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IE SEFNTINEL RN Entered April 23, 1903 at Pickens, 8. 0.. as seoond class matter, under act of Congress of March 8, 1879. .GLO 'UVUi, PICHIM, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MAY, I 190B 7. -ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Miss Hattie Earle is visiting in Williamston. Cwo fresh.young cows for sale. JAIES M. GILLESPIE, R. F. D. 2, Pickens. Another typo will be with us Monday next, and then 'we will be able to handle any ad-all business that comes our way. The cool wether,or something else, is keeping the candidates from budding fast this spring. Maybe th6y are'afreid of being "hoycotted"-by the voters. A team from Clemson crossed bats with the Pickens boys last &Bturday on the latter's dia nond. The game resulted in a signal victory for the visitoi -The second quarterly confc vice for the Pickens charge wat Ivild Monday -last at Bethlehem. Presiding Elder Duncan being present and preaching an excell etu sermon. Presiding Elder Duncan preached an excellent sermon in the 'Pickens Methodist church Sunday night. Rev. N. G. Bal longer filled his appointment in the above church that morning and had a large congregation. Mrs. J. T.. Prtridge and sister tiss Mattie Finley, who. have ken on a visit to relatives in Anderson, returned to their omenr3 in BP'ten3:,Tuesday. Mr. Partridge .went'down on Satur day and came back witi them. Rev. Leo D). Gillespie, and lide, of Edgefield, are visiting hp..parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. dillespie of fckens, R. F. D. 2. 1ex) is receiving the congratula tions of 'i k apy tfiends and many I V i nkt*' re being hauded him as to his good judg ment. "IsNiidanT1oEii,~daughter of E. B. Lathem, was married rl the 3d in .! Isaac Wil iinis lof eirs Creek sec tion of the county, J. M. Jame son,. .:N' P:;, -:fficiating. The happy young couple have the best wishes of their many friends for a long, useful and prosper ous life. The. Buchanan - Henderson - scott Co., of GOreenville, a firm that is up' to the times and reaching for trade, have secured a pagevis qfg. .--J. to tell its readers -6f0 the' "plums'' they baye 5inistocka $orry to say we -cold not possibly reach, them this Week,^ bot in the meantime when you visit-the' horse show, dlon't forget them. Liberty, Norris, Central, and Calhoun all report that trade is holding up remarkably well with them; that for the time of the year it is remarkable, and that the trade 'this spring Is the best It has been In many years. Greenville. merchants say that they have sold more goods and larger bills, this spring, to Pick ens county people than in many years. The merchants of these towns are taking advantage of the columns of this paper to ex ploit their wares, give theii prices, and bid for your trade. Moral: Trade with the merc'h ants that advertise in this paper, tell thorn you read their ad. and prmcnr real bargi. Miss - Ferguson is visiting her aunt, Mrs. N. A. Christo pher. Mrs. Lourie iallaham, of Iva visited her brother, Rt. L. Davis in Pickens, this week. Sunday was a good day al Peters Creek. church. This is t fine community of substantia citizens. LOST-Between Easley ani Pickens, a pair of spectacles, ir case. Return to this office ant get reward. Pickens Chapter U. D. C. wil: meet next Friday and arrange the programme for the celebra tion on June 3d. Mrs. C. E. Robinson attended a reception given at the hom( of Mrs. Lewis W. Parker, o1 Greenville, Tuesday evening. R. L. Hames, the market man of Pickens, 1i also handling a nice line of fancy groceries and seems to be building! up a nice trade. Louis Copel is still doing busi ness in Pickens at the old stand, but the stand has been rolled back and ground has been broken where it stood fo' a nice double. front brick store. W. C.. Garrett has bought the farm of W. E. Alexander, on thE Keowee. Mr. Garrett says h( will rent the farm and pay hi, attention to his poultry yard. Mr. G. is a prominent merchani at Six Mile. The Methodist District Con. ference for this district is in ses sion this week at Clinton. Th( preachers of this denomination in this county, are in attend ance. Rev. N. G. Ballenger, of the Pickens circuit went down Wednesday. Hobbs, Henderson & Co., of Greenville; that claim to be the fasteettgrowing--house in the state, have engaged a Large space in the colunis of this pa per for "Straight Talks Without Frills" to the people of Pickens county. We regret that owing to insufficient office force we could not get their very read able ad. in type for this issue. Keep your eye out for them next week. They want to meet you. W. R. Anderson, who lives on Pickens R. F. D..No. 1, has a son who is a progidy. Lemuel Richardson is his name and he is only three years old but hE can count to 100, tell how.many months there are in a year and name them, tell how many days there are in a week and name them, repeat the Lord's Prayer, and knows the alphabet wher he sees the letters. He is quit( a'smart little fellow and is dos tined to develop a wonderful mind. A good many people frorr Pickens and vicinity, and in faci from all over the county, attend ed the "May meeting" at Sb Mile Sunday. This is a greal dyfor those people, when kin dired and friends gather together 'to worship, and after worship to exchange friendly greeting: and break bread together, and I ~is a day that is always looked forward to with anticipations o: great joy when friend and kin dred meet,probably for the onl> time in the year. For Sale--A good horse, buggy and