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SENTINEL JOUNAL PUBLISHED W EErY. PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA. Sunday fun too often ends in a fu aeral. Properly muzzled ogs are bitig very few persons this season. In the case of a hot wave it Is pleas ant to speed the parting guest. To be certain of finding buried treas ure, dig in your vegetable garden. The pistol In the house generally gets somebody into trouble sooner or later. Fathers. teach your boys how to swim-if you have to learn first your selves. Persons who don't like to have their pictures taken usually show it in the photograph. A large per cent. of the marriages turn out happier than the gossips iu agine they will. There's another advantage that ac crues to a higlibrow-his straw hat stays on in 4 gale. The pitch for tuning pianos has been increased from 435 to 438 v'lbra tions. More misery. Porch sleeping is regaIning popu larity. It is all right until the early milk man begins to arrive. One mad dog can cause more ex ciltinent in a community than a thou sand that are safe and sane. Likewise, wo are advised to swat the tussock moth. Of coluise we all know what a tussock moth is. An Atlanta man has been orderedil by the court to kiss hiR wife at le st once a day. Servs lim right. An Indiana minister died from tie effects of being kitten by a catfish. Let's have the crinfish muzzled. Few people er.joy a run on a bank, but a run on the bank of a swimmin' bole is a popular pastime these days. flefore going too far let us reflect upon the fact that abolishing war would soon leave us without colonels. "Aost Americans eat too much," opines a New York physician. Like wise, some physicians talk too much. New York contemplates having Its policemen wear lIed Cross badges. Better make them double-cross badges Even the old oaken bucket Is un Aer the han these days. Ilealth is worth a wholhi lot more than senti s nent One way to keep cool and at the same time mnirthfdl is to go dow n Into the bnsemen' and look at the furnace. SI Some married men don't seem to ac complish arny more no0w than they did when women wore 22 buttons down the back. Vassar college announces its fif tieth birthday, but none of the grad uates admit that they were in at the beginning. A Chicago woman, suing for divorce, satps that she won her husband on a jte.. And now she's trying to welch onthe deal. "Overwork." says a physician. "is the curse of the day." True, but what is a man going to do when be needs the money? The big cotton crop is likely to help make woolen goods che'aper by low' ering the price of cottonl to mix with the "all-wool" fabrics. Mirrors installed its street car piat forms, instead of inducing w'omen to alight properly, might prevent them froem alighting at all. It is nlow claimed that Ananiiias died of heart failure. Somebhody probabbly told him about the clubL that was to be named in his honor. A Chicago clergyman declares that the tree is man's best friend. It is certainly a great c.onvenience in a field where there is a cross bull. And apropos of the present situa tion, not even the most experienced weather sharps can predict accurate ly how the lightning Is going to strike. 4The clergyman who claims that An atias (lied of heart failure and not ' of prevar'ication will probably toil us that 13aron Munchausen was an honest man. A Cleveland woman was cured by a surgical operation of an abnormal desire to play the piano. Other per sistent pic~no players should consult specialists. It is stated that Boston is to have a hospital for thle rich. Stili, the man of sense, whether rich or poor, would prefer to stay outside of even the most gilded of' hospitals. Two million trees hav'e been plant ed in Kansas this year. Good. When Kansas gets a suilicient number of shade trees it may become easier .Cor her tonfind harest hsna. Br/ EDWADBCLR H FJ return to America of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth after their honeymroon trip abroad gav'e to lIelpresentative Henry S. Itoutell, liepublican, of Chicago, an opipor tunity to have considerable fun at the expense of the D~emocrats. it is knowni of course that one great political party looks to TPhoimas .Jef ferson as the apostle and1( prophet of the simple dlemocrat ic life, and1( knowing this, Mr. lioutell, who ap jiparently had been reading some ancien(t records, tried his best to undermine the "'simipie life" pedelstaI upon which Thomas Jeffersonl standls. There were some peopile apparently who thought that Mrs. I ongworth, who is ex-Presidlent Roose. velt's dlaughter, might return from hor honeymoon trip abiroad, where she was treated in a measure 1l1k0 a royal personage, in a frame of mind in which pridie w\as dlominant and that she might hav'e lost somne oif her American simpjlicity. Representative lIoutell madei a speech which of ':ourse did not have .