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BUN K SENTINEL-JOURNAl PUIBISHED WEEKLY, PICKENS, SOUT1l CAROLINA. Battleships go to the scrap healp 'almost as fast as pugilists do. Smoke costs Chicago $21,830,000 a 1year, not to mention the agony. The process of dying poor is easily 'achieved by nine men out of ton. A Chicago woman takes taxicat rides to cure the, blues. Not her hus band's, however. Thieves In New Ycsk stolo a wagor load of cheese. The police, we pre. sume, are on the scent. A man went mad in a barber's chair In New York. Pirobably the barber was talking winter baseball gossip. It is low possible to go around the World lin less than half the time it took Jules Verne's hero to Imake his trip. Possibly fills world would be better off if there were no pistols in it. At least, there would be imore people bore. 'I'here is more money In being an ex-kling of Portugal than In being an ex-pre;-4hriI of file United States, but there is less excit ement. llello! Ilere's Vienna exceeding tihe 2.000,000 Ilark. Soie of Ithose old world towns are getting nenrly as big as a young Amierican city. A new golf rule reads like this: "The shaft may bo Iixed at the heel or at any other point in the head." Is this golf language or what is it? A New York man who had lost lils memory wias found with $60,000 in his pockets. Probably discovered on a witness stand at an investigation. It is said that a St. Louis man kiss ed a girl 15,000 tiles In one month. Must have used a kissoneter to keep the count. It is said by a glove dealer that Chi. cagO men have reason to be proud of the' Amall hands. Since when have in 11 hands been a source of mascu line pride? One of New York's millionaires is going to marry a telephone girl be. cause she was always polite to him on the wire. Why spoil a nice polite telephone girl? A popular danseuse makes oat .that her entire property is worth opl: $250, whicep may account for her cc noiinical .use of stage dress. The "singing sparks" invention o the German lprofessor will have no in fluence on the sentimnental sparking songs of the American parlor. Madison Square garden, New York is on sale at $3,500,000. Anyboda want a n c 1i.tlec garden, centrally Io dhted? ,ardenling is fine fer thn nerv'es, thle dloctors tell us. The general manager of the Chica .-go telephonie comp iany~ says that then question, "Whlat's the time?" is aske< of his operators by Chicago subscr'i hers no fewer than 52,000 times a (lay There ought to be a good market ir -Chicago for clocks and watches tha w'ill keep, time.. - A girl ini Vienna was recently finet 36 cents for s(cratcehing a man's nosn in the street withi her' hatpiin. This ii the first 1)oetIc retribution which hai overtaken the elonigatedl feminine hat pin, and it Is so because the enormit3 of the offense was equaled only by th<n hugeness of the flne.' Now that it lian been demonsti'atec that cattle can be. hierded with at aerolanle, we may expect soon to set -the p~olic:e handling eirowds at p~aradel and other Public celebrations in thn same nmanner. Its 'till be ani imj~rove ment over thle pushing and~ haulIng oj the method In vogne at pr'esent. The prevalence of the bubonic plague' in the east. has put. Amnerjam health offleers on their mettle. Thern is no .csilfo speelal alarm, foi medlibal sllis equal to lie emer01 gency, says the TIroy Tlimes. Thn fact that several cases have been dis covered on incoming st eamners anm that effective quar'antine hats pre'venlt ed further spread of the allment h: tssur'ance that vigilance is nmaintain e,1. .It has been judlicially decided thai when a man gives a girl a diamonc ring as ani engagement token, the rini belongs to her and she cannot be mlade to give it up if the engagemeni is broken. Soon poor mere man will be beginning to count his few remain ing rights and wonder wh'len they are all taken from him if lhe can accom. plish anything wvith the dlominant sea by becoming in lis ttrn a militant su ffragette. England, and especially London, it .making great plans for the coronatlor of Kinig George next spring. It Is cx liected that the gor'geous spectack will surp'lass anythitig of the kind eve1 -seen in the Brnitish capital, andI th show will bring enormous crowds ti the city. Such affairs always mean 1 magnificent display, of British powe andl also big mioney for L~ondon mei chants, hotel keepers and