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SENTINEL -JOURNAL PUialSHED WEEKLY. PICKENS, SOUTH CAROINA. Keep cool and you will be cool. Also, bash the pest tlhit rocks the boat. It must be great to be skinny in hot weather. Do not overwork yourself taking hot weather advice. More popular than others are hot Waves with broken backs. Now the man who sleeps out of doors finds it easier to make converts. There ought to be a Nobel prize for the personage who invented shirt Waists. About the only time tie women ar good listeners is when the preacher Is talking. New York comnplatins of a shortage of water, desilie the fact it is sur rountided by it. Detroit's team" loses a game on rare nenasions to prove that its players are merely hminanii. Chicago Is now alvornting ai baths. A short time ago ono of its citizens died inl a bathtub. A New Jersey man who ate pie twice a day for 89 years is dead---gone to his desserts, as it were. After college professors reach a certain age they don't seem to care what they say about women. There has been discovered one of those old-fashioned baseball gaines in which one team scores 20 runs. At the Hoe library sale "The Swan [look" brought $21,000. Its new owner would not rend it for twice that. London dressmakers now proposci a gown with a detachable train. Ilub by, we presume, will be the switch nan. However, the aviat r who threatens to fly up Broadway will not be the Dnly high flyer on that wicked thor Dughfare. "The earnings of the vernge New York lawyer amount to about $1.1000 a year. "IEarnings" is a diplonaiie way Df putting it. Stealing a base on the rest of the country, a Massachusetts school is using batting aivernges to stimulate in Nierest- in 'mjathematics. New ork has just sent $2.000,000 of worn oltYt money to Washington. The fellows the New Yorkeirs took it away from wero probably sentt to the hos pital. VA New Yor-k miser commnittedl sul 01(de because lhe was lonesome, and yet you can hardly blame people for not wanting to keep a uniser's comn pany. A wester-n railroad has placed en its r-ails a car reserved for women only, bitt the womcn (10 not after all prefer an Adamiess Eden on wheels. s1 )on't be discouraged if thle results you get from) y'ouir garden make it seem expensive. The price Putt upon01 Madisotn Square1 garden in New Yotrk is $3,500.00e0. A chewing gumn faine is threat ened in ('hicaigo ats the result of a strike. Outr (old-fashionied notion of not hing to worry abou-1 is a chewing gumi) famiine. A canvass of the co-((ds in Chicago uinivei'sity shiows that only two per cent, of thoem are planitn tg tmatimtony. That's all right; there's no need to hurry the girls. There are a great many unreason able persons in tihe world, butt few are mor-e so than the Newt Yorker wh~o stabbedl a (leaf mute because he tailed to reply to a question. A floston street car conducto found a $5,000 necklace on the floom of his ear. And we thought that women who wear $5,000 necklaces al ways reo in auttomobiles. A flrooklyn woman who is ';)1 years old attributes the fact to het habit of arising every mernting at o'clock. Many feel that getting utl at 6 every morning is enough to inake anyone old. Professor Sargent of Harhard hat St figured out thtat flowers wili reforin bad boys. The next time your youthl fuil son poutrs water into the gasolini tank of your automobile, hand him 86 bunch of violets. "'Let the baby squall by till means, ays Professor W. A. McKeever o e Kansas Agricultural college t reby proving that all the massiv, n 1t ileets have not been coralled b; - *e\eastern universities. t ouis has provided a farm homn 10'the\ horses of the city department ~ le animals grow too old an - dfti ~r work. Appreoiation of an; kIA ipast usefulness in public worn Is to tane, either in man or beast, tha this 6rAteill act to faithful four.footel eervants . s credit to the, citys~ put~ 1eAii -h enrsiy Savind Gyes Some People Many Money Happy Hours By P. EVAN JONES, Chicago ~I0 E days ago I read a letter from a teacher or a professor in S a town or small city who asked if it is worth while to save money. I-lo had, during eight or ten years, saved and invested so that 1e had now about $5,000. lis object inl saving was to build a hone for himself and his family. hriring these years of self-denial the lot on which lie intentded to build hlid gone up in value from $600 to $1,000 and( the house that lie and his wife had planned to build for $5,000 would now cost $8,000. Because of this the teacher or professor asked if it is worth while to economize and save money. Certailily it is. The teacher's or professor's own statenents are a convincing proof of it. The aiiount lie now has as a result of his sav ing is so