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*1 ? DEVOTED fO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND rO THE GENERAL INTERET OF TflR OOUNTRY VOL. VII. PICKENS,S. 0., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1878. NQ. 19 THF SENTINEL IS PURISUED ZVERY THURSDAY. BY D. F. BRADLEYI&CO. Terms 'of -9*&se*rpt1on. One Year .. .. .$1 50 8ix blonthe 75 Advertising Rates. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 00 per squate, of (9) -nine lines, On LESS, for the first insertion, and 60 cents for each subse quent InSeTtion. Contracos made for Tnue, six or TWELVE months, dii favorable terms. Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will be published until forbid and oharged Pecordingly. These terms are so simple any child may understand them. Nine lines is a square -ohi Inch. In -every instance we charge by the space occupied, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four or five squares, as the advertiser iay wish, and is charged by the space. Be, Advertigers will please state the num ber of squares they wish their advertfiements to make. Business men who advertise to be benefitted, will bear in mind that the SENTINEL has a large and increasing cir cglation, and Is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desire. DECLINED AND ACCEPTED. The editor had lighted his cigar just as the level light mlimmered through his by no means immaculate Karl Rubens was a tall, bright I ooking mjan of ihirty years, one of th(se individuals whose very fice and 4 teahures indicate that they are born to conquer desity. lie I ad beei very *ucceskfnl thro0ugih life, but it was because he lad denutded suecess wi:h a courn c1 " ersit.ney that %%ould not b denlied. Iroiwn haiied, with careless wavy Is ck6, dre.opiig I .W 1pon his tore hiad, and daik browii eyes, verging upon black, he was 1-ot handsome, ,et Ihe o% e rest ed % ith pleasure n pon hio fIce, and in his lijit coat, sine wha11t worn at thle elbows, and 6hiny t it le seasiti, le I. oked every inchb the ehivalrous and f ai&-hearted ni tn. The duor opened softly, and a y oung lady rustled in. A young lady whom lhe had met a score of times in the gas--lighted drawing-rooms of "scietys" whose beauty he bad worshiped afar off, and who lbe unconscionely associated in bie mind with diamonds, peal ly silks and Tulle draperies, looped up with hot house flowers. He started up, coloring, thrustine bis cigar behind a pile of "encyclo l.mdias." "Miss Aimslia." "Am I interrupting you, Mr'. Rus boes'' she asked sof tly. "Interrupting me? Not the least in the world; in tact, I feel very much honored by-by-please take a chair." And Karl tipped a heap of papers 4 off the nearest chair, and drew it eagerly forward. Blacheo Ainslie was very handsome with azure eyee, and bright chestnut brown hair, while her' complexion, a'though r ather pale, was clear as ivory, and her features were as deli cate as if she had been a Greek girl in the days of the Praxiteles. When Karl unconsciously noted these things in I:is mind, he was mar' veIling in war dly who t lucky chance had piocured him this visit. Did she mean to invite him to oneof the soirees of her uncle, the rich old broker, or was some surprise party on the tapis, too exclusive for the ors dinary medium of c:ards or scented parer? For Mr. Ru boe rather flattered himself upon the entree he was be ginning to gain within the enchanted port,le of socit ty. Almost at the same moment BIan, che looked up. "You are wondering what brings me here?" she said, half smiling. "Whatev'er it was, lcan but thank the oPportunity," Karl answered, f w';b prompt gallantry, nltuugh. b. could feel the telltale blood risirg to his cheek. "And I may as well tell you the whole truth tt once," eaid Blanche, her voice faltering slightly, and two red spots glowing out upon her tem ples. "My uncle failed last week and we are going to be very poor.' "Failed!" echoed Karl. "Surely that cannot be possible-at least that is, I had not heard of it." "But it is true rievertheless," Miss Ainslie said; "and all the world will know of it but too scon. And, Mr. Rubens,' she added in a slow and more hesitating voice, 'I can do some thing for-my own support-either teach, play companion to an invalid lady, or earn mX living in some way not unbefitting a gentleman's daughs ter; and I have decided to try and write for the magazines." "Indeed!" said Karl, not knowing what e11e to say. "Will you give me a chance in the columns of your papet' she asked, with a very esident effort. '1 believe I could write as good stories as some of those you publish and pay for." Mr. Rubens was sorely puzzled what tosay. How could he tell this pretty crea. ture sitting there before him in the halo of her youth and beauty and high social position, that she coula fio irore hope to succeed as an an thoiets than a man could expect to build a house or construct a steam engine w ithout an hours practice or expjerien ce? Ilad 6be becn a shabby,s)-ectaclect old lady, or a middle aged fenale, witlh couton glhves and high cheek bines, it would have been easy enough. As it was, her blue eyes Ehiniig wistfully into his seened to paralyze the very nerves of his tongue. "I have g(t a litile story here,' went on Blaiche, producing a neat ly folded packet, 'which I have worked very haird upon, and-if yot. would kindly look at it, and give me your un prej udiced opinion-' "Ce: tainly,' said Karl], recovering his self p)ossession), and bowing as he took the packet. "There are some v'erses tco,' said Blanche, reddening, 'and a little es say or two. Shall I c. me to mor row to get your opinioni?' "~By no means,' said Mr. Rubens, politely. 