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Th« Barnwell People. JHQ. V. HOLMES, Eoitorl Prop': LARBCST CODSTT t’IRCKLATIOJI l'Ht’R6l>AT. FF-BHUAKY U. 1911. A BKTTKR DAY AHf.AI^. . HandtBK u» onr asiall *liare of liia bl(t cotton crop a few <Iaj» *n <?.- turned f»nBer Btibaerlber hurried to Otoh t l.ooi* In, iml train. »aying «• Ue doted the door. ‘•ft’t wtnderful. tlie tw.HrreM made by tb»' f »rm|TA. A f**w yeara ai:*> they *H>uld hnrllr uiak* en»p* worth itatherlng, ami they told them for Jltll*, if nnylhlng, above the Pi,at of prodocliiK them. Now they wake a bale and over to the a* re. and II cent* a pound la the average aelling prlcf." After be went Ida liai'pv oay we cal e,dated that he had paid tin* year’* a,inscription to Tint I’tori.a with a lit tie l«*s lliau elv’vcti pound, of Mnt cot Ion. And we thought further that the present proapcrlty may not last, ei* peclally If the cotton udM people cmi accomphsh their concerted movement for lower prices. A*id we thought alill further that may he ten or twenty year* hence the farmers of that time may wonder how their father* of this day managed to make buckle atld tongue meet. For there 1* the ebauer that a greater proaperity than the enthnslasta now 4reani of may arrive when the boll araevtl comes and drive* the white locked king out of the Held* where he baa bo Jot.g been supremo sovereign For then tbo liaruwcll and B»rab«*rg County farmers will reach the reaMxa Hon that their section w»» created In tire beginning a* a part of tlie Harden of Eden, In whfeh-no cotton grew, yet where nature was most prodigal In her benediction of fruits and flower*. When the time conies that from the kiaraonah to the Edlsto nothing rxirept good tbtngi to eat Is grown to meet the appetites of the over crowded North prosperity will be aptjled In capital letter*. ______________ OfJUD NEW Dfcl'AKTUKEa City example* are not always suited tf town and country conditions and eircHiwstaiicf*, but here are two new departures tbai are worthy of general fol**wiwg: • The preachers of Atlanta, Georgia, have resolved tbat they will not be the collet tors of tbeir own salaries. That task Interferes with and prevents tlie ! *»t preparation for their pulpit minis trations and the dfscherge of pa»tor*I duties. Hereafter tbeir church officials mast get together the money due to »he|r splrttuti! shepherd*. ]r tltev fail *oc«, solheir ministers tsuuM nut be *ery oWmeworthy If ttiey should goon a general strike so far a* preaching goea. They should not, howev'r. neglect their pastoral duties, tiie visit ing of the skit, the comforting of the Borrowing and the burial of the dead. The school airtfrorfllet of Charleston • re about to loangtyrate a plan for the medical Inepecllon of the seven public echool* In tb-.it city. The physician* of the city hava offered tbeir free ser ytees. Two will be a**lgr»ed to each nchool for a limited period, to tie suc ceeded hy others, so that the work may be easy on all. Tbl# plau ha* besn flowed In other far away citte*'Whh excellent remit*. The health of the pupil* ba* been im proved aod the introduction and spread of contagion* diseases checked. The •chool building* have al*o been put •Btkepttn better sanitary condition We copy tbi* week from the level beaded Abbevll e Tret* and Banner two thought and action suggesting ar. tide*. One i» a communication predicting the coining of another political revolu tion In this Slate under the leadership of Governor Bleaw*. That U of special interest and warning to the powers that b * and thosa that expect to be. The other is an editorial partly ex plaining the exodus of cotton mill op- eratives back to the cotton field*. The oooerUlnty a* to tlie future steadiness «vf ooCtou mill employment I*, we take it, another cause influencing the return *f the dissatisfied and disappointed toiler* to farm life. S mm of them, however, are too poor and other* too vlemorlalizsd to return to the plow and