uch imoney, whatever its buying clipacity may be, or whether property or building inaterials have gone lp or dowii. And wlen a per son has $5,000 he can, with his experience in s;avinhg ind investing, very easily in a few years get another $5,i1000. (ne of our great fiariiciers said not very hing ago that it was hard est. to save tlie first. $I10 0. It seems that tlie good teacher or professor was discouraged beciuse he could riot for $5,000 build the house which he and his wife had planned for so mainy years. Bit, accordinig to his ownl stativteit, tle planninig of that house wis the 111ailspring of the saving of that large aionint lie now hals. Anid, besides, it. has given tlieii r miay happy houlrs. But any one (nni build i very linle lnd comfortb house, with every iodern conven iene, for $5,000. An urncount able tnier of us--imd niyelf for one0 would lie more than glad if we had that, aniouit with which to build a homie. Roth in Chieago find elsewhere have .1 seenI houses, andl good looking nd comfortable they have been, that have not cost iiore tlian the amount the teacher says lie has. But if one has that, sum to start with lie can easily borrow some more, evei $3,000, if he helieves lie ought to have a home costing so much. Having his own home and tlie habit of saving, it ought to be comipa i ratively easy to pay a loan ion the house. Certainiiiv it is worthi while to save mioney. The teacher'H or- professor's owii let ter is a coticlusive and / onvinicilng roof o f it. ____________________________ A frauied-upi ecuise is sure to lie it poor 66le H eroes often collie of iuslspeted l rui -From ca. Under the 1'liose who speak its they tliiik should Iinik before t hey speak. Flying A if-satisil( iiai is merely a case of Chaff"irestei evulopiiitt Chau' ~The Shi~t( i ugshield Of virtue(- t InS aside malrity (I poisotied shiaft. By A. W. MACY l',xperience 0ften conies iD wlolesale Author of "Slooriclut Philosophy" lots, but we always pav t ito n(ii o tAu ramgodu eiicuse is sue wolbe thioor withes fceocostoaunuspcueema Thoyewholseak eatheythinkshoul \~ha ~~mld liebea th ik if oe thiey spitera. tllgt rn I iali~iid mregmot ld n ii 110A( elf-sti;simn s wer0elyat crie if thee griting shield of virtue turnsiasid Sotte eope a yri 110 Epeienof iof rite n ae cagn rhoer that crowstiwi alwayt oayathiteeitiitirrce. ((omyrgit,191Ab goodp begiingi may he ha.tebt ___________________________ e iia ootd edinis~ ever 01 wh otg tevernlyv insmn thtgoo weladoritear uh wit constan use.t es tdtlenor itl aias lionest may b theabs i ly buwtthe 0(1 wol kadops ithas pai pof ic illbea wacin.r n n lre les andi nmaikeisatgman ofliI himsielfia Adoptaedgroundinidiamo d uoo; ao mutle gir rioastee two yearsgoi. Oof ourirowns chpngdience. ttea. Thewsin frhascreptaintoaouraheart <oyih.111.( leve rio roo oii -- --. Found interiiatdtain bb we wee wel off ind tuit vera l tearit dg eid our haietroule waugh foolish to puttoresan theirfonnoiai ofrh Bu w ite l oy alpuso her nti aruni1 miick assd aay.lt~ Godeonlyknowsftheapainroubl or worryshe may e. My rtning and loelie s.og hewr u Moreverwe hve fien s o mthshv aopedn to litl o rlsa I aidI kio t imt teyivoldasyavis aii n to 1 a litte gilnoe uiew Every t Iiyeis bsorld.Ou hme ha 'ie s haedsainc ten Tharel e has ledrsptito or hartw Boost for whoan lae s fre roi frane 11ss. e BetterTiyroue? non of ursect; bui sheti the e nte p l atoed bayin th babny 1' fl1D~~S ouririen~sr odus wae did thrt nourwhitn we er wel. n thNE at certa neope at didsono avies troubleowere oolish o thei foo inoft an sovorth. cutorwhen wmg ofb pta her__arms__around__my _ne_ k and0sa . mma nu ifne, reaid ser, ny trobe Soroysedma be y huCnisbratn. Dlo lovts hers as ouwshedwereon Moreovicer, tehae crinds an thitae geealydonteted twon httegil adI o th a iig odtio o the ou ld adiseany ret liktsedy. Knock Boost fo N VV ....... .A ../.I.. rious and unfWY has A SITUATION whi oth Cu arisen regarding taaing of water from Niagara falls. Under the existing arrange ment author ized by the Canadian wtaterwtay treaty a maximum limit of diverin from Niagar a of 66,000 cubic feet per second is permitted "for pur poses of power production." As the average flow in cubic feet per second( is 222,400, this amount is 25 per cent, of the whole. Hut as the ordinary low wvater flow is 180,000 cubic feet per second, what this al lowance re'ally comes to is 30 per ::ent. of the water pasring over the 'alls. Visitors to Niagara who have observed little if any change in the :typearance of the falls do not always re'alize that the power companies have not yet taken as much water as the lawv apparenitly allows. TIhe treaty, as has been intimated, has providled a limit for power purposes, but it has