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HE PIC KENS SE INELORN. Entered April 23, 1903 at Pickens, 8. 0., as second class matter, under act of Congress of March 8, 1879. VC 1XXXVI PICKENS, SOUTI-I CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1906. N01 HMAM, KING OF TYRE. The Phoenietan Monnreh and is t fort to hsmitaite the Deity. Hiram, the Phocenician monarch, strOve to imitate God by eorecting four mighty pillarn ulponl which he caused seven heavens-apartmetsto be built. The first was constructed of glass, 50C by -500 yards, storing therein mock il ntges of the sun, moon and stars. The Recond compartnment of iron, 1,000 hy 1,000 yards, was tho receptacle of pro clous stones, causilng a terrifle noisc resembling thunder when they crashed against each other id th ei caisiement of the inclosure. The third chamber was of lead, 1,500 by 1,500 yards. The fourth was of tin, 2,000 by 2,000 yards. The fifth was of copper, 2, 'o by 2,500 yards. The sixth was of s Iver, 3,000 by 3,000 yards. The seventith was of gold, 3,50) by1 3,500 yards, containing precious stones4, pearls wi a magniil cent throne. A channel of water sep arated the apartments. Iliram, imita tinlg the royal i plendor of the court oi' Klig Solomon, sur rounded himself by the grandest con ccivahlo .dispiay of niagiifleence. In the seventh apartment was stationed a golden bed, the coriers of which were set in~ pearls without value in all the world, sparlding forth heanttiful flashes resembling lightning, which spread wonder aind terror amiong his subjects. Tli prophet Ezekiel was ordered to appear before Hiram, who, at a loss as to how to reach the seven heavens wherein the monarch presided, was trausl)ortel into his castle by the locks of his hair. Upon, perceiving the d. viino messenger Iliram trembled. "Who art thou?" thundered th" Indignant har bingor of futtuyc, ovniets. "Why dost thou ikoast? Ai-t thou not born of .wo man's womb?" "I am," replied Hliram, "but I livc forever. Like God dwelling over wia ters, dwell I. Like him reigning ovel seven heavens, I rule in soven apart ments. As God is surrounded by light Iing and thunder, so am I. God has stars in heaven; so have I. Many sov ereigns have succumbed to mortality and I still exist. Twenty-one kings o the house of Isrgel and David, twent3 prophets and ten high priests have do parted this earth, but I outlive then all." - "Why dost thou boast?" again do. mandled Ezekiel. "Because thou didst supply thc cedars for Solomon's temple? ThU Puts me in mind of a subject who pro parod a splendid garment for his sov ereign, and as often as the servani gazed at the glorious pieco of work ht boastingly remarked, '"This is m3 manufacture,' until the king, observ. Ing his vanity, tore it off in disgust Such will be thy lot. The temph which thou helpest to build will lx destroyed. What will then becomo o1 thy pride 7' Where They Have Time to e Polite Copenhagen, Denmark, is a city ol canals and cleanliness-a land of pur< delight, 'reo from beggars, orgat gtl'ders and stray dogs. The inhab itants thereof are born courteous an( seen never to have recovered from th< habit. When a passenger boards a car it CopOuiha gon he exchanges greetingi with tho -conductor. A gentleman o1 leaving the car usually lifts his hat it acmowledgmnent of a salute from thal official. When a fare is paid1 thoecon ductor drops it into his cash box thanks the passenger and gives hin a little paper recei1)t. Ic ot~ers chango wvith a prelimninar3 "fle so. goodl," and the passenger ac cepts with thanks. If, in addition transfers are r'equ ired compi mnentar13 exchanges go on indefinitely. Yel there is always time enough in Copen hagen..-Caroline Domett in Four Tracts News. Scotland andl Wnisky. "One of the grossest milsconceptiom from which Scotlantd suffers," says L writer, "is that her national drink 1! and always has bean whisky. But thii is just as untrue, neither more nor less - as that the ujutional garb of Scotlamn is th'e kilt. Whisky, like the kilt, is i purely Celtic or highland producit, am up to the middle of the eighteenth con tury it was just as unfamiliar in thi lowlands as the clan tartans. It was oniy after tihe '45 that the highlanders began to settle in the lowlands anm bring their whisky with them, but be fore that the natjonal drink of thx lowlandmers had1( been ale. Tlamn-o' Shanter and Souter Johnny got 'rearin f ou' not on whisky3, but on strong beer." * ~The lFate. Frable teaches that tihe fates wer< three goddesses, holding, one a .syindk another a distaff and the third a pal of shears. Trhey spun the thread o human life, then cut it off, and men' destiny was either hnpp~y or iunhnpp: according to the texture of the woc employed by these inexorable deitiem ight it not be said that here belos we play more or less the part of th fates? It is we who, in some degret mold our own destinies,.