\rs. Longworth for its central sublject, but he in troduced nat t Iers by saying that she would( return to Arniericn, "nlot Princess Al ice, but the same nuodes t, u((tLssumitimg daughter of the preside(nt t hat it was her wont to be." M rs. Iam gw( rthi'1(1 1am in to Mir. lItutell's speech only as a i n i cii t of dii scourse, the liublicanm rep'resenita tive's iaoin initen(tion being appa rentIly to1 at teniuPt to re fute the statement nade byI lt(epresentative Wheeler of Kent ucky that the liepubli eanl Party under01 present ad iniist ratioun was int rodue- 4 and flunkeyism" into our Intercourse with representa- '*'' tives of foreign powers. Thes Chicago Reopublican looked at (lie D)emoc racy's M ississippi chieftain (now a United States senator), then turnedl his eyes to the thlen sub chieftain, Champ Clark of Missouri, and said: "1 wish to read a few words of Thomas Jefferson." The chieftain looked (more than a bit startled. "I readl fromi the 'Complete Writings of Jeffer son,' by Ford," wvent on Mr. Boutell slowly. "It appears from this letter that Adams was just about to go aS a business agent of .Jefferson to Lonadon, and after giving him several conmmis sions, he wvrites: "'One further fav'or and I am done: to search the Herald office for the arms of mfy family. I have what I have been told wvere the family armns, but on what authority I know not. It is possible there may be none. If so, I will withi your assistance become a purchaser, having Stearne's word for it that a coat of arms may be purchased as cheap as any other coat.' "So here we hlave the founder of the Democratic party just dabbling, as it were, in syncophancy nlot very trucullent as yet." There was no0 quick rec'overy on the part of the Democratic members from this blow, which, while dlirected fair at their idol, hit them hard In glancing. Finally, Mr. Sulzer, the East sideO statesman, recovered sufficiently to ask in what year it was that Jefferson had commissioned a man to buy the coat of arms. On learning that it was in the year 1771, Mr. Sulzer said, with an intonation that showed he h~ad found a grain of comfort in the thought, "That was five years before the revolution." The New York representative's consolation morsel apparently was not big enough to go round among his neighbors with an appreciable shlare of each. It was a bit hard to learn after many years that the mnan who wrote the immortal document beginning with ringing words about eqluality had been trying to btiy something which would go to show that he was a trifle "more equlal'' thlan his neighbors; and the blow wvas like unto that of a bludgeon, because it was shown that the supposedlly impeccable one had more than intl mated that a counterfeit coat was as good as a genuine one if only it were nobly emblazoned, The Republicans had a rare time of it over the llemnocratic dlis'omiiittore. When 't comes to fun the galleries are glorioumsly nonpartisan. The humor of the thing wvas to the people aloft well worthl tho knocking (of a prlop from the third presi dent's pinnacle. Things might rnot have been so nV~ogether bad for the cause of Mr. Jefferson and his house disciles if Mr. lIoutell had been content to stop), for everybody recognizes thle weakness that all human natutre--even that sternly simple type--has for ('rests and other family gewgaws. "Yes," said the Chicago man, "it was flve years before tile revolution. Now, just before the revolul tion, oin August 25. 1775, the great fotunder of the Demobratic party, the introducer of 'trulculent sycophancy' itto our (ntionaml administ ration, wrote to ,lohln Randolph from Monticello urging a reconciliation wvith Great liritain, (and( in thait letter he uses5 this expm'ession: "'I (am sinc(erely oine of ths w153~ ho wVould rat her be in depenidence on Great liritain, properly lim ited, than any other nait Ion on earth, or than on no nation.'" The last flye words of I his Jleffersonian pro nouncemlenit it wold seemfl. if language meanls anything, i:Oin:t to ai desire enl tl'e part of the U'irgtuian Demnocrat that the colonies should have 1EL$ UN co.YM33*V MR3. Q/Y6/ORT rnoM nowesipabeokidcnctnthmwh /n ofteoe-h-e4 oes AsM. Iuelpti:"tsespsil ht having pu'Arca s cot fars Jfero eartat on the'declaratio/ f neenec and th estabishme th a' repblca form of~ govrnmnt t wul no e naaialast The mweryI a1. of hi d peec dwetlsin conem s.t tas irtentionllyu ligt, 't tem droe home tht lessonI that oraitheso al ce~tain kfindennc confd to elment of a pblica frty.f gWhrnen it wuldr ant Amerian avtilabede ast ahe result oe hat aduleertd old cntiasue.n oroner' memry oflthie jsefehdwell bingcngress. th deasedethejry igtyu gitverohe cause the alessnestht raitieve of ethen kwin are ver dicfine, the "recertof aned picl pahedrespns. T~hn he pefodubre anwh ic ans iedCngrles as th sto meaure. aPrate food tassgt as e thearcle of mein misntoinerstadtgs comre, aus pcrones jurd wil boe abustel imn brngin measue than~i o w suicide oth rerh ot ogre tohr on wth we d th conudr.a ietecuea Rpresnesstat whiheer ofth wan the Chcag dicote, the "rcnb 3 id ill thogbtehue. He resex Thendere-foodxhorterwhndhdurssgdthe gress isr the cuase of mor e inerstndngs the sse thaners any shoteahch congrs thouneret it wdorpweeye coidr.t hmtlso ihr Rereunknwnae tod-and it wasntn e of hicg pilotedrth unknow thghtiMr. house