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The i i 8 e PICKENS, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDA SJ.H' a Yeter Invariably in Advane< Entered at !ickienr, S. C. Poatoffee a Seond ilass Mail Matter. GA1RY H110T'f, D~i!(r and Mgr... THE HOUSE BY IHE SIDE O THE ROAD. Ther( are hermit souls that liv with(ra.wn In thy ji ac of th; (r -.lf.content; Thr ar u k tu, ;ii that dwe Iin a al .1i,. tirrnarnent; Ther- r (nfd Iouu tpat ',blaz Wherel the nighwiiyR neve#ran: . But. let in:- li'.e' by the side of th road And he a friend to roan. Let ime! live in it house by the side c the road Where th racev of -rien go by The men wh o arc- good, the rein wh atr: bad AK good and as. bad'ar 1. I would no' pit in the scornrc 's sea Nor hurl the cynic's ban: Let rne lie in a house by the'ide the road And be a friend to 'man. I see fror, my house by the side .c the road By the side of the hihway of life The men who presto with the ardt of hope, The rn'n who are; faint with ti strife; But I turn not away from the * rnile.' r.or thei tears Both parts of an in iite plan: Let me live in a house by the side < the road And he a friend to man. J know there are brook-gladden rhefadowis ahead, And rnountain~s of infinite height; That the road pia.se! on through ti l(ng afternoon, - And stretches away to the night; But still I rejoice when the travele rejoice, And weep with the ratrangers t.h moan: Nor live in my house by the side the road Like a man who dwells alone. Let me live in a house by the side the road Where the races of men go by They are good, they are bad, tre are weak, they are Strori' Wine, foolish-so am J. Then why should 1 sat in the-e - er's neat, Or hurl the. cynic ean? Letrne live in a. n.';i.: of the road, And be a frier. ' me A P4fASANT TRIP. 'Pho Sentinel editor ryenue a tr with Superintendent~ of Educati Clayton the first dlay of August dt Ing which we visited the schools Oolenoy, Rock ar.d Pleasant Gro' It would niot be amni's at the outs sathat Prof. Clayton is a m<n eaant companion on a trip, as ai one who. has been with him e doubtless testify. psento houst the opening dayse the shond oney couve no hepn beboomhose heeithih weigt ha told our eaersbuneforec. A hout t boys and girls and from their nur ber are hound to come leaders< people. Prof. A. B. Fortner, pirint pal, and his isnlstants certainly ha' fine material to work with. Sho talks were made by several of th~ visitors, but as we' had to leav~ -hb fore the exercises were over we d not obtain as much 'information1 wrltu about as we desired. It wi 3 Aggsureto us at Oolenoy tQ agai theet'our friend, ,Hon, Mathew I-j dricks, the grand old rman of Ooli noy. He was at thel'schaool hown #nd though his eyesight Is gone,i Jds heart andl inind'sidye he can se the titowth of the good work .he b< gan ahd in which he.ss~ill taken *g'reat interest. May God spare th *~-* ?useful man's life for many mor 7Rrs. C -Superintendent ' Clayton made I' forceful talk at Rock school house t< the' patrons of Rock and New Tow { districts, discussing the proposed cor1 solidation of these: twe districts .an the building of a new school housi 4 large number of the patrons were present showing the interest theJ areAIking In the matter.- A vott will be taken to decide the question on August 27, Prof. Willie , Chas ain is ate efficient teacher of Rock school. 1 After the Rock"meeting was over . Mr. Ed Chastain atsked us to go with - him to his home for dinner.' We ). Were a litth c-ressed for time and Mr. Clayton asked ye editor what * about it. To which ye editor re plied that he never refused anm invi tation to eat with a Chastain. We said this because at the home of a rnember of this family one not only finds plenty to eat but a real and F hearty welcome. The Chastain fan Jy of Pickens 'county are of the salt of the earth. Needless to say that I both of us enjoyed our visit to Mr. Chatain's. It was the first time we had arst his wife and we found her a roost pleasant lady indeed. Ncxt M1r. Clayton had business at 'leasant Grove school house, where tw t lod ".)1 <tt) 1)h nW. huil E 'o ng ]ud h r t ) be ' ' herd ht -tthe, lea anttyyi h!wui yva. d troyd Y e me e time age. Th new buildihg is go' ;rig to be a dandy with four recita. tion roccms arid a large auditorium, -o: rooms, ete., and occupies a r' "-h snore comrnanding position than the former one. At present being held in the church 0 buiding and Mr. Mayfield is prlnci School wau just closing for the r::r wne we got to Pleasant Grove, t, bit. the pupils remained a few min utes in order to have a short talk by f Mr. Clayton. There was much more in this pleasart trip than we could write about, including the fine corn- in the 4 Oolenoy bottoms; this beautiful see t:en of our county and most of all - the good people ir) those sections, but r space will not permit it here. We hope at a- later date to write more e of this section: We rnust rnention, hovhver, that the road from Pick( r." ir to Pumpkntown has recently been put in .fine shape.. f NATURE FAKING IN PICKENS ? The followin g its r-i i:j,, :.: latest issue of th " i - 'l 7,:.: :: d"It is report'ed was recently IQ 7e that it r length. I .d (or rs thi e.