-Pittsbur Press. Another. Shool.A "Yos," Bald the waiter, "this cafe I thoroughly up to -date. Wo cook b eteetricity.' "Is that Ao?" said the guest, pointin to a platter. "Then will you plas * ~ give that beefsteak another shock?1" - Detroit Free Press. Shaivinga. "By 'the great omelet!I" clucked th old hen, as she cuddled down upon th thirteen eggs, "this nest is made c excelsior. No doubt about it, this I going to be a shaving set."-Watson Magazine. 'is not necessity, but opinion, the makes mnen miserable, and when w o to be fancy sick thero's nfo can A.~riMA sUFFimiit8 StiUlDE ) KNOW THIS. Foley's Honey and Tar has 'tir(. 1many cass of asthmait that weio colnsid .n rd hodoless. Mrs. Adolph Buesing, 701 Vest Tpird St., Cavonport., Iowa writes: "A severe cold con Iratc( twelve years ago W1as neglected utidil it finally grow into asthima. The boat medical skill available could not give mao more than temporary relief, Foley's Honey and Tar was recommended and on fisty cent bottlie entirely rcod me of asthat which had been growing on me( fod twelve years;. If I had taken it at the start, I would have neon saved yoars of stlfor ing." Pickeis Drug Co. THE REAL VALUE. Htow All J41terature In Contained In a Few Great Dooka. Young people must every now and then hear it said or see it written that till the real value in literaturn can be put upon a small Shelf-that 11i to say, the really important part of all that is written 1. conitined Iln a very few gro: books, all the rest4 being either untimitiportait or dii'erent ways of say lng the mtte things that have ben sn!d before. The statement, of course, is not true if ft be taken literally. There are certainly many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of books that con tain original thoughts or experieneph that are truly valuable; but,. generally spealcing, the best part (f all that has x-en written is to be found ti a fow volumes. To understand how this is - ossible we must remember that teur. ly nil rules are the sino as other and simpler rules. In arithmetic, for e* 111110, the whole science consists of only four simple ways of treating num he{rs. We can add, subtract, multiply and divide, and that is all we (ill do to numbers. The rest of the book la only the working but of these four rule,; thus all of the arithmetic could easily be put into a little page that one could carry in the vest pocket. All behavior, all right living, is also set forth in a few simple laws. These illustrations will show what is meant by saying that all literature is coutain ed in a few great books. The Biblo and the works of a few famous poets and essayists contain all human wis dom, and these are within the reach of every purse.-St. Nicholas. Ancient Tricks. The arts of juggling were, as has been proved by learned writers. of high antiquity. The Ilirpini, who lived near Rome, jumped through burning coals; women In early times were ic etmtomed to walk over burning coals in Cappadocia, and the exhibition of balls and cups is often' mentioned in the works of the anclents. It was as far back as the third century that one Fernus, or Firmius, who endeavored to nake him self emperor in Egypt, suffered a tmilth to forge Iron on an anvil phiced on lis breast, and'rope dancers with balanc Ing poles are mentioned by Petronius and others, while the various feats of horsemanship exhibited in our eirc:uses passed, in the thirteenth cettury, from Egypt to the Iyzantine court and thence over all Europe. r CI Sh: 0 It 8 LUDER B 8HARPENING A PENCIL, n iThis Ac', It In M1l, Youi Ma> Head a Mlan'ii Ciuraeter. No womitli 0hu011M ilarry 11 1111111 till she has eent hi:m sharpam a lead pent cll. She en tell by tho way he does It whether ho a sit;el to her or not. Iere ara lt' tInfillile rlies fOr her glildance lit the mattr: The itan who hold(1: the Poinlt towardl'( him and close tp agaiust his shirt front Is slow and likes to have secreti. Ile is the kind o1' mon who when the dienrest girl it the world finds out that there are "other.;" and asks him who they are and what he imeans by call Ing on thorn will is4:sutmb lilt nir of ex cesslve digit(y. The man who holds the pciell out at arm's length and whittles away at it, lilt or miss, Is iimIlsive, jolly, good natured and gencrous. HI whoJleaves a blunt point is (11111 a1(n ploldling iid. will never amount to mi1uch(. le ia really good leartel, but 111nds his (chief' j)lens4Uiro in the ComlonipIae things of life. Ire who sharpens his penCIl On inch or more from the poiit is high strung and imnaginative and subject tQ ex uberiat flights of fnetcy. 