hoe. Tbere t« a provision in the charter of Seattle. Washington State, giving vo- . < * r * ttw> ''jg’ 11 >nd PQWfer to rota om recall, officials who do not give satis faction to the majority. A year ago Hiram Uil] was elected Mayor of tbat city. Hi* appointment of a chief of police who had been charged with some responsibility while he was chief of de tectives in Chicago in the killing of the chief of police had made him persona Itoti gn»U with the Beattie people. Eight month* after Gill's election a* Xayor of Seattle the ballot was given the women of Washington. They got busy at once and last week an election waa held. CHI voted out and another »»n balloted in . Public servants tbere wi’l have to toe the mark. There Is nothing new under the sun, but there are tome things so unusual that they seem to be orlgiual. Here i* otte: Dr. Jowett, an eminent English Presbyterian preacher, has accepted a call to a prominent New York church. Id London be haa received and been Mtiatled with a salary of five thousand *}«tDrs a year. The New Yorkers ofer kin/' twelve thousand. He anawera tbit proposition hy saying that salary woald be too high, and when be eome* across the ocean be will consult the ebnnh authorities, find out the cost of living in the Ci>ite<l 8Utes and fix bis —ctmUon proiwUouaUiy. GENERAL 1!AGOOD'8 M2MOJK8. Tnx 1'kom.r It sincerely glad to pub lish the worthy tribute so well deserved by and *o generourlv paid by the New berry Observer to tbo last great work of Barn w< ll'j be»t beloved and most dDlingulthrd son. N,. man in afl the Slat* is better qualified to pass just, intelligent and Ronacietitleu* Judgment upon such a work than Mr. W. II- Wallace, the aeh'darly, patriotic and public spirited editor of the Observer, who*e pen adorns whatever it touche* and whose talent make* luminous whatever he commend*. In the year* to come those memoirs will be the standards tellin to future generation* thu truths of that great historic period so forcefully that the world will give ultimate justice *o the Southern i>eople and the cause for which thev put all In peril, aud from the downfall of which they saved only her splendid manhood and glorious womanhood that Illustrated the match less clvilixatlon and unconquered spirit of the old South. THE NEW SOUTH. It has been said that the band of a cbtlJ or Ibe call of a bird could start an Alpine avalanche on It* reiUtless course down the mountain slope* to the sleeping valleys nestling beneath the barren rm-ka. That’* what Jerry Moore’s corn rais ing exploit ia doing. The printing of hi* picture aud publication of Ids story of achievement N , E , S. and W. have Interested thousand* of Northern home seekers In the possibilities of the South snd they are coming. They reason that if a South Cmdlna kid 13 year* old ha* islscd b tshel* and .1 peck* of corn on one acre, that thes’ can make Immensely larger and cheaper crops. Men will go anvwhere and dare any thing if they believe that a bag of gold I* at the ground end of the rainbow Th# oold <*f the Arctic* and the tdister- ing heat* of the equator have no ter ror* for the wealth hunters chasing the golden calf. TELL IN, JEWRY M<>ORK. Through the Southern Cultivator farmer T K Godhev of Georgia calls on Jetry Mta,re for an Itemized state ment of the cost of making JJS bushel* and J peck* of corn on one acre Fa niter Oodbey fix urea the cost at JJ.YS W), and it sold at t!ie market price of 70 cent* a bushel Jerry would have lost )(W U. Fanner Godbev admit* th*t his ex penses In preparing ami fertilizing tlie laud and cultivating and gathering the crop on lerry’a scale would have put him to the bad, even if he bad made a* much a- Jerry did. Home years ago a reformed Barnwell County farmer sal.I to ua tbat he had noticed that the raising of one phenom- mal crop of any sort w as enough for any Barnwell County experimenter And the reason lie assigned was that the cost of making these bumner crops w»* inv*r|*bly