others. Si the glad news is received with glow ing anticipationq.. A? 47R //y Tr A -RAKe-nTr 47T4 N the summer of 1909, when gold wr discovered in the Porcupine Lake ml ing district of Canada, about 500 mil4 north of Toronto, the region was I inaccessible and the conditions of III were so hard that nothing except t' lure of gold could have brought whil men to the spot. Everywhere was trackless, low-lying forest. Perhal it would be more nearly accurate say that everywhere was a gre marsh filled with trees. In the wint the temperature dropped to 60 degrees below zei and the snow rose to the forest branches. In U, summer there was a pest of insects. Poisonot black flies-almost invisible because of their smal ness-buzzed all the day. At night the black fli laid off and the mosquitoes came on. There wi never a summer hour, by day or night, when a h man being could have lived at peace; when his face would not have been stinging; when his swollen features would not have made him grotesque. But few had ever suffered, be cause there were only a few to suffer. Only an occasional trap per ever penetrated the wilder ness. The prospector had not come, because the prospector, as a rule, goes only where mountains beckon. The prospector did not know that mountains, like teeth, may wear off until only their roots remain. Nor did the prospector know that, in the great dentistry of nature, theme mountain roots are sometimes filled with gold and silver, nickel and iron. Yet such is the fact. When the world was young a mountain range ........ 1'e, men wthconidnc. Thysyths on tais wre he ldet muntin on.h cni nent; tht- theywere ol whnteRc4swr e ufrmd thttegaildrf n.teds inegan efet futl mlibso er ofha adcldi haewr_ te_ aa utlol Tabv.]' ver5os idTofY root are a0 fewreet ofertde but, Mieotatee as Ontrio shole Lab .there. Nobody butdgeloisits mae -thoughthe foents with nenceisapeysay themash; mond tnowere thoe odest famwoutinsmng te ronl. tta' muthin wret( wen nth proies wo' mingatngoufcd f nolde mudemllioyer ofyeat and clden hawr ithe.naayti n'ly thcrots Themnain; govetnentpoint toht rtws aosin trfoftheirithteo frmr.rys.eni -he rotstroed thre.unytoy secwa coul the. dome ofThem farer blowthe sufa et'-' habee -ckorn thort itel raboad. The surfatry hee ad theat grea wo ldeo powsitcs way ge'trog the forets wasnedd te bdisappa rilroarsh; Nort baohere anoes digfake wiousoing to cec A. sitguhera trncntieplalin, perhapr con mauin frtohe forthohrhude.iI1o~ years. baTed icianto aod mprtontain root, tics. hmel Otrioh gadeCaetlt ha itr thas loin trenth ofth thrd' farmers. Ws men, in thexministrunlooed aound $t7,000 wht oul biler done. T heelbrrw. the aybdiet" resud been buylecmethmorinoalod. he producery ofenicked. tA it whichh goomdloit to againest toe.e mae a deroided tobildatur.iCanada hadm Novr bay, on ahrs of sLaer Ncountry toa Conect th was wohingeo this rairac was bidingt that the Lurace o membe had hee cof..trucgold ang, blasved ilda rooto aon-old mnountain. Aoot exantiore was multilonesand caoogsd Canada 12inerdet.o the mltdo s ouetp. . Tw me, i >mgxonamsghtrunded outnle $57,00 wrthofsiler wihr whoseelBrropectang Inirec frestoerd bumryhe becae thnorl'he propducerNof unickel. Allme of which seed rstore agaisth5 riles northwasd no thn ron f surceupoindaeta Thereoiaol assua ncetaty wit 9 c YR NT W Y B 0 aM tM yI r 0~~ A MYOT61 W TA 0 A..An -GiO4D CIAP 46 gard to who first discovered gold In Porcupine as there is with regard to who discovered MCI iAmerica. George .N Bannerman, how ever, appears to be the Columbus of 'thle occa'sion. Ban norman, a n o I d . -prspcto i Jly .1109 sraedth mos5frm bijo the quatz Butth ' ANDAO'ra30/[[' 7/ a gang0/ o f opc dtoread gold in on hispoit ae aikefoud teorcuie atherem thatben's ilsn'snare.s ih regmr" to 20 o 3 fetaovegrondan no on dietoverwd th' tross'frm i anivhreantereis .gold. -.6Notingin hehioryofhel Cm bus ofete illstrte . he ccntrcitesothoe mcaioier 'tan th dsovr o he m prosedcto ringly paty'onise 1909eeme, saped Jack Wilso. Th expditintwa suface by a cago ian. amed dwar s woisinggd star wa t pu upalthmng .up .rthim fom. hel iteres -in nythifgirht nigrtb discov ered.'__ Wso'a ohv'quer a mdert andy . - F/or sevea weeksY they a o prospec-t'h td te .estinTiale~ownhcp Theyon found. donanr oned i . soe cams.But th - ret .wi this piht aret alke peid -themreat Dome ridgelof drocovr, . fetcodng, 40to 80hee.soyht e 20tos eeabeovegrd, iy bendno one yet Wilows h ow' subordrhateis heavilyle'ns wit -old.wasl nta msserom knt nythere anduthreogy but god.d . No:,enoghi .the sr of ,mos.