tol wao the pounerond-gaterdidrng the gearer art ofor aysazeelad cutheto interest oftesand1 membgatirs thas ao cene hof the inters ofn thert b ugnaknown thatgressMlnketunto tha eate while the Hyde Park representative set forth his wares in bottle and in box and gave his colleagues full knowledge of the indigestible and poisonous stuff that the stomach of the American had been taking to its own all the years under the sacred names of food and medicine. The house has upon most occasions the saving grace of taking things in part humorously. A joke saves many a situation, assauges anger and disarms the man whose tongue under stress of temper becomes a sharp weapon. There were few jokes dluring the discussion of the pure-food bill. The subject was as deadly 1 serious as wvere some of the "food" products dis played on the Chicago representative's desk. Once in a while the gravity was relieved by a quip, but as a matter of fact the joke of the thing was of the past-a huge joke, if a grim one, cracked by food preparers and medicine manufacturers at the expense of the stomachs and the livers of the American people. Mr. Mann toldl of an Amer'ican firm that had been importing rotten-yes, rotten-E'ggs, which, after treatment with boric acid, were sold to candy-makers and cake-bakers. Mr. Gaines of Tennessee exp~ressedl gratitude that the imports did( not get inito oggnoggs. Thle laugh was faint. Every member was thinking of the candy and the cake and stomachs of the child mult itutde. Trhe half has never been told in the public prints of the food frauds which Representative Mann disclosedl in the time-often extended alloted to him to press this bill to a passage. Some of his exhibits were ground "coffee" made of roasted beans, oats, lpilot br-ead, charcoal, red slate, bark and date stones: cinnamon maden of 0,~ r ANC/YRY r. MI/NEY sawdust: whole pepper made of tapioca and lamp black; cocoa made of walnut shells and oxide, and a thousand and one other foods adulterated in a thousand and one ways. The drinks were worse. From the exposition made in the house-and in this subject an interest deeper than any draught that be had ever taken was shown by every member-it would seem that the man who leads a friend to the bar and asks what he will have gives his friend no choice, for the bartender will set out what the spirit moves. and it seldom will move a pure spirit. The members of congress learned by formulas presented, bearing the name and address of deal ers, that skim milk masquerading as cream is a deception of babe-like innocence compared with the "pure domestic" and "fine imported" whiskies and cordials which are set forth for the damnation of a drinker's stomach if not for the damnation of his soul. The hope may be expressed, possibly without incuring the charge of vindictiveness, that in this case the curse returns to roost behind the bar. To Representative Henry T. Rainey is due large ly the fact that the bones of John Paul Jones rest in the land for which he fought. It was the 1111 nols Democrat who first took up the matter of the search for the commodore's remains and who started the investigation which later made General Porter's work possible. Mr. Rainey never has been - given credit in full for his shar of the labor, for modesty has held him silent. Congress at the outset did enough to discourage ten men of ordinary en ergy from carrying on the quest for anybody's bones. Mir. Rainey refused to be gil)e(d out of his purpose, and although he could not in(umce his colleagues to take- him altogether seri ously, he followed the bent of his belief in other direc tions and now Jchn Paul Jones rests at Annapolis. The Illinois member in Stroduced a resolution pro viding for the finding and for the removal to Amer Ica of the Scotch sailor's remains. The resolution alled for an appropriation of $10,000 to pay the expenses. Then the fun began. The mockers in the house declared that the commod'o was bur'ied leep in a cemetery under million-dollar business str'uctures on the Rue Grande Aux Belles or on th Rue des Ecluses Saint Martin or on several yther rues which they could not pronounce. Congress in its humor had the aid and jocose sorrespondents, who saw the rare jest in the bones 4earc-h and made the most of it. And here recol ection brings a blush of contrition to the cheeks >f one who followed in the train. Members said and correspondents wrote that the French doubtless ~radly would allow their business palaces to be uni lermined and toppled to ruin on the payment of $10,000 of Yankee cash. If Yankee cheek, the representatives said, aided y French politeness, could accomplish the purpose )f building demolition, there would be small chance f separating Jones' bones wvith any certainty of dentity from those of the French sleepers in the >ld cemetery. One scoffer suggested with fine irony hat there might be a bit of the original Scotch skull left, and that Sidney Smith's rule might be Iipplied to make positive the identification. Mr. Rainey was undisturbed. Hei wvas not even noved to surrender when suggestion was made that f the $10,000 