- rst one that h -i everal at -. '. - nherpetology, - -.- the only horn -.. -.. . . .s the horned . ;.: , r~", : rding to this au f-~r e ifound only in -. of Arizona, south . :r.,uthwestern Utah and - a:rnria. This species, thje r.-.tes, is not included rm' South Carolina reptiles. iajnue, because it walks, 'in - ef crawling, in this respect dif frorn every other North - r' -an -erpenit. It resernzbles the Sr-. of the A frican and A rabian Nor is there any mer-Ition of the "hoop" snake. In the Xst there are rhe riged, the bli, the :hain, thec diog-no"ed, the .1 -w's h;arr, bh .k the rainbow, the ribbon and the nthunder snakes, hat no reference to r-te " oop'' snake*. It 200.-:- a- . f at "there atin' t any i'-h ;.nimal."' ,e What is the sourc' of The Senrt> et nel's informnati(n? Who, saw the >at horned snakc? Why dloesni't Editor Gary Hiott giv :nore specific data? anis he or his ;nformnar.t a herpetolo gist? As a mratter of fact, wasn't ythe horned or hror, sr1ake seen, in the of .Jug Valley se-ction of pickens crounty lid instead of Rocky Bitomn? Is it pos veible that the rman who saw this 25 strange rtptile had beenl' taking too re much of the weil-known anakebite of cure of Pickens co'unty If he had tbeen im bibinmg too much s:piritu.s fru in menti, fresh from the still, he prob se ably saw not only the horned ur hoop a..nae but also immense blue and red ,serpents hissing all around him, the .three-eyed catawampus, the red eheaded skink, the mule-headed lion, the seven-legged whangdoodle, pur e pie elephants and snarling green .wildcats as big as cows. id Or (lid Editor Hiott, for lack of onews, "make up" this story to fill a space (luring the hot dlays when theire n is nothing doing in Pickens but cut m- ting watermelons and swapping re 3.miniscences? 'Is Editor Hibtt an eother one of those "nature fakers" nso severely lambasted by the -late eTheodore Roosevelt? '. .In reply to the above, the follow a ing letter is publicly addressed to the Seditor of The Piedmont: M \r. Rio n McKlssick, Editor of The Piedmont,. a MyGreenville, B. C. Mydear Colonel: I have just read your piece-inl the . paper about snakes In which you kinder insinuate that there wasn't no snake at all where that horned snake -was killed up in Rocky Bottom. At 'a 1i'st reading it seems to me like you ask a awful lot of questions and you must think you are a lawyer X-examining me for a witness, bui I tell you now that I am going t convict you of walking in where angels fear to. tread and of being A wful burn snake doctor. Let m< ask you one question: Is that gu; that wrote "the latest book on her petology". ever been in 'icken county? I know he is not, and there fore he don't know what kind o 'nakes we got over here. He ma: know about snakes in Utah and Afri cars and Arabiap deserts as you seer to think; but we aint got no desert over here.' O r horned snakes ain no rattlesnakes at ali like you friend herp says is out West, bu they is tjust plain horned snaks with out any unnecessary accoutrement whatever. A .rattlesnake ai'nt got n biriness with horns nohow, he is ha enough without going aroundl hook ing people. Neither have w - go ar dudish snakes over heve tha tris rallgPr;W 'ak cPnt cr f like; as e, yfi tink; -id bght 'to ethey t) '. 1)fe .r't.i fn t' ir ou Ad roll around lik< a hoop. You want to know wh r. I H my information. Wall, a flnow what heard about. it told roe and printed it. He didn't. krow the' I. 1" low's name what killed it it. I found out today. I ar g'rag to tell you the fellow's ni.rra-* ne'xt t wi-ok ;a rd along with it. I arn going to i-Ve you iornc more infoarrmation that will rnike you g,-t out of the .waik bu i rres . A s I have 'c, s( e severall pOleo. ple who is really ' 'a horned snakes over here I ean't jet all nmy dots ready for the pape r' this week, but. I'll he lcaded f( r a lrE and Colonels next tiran. '1 h' n sake wasn't. seen in no .lug Valley but in Rocky Bot ton just. ;Ike 1 told you. in fact, we an rt pot 1, .1u'g 'V ley over here, riot . a ca.rk corner or a. fruit jar d.. Our county . is just one fair J; .:ulattin.g land kissed by the 2 1,.r1, laved by the moonlight :t z I said) rind gently swept by '! r . O'aa nt "zc phyrs and covered by ;aiy t.raes, fine corm, cotrton, the r, 1olae on earth a ndi The Pick r" Sentinel. . 