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E SENI NEL JOURNA. Entored April 23, 1903 ut Pickens, 3. 0., as second olassimatter, under act of Congress of March 8, 1879. VOL. XXEvil, ?ICEINS, SCUTH CAROLINA, THU93DAYI NOVINili 28 1907 At the End. Wli'sn the sands in the hourglass falter And the end of it all iN nigh; When the signal is made for thbe cur tait And the footlights begin to die: It is good to glance back at the duties We have done in the days gone by. When the grave in the 'grass is yawning And we totter, decrepit. and graq-; When the darkness begins to hover And we near the end of the day, It. is good to looks back at the flowers We have planted along the way. When-the candle has burned to the socket, . And the fl-me in the wind is bent; When' life to the utmost limit 'Of years is nearly spent, It is good to look back at the kind neas Our lives to otbers have lent. When th windows begin to darken And we bid farewell to the bun; When the singingig ii tured to si leince And the en(V of it. all is won, It is good to turn back through tLe twilight At the good that we mlay haVe . done. [B at. n Traneeript A Wasted Present. "What in the world shall I send Aunt Betsy, John ?" demanded the mas terful lady of the mild little main. "A workbasket or 'a book?" he sug. gested. "Don't be a fool, John! You've no taste. I'll send her one of those fancy boxes of soap." And she lifted to her nose a box containing six round tablets of per fumed soap. "Yes," she continued, "this is the very thing!" "But, my dear, really"- he protest ed. "You be quiet, John! Now, wrap this up, miss!" Two days later a packet arrived from Aunt Betsy, and In haste they opened it to see how she had taken their thoughtful present. Under the wrap ping was the affectionate message: "Niece-Herewlth I Keturn the box of shaving soa) you sent me. I an too old to appreelte tlhe jokfu of be ing regarded as a bearded lady. Yqtlr aunt, Betsy." Then, but only for a moment, the mild little man smiled. - Pearson's Weekly. A Dreadful Assault. Justice Ball, an Irish judge, was noted for his amusing manifestations Of ignorance, but whether they were real or pretended las never been clear ly establlthed. He tried a case in which a nmn was Indicted for robbery at the house of a p)oor wIdow. The first witness was the young daughter or the widlowi, who idenltifled the pris oner1 ats the main who had entered the honse and smashed her mother's cheet. "Do you say that the prisoner at the bar broke your iothaer's chest?" saId the judge In astonishment. "He did, my lord," answered the gIrl. "lie jumped on it till he smiashed it entirely." Th'e judge turned to the crown counf se'l aind saId: "Howv Is this? Why Is niot the prislonler ldleted for murder? It' lhe smiashied this poor1 woman's chest in the way the witnesas has described, it he must surlely have kllledl her'." "But, nmy lord." said the counsel, "it w~'as a woodlen ehiest."-Cornhll Maga Maximilian and "Lai Paloma." Whae~eer that hauntinug ala-, ''La Pa loma,"' is playedC~ the memory of tihe E~mpeIror' Maxmnilbain, shoti by the Mex 11icans on .Junae 19. IS8T.i should he pre ser'ved. Maxmailian's f'nal r'eituest w~as tha t "Lam P~aloma"s homuki be played whaile he stootl up to meaaet his dloomi. Ie ied113 ithl the tunie hii his ears, and hIs wll'e wipt mad with thie shoek of his Ceecti Lon. Papa Is Brave. Elschen-a-Mamana, is papa ever br'ave ? * Mother-He Is always brave, I hope. But what makes you ask? IEiselcn Rtecausei I thought if lie were lhe wouldn't let my13 governess pull his ears so---I'lendeaBlatem. LENGTH OF THE DAYt Difference Between the Star.Da and the Sun Day. IT IS GREATEST IN WINTEF Why the Differonce Occurs* and Hoi -it May Be Observed-Oddly Enoug the Shorfest Day In the Year I Really the Longest Day In Time. H-ow long. after ill, is a day? Tb geographies say that It is the time r( quired for the earth to turn once o Its axis, that it measures twenty-fou hours by the clock and that a fractio more than 305 of them are to be foun in a year. It Is a good plan when one read anything i a book to test It when b can for himself. We want to see ju.s how long It takes the earth to tur over once. Let us take any one o the fixed stars that chances to be I line with some convenient point ani watch In hand, notice the preelse n ment at which the star touches, let ii say, a particular tree, branch or ste pie on the horizon line. If on the ne, evening we stand at precisely the saim spot and sight the same star again I line