were sent over to some French grave ligger he would find the old sea dog's bones and Jrove their genuineness if ho had to tattoo the ;ailor's autograph in the tibia of the left leg to lo it. It was two years on the way, but the last laugh 'ame, and it was Mr. Rainey who had it. His 'olleagues made amend for their scoffing and their ;corning, and now another jester of the past writes >elated word of contrition. fHE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH What is said to be the coldest place on the globe s the region of Vcrkholensk, Siberia. . Here is a tonvict station, but during most of the year no guards ar-e needed to keep the prisoners from run iing away, for in the more severe portions of the ,vinter nmo living creature can remain In the open, rnd during the three most severe months, when he temperature sometimes falls to 85 degrees be ow zero, no one dares to venture oult for more han a few moments at a time. Ordinary steel tools will snap like glass, and mneeasoned wood becomes almost as hard as iteel. When one breathes a powder like the v'ery inest snow falls at one's feet. It is said that there tre le'ss forms of insect life here than elsewhere a the world, and some of those found are not oind elsewhere, seemingly having been created uspiecially to inhabit such a frigid region. Some of the signal-service officials declare Ihat nost of the severe cold waves that sweep acrocss lhe North American continent have their origin in Verkholensk. Tihe wind blows a perfect gale almost ill the time, and that discomfort, added to the low emperaiture, would certainly make thmis a veiry un d1easamnt iplace in which to spend the winteri. No Help. A St. l.ouis tiaveling maon, mnaking his first trip brough Noirth D~akota, woke uip one Mlay morning o find thle giround white with snow. ""Foir lleav'en's sakeO," lhe asked the hotel cl-rk, lisgumstedlly, ''when do you have sum m(r out ini his 'ouintr-y ?" '1 dlon't knlow," reCpliedl the clerk, "I h-~we only )een her-c I I months."-Suces 9 0 5 T HREE hours after the first dose. That's all the time it takes for-Oxidine to "get busy" with a tor pid liver, sluggish bow. ela and kidneys and a weak stomach. Tones and strength ens vital organs. Try just one bottleo OXIDINE -a bottle proves. The Specific for Malaria, Chills and Fever and a reliable remedy for all diseases due to disorders of liver. stomach, bowels and kidneys. 0c. At Your Druggfste eUX nU2wEUNS DRUG 0e, Waco. Texas, Answering the Dean. The man who Thackeray calls "the greatest wit of all time"-Dean Swift of St. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin was as ready to take as to make a re tort. "Why don't you doff your hat to me?" he asked a small boy who was coaxing along an obstreperous goat. "I will," said the lad, "if your honor will hold the goat's horns!" an answer which delighted the dean.-Youth's Companion. Snakes in Prohibition Maine. Snakes emptied two saloons in Port land of the crowds of customers a few evenings ago. A non-resident ordered a box of snakes sent to him from the south for the purpose of cleaning out a vast number of rats from his place. The snakes were given a chance to demonstrate their rat killing abiliy and the large sn ce destroyed 15 in a few minutes. Thb snakes were then taken to two diffolent saloons and in a few minutes cl ared them of the crowd.- Kenneebec- Journal. THEY DON'T WA NT WRINKLES. She--lr. Smith advertises all the~ new wrinkles. He--Fatal mistake. Hie won't get a woman in his store. WRONG SORT Perhaps Plain Old Meat, Potatoes and Bread May Be Against You for a Time. A change to the right kind of food can lift one from a sick bed. A lady in Welden, Ill., says: "Last spring I became bed-fast with severe stomach tr-oubles accompanied by sick headache. 1 got worse and worse until I became so low I could scarcely retain any food at all, al though I tried about every kind.. "I had become completely discour aged, and given up all hope, and thought I was doomed to starve to death, until one day my hushand, try ing to flnd something I could retain, brought home some Grape-Nuts. "To my surprise the food agreed with me, digested perfectly and with out distress. I began to gain strength at once. My flesh (which had been flabby), grew firmer, my health im proved in every way and every day, and in a very few weeks I gained 20 pounds in wveight. "I liked Grape-Nuts so well that for four months I ate no other food, and always felt as well entisfled after eat ing as if I had sat down to a fine ban quet. "I had no return of the miserable sick stomach nor of the headaches, that I used to have when I ate other food. I am now a Nell woman; doing all my own work again, and feel that life is wvorth living. "Grape-Nuts food has been a God sendl to my family; it surely saved my lire; and my two little boys have thriven on it wvondlerfully." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, ich. Head the little bookc, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." Ever read the above letter? A new flne nppene. from time to timue. They re genuine, true, and full of buna