provided absolutely no limit whatever f or the taking of water from Niagara 'for sanitary andi domestic purposes." The American Civic federation, uin :1er the directorship of ,J. Horace Alc Farland, has taken upon itself the task of arousing its extensive member ship, as well as the country at large, to the dangers of the present situa ion. "Saving Niagara" has become a tire some job during the last few years, for' It seems to a weary public as if Niagara was always being saved by ;he skin of her teeth from something ar other. Tfhe first outcry arose some time ago when the proposition to use water from the Great falls was first presentedi to the authorities. As will be remembered, strenuous opposition was p~ut forth by those who feared that the wvonderful scenic attractions af Niagara wvould be injured if not ut terly destroyed. The campaign against the power companies wvas not successful in preserving Niagara in tact, but it did result in rousing the :tountry to the possibility of having no Niagara at all. Time passed, the treat turbines werie installed, and Ni sgara still flowed on. liutt the danger, though latent, still existedl, and it neededl only at little ingenuity on the part of the financial interests involved to find a way to further dep'llete the water flow. What Might Happen. Fortunately the gaugings, tests andi measturemenlts madec by the United States army engine'ers, uinder the di rection of the il~ke survey, have fur nished facts which show beyond the shadow of a doubt what w'ill happen if Niagara is to any greater extent forced to contribute more water for any purpose whatsoev'er. In the re por'. of the chief of engineers, puib lished a little over two years ago, this final statement is made, referr'ing to the total power diversions on both tides of the river: "The combined lowering tends to uncover shallow portions of. the crest ine of the American falls. It is fur hot nhemnautlat by geater ana con *0 0 I.. V . J/ECW Q.t/Y/AGAPA equently more harmful etfects, bott n the American rapids and at the lasterly, or Terrapin point, end of the iorseshoe fall. . . . It is on the anadian side of the boundary that he impairment of the falls is most erious. . . . As a whole, the falls inve unquestionably been seriously njured by the diversions already iiade. Additional diversions now uin ier w ay will add to the damage." These words were written before he full diversion authorized by the iurton bill had been effected. To lay conditions are worse than they wer-e at the time of this report, and if the bold attempt to increase the skin. ning of the falls by 28 per cent. on the Akmerican side, and to double it on the LCinadian side, should be allowed tc slip through without check, it is the opinion of experts that a considerable portion of the Horseshoe fall Just be yond Terrapin point, and well within the American boundary line, would be dr altogether. Rocks Barely Covered. Even today with the possible max-. mum limit not yet being abstracted, een observers have noticed that lnn. Iredis of feet of rock here and there ilong the break of Hlorseshoe fall are uarely covered with water. 'rhe Biridlal V'eil is considerably lessenedl in volume, and those who have visited the fall most recently have not been dble to avoid cammenting on this fact. Portions of the rapidls have also been EIffectedl and hat e lost a good deal of their former imptlessiveness. Those wvho have calculated that a cliversion of 25 per cent, would not materially change the form of the cat aract to the eyes have been basing heir figures on the erroneous theory, so it is asserted, that the falls of Ni igara are like a ennal, with an even llepth and a smooth bottom and sidies. Nothing could be further from the truth. The "wild glory" of the falls results, not entirely from the er roneous amount of water plunging over- the great natural danin, but from the uneven character of the bed of the river, set with boulders, and also from the Jagged edge of the cliff over- which the surplus from four gr-eat lakes tum bles a hundred and sixty feet into the rugged cauldron below, Fortunately, for the power companies, the amount of water so far diverted for manufac turing purposes has not been notice able, hut the fact remains that every further diversion, no matter how slight, wvill increase the risk of ruin ing the falls forever, In connection with their study of the Niagara situation, the governmnent engineers discovered that the wvater in the great lakes is not a constant qiuantity-, but that it ap~par'ently in creases and diminishes in recurring cycles of high and iow,. lletwecen 1864 andl 1874, for example, the water of he great lakes was muaterily low~er than it la today. lletween 1874 