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'7 SENTINEL -JOURNAL PULISHED WEEKLY. PICimENS, SOUTH CAROIlNA. All dogs are not bad dogs. Death is a big winner in automobile races. Now a doctor has produced a heart stimulant from toads. While swatting the fly, let us re member that the horse needs a drink. Now is a good time for the man who Invented all wool underwear to keep MUM Good hot weather advice is to drink plenty of water, but not out of a pub ille drinking cup. With hay at $27 a ton in Chicago, the Western farmer buys an automo bilo and pays cash for IL An explosive goir hail is something erew to us, although we have often beard or explosive golfers. Chicago woiien advocate shirtwaists for policemen In summer, but who is going to bitlon thent up the back? y'vanston has a rooster that sings bass. Instead of beitg nursed Into celebrity he is classed as a nuisance. A Chicago professor advocates a school for selentilic spooning, but it strikes us that spooners are horn, not mado. The house fly may he of some use in the world, but thus far he has been tin. 01110 to prove an nlibi. Therefore, swat! An eastern clergyman tells us to marry only our 1dvals, but he over looks the fact that ideals change with years. i A sea serpent has already appeared at Atlantile City. It is 15 feet long and all regular patrons of that resort are Sex;:; things. Aeroplane races are bringing the va rious nationalities toget her more ef fectively than any other thing since the dispersion it Ilabel. Two million trees have been plant ed In Kansas this year, and yet Kan sas Is a long way from being a cool and shady spot. It would not he (itoe fair' to charge all the suffering oi last week to h be accoint of imidity. 'IThe heat had something to do with it. aightning is keeping up its reput Qq- mfor speed. It kntocked I 'Ohio tele io girl sisiblo. l3fo-o sho Could give It th ie busy signal. If the fly swatters attend strictly to business, some d1-ly we maly be able t) sing: "Ther-e are ino fl ies ont us." Sug gestion for- ai national antthtemt. The man 9'ho iniventedi the lawnt mnower' tiled the other day. Wh'li can't something like tlis happen to the mani who pushes one netdoor? Boston is to have a hospital for none but rich people, and a new set of sttricily aristocratic dlisteases aro to ho th~ought out to mneet the waints of its If, while looking over your winter garments on susapicitn that some of them may he all wtool, you htappen to 5ee a moth, the prtopier course of ac tion will occur to you. Eggs criticised by Hluffalo people hatched out chtickents wilie left in the healthI (commtissioner's en re over night. Whatt (10 Iluffalo peoplo ex pect? Iliuming birds? A IEuropeani artist has arivedl in New York for the purtpose (of painting the city. '[lat's enmt ire'ly unniiecessary. New York is full of men who devote .their nIghts to the jolb. The son of the Pegunm of flhopal, cheght ini an escapade in Paris, Is sent home. T1he cable says the begum Is a woman. Will somebody give us the word for a male begumi? A report comes from India of how 'four ferocious lions wvere captutredi alive atnd unharmed by means of ily paper. HlaInly, the nature fakers have not been dis('ouraged, butt are in limo fettle for the season. A .omidon society journal prints an advertisemnt in which "a peer and pe'eress with <utiet tastes" offer to as seciate (luring thle sutmmner with sotte married coutple, v'isitinug in Enigland, 'for a contsideration. h~ere Is a new scheme whiereby Impoverished niobil Ity may get along withbout working. and also, of cour'se, a fine opp~ortuntity for Americans with money to spend It foolishly. A New York bachtelor killed him self after lie hiatd lost $2,000,000 specu lating in W~all street. A man whio has $2,004.000 and tries to get mnotre by spieculating iti Wall street dloesn't leave the world much poor-er whieni lie takes himnself out of it. A sculptor asserts that It is impos siblo to "show the majesty of the human term in trouseirs andl skir'ts." Yet we venture to assei-t that lie would reject in tote the proposition to display the majesty of his form by appearing without tim trousers. Shar Grounds fot Playing Should Al Ike be for All By JOHN J. MALONEY LAYGROUNDS should be run along lines tending to the de