0, n, Col., we dont have the . that. rrale: you sece them other r' you wrote ahout, but that sure ' ld : like a good description of a ma y'>u give and I don't believe no. r',aly could give as good a descriptior f rorn hear.:ay evidence, either. An for The Sentinel lacking for news -urely you didn't read nothing in th paper but about that snake or yot would readily saw it was all broke out with news which is its norma condition, and I aint no street fake or nature faker or any other kind u: faker but just 99 44-100 per ceni pure Pickensite and Theodore R.oose vIt never lambasted nobody abou1 tha:. because he would a been pirout to be it hisself. I don't like ;t muel MVr. McK'isck by you dlearting rny verae~ty what you know is unim. (eac'hable and gcoi g righ: aheadI anc V lieving evr:hing ar e;:i ('tranrg( a '.r- -' mu I ai of w.nsch nohody -, h'ard of o ~a rinhio,:ion coun. > D yea diY A a "%ull snake' - 1 .t how~. -,r jgores you anc a 't'bd ake the maf.4 snake'! ha io-:a'j H yf ou don't know asi rarp. UDses the dog-nose snake bar) arnd dIa' the hog-nose grunt or roo ',r what mnakces thema call em that The' only one of your enakes I wan' to sct is to hear the Jews harp snak< play a tune. And my private opin ion is that nobody aint never seen thunder snake unless they was fool iung vrith white lightning. This letter is getting too long bu I want to remind you to look for th< horned snake dope next week and n< foolishness. Your friend, / G.'H. P. S.-You don't no maore have tc be a'- herpetologist to tell a hornec snauke when you see one than you dc to anow to move on when a rattlea plays them Rattling Blues andI aint never seen no snakes thai wasnt there. G. H. VOTE FOR CSHOOL IMPROVE. MIENTS. The voters of Bethlehem school dis trict decided last Saturday in favor of adding six more mills tax in their dlistrict for school purposes. This ruakes eight mills special school taxa in Bethlehem and guarantees the dlistrict a seven months term. Hlamp ton school district voted Saturday in favor of issuing $800 worth of bonds for the purpose of building a new --chool house, and work has already begun on the new building which will consist of two rooms. Mayor C. L. Curreton, of Pickens, gave the school four acres of land on which to put their new building and use for play ground(s. 'rho Sentinel congratulates those two districts upon their progressive steps. Ernest Craig has accpted a plac'i as salesman In the Benson store here. 9 BARGAINS E Thiee buidrel aind sbtty-flve 'days in the yen you have rt~tn in yers in assorted patternu in solid C ment and t.he IriceI( is only $1.00. (ood hea vy Chteviots it 12 1-2e to 17 1-2c yard rt ilevy yad witl threting 8e to 10o yard. Ottt r Slu:t reeived our frill line of hoIeB ry. .A gol $1.00 to $2.('. A splieid Ii line of children ' home the or r, .y~t to of a year ago.' C:l..OHING AND SHOES WILL BE C t Which i,- rood newr" to os 111. We have juO~ about 0111 . ". i t I, :an i will OIot you thi'i fall on Of the inrgest Stoe huen., rad rir~ht 1"r it- . l';ne thnilorn ; .\ i n' inilting operningK jill Ill, hut w." think isi . i. to your adnt itages n% prices by Ihal tiiw. ' Al..K BETTER 'XRMES, FOR BETTER j Vom hit jt iness pprihe ited at all tun s. Qanlit Y FOLGER & - "The store where quality in mt price." (lothing, Shoes, fats *tnd Gents' F - Call for Pictorial Rei THE PICKENS A Pickens County P County I The Official Paper 0 If [ your arel not a reguar neighbor's paper. Read it ani We. want a good correspon Pickens County.- We want all Print. VERY DAY r. Sundays excepted. The -beat house dress atmbriay. Have Just received our third ship I. * third the price of a year ago. I silk hoHe for .ladies at 7&c. better grades at , will stand the roughest. wear at half the price HEAPER THAN LAST YEAR ind'duut all of our high priced shoes anI cloth os you have seen in Pickenss eunty for some he held here in September. Later than last in our opinion will have reached the bottom TIMES ARE ON THE WAY. 9 in merchandise and right prices guaranteed. ours truly, ENDRICKS ?rch'andise comes before the urnishine goods a Specialty iew Patter.s. 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