1 will not trouble you to come down to this unfashionable lo cality. If you will allow mec to call and see you-' "I shall be so much obliged,' said Miss Ainslie, eagerly, and Karl knew what she mneant. Blanche Ainslie went away, leav ing an intangible little scent of ottar of roses behind her, and the sunl dip% ped down behind the chimney jtops, and the sanctum became dark and gloomy all at once. "flow pretty she is,' Ruben thought; 'but, pehaw! the idea of' her writ ing. Poor child, how~ little idea shie has of the life that lies before her Hlowever, I w&ill take the man uscrip)ts to Di, and se'e what she says about 'em.' Miss Diana Rnbens was a strong. mi:;ded young lady, of a certain age, wl.o read Carlyle, translated Hebrew kept house for her brother, and did as muche of the work as did the editor himself. "Fiddlesticks!' said Miss Diana, as h)er brother, over his evening's cup of tea, tossed the manuscripts toward her, and related his story. 'Little Blanche Ainslie could no more write than my canary birds! But every woman thinks she's born an author ess, andl nothing but personal experi. ence will grind the idea out of them.' Then Miss Diana read the neatly written pages one by one. "Scented wit h rose,'esaid she scorn fully. 'Stuff antd nonsense!' "W ell?' said Karl, looking up1 from his own writing, as Miss Dian haid the packet domn with a lond 1hem! which signified t''e completion of her task. 'Fiddlestick!" was the brief yet significant reply. Karl rubbed his noso;with the end of his pen, evidently a little dis.p9) Iointed. "You think they won't do?" said he. "Of course they wont,' said Miss IDi. 'Diiwater and adjectives! what are the girls thinking of? An impos sible love story, with the hero on stilts, and the leroine mere milk and water. Pshaw I" "Poor childl' said Karl compass Pionately, but lie never once thought of an appeal from his sister's decis ion. 'And she was sure of success." "They always are," said Miss Di. Rubens was a little prov,>ked at his strong minded sister, but he re membercd, as a palliating circun, stance, I hat Miss Diana had never seen Blanche Ainslie. The editor did not sleep very soundly that night. Ile could not help thinking of the beautiful girl so suddenly reduced from luxury and wealth to poverty, and when at last he fell asleep, it was to drearm of blue eyes, and chestnut hair braided with shifting lights of gtold. Kail lnd always admired the br ker'sL pretty iiiece from i respect ful disti:ce. Now it siened as if she were fair er and nre attractive than ever. In hict, a bough lie was not fully aware of it him1sCl1, lie was hovering dantigeretly tear the magic giound (-f Love. Ile called at Miz Ainslie's next evenii:g w it i 11 e condened man 6cripts in his pockct, and I do believe hiad lie not rtt od in righjteous fear of his strong minded sister, lhe would have told Mis AinSlie that her pro ductions were 'aceptwed,' and secret ly buined themi n the etne:im fire. A s it was, it uns1 too late for any such sly system (f dealing. Blanche was at home sitting ai mong the splendlor that was to be hers so brief a time now, and her bi ight uipw~ard look, as lie entered, went to his v'ery heart. "I feel lik e Cr ook back Richar d,' he thought, 'going to miurder' thle in, nocent little princes in Ine Tower." And when lie told her, as gently3 as he could, t hat t he stories amid poe try would niot i ass musnt er, she bu rst into tears. Mr. Rubhens could not cndumre those brig ht, sparklhng d rope. "B3lanchie,' lie faltered, "don't cry. Dear' Blanche, it is not worth it." And before they parted that evens ing, Blanche Ainslie had half promn ised to consider the possibility of ac cep)ting the editor's love, since th:e editor could not accept her contribu.. tions. "The idea of supporting yourself is very rediculous,' said Karl. 'It's a great deal better to let me support you." And so Blanche Ainslie became an editor's wife, and the happiest of little matrons, and Karl keeps the lit tIe packet that was 'zeBpeelfully de clined,' to this day. NEw YORK, Jan. 4.