greater than fbelr mar ket value. VERY BAD NF.WH. l)l*|>en«ary sale* f ir January In the six counties of Aiken. Beaiifoit, Char] ••ton, Florence, Georgetown and Kichl*mJ retaining lhaf system footed up a grand total of 5l*.'t AtCI IA If the dtinking all the year continued at that rate llie heer and whl-kry exfiendl'ure would amount to Is.190 d.17 HO And If all the 4* counties were proportion*,elv bibulous It wool I take #1 'Vhl7, l^* tWI to settle the hi Is . The additional sale* of mail order house* for personal use and blind tigers cauuot be even guessed at According to reports from China sent hv United States consuls two mil lion Chinese are on the ragged edge of starvation. Mtnv have died and unless speedy relief come* to the amount of two million dollars In gold or it* 1^4111,- alent in provision* the mortality will he terrlldi. I’arent* are giving their children away because they are unable to fved them. One of the Mg United HUtes transports will sad from Heattle on the 'ifltb l»*t with a full cargo of provisions to be given to the Chinese. New York lias *ent to the trans|>ort a thouaand ton* of provisions Governor-elect Hn'te Smith of Ge«r- gl» gave oul for publication on !*arur day an unsigned latter he had received In which the writer said that two men, one of Chicago, the other of Tex**, bad secured luo.OiO live boll weevils which they intended to scatter through the cotton growing section* of Geo'gia and South Carolina. The Georgia State Department of Agriculture is In vestigating tlie matter. The letter writer said that be knew the men but bad promised not to t< |l tbeir names. The plague, or black death as It was called centuries ago when it reached England, tlie deadliest disease that has ever scourged the world, continue* with unahated violence In tlie North of Asia Recently It was necessary to burn hundred* of dead bodies at Har bin, Manchuria, because the grtfuud was so deeply frozen that graves could not be prepared, though dynamite was used. •- Last week another centre of infection w*« found in the Chinese city of A«*e- bo, forty tulles from Harbin, where the dally death rate was 4U0. FROM THE MILL TO THE FARM. Here and elsewhere there seems to be •u exodus of people from the towns back *0 the farm. The mills are losing laborers rigid along. Such a move ment is common at tbl* time of tlie year but it seems to be greater just now than usual. There may he several reasons for this movement, but tlie principal reasons sre the high prices of cotton and the Urge number of nutenauted or partly tenanted farms. The average man with a family doe* not make as much on the farm as he doe* working In a mill. The reason of this is that when working at the nil] he works from davlight until dark, from Monday morning until Saturday evening, with an overseer to see that he work*. If tlie farmers worxed this way year in and year out they would aoon own this country. But the farm er rests when it ralus, lie hunt* aome iu winter, be (IsFessoine In summer and ganerally live* easy. If cotton remain* at the present price there will he fewer abandoned farm*.— Abbeville Press and Banner. A SUDDEN SUM MONA. Mr J. D. I'resss-y died suddenly at his home In Barnwell on Fridav even ing of heart trouble, aged shout HO year*. He was »e*ted In hi* ac enstomed chair conversing pleasantly with his sisters, Mr*. E li* and Mr* Knepton, when the last mea-enger came and in a few miunte* hi* spirit had obeyed the call. His body was buried In till >am Chinch yard on Sun day, Rev. W. J. Hiiyder conducting the I tat service*. Hew** a good and gentle man, who had main friends and who passed through life without ma king an enemy. He helped to make the world In which he lived better and brighter, both by example and advice. JAMES I>. PKK3SEY, Hd-UMl. "Gnd’» finger touched him and lie *1 •r>t.'’ To those who Intimately knew the subject of this brief tribute, who de parted this life on the evening of the 10th in*! , eulogy is •nperfinou*; but the innste modrsty of his gentlemanly natine, perhaps, obacured to many a combination of manly viitue*. lie was lioiie<t, sincere, courageous and modest withal. What hi* judgment and con science approved were tenaciously and loyally maintained with a fortitude that power was Impotent to quail or favor to disarm He hated mean tie**, inslncrrlty and hypocrisy without entertaining malice towards their subject*. He believed in and practised without fanaticism the cardinsl principles of Christianity. Ills kindly feelings towards his kindred, especially toward* bis sister* and bis brother, were equalled only by theirs toward* him. In a word, tbere lived amongst u«. with an Individuality »n unohtttislve that death alou* startled u* Into ade qtiate recognition, a *<>ul made knight ly with Uod’« accolade; who. s]tlimigh wearing as the garb of that »<*nl a body »or*-ly marred by disease and Infirmity, bore hi* infirmities with heroic pa Hence; who, living without f ar and without reproach, died ** lie wool I have wished to die—in an lust**', with th« fia-h-light touch o', the Huger of God “Afterlife’s fiifiil fev r Its -hen- well." GeriiiH"iru* CLEM AON’ EXTENSION WORK. * SKIKTIK* nV YSi.KTtHI.KH *H|-Kt.'l A I.I Y RXC'OMMKNDKD YoR TU K UOMK OARDK* In the Spring when the gHrdeoer i- prepariog (<> place hi- ori’t-r fir . ■ t.-c *e» d* lie I- fr?quen ]> at a i.i-- i . termine juU what viirietie- me t b a- t e seed catalogues o-u;«llv re. <nn- tnend -11 tlicir varieties verr 11^111*. Tlie fnfli.wlug list of varieties of vege tables |» especially recommended We have been testing varieiies at the i ol lege and Station for tear* and the ones given In this list have given goo., re sults Irish Potatoes Irish I' dhler, Tri umph nr Red lt|l*‘. Peerless Cabbages. Chat 1-slon Wakefield, Hsnderson’s Succession. Beet* < rnsbv’s Ka 1 v Kgvplian. Extra K*ilv Bas-ano, Cruu-on (.lobe Canlifiower F.aillest Hnowliiil , Ex tr* Early Erfurt (J* I uy. W Inter (pieer., V»iant Pascal. Golden Self B1 inching. I.etiuce. Boston Market, Improved IT maoti I, ale. C ir| J Siberian. Onionaffmiii see.lj Yellow Globe Itanvers, Prlr.- Taker. Onion* ( from sets). Y-I’oa l>»nver«. White Multiplier, Yel| iw Mo|t|p],er. tireen Pea- Philadelphia exfa ear tv Cij ft tap); A1 >• ka r.M ft Isll); Hursford’s Market (iardeu \1 ft tal|>; I'olcpiione ( I ft ta 1 1) Kadishe*. Extra Early Scarpt. French Mreak'**f Long White Naples Parsnip* H 'M >w Crown P* rsle v M uss < it r led Splnar b Bound Thh k -'ea V' d 8 l«tfv. Mammoth Sandeicli Is lard Turnip Extra Evly Whit- Milan. Red T Ip White Globe Wmte Kgg Asparagus Conover's CuiOssal. Pal metto The above list r>f vegetables sh uild be planted during the month < f F-b r u a r v A 1 Imgton White Spine Cucumbers Davis Perfect. Garden < 'orn er*’ Favorite Sugar Corn, trv Gentleman. Cantaloupe* Ka11y Adams, Tr tick White Evergreen Cuun- Texa* people were eating ripe atraw- bente* Dak taavk. Rock y ford. Extra F.arlv Hanover. Baltimore or Acme Okra White Velvet Hunch Bran* B mtulfol. Early Speckled Valentine, Currie's Must Proof tVax Lima Bran*. Fordbook, Huneb Lima, Ford Mammoth Podded Lima, Small Llm t ( butter bean i I’ole Beans ()] I Homestead or Ken tucky Wonder, Fat Horae or White Creaae Back Egg Plants Black Keautv Bell Printers. Chinese Gisnt, Hell or Bu'l Nose Snail Pc|>prr* Long Red ( ay-nne I'lte above Hat should not be planted until after the middle of M arch, except In tiie Southern part, of the State where they may be planted earlier. C. Nawmati. Horticulturist S C. Experiment Station. "ANOTHER REVOLTION COM 1NG ” The following significant communi cation wa* published In last week’s Abbeville Pres* and Banner : Bleasa will likely lead the coming revolution, which. In the course if time, is about dne. Fifteen or eighteen year* usually marks * |>olltieal up beaval In South Ctr<Htia. Oppressive taxation ami the persecution of cotton mill opera'.lvc* will combine