harness. Liberty Hard ware Co. Supt. of Education R. T. Hal lum, who has been sick for the past ten days, is now able to be out. T. L. Blvens, of Pickens was called Thursday to the bedside of his father at Waxhaw, N. C., who is critically ill. Sheriff Jennings is collecting delinquent taxes; and subpoena ing jurors this week, and inci dentally electioneering some. Dr. A. C. Spain, dentist, from Greenville, will be found at Dr. Bolt's office on the 19th, and will remain a few days in Pick ens. R. L. Davis, proprietor of the Pickens Bottling Works, is ar ranging to build a house on his lot in Pickens, in which to do business. Mrs. W. W. White and chil dren, of Anderson, are on a visit to her mother, Mrs. N. E. Thornfey, and other relatives in Pickens. Mrs. A. J. Boggs entertained her Sunday school class yester day afternoon, at her residence. Ice-cream and cake were served, and an enio able time was had. Special elections held recently in Six Mile and Dayton school districts for an extra levy of 2 mills for school jurposes were voted and carried. R. A. Hester, who for the past three weeks has been in Dr. Black's sanitarium at Green ville, for a surgical operation, is home again, and ra'pidly im proving. Married, on Sunday, the 3d inst.,' at the residence. of the bride's father,. Thos. Hart, Ca toechee, Elisha Prdutt and Miss Hattie Hart, A. B, -Brown, N, P., officiating. Mrs. M. F. Hester is very proud of her large flock of young Minorcas, which. aye sure .beau ties. She also is of the opinion that her garden is about the earliest-now potatoes, lettuce, etc., gracing th''e tables. Wednesday night Hovey Nealey, Miles Allgood, George Corbin, Ernest Freemanu, Dick Freeman, and Willie ' "Boggs, wvent a-fishing. There is nqth ing remarkable abotitt it except the catch and the storya.. Dip ping their nets in the waters of the Twelve Mile river, they pro ceeded to make a haul. The net dragged so heavy they conclud ed they had caught a log or was fast in the mud, but soon there ai-ose to the surface strange' ob jects. Corbin shouted, "It ' is the devil, I see his horns" and fell over in the bushes in a dead faint,while Nealey and Allgood broke over the hill at a 2.10 clip leaving their hats behind. As Nealey caught hIs foot in a vine anid wvent headlong down an embankment he was hoard to cry out, "Good Lor'd forgive me for that last horse swap." The young men stood their ground and landed the net with three large turtles weighir'g some thing less than a hundred - pounds. All we can say Is, what a- o - t of turtles. The dinner will be given tonight. Fon SALE-Nice building lot, 93x239 feet, on Main street of Pickens. (t2*) D. F. PACE. Don't forget that I am here to do any kind of repair work. Bicycles a specialty. R. E. Good win, at H. A. Richey's store. CARE OF HOME TOWNS importance of Building the Use. ful and the Beautiful. HOW A SCHOOL CAN BE USED Should Be the Very Heart of Publio Effort and Thought-Need of Tre. Planting Societies-Value of Com bined Efort. The ambition of a good citizen should be to create a completely furnished town. In this way the civic and po litical unit is kept sound. In fact, ev ery town in the United States should be made not only beautiful by its citi zens, but wealthy as a political organ lam, says the Independent. If wealth is scattered or donated to an institu tion at a distance the donor cannot as sociate his benevolence with the home sentiment. The town Is the home and should be as sacredly considered as the smaller homestead. What can one do for his own town? He can certainly do something far bet ter than fighting evil-he can build the useful and the beautiful. Among the farmers' best pioverbs is, "Hoo the corn, and the weeds will take care of themselves." Prohibition has no value besido permission und encouragement. A good ball ground donated by a kindly spirit and looked over by the donor can he made the very expression of manly sentiment among the boys of the town. We know one man who is called the town father, although he Is not yet in middle life. He gets his title from his determined effort to give the young peopl what their youthful spir its call for, while by his kindly zeal he Is- able to suppress the evil assocla t*lons comm'orly con'neted with gam Ing fields. -'That mnu's spirit quietly governs and -educates all the young people of the town. le Is a force by blimself-'a sort of superintendent of education without :.lieng a nominal teacher. . :I n .'A town school. gathering to Itself.all the forces that have'heretofore been scattered among a dozen district schools, has fortunately become the rule all along thlo pioneering p'ath. of the Puritans wiestward. Such n# hnild Ing. if placed in the center of several acres of .grojnd, where the garden tl-hool idea dn he.developed, does for the ttown -whut the old school system was incapable of accomplislhiig. - It not only develops a new spyt of spirit In the Y<oung people. Miakinig them. Workers 'as well as thinkers, but the commodious bilding becoies a cei ter of town thought and effort. Those who create town libraries, should in variably associate them with the. schoo. It. is .nwise .to dtuplicate ex penses, but it is still worse to fail in. creating a town center. The school building should be the very heart or publice effort and thought. A . town tree planting association is needed everywhere. The first organi zation of this kind on record was in Clint~on, C~onn. This was followed by a second in Clinton, N. Y. These or ganizations have been in existence for nearly fifty years, and they ha-ve (lone a vast deal in the way of m: king their towns center's of refinement, They are constituted of the more enterprising and cultured people, who meet once a month, rotating In succession to their several homes. After luncheon upon such fruits and vegetable products as the season affords and after discussing these the afternoon or evening is occu pied in consideration of town improve ment. Both of these towns have be come notable not only for their ad mirable avenues, but for their well planted homesteads. The best methods of culture and the introduction of rare trees and shrubs are always prominent topics. An association of this sort, if composed of men only, should be sup plemented by a co-operativo associa tion of women for household Improve ment. The annual fe should be small, but it should be sufficient to make possible the testing of the value of now plants and trees. The town should turn over the care of street trees en tirely to such a trained band of citi sqna or, more ptoperly, to that one who is selected by them as best qualified. Town authorities are rarely qualified for $udicious work of this sort. The creation of a town p, tano. ing the evolution of a. lov'e for nature, can be greatly advanced by individual effort. Seize on every waste public spot for the creation of the beautiful. Individual members of the Clinton Rural Art association were stimulated to promote the blanting of the village green and later a smaller park for the display of flowers and shrubs. The association itself planted around the railroad depot a welcome to strangers, and an unsightly canal bank now ap pears as a fine wall of Norway spruces. The appeal is not so much to the mil lionaire as to those who can only give to the people a modest share in the re membrance of prosperity. There should be a combination of effort, so that while one man gives the school park another constructs the building and a third contributes the garden and or chard. We know a vUlage brought to the front rank as a residence home by a man who transformed a wild glem into a thing of beauty and a joy for over. The idea caught, and all about him the farmer folk began to cultivate the beautiful. That town today Is known throughout the land for Its loveliness. At all events, cultivate the town spirit. It is our social home. State authorities should be compelled to keep their hands off local fights. Keep up the town spirit. Let town tradi. tions be recorded for the children, memorable trees be guarded and beau tiful glens or groves, with springs ot sweet water, be adopted by the public. DANTE'S HUMOR. it Is of te Wholly Unconscious Kind and Woefully Grim. The humorous side of Dante Is ana lyzed in the Westminster Review by George Trobridge, who is a great ad mirer of the famous poet and who has in previous writings expressed his ap' - preciation of Dante as a nature poet and as a novelist. Although Dante's great poem is a "comedy," In the sense of being a drama working to a happy ending, we do not look for ridiculous situations in it. such as we usually nasociate with the Idea of comedy. Ridiculous situa tions occur nevertheless, and there is no lack of humor even in the poet's de scription of the sufferings of the lost. Dante's humor, however, is of the un conscious kind, arising from a total lack of perception of the ludicrous. It is said that he was never seen to smile, and we can quite believe. it, 'since he never forsakes sober seriousness.in his writings, and it Is his deadly earnest ness that betrays him into occasional comicality. The sinners in hell, the. poet tells us. are -relegated to their proper quarters on the judgment of Minos, who indi entes the particular circle to wbich the culprit is consigned. by wrapping his tall so many times around his bestial body. Fancy the trembling sinner waiting tocount the coils that he may know hls-fatel It is a horrible puninhinent which is assigned to those giulty'of simony, to .be buried-head downward in a.circular pit, .with o.Ily the legs. and feet pro-. trudiig, wlille' flickering flames glide over the '861bs -f the latter, inflicting exquisite torture, yet our sense of hu mor Is.provoked by. thoe description of Dante standiig ovet one of these holes and holding a conversation with its oc cupant, "reversed, and as a stake driven in .the soil," while numberless legs wriggle in eontinual motion around him. Flsh Spearin~g by Firelight. In the sunny south in the blue wa ters of the Mediterranean one may fro quently behold the strange sight of fishermen reaping a rich harvest witta the aid of a .long forklike instrument, which Is used in place of a net. There the ancient "peche aux Blambeaux,'' a singular custom of Aishing .at night by the light of a blaming fire, still exists, enabling hundreds of hardy toilers of the deep to gain a livelihood.-Wide World Mdagasine. On. Goed Twu4 Et. Third Floor Tenant-Se here! I'm. I one of a committe, of : pon in this apartment, and I've called to ask yen to sell your flute. Second Floor Ten ant--Delighted to see you. I'm one of another committee and was about . to go up and ask you if you'd sell your baby.--Lippincett's. Truth Net Partisan. A fallacious doctrine, whether found ed on a false opinion or sprung from a bad intention, is only designed for spe cial circumstances and consequently for a certain time, but the truth is for all time, even though it-may- be .misun derstood or smothered for ~ awa e. Since it has not originated in th& Ax terests of any party every superior mind will be its champion At any time, -Schopenhauer.