-nin As;hethad hy'es.raete eccntricitie off giocld mnrothelp egthe'isoer gof -Theget ridgie- That sovernge partyh consied ofna the "Wenso hede Dome Jadk Weensond. hSxptas we drinand byla Cid cao nhe naedouldr s h a eggdi Prasthe m.dueost limarkabg sit~ry, Edwavr, wht as tom ut af the Pmorupyineturn or by prospecor nealmek theyl prospectdy. stt h eA minon marpn whomi Wbliieve towsreipl then (ne thet wBst, came Toim onship. Tn heyedound a 6l aemarkakrdc .eceof goldm Buarz t thea ametim askingh hey whremjhe suoed t time "Nithi sfro t anywhere nCanada,"was t repl. Ial diouhteyou wouldigay toat," wstr thatom ismenr"bltyo aevd wog.bca~ neo Thoweno"Bigh tod saptory s. Ash a He sWid the uars wabie of him 'cy'l wotw.p fort tosbendoadben acthentalson Dioe hador tom befe uge boule, ohm hewdwtl Per'haps the muart reamtrkr aven story Lker hAtb, ha comei oht ofterupneoward toldson'a prospectorle n rth "ofl oobat.'ney.ubndn Aw mining mn hom I iev tberliableun thl en Tyhadlcm o himon day ralnd'showd heim aeremarkabl ih pie ofrneldntrz at otheb name timte askild thim here had fouppod i came rego. frome ahee n whenada the ely.a .ad.n thheyo wnted say rthat, was the cormng DOPADO IN MOP2RI 7RO M/ '. Cq Z\ '"0 p et th ~R erything in Bight. During the following winter the hiusband of th wom an who was so soon to become a widow 4ft seriously injured In a mill. In a *few days b realized that death was nears Hle sent. for the tw prospectors who hiad accompanied him to La Abitibi. They came. "Boys," said he, "I guess I've got to . die. I can go back with you- in the spring to stalge the claim I- want- you t~o promise me that If I die you will gIN th l oa hr f htw on atya .Th meC poie.Th iehadte.B Heospecw them.H countr thruherean tkeou wee.wr ering ilhre u in thmimgpac.'h'tecor Duringe tek follneg wne tdhem hsand ofe t womn ho wttas s cetono mn t beco e apiow a saeioulyon..edano a hunil. tIn te dountr rarized that dorthwsnas enfrtet bretorsh announced accmpafrite thm to Ltal Abiobi Lakeytb came. Whens, id rahed" gues 'ke goet de. hI canc from bthe wtr hydou in the "bugtosh,"as tCnadiam caI wa oeston priepared ta wit.ieyuwilg the old wmnighthrd of hat vweifoaunhelast ert ot ohe ebuoshe. Thewife heart them.h he waTedow ha told -. l D wh the cdier caer tw. canhe utin their sae place.gh the cor gonteo quit eavin facetin tikes in the srinar. ae ing theo aendohntBilg--ipaw the wountec rTo he ortniht hr a ofieu h e hat 31waod eoue ghpirlefsoke cul.. Twom wee bforfthe daanuiget. tme for te burned The Wooey qwas hismorefre ad hi kigt anvdentlyat thren moreacs he the laente drwt h calc frm thisne water hidd u it int the wbs,"a ateia call anors ton obsered ther wat. h tl nOsn th ihdyof his vi lwy'addlhd was ei aotgo these, beoin soa- the igettaeh waild wso paddgn asequ'itlywnsthe lacid rive car two. "knuce" cutin thei~r wAngr- tohnthe1 wter in.d lavngt onasi than e roar.h s dl a in the eftnbnk-l sthe two spcoo Theap''xt instat sleemed t e tran l t Bl Tane that ani-uthttre ws ndfire,.ut the quic dy a1sawn acoued sirkao battlehingfrm. * Woodniey dysandt'nowht yt-he fies rne. hE senehad onhae nol chane to beisve -sth waitE threes more ayd then ne wt inwt the e.S l wehis canoeb weaos ahin ptotlint tfhe wen tookre during toohere thxt terend otseee ceral thatlh wsl palurng qitahe coult wenthN thae thu htoute" of th aese hingr- whilet he thining. was nhougt moe nthng Al0 heedidh wsui actn fisat n then lefterwank-th Atfw strokpes1i hes hatndsan o ofe ktckm wthhis fee at Bil agane thet abnk cut rit ver toosuk atr asti th asn Bine ouldt sinke brush. l~p Theorest ohs'tor yanwhe hel inshortie.; aganst Hner dthoesin the wxtfoter.h oure mdred Wodurint the ext s cd it see e e thath wouldhv saving tHe nrext upmotheN tate thoghto all tof theserthings He houl na sta muhsa and time, aftad he ftoew snutoke hisma and He ftoe, noiocs wit hsreet tims h ant tmehe ban No rata tee're ntri fte Thha Billed to camp anb gneubgsnh.b tae. Hunger, ihfinhiad the next dalgthu adoven Wodn itose the veclamp ofe h a Ho dwontuld a sainko h-a He~ crep a, toim tho clet enightndstolethig hfhod.l hat couldme sotea mchai imeng.h tleeoght e hiaiee prstole, note oenced. utethe tihe nertte ent droneal tnoey werte mnt ther Td;hehped