with the same polut as befori then we shall know that the earth ha turned on Its nxis just once. Curiously .enough, however, we sia discover, If this Is (lone carefully, tha lin spite of what the books say, it doe not require twenty-four hours for th earth to turn over once. About foui minutes before the day Is up, by th clock, the earth has revolved 'once an brought the stdr hack to its old pos tion in the sky. Iteally, then, the eart turns on its axis once In twenty-thre hours, fifty-six minutes and four se< onda and, as one can easily reckoi makes somethiug more than 306 rev< lutlons in a year. But human beings are not so muc interested in the stars as in the sim We really don't care much how long takes the earth to turn over and brin it star back again to the same point I the sky or how many times in a yef a star seensa to go by. We set oi clocks and reckon our year by tli turning of the earth under the sil and beenuse the earth not only turr under the sun, but also goes round I it takes about four minutes longer i bring the sun up to its old place I the sky ilisn to bring back a star. Ti comes about simply enough. Suppos one is In a room looking out the wh dow at a tree. If he turns round onc e'xactly he will find himself lookin straight -at the tree again, but If i trIed the same thing when he was o as mding traIn he would tind the while he was making the turn the tre had fallen behind. He would tben, n cording to the way lie twirled, have t turn a little more or a little less t bring the tree straight before his nose Therefore It Is not quite true that day Is the time required for the eart to turn once on Its axis. It really I this tiue plus the four minutes or a required for it to turn and look bac at the sun. The time required for thi extra turn is not the same at all time in the year. One cnn easily see In th case of the mnoving traIn thait the fasi er the csars were moving or the neare the track the tree stood the snore th latter' would seem to shift its positom ISincee the enrsths is sonme 3,000,000 mnile nearer the sun In winter than In sun lit is the fasiter it travels, the differenc ietwee'n *.tar day and sun day I greaitest In winter. Oddly enough. it happens that Dc 22. whIch hsas the least daylIght c any day In the year and is therefor cosinmonly snh1( to be the shortest c all days, is really the longest. It does as a matter of fact, rusn almost half miinuste over' twenty-four' hours, wh'lil thei truie shsostest day, which ('omies o Sep~t. 17, falls stuort by about thme snum timse. So we real ly halve three (dit~erer "da~ys." There is the star (day, whsie Is the th-me during whieh the ear't turns over onice. ThIs, because~ thm ear'th spIns steadily, Is niways thm samne length, twenty-thrsee hours, flft~a sIx msinutes, ,'osur asnd nine-hmundredth seconds. and there are 300 of thesm I siyear. Thsen there Is the ordinsary k gal day, which Is the time requlredl fa a proper' clock to get round~ twics T1Ihis Is jIust twenuty-fours hours. B< sides5 those, there Is the sun day, it time told by .the sundial, whIch, tala Jng short with long, averages twehnt3 tour hsours, but Is never found to b exactly the same length for two day in suc(cessions. There is a string of long days in th .winter, followed -.by a sries of shm b ones in the spring. In the summiiei'he sun days get long again, though not quIte so9 long Is In the winter. In the autumn come the shortest dayi of all. Only occasionally are clock (lay' and sun day of the same length. Only four times a year do .clock noon by the clock hands and sun noon by the sundial- occur at the same moment. while, because the long and short sun days are fonnd in sets, they oftentimes may be more than fifteen minntes apart. Vy The vast majority of the' 'ople h reckon their time by the sun; .-But a time for civilized men Is time by the clock. The days are all twenty-four hours long, and no matter where the e sunt Is it Is noon for us when the clock strikes 12. Nevertheless, astronomers a often go by stat time, get In an extra r day in each year and have their' noon fall at all tImes of the day or night. E. T. Brewster in Chicago Record-Iler aid. __ 1 It Is a kingly act to help the fallen. D Ovid. t The Bullfight. f We went to a bullfight and wished I we had stayed away. It Is quite as unpleasant as people say, and the cruelty to the horses turns one sick. s. If it was merely an affair between the Imen, who are undoubtedly very skill t ful, and the bull, which is probably so lb mad with rage as to be past feeling a much pain, one could shrug one's shoul ders at the queer gaue ild iilnd ,Olme excuse, but for the torture of those poor old blindfolded screws there can bI no shaqow of paillia ton. After three ,1 bulls had been killed *e had seen s more than enough, especially as the e hors-,es in the third encounter had III r ready been badly gored in the second, D and the third bull was not killed neat 1 ly, but ran about bellowing for awhile with the espada's sword tstlcklug out [a of his shoulders.