-In the board of alderman this afternoon a resoln tion was adopted declaring that greater benefit could be gained for the city by the dischiargeof Wmn. M. Tweed from imprisonment than by his longer detention, and recom mending the Attorney General and com porot ion counsel to release him from implrisoniment, after securing to the city such property as lhe now possesses, and after taking means to secure his testimoney as might be deemed necessary in any suits that might be bronght by the city. Subscribo for THE SENTINEL. Please Charge This. These three words are of immenes importance to every head of the fam ily or any one whose duty it is to provide ways and means for food, clothing and other expenses, incident to existence. These three words are like three links in a chain, which we forge for ourselves, and every time they are repeated this chain become& stronger and stronger, still its burden cannot longer be borne. These three words add fifty per cent. to the cost of any article we purebase, for the seller wants, and very luckily needs chasb, and as he can tnrn his money over several times before we can li quidate his claim he clarges in ad dition to the cash price, a profit for each time he might have used his money had we paid cash on the spot 'lhese three words, easi'y and pleas antlyispoken, and as pleasantly re sponded to, make a man the abject slave of the creditor. "le toils from early morn till dewy eve," but the accumulating interest so hampers his energies and depletes his earnings that freedom becomes a boon greatly to be desired, but scarcely expected. From January to DLcember lie la bors, breaking a link of the servile chain occasionally, but two frequent. ly adding two, and if both ends eqn be maJe to meet when the accounts are balanced, the fact is made an oc casion for rejoicing. These three words should be blotted from every farmer's vocabu!ary. le can no' aflord, of all mei, to 1-ay enormous interest, nor can ho allow debts to accumulate when inture ard nicer taik gains can only he relied upon. This reliance too often proves a brok el reed, and sooner or later brings humiiliation and bankruptcy. These iree words need never be spoken if a thorough sel-denial be practiced for' a year or two. Pay as you go, involves no accunmulating burdens, but lightens instead the daily routine o labor. It is wonderful to note how mnuchi a famnily canT dispense wvitha if a rigid system of economy prevails, and deternmination to live wit hin its mecans exist. Th'Iese three words may be used as a temporary means of bridging a hard phace, but their use is always extremely hazardous, and should .never be used when "pay as you go" or "cash on the spot" can by any means be substituted.-Son of the soil. JUDGE CooKmH DIsUNITEs AND UN TE.-About three weeks ago it fell to Judge Cooke's lot to perform the unpleasant duty of disuniting a mar ried couple. TIhe parties (who were thtus dissolved from tihe bonds of matrimony, w ere ex-Trial Justice Nat Morant, o'f St. Andrew's, and his wife ) Thle terms of the order of divorce were that either party were at liberty to marry. It appeared that Nat wvas not long in gaining the favor of a second colored damsel, and her consent to marriage. Judge Cooke had the privilege of knowing this, too, for while on his hunting ex pedition in St. Andrew's Parish on Saturday, lie accidentally came to Nat's domicile. Nat came out and met him, and beseeched him to favor him onice more, in marrying him to Mildy Brown, his second wife. The Judge, after a little pecrsuasive argu ment from Nat, consented,.and with the Clerk of the Court as a witness, entered Morauit's house, had the twain arranged before him, and with the solemnnity of a clergymnan, a gun leanin g at his side and bible ini hand, per for me d tile marriageo ceremony, and did for Nat what lhe had pre vionely undone. The Judge and the Clerk aftewards made the two black dears happy, and continued their hunt for wild deer. The winter is now eevcrer in Tnr key than that during which the Germans campaigned in Fraunce in 1870-71. Honor Your Business. It 'is a good sign when a man is proud of his work or his calling. Yet.notbing is more comtnon. than tohear nen finding .sapt, cc.stantjy with their particular business deeming themselves.unfortuuate. because fas teued to it by the necessity of gain ing a livelihood. In this way men tret and laboriously destroyall their comforts in the work; or they change their b"sinss, and go .on miserably, shiltirg from one thing to Another till the grave or the poor hnuse klveis them a fAst grasp. But iwhile occa sionally a than fkils i lif6 because le is not the p!aco fitted for his )c* Muliar taleut, it bappens ten times oftener that failure result, from ileg lect and even contempt of an bontat business. A man should put his heart in to everything that he does. There is no profession, no business or p1ursuit, that Ias not its peculiar cares and vexations. No man 'vill escape annoyances by changitig his business. No mechanical business is altogether agreeable. Commerce, in its endless varieties, is affected, like all other pursuits, with trials, unwelcome duies, and spirit-trying necessities. It is the very wanton tiess of fully f r a man to search out the frets and- burd9ns of his calling, and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They are inevitable. Brooding over them only gives them strength. On the other hand, a man has power given to him to shed beauty and pleasure on the homeliest toil, if he is wise. Let a man aidopt his business and identify it with pleasant associations, for Heaven has given us imagination, not alone to make us poets but to er.able men to beautify homely things Ileart-varib will cover up innu merable evils and detects. Look at the good things, Accept your lot as a man does a piece of i uyged. ground, and begin.to get out the rocks and roots, to deepen and mellow the soil, to enrich. and plant it. Tiher.e is something in the most torbidd ing avocation around which a man may twine i>leasant fancies, out of which he may develop honest pride. A ToUCBING .INcIDEN.