veloprient of all the pupils-not the select few who may be suf ficently capable to represent a seiool or -diptrict on the base ball or soccer team. In my opinion too much attention is paid to the spirit of rivalry and the formation of leagues ten'ding to increase this spirit. In our particular district we have a league of seven teams, representing the North, South and West ends. This league calls for a schedule of 12 games for each team within a. space four weeks-a strain on the time and strength of the particu ioys representing the schools and an ijustice to the boys in general. If we would devote more time to all the boys and allow an opportu nity for two or three gaines in a season with rival teams, results would )e Imore satisfactory. One of the most important questions in the management of play zrounds is that of supplies. A boy's ambition is attained when he be -omies the owner of a baseball and it does not veem reasonable to ask him lc put that into play when eighteen others are going to knock it to pieces. B iovs in celain e localities can ill afford tleI money necessary, and for a con inratively slight expense tle coinnunity can prove to the boy its interest i lii him aiid increase tho efficiency and scope of its own work. Then hIlere is an eti ical1 side to the playground which is of great value. 'Tlie ter-her has it in his power to eliminate Ilie eunning, trickery and un entleiianly conduct too often present in contests left to the boys them selves. Self-respect and a sense of power are developed in he hoy. lie is taught iti the most effective way t( subordinate hi. iedividual ains and wishes for tlh good of tle whole. lie is imbued with a high ideal of manly, clean, vigorous sport. Elfficieney comibs through individual activity and every influence is brought tc heiar in order that his activity may be directed to thc best ends. The physical, mentil and nioral advanitges of the playground cannot be easily overstated. It has won a permanent place in our edientionial system and s helping greatly toward,that inuchi-to-be-desired end of all education-a he-a'thy mind in a healthy body. i It's a poor rule that won't work either ..I W1a1%. "F rom 'I'e prospectis is all tere is to Som IIIn~jr tIE~A biting dog niakes 110 priinary an Under the 'i n EFjind FVyind ivr' ay s readyi (1) t'o'liess onle Anl t haffothes fal. A Sh ort fire escape is long" enowgh till a firie lii'enks ouit. By A. W. MACY If is all sone men can do to provide t Author of "Shortcut Philosophy' lIi (*.iIi'i(5 (1 lire. Smepeople Spedleii whole Iiv IAil it p do llar noe reliar anw fi ftouene(('ilts. 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I forone ouldlike trve. to s wha (itg ay cocrtht i it___were___fifty____years__benee__ aI shou1d wbe as pure in throught, wrorid n teel nsIt makoe' dut tro plakeo the ms ofcials ift. an lfge fite therb isore sunanticin thirtratlest of haveore. I esced ti o beodeprsin THEHILL BY MARTHA McCI (Copyright, 1911. by ASS< Alaster's heart had named it the hill of hope-a bare rise, looking east v.-ard over great breadths of farmland, and down miles of turnpike. That way, said her heart, the fairy prince would come riding, some day, to take her out of the gray stagnation of things. Alaster was fanciful. A girl is apt to be when she has never known ought save the fussy cherishing of an elderly household. Her mother had died when she was born. Of her father, the two gre-it auts, spinsters both, would never speak. Thcy had money enough--a spare competence. S le d iy it would all come to the child. She would have no need to mix in tile world-as to murriage. that was to b! shunned as deadly. Ilad it brought anything but heart break to her mother, the first Al*as ter? Slhe had been wild an I wilful, a beauty. fiercely courageous, also fiercely loving, and hating. She had cl.osen1, anti weddd whether or no to colme back in a year, alone, and crushed, (c welconre death. even thlough h:iby tugge: at her heart. I-er heart iuist he savcd frot such shipwreck. Thiu; the good aunts. T' ey kept her close. She never had a play-fellow, 1111( was not sent to school. Aunt Susan taught liet' tile three I's. Aunt Debby music and eiibroidery--for tile rest, there were books, a whole rooli ii, ol( but good leather bound mostly, and