-Blackwood's Maga e zine. No Joke to Him. "That fellow." said Tete de Veau, "is always getting off the old joke about h the difficulty of finding a woman's I. pocket." It "But. you know." L'Oignon explain g ed, smiling. "he married a rich wife." n -Los Angeles Times. ,r Business Locals. Notices of Sale, Wants. Swaps, etc. Inserted In this Column at 5 cents per line for each insertion. Nothing taken for less than 10 centg. e - g For Sale--Family horse, 8 years old, e gentla, fast; pric.. 175. a For Sie--Ao.sr 41 .u single barrel shot t gun $2; Me( liol .n uiddle in good fix e 83.50. D. 1) Jobi. Fon SALE-17 anrns, originail forost, o. 1 miles north of Pickens, $30 an sore; D 75 acres west of Woodall 1onuttain, 10 . acreA brauch bottom. baiance in timber, f price $10 sore, cash deal. E. F. KrITH. R . F. D., No. 4, Pickens, 8. C . 5 You have not heard nothing from Old a Moore in a long Lime. I ..m in Earle's C old drug store on the comner. I am just s bat dIe-whanging along selling beef and one thing and another. But now we come to facta: I want to buy your dry Shide-s, green bides, raw hides amid all other kinds of hides,also yfllur seed cotton r and cotton seeds. I want somae sheep, I Li want, some pork; I can't tell hardlly i.what I d~o want. T1he old sarket. J. D. Moore. IA few first class si-wing machines, slightly used to be sold at greatly re a duced prices. Also sewing machines re s paired. Call at Graig Br'on 0. P. Knmght. Ask to see our asse'riment of remanst f iaetms Pricte by the bunch 100 the yard, Crag Brios. at rloro Obelisk Flour just received e * WVANTED.-500 buwlhola pease; will Li pay highest araket price; emsah or trade, I iOV 6.tf Ashmuore & Niaummn. IFor Sale,-155 aces of I -nd on east I side o~f Twelve elilo River adjo.ininag Ii lands oft Norrais Cot tons M'ills, WVarrena b Hopkins and others. e 23t3 TV. C. Robinason, Norris, 8. C. Pmy y'onrl gnano bills at once. I can a nlot c'arry thaese anocoun mts anuy longer. a Conmc to set aa preparoe.l top mnake settle meint. IIH. A. RICH1EY. r For Ha:e-SnIe SoldIt e ini fiirly good FORL $A L Will receiv-- bids for sale of 5-roomf bionio and lot contain ing ninetonthls oft anm acro mor'e ori lass in tihe to'wn of Lilb. erly, 8. J. unt-il Decomer, 15th. Par. chiasum' to paty for' papersc. Tersms to be a stated in bi. J. C. O'D)elIl, t Thanbridge. Ga. Farmers' Union Bureau of Ittformation. -Conducted by the Sotith Carolina Farmer' Educational anmd 1.'o-Operative Union. Comin unicatiois intoded for ttis depart ment shonld be addroed to J. 0. Strioling, endleton. South Carolina. OUR COTTON LETTER. We are rejoiced to see. the grit and pluck shown by so many Farmers iJnion men during this supreme mo inent when all Now York seens to be combined to break do'wn our determined efforts to hold cotion for profitable prices. There are more and stronger men' in the holding crowd this year than ever known be fore, and quite a large number are with us this time tbat do not belong to either the Farmert' Union or th;. Cotton Aseociation. Our farmers warehouses all over 86utli Carolina are bteing filled up with cotton. An derson Cotton Union has her large two-story house full and now fillinv another department in a cotton mill hous-. In fact, everywhere we hear '>f wiarehuse being Wtile an-.1 throiw ing the key away, noL to b foun Cil, minimum prices are reached. Fully half the cotton held is not in ware hous s. All are freezing to their cot ton and are going to hold on uutil ii carries them in eight of the burn iog sulphuric blue blazes of hadus before they will let it go tt co:' - bear pt-ces. The time is near at hand when all the South must stand up for cotton Every banker, merchant and all othea business men must aid cotton grow. ers in their struggles for the profitt on cotton that go to increase the fl M of money of all trades. Cotton growers themse.ves mut for a time while the fight for profita ble prices is on, leave off luxuariek and deny thenselveq and familiep some of the comfcrte