--There is in the Hebrew burial service one pray er which is not read by the of ficiating minister, but 'by the son ot the deceased, or in case there be no son, by some orphan in whom the deceased was interested. At the service for the late Baroness Mayor de Rothschild, in London, this part of the service was taken by a deaf orphan boy, a pupil in an institution for the teaching of the deaf to speak. TiheO Baroness ws largely instrumen-. tail in fonnding two such schools. lie recitd6 the frajyer, which pro claims "the exaltation of God in that world in which Lie is to restore the dead to everlasting life," with a very d!istinct utterance. As he repeated the prayer with the mournful ca dence into which it is said the deaf who are taught to speak naturally fall, this part of a service always inspressive was mzost deeply felt in its fer vent solemnity. One of the signs of the times is the eagerness with which American boot and shoe maker. are scouring all le gions of the earth to build up a for. eign trade in their goods. They are succeeding fairly. American styles are popular, and there is a prospect of America shooing the Japanese Empire and all South America. The other morning a young man thought he felt a bug on his neck, and brushed away at it for five minutes before lhe discovered it was a ehunk of chewing gum on his col lair, deposed there by his girl the night previous, just before business hourd. About Pig Trees. Colonel Thoma W. Holloway, the SecrPtary of the State Agricultural ad Meebanical Society, has received tle following letter of inquiry ftom the Comnissioner of Agriculture at Washington: DEPiAfTUNT or AGRIcULTURE, Washington, .D. ., Dec. 4, 1877. Sir: The fruit of the fig tree being an article of considerable commerce and consumptioTi, and the soil of the Southern and Middle States well ad.. apted to its production, this depart. ment is desirona of obtaining such information as may be in the posses sion of those who have cultivated the fruit in this country, even in a small way, in order, if possible, to promoto this interest, and make it an iudus try of advantage and, profit. Answers are, therefore, respect fully requested to the fullowing 1. What is the best variety of the fruit grown in yourr State? 2. By what inethod are they pro#* pagatedi 8. In what manner is the ground prepared for planting? 4. What management does the plant require? 5. At what age dees the tree bear fruiti 6. What is the average yield of a tree in full bearingi 7. What experiments have been made in drying figs? 8. By what diseases or inseets is it attackedl 2. What preventives or remedies have you for their ravages? 10. Can you give any other facts relating to the cultivation, propaga. tion and management of the hg? Very respectfully, WK. G. LEDUo, Commissioner. Honest Tohn Patterson. NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-A special to the Evening Poat from Washington to-nigh says dhere is no longer a doubt but that intimnat ions have been made to Senator Pattersons that if he wishes to avoid a trial in South Carolina, he must resign his seat ini t he Senate. Patterson's son circulates the story that his father's health is so poor that he will not be able to take his eest in the Senate for severalI weeks. Thbis is not true, however, as his physicians. assert positively that, with proper care, he will s>on be able to attend to his duties. The Senator 'iB desirous of leaving thme city for a fewv weeks, and his physicians do not offer any objection. Many Republicans believe that Patterson'st intention is to resign on a plea of ill health and allow his seat to be filled by a Dermocrat. GREAT FasIsuET IN THE PEE DEE. -The Darlington Southerner of the 4th Bays: The freshet, commencing in the Pee Dee River last Friday, is said to be equal to what is called inhe "Sherman freshet" of 1885. The read beyond the bridge at Society Hlill on Friday, was under water tw o and three feet for a distance of threo miles. Since then no communica tion-up to yesterday-could be had with Bennettsville. The bridge a-4 cross Thompson's Creek has beeni wash)ed away, and a large planter just below Cheraw has lost forty head of cattle and between fifty and sixty large fat hogs. Tihe destruc tiQn of fences must be enormous. It is doubtful if a fence is left on thbe river landB from Rockingham to th Pee Dee Bridge on the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, e distance, of sixty five miles. In Park county, Indiana, last week,~ a child was born with its arms and hands turned backwards. Its par ents were in despair till they i.e. flected that the youngster wouml' make a good detective, or Distric' At torney. or Custom house Inspector.