smelling of codar shelviig. Alaster browsing hap liily allong them, learned of life as though she saw it inverted in a mir ror. She had a sense of not belong ing in the hoiisehold. The aunts were fair, dumpy, placid-even their small tempers had not brought wrinkles, though they were past sixty. Alaster was tall, and thin, rangy in motion, full of delight iII freedoin. vividly alive throughout. She pitied for action, for stir and change. When the pining had grown so wild i'. was pain, Mallows came. Not ro mantically, if she did ,py him first from the hill of hope. Mallows by his There Were Books, a Whole Roomful. very look hut romluance ouit of court. lie was stouish, red of haIr, freckled as to face, with snapping blue eyes, shrewdly sect. N ttistanding lie waus nieithe1r common101 nor comm ion placi(e---the(re was 1(oo patent ati air of ellciency for1 thlt. lie was hopplig mado, and ver-y busy when lie tact Alaster-'s gaze. Tlhere was need of' rutsh work, in running a transit liie-and~ lie men lie was de Jpendirng on to hellp hIm had not showna up. Worse st ill, he could not go hunt ing them-he hiad pr-omlsed to meet a high personrgo exactly at 10 o'clock tehere at the foot of the hill. Spying IAhaster's straw hat upon top of the iise, he mn!stook her for a curious couintry lad, and shouted: "Say, there! Want to earn a quar ter-? You can-if youir legs are long atnd light." "Make it a half end i'l talk to you!" Alaster called back. She sensed instantly lis mistake and spoke as gruffly as she coutid. In answer Mallows swore at her for a greediy clodhopper, but ended by promising the half, if she would but runa to the village, a mile off, anid hurry up those mnen idling there. WIth a delicious thrill of adventure, Alaster came out of hiding, ran past hitin, nodding gayly as she did ro, antd sped on to the goal. Aiid thus sho caine lumltp tinder the eyes of the high personatge-the financier who was back of the niew railway enter prise. lie stared at her--he had seen nothing anywhere to match the dleer lift of her throat, the pantheritne grace of her easy stride, She would not have checked for himt, but that -le reined in, almost in ft-oat of her, asking: "is this the nearest way to Dreow ett's-the spring there, I meen?"' "Keep on! You can't miss it uinless you shut both eyes," Ahlaster' said, the last wordl over her shioulder as Nhe shot past. I The nigh personage whis0eeid soft ly. Wh~en lie cameu utiif ,illowvs lie hiad an odel smile hov iVng in lisa eyes. Mallows also ,'as a bit off key. A fter a second i)*e t wo, they were most excellent c tits, under'stood., anid joth laughed. "111t you. fd aqhuiire bet ween thle .yes," Mall6ws said. of HOPE LLOCH-WILLIAMS oclated Literary Press.) The other nodded. After a breath, he said irrelevantly: "It's not so much her good looks-I can find a dozen prettier girls in a day's ride-but somethiiig-somethIng catches you in the breath, when you see her. What is it?" "Remember the Dryads? We read about them in our Greek days." Mal lows setid, lifftug his eyes to the sky line. Then suddenly :"Could you pos sibly Imagine her fashionable-with a corset on body or soul?" Levering, the financier, shook his head. Mallows turned from him "men were coming, almost on the run, urged by some invisible monitor. He smiled. She need not hope thus to escape him--he would see that she got her pay, also the best apology he could frame for his blundering. Then he was suddenly aware that she peesed by-that she smiled at him, that she moved with the foot of Atlanta. As she climlbed the hill, one of the vil. lage fellows said, shaking his head: "lie dinged if it didn't plum skeer .me ter see Lassy Drewett stompin' ier' foot at the bunch o' us. and fa'Ily drivin' us to work. Why, I don't hardly believe she was ever off the place before-not by her lone self." Levering smiled as he listened. MaIlows looked glum. Here was no dryad, rather an enchanted princess. guarded by ancient dragons-he was already aware of the eiunts. They might, if they chose, nake a lot of trouble for the new rozd-its right of way must cross a corner of their land, not very big, but strategically most limportant. The countryside had bid (hell the road builders beware of the sisters. They were prone to suspicion ---of