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The PCk s Seiuel PICKENS, S. C. D. W. HI1OTT, JR.,--...- Publisher JULTAN HIOTT,.- ...Manager IUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. 51.60 a Year invariably in Advance. Entered at !'ickens, S. C. Postolce as Se'ond Class Mai! Matter. However, the wages of sinl haven't been reduced. Pickens county is all broke out with good people. Hard times and soft times are -equally as bad. Our. idea of a sineeure is being es manager. for .lFord automobiles iWPalestine, We believe it was llambone who remarked that it wasn't hard times coming, but good times going. This is the s' ason of the sassafras tea, that most delightful of all drinks. With I:rding, lupies, Hays and Hoover, it looks like this is going to be a H-- of an administration. They s:.y the English can't lau.ch at American jokes, but it will be d. - ferent when "Col." George Harvey goes to London as ambassador. The Germans are busy writing signed articles for publication. They had better be busy making their marks. The Republicans keep calling at tention to the fact that they broke the Solid South. Looks to us like they broke the whole blame country. Kaiser Bill is still mad because the people will not believe he didn't start the war. Well, the old rascal is apt to cloud up any time, but he'll never reign any more. A man tells of an editor who start ed poor 20 years ago and has retired with the comfortable fortune of $50,000. This money was acquired through industry, economy, conscien tious effort to give full value indomit able porseverence, and the death of an uncle who left the %editor $49, 999.50. Short poem: Yap Jap ,Scrap. A FOOLISH CHOICE. D. W. Hiott. Sonme years ago in a little town in a Western state a very beautiful young woman lived. She had a 8weetheart living in the town who was a struggling young lawyer of good character and line ability, but as yet without fame or fortune. He loved the young woman very ar dently, but she was undecided for a wvhile, but as wvell as I remember at last sh.- accepted hm and they wvene engagedl. A great pailatial gathering was held in the little towna. A state official rodle at the head of a procession that came to the meet ing. He w~as dressed in a brilliant uniform. HIe was a man somewhat adlvanced in years, was a widower and a heav'y drinker. D~uring the day he was introduced to this young woman, and apparently fell desper ately in love with her'. She was charmed wvith his uniform, brass but tons andl his position as a state of ficer wvould give her staninlg inl so clety. And like othe's, she lounged to get into what 'she thought would be high society. She. liroke .off ,her. engagement wvith the young man and engaged herself to this 0old man with the uniform. At last the day came for the wedding to take place. The old 'man came in a special train fur nished for the occasion. They were married and he carriedl awvay his bride in this special car. The old man continued to dIrink. When his term of. office expired; his money gave out, then her imaginary love gave out and at the end( of two years of married life her father brought her back home and everything she .pessessed in the way of this wvorld's goods he brought in a two horse wagon. Her heart broken, and worse, her spirit broken, she left the old ex-olmeer to dIrink and (lie. Quite a difference between the way she wvent away anil the wvay she came back. The younk lawyer, wvith dis appointed hopes at tirst, went 0on with his work bravely and succeeded in his profession. Girls often make very foolish choice in the man she marries. One ahudnever choose a life compan ion for the reason that he has money or position, but you ought to he certain that the one you select for a life- companion has good char ieter and be sure that you love him, nolt the fine clothes he wears or thc position he may hold, for the clothE will wear out and the position ht holds may be lost and then you will have nothing to cing to, if there is no love, but if you truly and sincere ly love each other, property may go but love holds on and happiness re mains. So many people choose the glitter of the world instead of the religion of Jesus Christ. And like the young woman who chose the glit tering uniform instead of a real man, those who chose the world in stead of Christ will find out the fear ful, the awful mistake they have made. HOG VILLE , LOCAL NEWS. Gape Ailsop. who ordered a new watch from somewhere away e91, has received it, and instead of winding with a key it is one of these new fangled stem-winding affairs and is attracting no little attention in Hog ville. ''he Postmaster, who has al ways had a great deal of annoyance aver losing his watch key, wonders why some fool did not think of this new arrangement for winding a watch years ago. A petition is being circlated ask ing that the salary of the Bear Ford Preacher be raised. The Old Miser is c -ected to oppose this, and if it is i,. sented to him at all for his sig nature, it will be done last, as they do not care to develop unnecessary opposition. Zero Peck found a mighty nice clay pipe yesterday, but as usual, th< owner came along and claimed it Zero says little good it is for hin to find anything. bag Smith has a large knot on hi: head all because he disagreed wit Bill Hellwanger about a certain .thins Saturday night. Hogville will soon have to have new jail as the old one we have not has been broken open and cut out o so often that it is getting very muc out of repair. Gape Allsop, who for a long tim has had an unknown corresponden sent her his picture more than month ago, and has not heard froi her since. Gape cannot understan this, though several others think the can. Dag Smith, who whistles in hi sleep, has been ordered by Zero Peel a next door neighbor, to quit it. Daj is not afraid of Zero and will noi quit, it is believed. Dag Smith almost broke up th< sermon at Bear Ford Sunday by corn ing in late and waiting until he go inside the church to stamp the mut off his feet. The preacher repri mandedl him and told him ho mus come across the field and keep out 01 the mud. The Assistant Constable is ha'vin a celebrated moonshiner make him barrel of white whiskey to be uset subject to the action of the demo cratic party in the primary this sum mer. Alexander Moseley's house caugh fire Tuesday night and the family es caped in their night clothes, but for tunately no one saw them. S. M. JOHNSON, 90 YEARS OLD DIES AT HOME NEAR LIBERTY. Liberty, March 1 6.--S. M. ,John son, a life-long resident of this see tion, a few miles' from here, die< Monday at thie old Johnson home steadl. He was 75 yea'rs of age. H< had been in declining health for sev eral months, recently oiffering stroke of paralysis from which h< never recoveredl. He is survivedl b: two sons, 0. H. Johnson, of Green ville; W. E., of Gainesville, Ga.; foi dlaughters, Miss Gertrude ,Johnson o this place, Mrs. Cliff Rankin, Mrs' Bates, of Greenville. *Interment wa made Tuesday afternoon at Sharon MRS. M. M. MURPHY. Mrs. M. M. Murphey died at he home near Martin G;rove church Feha~miry 28. She had been in be only a week and (loath wals (due t a complication of dliseases. F'unera services wvere held the (lay followin her dleath at Martin Grove church conducted by Rev. Mr. Merek. Be sidles her husband Mrs. Murphyi survived by one child and her par onts, Mr. andl Mrs. J. E. Keasler, o: the Eastatoo section. The decease< was born Stembe.. 1, 190n0, * * . * * + * * * * * * * THE SCRAP BOOK. * FOR THOSE WHO FAIL. By Joaquin Miller. "All honor to him who shall win the prize,'' The world has cried for a thous anqud years, But. to him who tries and who fails and dies, l tive great honor and glory and tears. e Give glory and honor and pitiful tears To all who fail in their deeds sub lime, Their ghosts are many in their van of years, They were born with Time and in advance of Time. Oh, great is the hero who wins a name, But greater alany and many a time Some pale-faced fellow who dies in shame And lets God finish the thought sublime. And great is the man with a sword undrawn, And good is the man who refrains from wine, But the man who fails and still fights on, Lo, he is the twin brother of mine. AUTO SERUM TREATMENT FEATURED. 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