwcaac. if kidncy trouble is al lowC to adv.nice the - kidey- po itcnd blood will attack th, vital Organs or the kidney- tileMIcolvcs break down and waste awiay clIl by cell. B!iddor troubles most always result fron a dcrang.-ment of the kidneys and a cure is obtained quickest by a proper treatment )f the hidneys. If you are feeling badly you can make no nistake by taking Dr. Kilmr's vSwanp-Root, the great kidney, iiver aid bladder remedy. It corrects inability to hold urine and scald ing p-in in passing it, and overcomcs that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realIzed. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. Swamp-Root Is pleasant to take and sold by all druggists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sized bot tles. You may - have a sample bot tle of ,. _rn tils wonder'ful new dis- I IIL covery and a book that tolls all about it, both 1!omio oranipoot. sent free by mail. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, N. Y. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on svery bottle. HAIR BALSAM Cleanses.And beautilnes the hair. Neo Pailuxr to atoro Gray Cue scalp ise a Iar a ing. 50e,and$1ltf Drug1.1. NO 1INSU Cc mpany m ill insure any KIDNEY T Every trace of kidney tr UVAN $100 Initimoe, n Mo.. for i 1,(-.' tjlel 11VA W,( A WTord to 1 For Salc PI CK EN Ready for Fal RWin Only v. fish smwim up stret M. and all Goods m 810d Al'. \N hidh wny are you g4 We have ever Shown, and Cur PriC 'ly ti .- p < i' ci n ) ) it b h - i d4a and )mi pil in poie(- fitD lO u t( o 1.r,0 tih goods before 3oti buy your diess. \A hite gcods ar- lnrgely in tit v t.is t ply of these, at the OLD PIdCES. Nq gi 0d , I en H.) .(i1 uf % . i E1 1 4) ii i I th4 y:i d. J 1w and ( 1 .1-Pin ( f( I n ICanji silli j(01 e d d' i;] iFh tein fron .e 1O .91 0 the pai r. Shoes, well cv sihoes i 1, ud lo il e u o uy. I\ v m. lnu e( Come alld see uts. A.K West E'nd, Shoes, Shoes, We have the Ladies' <curse and 1Ene sh< Children's shoes at Soc to< Men's coarse and fine shoei Ask to see a pair of our ft Shoes for every clay wecar. Unedr W'hen it <n-es t 1.r drCIIW are right. Don't forget that we carry Dress Goods and most anythi Come to see us. W. E. Freei "ATrj THlE 01 JUST REC Fall farnc TI L. ROTH RANCE H ane having any trace of: OU Y S0L. kid by the i InTer (en9.el C 1.. of ny cakse of Kid. L1 will not I 41). he Wise! S RUC CO. l and [er Business. headed for A K. PARK'S fur Dry nivg? We have the largeat and most 1 B an6LUiiar Goods as Shall be the Lcwest. A li d Js i n (13I of I-tW les an colors, X.1(d. Comelt id )eA us I-how 3 ou these mOn. VWe have' providcd a liberal sup lwithstpaling te a dvance on cotton en and L c. s Ae cmr, at II o old prices. I Nw tIle yIod. Rih ikes at nl pric s pyht dy lnows that we sell the best d a.l that we tel l 311 2hM It oll goods. ark. m for you== >es 95c tOo'1.i50 and up. )5c and up). ; at any price. mous Oak Tanned B~uckskin~ Wear. ar ue have it and our prices an up--to-date line of Millinery, .ng kept tin a General Store. nan & Co. 2D) STAND." EIV ED e have just received our New line of the famous lawes' Hats, ng which can b)e found styles uit everyone-. From the most staple sh, r novelty. 1ese hats. - few equals at the p)rice, $3,00, ie one pricy to everyone. SCH ILD,