strangers because they didu't know them. of friends because they did. Levering might liandle them Mallows reste(d his hope upon the pay ment of his debt. le overheard fur tler gossip that possessed him yet more clearly of the situation. Presently Levering went toward the wide weather-gray house. whistling. evidently thoughtful, yet alert. Mallows made a feint of discontent with his survey. "Wait! I want to look over the country from that hill oip." Ie said, off-handedly to his Leipera. As they sat dolen at ease, he. half rrel up the hill. There was a clump of trees at top-elsewhere it lay bare. lie had a notion that lie should ind tle chimp tenanted. So lIt was not in the least taken aback, when Alaster Ii(d airily: "I don't want my ironey-but you have to pay it-to Mirs. Dr-nn, at the postothice. She has no'hlng but a mean dog, and a big fat neraccouint. husband. Tihe mionlaC isfor her, and the dog to buy it a bone, and her some-well. some stockings-I sawv she had on i'ags." "You must take the mioney yourself -I never wotuld dare undertake a comn mission so deli':ate," Mallowvs laughed. Alaster scrEeed up her' face. "A manz who can~ swear so shouldn't be afr'aidl of anything," she mur'mur'ed. 'T'hen as thiough suddenly enlightenmed, "Don't you be afr'ald of Mr. Dann he er'n't possibly be jealous. It would he differ'ent if I had asked the hand 5(orne man." "Mighty dliff'er'ent!" Mallows gr'owled. "Levering has cheek enough for' anything." "I wond~er would he dare ask them to let him stay at dinner?" Alaster cried, nodding toward the house, "0! 1 hope so! It. ia three years since we had company--excep~t lpreachers antd ipeddliers-.nd they don't count." "Would I count-if I camne?" Mal lows demanded. She smilled at him. "[low couldi I tell, uress you tried it.?" she said. She wvas not forward, only human ano femininie, repressed plast endurance. "I am going to try-depend on it," Mallows said, looking fuli in her eyes. A month after he asked the aunts for Alaster. Levering, notwithsteend lng his looks, had found himself out of the runniing at the beginning of the game. A goodl friend lie showed him' self. The Sisters Drewett might never have consented to the Mallows match, if Levering had not adimonished them. "Suppose Alaster's father turned up, only a husband would have author ity aguiinst him!" At that they gave in-joyously it must be confessed. They wvere not so old1, but, the flavor of life (delighited thiem. And they felt like fairy prin cesses themselves when, a year after the wedding, Alaster's father didi turn up, not a ne'er do well, but a miani sorely rep~entinig the haste and heat of his youth. Hei had not known there wva-s a living child-lie hiad thought it died with the mother. Since he had a fortune to bestow upon hi grllrison, lie qiulckly made his peace. 4laster* climbed often to the hill ol hopeW-she loved it, since it had become also a hill of nap~pincss. A Valuable Right. AmerIca n-i came to ask foi' a con cession. President of' a South American Re public-An' whlat is ze concession monsieur wvants? Aamrican-l want the sole rights of takding time moving pictures of yeom RURAL _ILEPION(S An Editorial From the Bolton, South Carolina, Times. There is always something being said about good roads; there is al ways some movement on foot to pro. mote the gooji roads oj' the state, and we would not for aEoment dis. coutnt the value of good"Iroads, but there are other things we ought to talk more about anI devote more of our Vine to than we do, and one of these things is the rural telephone. Of course, good roads help, but two hundred rural telephones connected with the homes of two hdndred farm era out from Belton would do more to promote the prosperity of the sec tion of country surrounding this town, and would more closely unite the peo ple of this section than a hundred miles of macadam road bed built out from Belton. It is a broad assertion to make and we give you the right to disagree with us until We have had a chance to Jrove to you that it is a fact and not merety a theory ad vanced by the editor of the Belton Times; but once you see the matter In the light that we see it, and in Its true ligit, then you will recognize the advantage of the rural telephone. Let the farmers of the state build up their