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Pfickons Sentinel-Joural PUBZJsHs nVIRN TuRonDA MOnNING. -BY The Sentinel-3ournal Company. TPOMPSON & Ricusr. PROPs. J. L. 0. THOMPSON, EDITOR. Subscription $1.00 Per Annum. Advertising Rates Reasonable. -ntered at Pickens FuStoflice au second ola8 Mail Matter PICKENS, S. C.: THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 1908. Look around you. There as not a co:nmunity in the county but what 4here are a lot of people livirig who do not take his paper. A neighbor on some side of you does not take it-go to him and persuade him to join the ranks. Our list could mighty easily e doubled if each one of our sub scribers would get just one new subscriber. This is not much of a task to ask you to perform. Why, S. H. Brown, Elisha Gilstrap and S. F, Curtis have each gotten 15 ot '20 new ones, and neither one has hardly miesed the time-and there are lots of others who have done. nearly as well. Get busy and each one of you. make up.,your mind to bring, or send, in two new iubscrib era by the let of February, 1908 . Surely you have that much influence in )our community and that much interest in the paper. Regulation of Commerce Between the - Several States and Territories. In the House of Representatives, Dec. 3, 1907, Mr. Aiken introduced the following bill, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed: A BILL to limit the effect of the reg ulation of commerce between the several States and Territories, s to certain commodities. Be it enacted by the Senate' and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress 81venrhled: Ec-n'JoN 1. That all intoxicating liquors, including ale, wine and ber, shipped from one state or territory into another state or territory slali1 immediately after crossing the boun: dary line of the state or territory in which its destination is located, and before delivery to the consignee, be. conmo subject, in every respect, to t4p laws of such state or territory which~ have been enacted therein in the ex. ercise of police powers, just as thou gli said liquors had been produced ir said state or territory; and the inter state commerce character of suelk ship~ments of intoxibating liquors shall ternainate immcdiately after such li, quors have passed into said state or territory of their destination; and no exemption shall be made of original packages of intoxicating liquore shipped in any form or man ner: PnovIDED, That liquors sh~ipped en tirely across a state or territory, that are not to be delivered therein, shall not be subject to the provisions of this act, nor shall this act affect the right of common carriers to trans part intoxicating liquors from points without a state or territory to any point within that state or territory. SEc. 2. That any railroad corn pany, express company, or other e.>mmon carrier, or other person who shuli, in connection with the trans portation of spiritous, vinous, melt and intoxnnt i n or, a~i i... * ueomea jieteou, mne pur chase price, or any part thereof ol such liquors, or who shall in any manner act as the agtnt of the con *ignor or sellor of such liquors for the purpose of selling or completing the sale thereof, saving only in the actual trnsportation and dielivery of the same, shall be subj. et in so doinR tn all ihn polic.' npawers of the et or territory into wbich sucb liqau are transported and delivered; au for this purpose in all oases of ti sale of. spiritous, vinouv, malt .am intoxicating liquors of all kilnde., I inter state commerce, where the sea is sold "collet on delivery" the pla( of delivery shall t. deemed and hel the place of sale. Occupations of An Ex- President. But it is not the restraints I which he is iubjected as a mere di pository of the people's dignity whic remind him most dire etly that h! retirement means something very di ferent from an absolute rest and fre dom from the people's service. He is deluged with newly-writtme bo->ks- most of them indifferent c positively worthless-and these he i expected to read and commend te adver ti-ing porposes. #1 iq .pae target for all manner of pecuniar solicitation, embracing all aorta < objects, ranging from large endov ment funds and disinterested offers c fabuloisly profitable investment t pathetic and depressing appeals- ft the relief of individual distress. He is almost daily ivaportuned t join in the management of publIc o semi-public enterprises which-p*ofe to be useful or beneficent or charit -ble. He is persistently urged to mak, raddresses on topics and; for irpqpas that are, bewildering, an at time and places- that ave. imp" Ie;' HI daily mail furpishes':Oodi ubjil i dence that his exisfcdbe4 nit t looked by any class ..or - condition o our people in an% corner of our land and the visitors he receives forbidf the reflection that he is only it "mel ancholy product" of our governmenta system. - [Ex-President Cleveland it te Youth's Companion. A Lake of Burning lce. "Uold? Then we'll set fire to som ice and warm ourselves." Ihe speaker made, with the he< of his skate, a hole in the ice. E applied a match to the hole. The ic hiazed up instantly with a hot, brigt flame. 1"Oh, how good it feels," said tI young girl. She removed her glov to warm her slim hands the bette "But isn't if rather odd," she sai "to- warn one's haads at at firet ice!" - Y,u are a stranger to Atchison aid the young Kinsan, "or y< wouldn't find -it odd. We are 'isi 3 'it. lere. Alwudys, when we lla .o.Lake Doniphan. we set thei ..tire if --wve are cold." She Watched her bwvn little fire.a *"What is the. explanation ofott miracle?" she said,.. *"A very siniple one," said the youm saan. "This lake is full .of natui gases. When it freezes oter, gas~ the form of I' ubbles impiregnates t ice. You have only to burst open babble and put a match to it, and1 shoots a magical, flame." " Wonderful!" said the young gi "What a fine thing it would be the ice .f all skating ponds could impregnated ini this zway with gi '1 hen .skaters would never. need '' Why Our Seaboard Is.Safe, Our Atlantic seaboard just now amply protected by our commerce al (by the millions of fighting men the farms and in the hives of andusti 'Lhere is not a nation in Enrope era enougli or suicid al enaough to. lift finger to molest us. Thete is not o that -wonld not lose forty times much as it could dare to hope to ga Noic.t ebtors and Creditors. All persons hold(mg claims againsti estate of the late E. H. Lawrence m1 present the same duly proven on or I fore the 1st day of Alay, 1908, or be barred payment ; and all persons in de ed to said estate must make pi ment on or before the abcvo date to undersigne:1. J.* H. Lawrence, R. (I. Lawrence, Administrators, Liberty, S. C., ,Jan. 9, 1908-t8 d nK 40 h is 3 r aA f We wish t: thae duriug the past yetir. r We appreciate ac cez d to you the samf We are contihua ing ourselves in better Always consult i I. MOORI e AiI DIR' ILI HOW M1 You are losing mo fneare building lot wvell leta .?aue Jlots close io-ahd~on pj a '4' tract, clos'e to'oi :m !' il pay .for'same Jam be 30 -acres, .in town df Liberty, a "Waghes Farmn-91 acres Sroom house. 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