110 will 0h Ways he secking to mount upward aind nCcomplish things in the higher re gions of business and art, and 1isi wife's greatest tioublo will b)0 to hold hinm down to earth nnd prevent his flying otY altogether on a taugent. - Tho mit who sbu rpons his pniell ill aroun(d smoothly and eemnly, as though It were planed offl in an autoiatic sharpener, Is systematIe and slow to aiger, but ho is so undoviating front a ilxed prinelple that he would drive a woman with a sensitive temperament to distraction in less thain six months. On the contrary, ho who jumps lit and leaves the sharpened wood as jag god as SLAW teeth iroind ti top tltas a m1isty temper and will spun.k the baby on the sligteLt provocItot. There are certain women who ean mannge that kind of imtn beautifuly, however, and if he gets a wife with a calnm, persuasive eye he will cono down from hin high horse lit a fow minutes and he a meek as a lamb. The man who doesn't stop to polish the polmit of lead 011oc tle wood Is cut away litis a streak of coarseness In his Ie who shaves off the lead till the I poit is like a needle is retied, dell ento and seisitivo. ie will not be likely to nmeomplish so much as his miore commoti brother, but he will nov or shock you and is without doubt n good min to Ito to.-New York Press. DeE1S1O of the B1nth. One strange feature In the advanc of civilization has been the deellim o the bath. Washing In the golden ng of Greece and itome was a flne art and baths wero built with as muel eare as temples. There has been i ro vlval In this entury of public bath but from fn aesthetic point of vies they cannot compare with thoso of barbarons age. Tlhls is not an age o washers.--London Lady. 13 aro bet ter prnipare'd to su pplIy yoi aitit na Re(~1.l{.venabuhle Disc Plowvs, I (o Rest Dise Harr Vow on thei market iver antd Syraicuse Troln Plows, McC ice that they a regularly sold, rh are olferinug special pricos in mana ingies arc g atting high and it will IN LDWPRICES, BLAZING METEORS. l'he Shoet Lived Splendor of a Shoot. ing Star. A small body as largo as a paving stone or not as large as a marble Is moving round the sun. Just as a mighty pjlalet re'volves in nll ollipse., 1;o this smiall object will move round and round in an ellipse, with the sun in the focus. Thore are at the pre;ent mo ment inconceivable rgyrIads of such meteors moving In thuis manner. They are too small and too distant for our teleseopes, and we can never see them except under extraordinary eircum sitances.I At the time we see the meteor it traverses a distance of more than twenty miles a second. Such a velocity is almost impossiblo near the earth's su'face. Tile resistanco of the a r would prevent it. Aloft in the emp ness of space there is no air to resist it. In the course of its wianderinmgs the body may comei near the earth and 'withim a few hundred miles of Its muir face, of course, begins to encounter the upper surface of the atmosphere with which the earth is inelosed. To a body Imovilg with the appalling velocity of a1 Imlete0or, it, plun1igei into the atmosphere is usually fatal. Even though the up per layers of air are excessively at tenuated, yet they suddenly check the velocity, almost as a rille bullet would be checked when filred into water. As a meteor rushes through the atmos phere the friction of the air warnis its surface; gradually It becomes red hot, then white hot and is finally driven off into the vapor with a brilliant light, while we on the earth, one or two hun dred miles below, exclain: "Oh, lookI There is a shooting star." A FISH HOOK. The One You Should Huy nnd the Test You Should Try. The most common flaw In the temper of the book. Some - hooks are brittle and break easily. There are other books still that bend, and bend so easi ly that they "straighton" on every big fish, and yet other hooks that bend, but bend so hard that a big fish never