upe femp and fgneg and bleat gager, noe oknois lfnri hand the er ld li dit nlya sman uitan scan o a, lil Theo i no othe seaton LW -ine' is so much neede&0 1W thei aAg The -blood is impure and hn ovoriged-. condition idicated b mple, a -other er 8in on th lce and qdfvsa: deficient aIty, loss of appetite, lk 5, strength. The best spring me4icin6, according to the experience atid test iony- of thou. sands annually, In Hood's Sarsaparilla -It purifies and enrichos the blood, oures eruptions, builds up the system. . Get' it tod "ik usual liqid form or chocolated ta Iown as Sarsatabs. The Practical Agriculturist.' Adam sniffed at the book farmer. "I don't believe in spraying apple trees," he snorted. In the Spring cleanse the system and purify the blood by the use of Garfield Tea. It's easy for a pretty young widow to make a man think he wants to marry her. PI'LES %R~ED IN 6 TONT. Your 11 i r n nBn NT. MAONT faili(A3tIou~ronn cusoo of itchinle loNg or Protruding IIlea in to 14 a Severe Critics. Alice-I like Tom immensely, and he's very much of a gentleman, but he does like to talk about himself! Grace-Yes, dear, your night hath a 'thousand I's.-Puck. THE HAPPY MAN. First Lady-How very happy the bridegroom looks! Really it is pleas ant to see a young man looking so joyful. Second Lady-Hush! That's not the bridegroom; that's a gentleman the bride jilted six- months ago. Warned. A serious-minded New Yorker, who, because of his dignified outlook on life, has sent his son, aged twelve, to a particularly strict and proper board ing school in New England, unexpect edly visited the school last week. As certaining the location of his young hopeful's room, he climbed the four flights of stairs necessary to reach it -and entered. On a mammoth pla card suspended from a steel engrav ing of "Washington and Generals" _.jtipreqented to the y Vhs Mas gift by hr ddimiring Jarent Was the cheerful sentiment: "Don't spit on the ceiling. We have lost our ladder." It Snappy. "TeIn cents' worth of canine pepper," aid the litttle-b'b- in the suburban tstore." "Canine!." echoed the astonished Sclerk. "Why, my little man, I guess . you mean cayenne pepper." - The little boy was doubt ful. e Maybe I (do, mister," he hesitated, d"but mamma said it was the kind of pepper that had a sharp bite, so L. thought, it was 'canine.'" -EDITOR BROWNE Of0 Thq:.Rockford Morning Star. S"About seven years ago I ceased -5 drinking coffee to give your Postum a trial. S"I had suffered acutely from various dforms of fndigestion and my stomach Shad become 'so .disordered as to repel almost every sort of substantial food. My general health was bad. At close *intervals I Would suffer severe attacks which-conflied me in bed for a week or more. Soon after changing from coffee to' Postum the 'indigestion abated, and in a, short time ceased Sentirely. :I have continued the daily use of your ex~ellent Food Drink and assute'you most cordially that I am indebted .to you for the relief it has . brought me. "Wishing you a continued success, I anm '-- Youi-a very truly, -. --J. Stanley Browne, .. . ', Managing Editor." . fcourse, wheni a man's health ii shows heb can stand coffee without 'tPQublo, let .him. drink it, but most bisfhlyj.olganiz'ed brain-workers elm T 'he drugs natural to the coffee her **ry affect thle stomach and other organs and thence to the complex nervous tsystem, throwing it out of balance and. Sproducing disorders in various parts g of the body. Keep up this daily pois e oning andl serious disease generally :osupervenedi. So when man or woman 1finds that coffee Is a smooth but dead Sly enemy and health is of any value r at all, there is but one road--quit. It is easy to find out if coffee be the . oause of the troubles, for if left off 10 ~,days and Postum be used in its place Sand the sick and diseased conditions ,begin to disappear, the proof is un ~tanswerable. S Postum is not good If made by short *boiling. It must be boiled full 15 min ~,utes after boiling begins, when the . crisp flavor and the food elements are ybrought out of the grains and the bev .erage is ready to fulfill its mission of 'epalatable. comfort and renewing the 4cells .and nerve centers broken dowri by.'.coftie. y"There's a Reoasofi." . Get the little book, "The Road to " W'ellville," in pkgs., E lver readl the above letter? 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