and 1886 it reached the highest recordied po0 aIns. From 1886 on duiring the next, dec-adle there was a drop, reaching its mhuii1mm in 1896, and since then there has been a gradiual rise to a summit point in 1908. it looks, therefore, as if another recesaion of the water's ha~d Just started, and as this cycle of low water develops it. Is wvell wit hiun the bounds of possibility that Parts of the American rapids will lose much of their beauty, and that parts of the Hiorseshoe fall may lbe likewise seri ously dlamaged. Trho fact that the large power dlevelopments have taken place during the period of the up war-d tendency of the water has nmado the results of the drains upon the fails less disastrous, for the simple reason that there was more water passing over the falls than the average mean, it is with a full realization of the situation outlinedi ab~ove that the American Civic association has under taken a campaign which, if successful, should result in the lasting preserva tion of the falls to the "real owes the American people, Jby WIOUR. D NEMIT Miss Itose she tip en sliuk huh laid F.1n '141w she thewd o' wealhin, a ese satine (115 bloons ontill she's iEn' Alstall Phl'lox ('com1 - tvaihin' Fl-roun' de plot en a'y hi s Say "I's thoo wid (lis ol' blos4om !' IIe say: fliits out o' style telay- ai Let's take <iem off en toss 'emil." 0 D3n Allstah Phlox en young 1 Dey rouse l) all de tuddC En shout: "Clome on! 1.et' It now clo'es, Po' sstehs en po' bri , AlIss I.ly she ax fo' ne tyest ilt Mo'nin' Glory, wh Say: "het I'se done a oil mies Dess climbin' up en Den ol' Mis' Apple Tr ny: "ltush! You' moughty foolis 11h11A. Don't go at dis In sec rush Yo's all o' y' too w But, huh! lDey dont huh at all, 1)ey melk dey leaves frecled, s Miss )aisy 0lomb ulp e a E.n sit dhfil, red en ' ekled! S Out come de ladlies- 11. oompoohl! I tell yo' dey, Is f ,n Dey Scol' demtn filow' thoo en thoo Almos' lalc menft cussin'. Dey say Aliss 110s s plum gone dat, O En istah Phlox hal EI1n aill 0' dem dles Iaff en laft l When dey look a Miss Lily. De 'elsion yo' mul- draw fum din I- dat de bes' to o Is To do yo' bes' en ne h miss De chance to be w it true is. In co'se de flowehs ade folks smile When dey all chan (I (ev trimmin Dey didn't know dat hangin' style Wuz on'y meant foh wimmen! The New isease. it "What are his symptomns?" asked the doctor to whom the mother of' the young perso- has emr e for "He seems 't'd have an Insane desire to buy post cads Why, worse than tile cigarette habit with him. He buiys two or three dozen of them every day and sends them off by mail. lHe dr'eamsg about post cards, he talks about post cards, and unless he is given the opportunity to buy and mail as many of t~hom Na he likes he al most goes into collapse. I am afraid his heart is affected, he gets so nerv ous and excited when he Is crossed in his wishes in that resp~ect." "Yes," says the physician, thought fully rubbing his eyeglasses~ "The symptoms you mention i'qiicte card iac disturbances. We might ca&1 them postcardiiac." WVithout a smile he writes a pre scription for something that will taste like tile gum on the back of a stamup. Knew the Sex. "Sir," said tihe eminent womaun's . righlts agitatress to the celebrated geog ralpher. "I have called to protest against your unfair discrimination." "in what way, -madam?" asks the geographer, looking up from the map on which he is marking the new bound aries of Manchuria. "You (10 not give proper recognitioni to my sex in the names yotu give to countries and places. For instance, you have the Isle of Man, and ther-e is no isle of Woman." "Your complaint is perfectly just, madam," courteously says the geog r'apher, "and the difficulty you speak of shall be remedied in the next geog raphies. We shall have an "I'll of Man" and an "I'll Not of Woman." Uusuaiiy the Case. "It is awful," muoratlized the profes sor, "to see how sonme Oritiettishl wom en will lead a man on." "Lead him on!" exclaidmedl the dama sel. "I've noticed that after a man has followed a woman uunti' she eludes him he sets up the ple'a that bie wa~s led." Innocent. "Spiggles," says the host, "You are a juidge of tobacco, ar'en't you. I'd. like yotu to try one of my imported lia vana cigaris." T'he host is lifting the lid of his ci gar jar when Spiggles enters a stay of proceedings. "I've tried 'emn. They're not gtilty.". Her Curiosity. "They say Flosslo announced her engagement to Mr. Glatsap before he had prloposedl to her.". 'Y'es. She saidl she wasn't going to accept him until she knew how her friends woutld regard her engagement," Preference, We disilke people who are cold The trait ia only human. We'd rather have our shoes halt soled Bly some good, whole souled shoeman,