that they may expect to enjoy when they gain the victory. The cotton grower n ho is in the fight for right must wear out his ol elpthes and then patch them He must do without sugar in his coffee -oecessury and only one drink of wvhisky a week and a whole lot of other things, and ab.ove all to go at it now to raise everything at home that will grow on your lhnds that you need. Diversify your crops and this will improve your lands and increase the yield and profits. The South does not owe New York any bounties or pensions in this cot ton business. New York cot ton hand ling business was' built up by mien imany of whom were reared in thbe South, and we have more as capable men here to build up our Southern ports and shipping inaterests, flhe South's prosparity was not brought about by New York's aid or friend ship, but it has been forged out ol the golden profits4 of her cotton in spite of Newv York's skinning games practiced by her cot ton exchange and other combinations of accumn~ulatedi wetl th. The farmer that gives in and lets the speculator have his catton at panic prices when he can help it have no moire grit or pluck th in a cow - ardly soldier that stampedes and Ilees to the rear at the first fire from the enemy. The relief afforded c )tton growers auder the now plan of storing his cotton~ across the ocean out of New Yor k panics where I oth storage cost n'ed interest on advance are much cheaper, is a good move at the right Ji. M. Gantt has left all of his shop nc counts wvith, B. F. Pasr otns for collect ion and wants all those ?owing him to come forwvard and make pavment time. This will show New York that she cannot skin cotton growers when they take a notion to keep them from doing it. Many of our best farmers say they are too busy to attenct Union meet ings.. A man that is not busy at home or is not Worth anything to himself or his family at home is of no use to his Fariera' Union. Stick a pin down at this point, and please remember it. Wheu a member undortakes to role or run the Union and the member ship gets on to him, you may listen for something to drop and down he goes himeSlf. Whenever one man or even tbree or four of them get to thinking they are bigger than their county or state Uniou arid th- membership get on. to them, theso very large small men generally have to taeke water and go down the river where Ward's ducks went. Pointed Paragraphs, A woman detests a man who flat ters almost as mluelil qQ oneQ who doesn't, He not over suspicious, bit keep your eye on the man who boasts of hie honesty. Most of a man's friends are 'nis frienda because of wh. t they don't know about him. It is possible to draw a man out and make him interesting-but it is fferent with a ser mon. A soft anAwer has turned many a young man's thoughts toward the urniture instalment houses. No man likes to be abused unless it's because he is rich. A financier means you don't have to go to jail for how you got it. It way be wicked to tell a lie, but it's a sight more wicked to tell chil dren the truth ab.ut their fairy stories. The man who seeks office for the public good is apt to consider him self the entire public after he lands. A woman goes to as auction to make sure if any of her friends buy anything there she will know what they really paid for it - [Chicpgo News. When a man sinks so low that he tans up on booze and goes to the home where the wife he h'.s sworn to lovo and chi rish is lying dangerously ill aind strikes and abus her and mistr eats and drives from home the children, which brute instinct, if no t parentalieffectioni ought to impel him to love and protect, he forfeits his claim to mianhood and no longer dle serves the respect of people, and ought to be handled for his mton airous and inhuman brutality. It is enough to arouse the indignation of a community to be told that sneh inhu manity is being carried on in their very midst. -Korshaw Era. What is Geography Good For? Mrs. Lis~i Schmoidt, of Chicago, was angry when the teacher in the public school (lid not promote her danghter, and( wvrote h)er as follows: "Teacher. you donl't know it all I guess. I wish it that mry daughter ge'ts through school so she gets a man. Never mind about the geoo graphy; just promote her without it. Whby, may other daughter, sho diidn't know geo.Jraphiy and( she got ai man. I don't know geography and I ;got a man. Anid you know all about geo graphy and you ain't got no man at all, What is this geography good for? See that my daughter gets through school."