flexes them, and they only straighten and come away when the full tenslon of the line is laid upon them if caught on a tough snag or troe bough. These last are the hooks to buy-if you can find them-and the hard breaking books classifies next in merit. Tests by the eye are quite unieless, as so many books carry exactly tho sume tints la blue or black. Test the hook instead by the hand, catehliug the polut in a firm bit of wood and trying It out -both by the hiard, firm pull and by the jerk. Watch particulharly in this trial for I weakness at the foot of the barb, where I the wire is apt to be attenuated over much and the whole polult give way on a strong fish. empevbilly if hooked in I bone or very hard gristle. What vasty - depths of angling profanity, in spirit I if not iI word, have been stirred in r boat and on bank when tle ploinitless i hook comes away from the hard played r fish must be left to nemory.-Outing Magazine. iir wants4 ini all kimls of F':rm ImIfpleJ ,wo' and~ fthreea horse. Su perior (Grain muIrill s is adkn I iowle ormuack Motwers8, Rakes and Hay Prec lines to mako room for our fall sto pay you to examine our Paroid Roof --FOR TW -Endel's Gr Begins Saturday, High Grad Following our usal custom evory tire stock of High-Orade Clothing, :3 1-3 per cent lei than tho orgina closo our storo to mark our goods - t ean figuro the price yourself, tako and the suit is yours. The entiro sto AT ONE-Th, This season's goods-Men's ing-Nothing Resved ia ..,I eserved: Blac, suits. Every sale has a purpp this sale is to clean out every s on hand and We have putl: thi them. You cannot buy the sa prices anywhere in South Caro July 7th, at 9 a. m., for Twoi and bring the cash- --we will y money that you will go home I All Clothing go in this sa No goods on approbation. No goods charged during tl All alterations must be paid H. Endel There are Pic1 and For a I)h sense, just featuire shat is what I ri Only the be found in patrons, the of my good work. I do trami N. D. TAYLOF ments at 1laa is andI are' li a posIition to na~ ~ROW PICKE A VETERAN OF THIE BLACK HAWK, MEXICAN AND TUE CIVIL WARS. .. ......... .. . CAPT. W. W. JACKS Sufferings I Vere l'rotraeted and Severe --i-edkEvery Knon eedty 1111,A 01u1 Relief-Serious Slomnach Trouble Cured by Thres Blottles of l'eruna I Capt. W. W. J WakHon,7W5 0 H t., N. W., Washington. 1). C., writos: "11 am eighty-throo years old, a voteran of the Black Hawk, Mexican and the Civil Wars. I am by profession a physician, but abandonod the SmGo. "Some years ago I was seriously af. fected with catarrh of the stomach. My sufferings were protracted and severe. I tried every known remedy without obtaining relie. "In desperation I began the use of your Peruna. I began to realize Im mediate though gradual improvement. "Af ter the uso of three bottlos overy appearance of my complaint was re moved, and I avo no hesitation in roe. ommonding It as an infallible remedy for that disordor."-W. W. Jackson. Address Dr. S. B. Har tman, President of The Hartman SanitariIn, Olumn bus, Ohio. Winnern. "Did your liusband over bet on a winning horse?" "Ohi. ye," answered young Mri. Tor -kins. "All the lorse4 Chiarley bets on win at soimo time or another."-Wash ington Star. Not Exhausmted. She-Henry, l'in going to glvo you a picco of may mind. Ho--! thought I'd had it all.-New York l'ross4. fThotm who alwiys crep airo the only ones4 that n1ever fall, 1l Farm Imple ITO lie!)ts thlan awe have ever be.Ien. (lged t' bie the bru*st, ises. We 1buy all thiese tools in ea r ck, in-nno nn1d( tum niy. 0 WEEKS eater Sale July 9, at 9 A. M. e Clothing summer we will place on sale our n 'TErouserp, White and Fanoy Vests tit I price. It is not neccessary for us to bey nro marked in plain figres- -you >ff one thirndad pay uts the differeice k of ULOTHING goes in the sa10 fURD LESS! Youths and Childrens' Cloth ks, Blues and Plaids and Fan y se. Our purpose in holdi[ng wmgi and summer suit we have prices on them that will move me grale of goods at these ma. The sale opens Saturday, Necks. Remember the pl1ac(e ive you such values for your Lappy. Come! le, Nothing reservcd. is sale. for during this sale. 12o South Main street, Greenvilee, S. C. :ures Photographs! )tograph that is true in every is the camera sees you, every p and clear, every detail shown ve. beut material that is used will my work. My many Satisfied r repeated orders, is an attest ig and enlarging. , Easley, S. C. 80.0 NS, S. C.