farms and inprove their residences, and gpod roads- are 'cer- - tain to follow. The fari'ers will rec nize the value to them of having good public highways running by their farms and they will go to work to build the good roads. Give us % progressive section and as certain as the night follows the day, good roads are going to find a beaten path way into that section of country. Wo admit that good roads are essential to a progressive people, but they just as naturally follow the lead of the progressive spirit. We have good roads and lots of them, and the real ty interesting and encouraging part, Df it is that they are growing better as the years go by. Paths and narrow road beds of a decade ago are now piblic highways and the public high ways of ten years ago are now be ::oming smooth boulevaris. We are, its yet, cut off from each other, in a sense, though, because we aave not stressed enough the build ing of rural telephone lines. Let ono iundred farmers of this section con. nect their homes with the exchange here in Be''on and there will be one aundred farmers who have, in great. measure, become citizens of the town. rhey have joined themtselves to the :own, and they have become inte )sted in the growth and development. )f the place. They naturally feel a leeper interest in Belton than they lid before. They can telephone tle:r .riends in town, and we who have Ieretofore been mere acquaintances aecoie neighbors and close friends. rhey telephone In-to town for what ever information they want and act got-the rural telr_0olw('O'ill bind :o the to&n 6f'Belt6h the farnme.-. o :his entire section, if we will develop :he lines running out from tills eX ::hange. This is something we hamve * not heretofore given the attention - .hat it his realily Deeni dute. Let's get. tbtrsy; think of what we have said in :his article, and see for yourself if it isn't worsth yotm- wvhlle. 10very farmner ought to have is home conneen-~u with the town nearest hinm by teie phone, and they will (10 it, If they are showvn tihe advantage that, sttch a cu cnection would~ be to them. P~ersen;i ally, we wvoild rather see the farms of tis section conn tected with t Le teJlephione exchia'ige hemle thanm the stomes and lbirslfness places ini ton i. l30 you 'agrce wvith same?! if not, my so, atnd at the tlme, gi~vc your r'ea.ons I or disagrceetng with tus. Oncr ('(lurnli aIre always open lkir letters fr(om1 lJr' pie who are interested in Ite thI iig that ought. to interest the emit e ilegn. 1Nvery farmer can have a telephone~ it his home and cotnnctjionl wih the Univem sal Iell Systemn at very low cost. We ar~e reaidy to co-operiate wn , farmers and with cominmmtice to de. velop this ser'viee. For Itull informiauono address nearest Bell Trelephlone man ager', or' Sotuthein 13011 Tciephione andi~ Telegraph Comlpany, 218 Soulth Pry'oi Street, Atlanta, Ga. CURRENT EVENTS Iliisha Laeavenworth, dlefeatedl by tihe Waterbury, Conn., city fathers in his purp~ose to perpetuate tile memory of Blenjamin Franklin by the erection o1 a monument to Franklin's mlemiory or, the public square, left $15,000 in him will for tIls purpose. Improvements in the mlaking of pa, per pulp from lallang grass have heer inventedl by a planter it the Malam sian State of Negri Semblan. Consu. General James Tr. Duilois o f Singa pore states that as the lallang grasm gr'ows in great quantities in some parts of the Federated Malay States mtuch Interest is being taken with a viewv to utilizing thuis garss as a mar kotable pulp. 'rTe patent office has felt the boom in aeronautics. 'rhe applications cov. ering various maclthines and mfethlodl of control come ini at the rate of 90 a nmonth or about thtree a day. in "Ups and Downs of a Wander ing Life," Walter Seymour, an IEn glishmtan, tellh the story of his adven tures In various parts of the world Hie -has knocked around in the Argon tine, Paraguay, Italy and Palestine Australia, 10gypt, Rloumania and oth or unfamnil'iar lplaces, mixing a llttle business wit'h a good deal of fun. An Amersican livig at a small Mex lean town on thte XYaquli'river, statA of Sonora, has set out over 3,000 ci lye trees. Constil Louis riostotter o ellrnaaillio states that as tIs Is only the second year for the grove there are as yet no crops thaerrom.