to bring nhont an organization that will be ef fectlve and powerful. ’’The uncon scionable oppression of men for no other reason than that their poverty which compel* them to work and which compel* their chiliren to leave Ibe cotton nrlD to take a place In the devil’s workshop of Idleness will do the work. Force two hundred boys snd gM* in the mill village* to hunt bltckberrie* and pltttii* when not romping wild over the hill* may unfit them. In many Instances, fur their proiier sphere in society while injuring their usefulness as good citizens. If a buy must re main Idle until he ia sixteen years of age he may be a work dodger the b*l aticc of hia life. Another matter. Interference with the control of a mill man’s family is class legislation. Recently objection vaa made, a* wr understand, to lawyer* who were cor poration lawyers sluing in the le-gisl*. lure. Vigurou* protest was made be cause it was class legislation But cot ton mill people have nobody to defend them when their rights are encroached upon For this reason they must make their Influence felt to the primaries. They must elect others than tbeir op- presaora. GRIME IN CAROLINA. The report of Attorney General I,von show* that during last year th-re were J1.17 criminal ca-e* Iwfore the Conri of General 8-«*ions in tins State Sixty different offence* were charged in the Indictments. There were 17)71 convic tion*. The principal crimes were a* follows: Assault with intent to kill and ag gravate'! ns*auli and batt“rv, Ml cases — 29k verdicts of guilty, KJ acquittals and 100 no hills and discontinuance*. Housebreaking, 311 case*—2-’. r »guil'y, 7)1 acquittals, 23 no Tills, Ac. Larceny, 27H cases—il'.t convictions, 3<; acquittals, 21 no hid*. Ait. Murder, 207) ca*«a—HI! conviction*, KM acquitt*!*, 1C no bf !•. Ac. Dispanaary ] iw vi> Dtions, 407 rases —21b convictions, 71 acqultthli. 120 no bill*. An. NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that the nn- derslgr><*d will 111' with H >n John K. Jnefling, Judge of Probate for Barn well County, on Friday, 'Jitli day i>f February. Kill, hi* final reiurn a* Ad ministrator nf tire estate of April Park er. deceased, and apply for Letters Di« mi-s-ry. M. I) Still. 5t Administrator. January 2flrd, 1911, " Ort/urn'zc<l hy (hr I'cojiIp for the IJoots for Sale. I have several thousand asparagus roofs, or crown*, for sale These roots a r e of the Earlv Argentcnil variety tliat experience has proven to be be-t for this part of the South. !Ligh*lll Reed, I f Elko, 8. C MONEY 5 Fop SALE I A r. ; i j'Far the p*»t. six years I iiave (J- tiecn carefully seteciiiog in iuk &• T ail, and in the field, mv (<>tton '*# ^ seed for the foil »w jug rear's T w. planting, choosing tlie most |»er Z ,J feet aad prolific stalks beaii’ g -J tlio gr. a'est number of the finest S •. and largest bolls. if ^ VTbe past season I did tin* and ij! & also bad the seed hand ri< !kKD, f w and now otter tlis-c fn-t (dioicc • j seed at $1 ()i) tier bos’iel. General (jj Crop 77) cent* per bn-h. I ( ’.‘ ® specially selected seed ^ ^ averaged CuO pounds of lint per * A act a last year. i G. A. STILL J Hlnckvilie, S. (.. On Improved Farming Lands. Long Time! Lasy I’aymcH’s! Horrower (fays actual cost of perfecting loan. «*r lay r* fr* re.. -ac; wt * .•• FOR SALE. " anted, to sell 1 '.'i acres of land knicvn as the Vlaria .1 Greecli I p s' four miles and a half from Al- I lendale. tlircc milts fr..ui >cigling snd three m l-- Imui f ycantore, .Seaboard An Line K t Iroad . Wdl time ll fur l.aif cash, balaiii^v on Sylvan Building.—P. O. Box 2s2 Columbia, S. f. i i k . I The Opportunity Yours Now! II 1 ..(.repch, Ageii t. Itarnwell. s c. \ l Dl 1' tR’.s NOTICE. T oe Au otor m HI be nt the f> It iv 1 irg pin •*»S on t IlH ll »fe * ro. in il be < i \N f i »r r h»* P irp< V of ree. ii tug tax I ft iniN fur (h r> v > XI 1'' 1 M i I^tlvi! »•, 1 iiur* fV> 2iu), Hi! Ua Er i i 1 8 “ .Ini. < icy i»h .••< iml prr'ppi tv nu be re t ii r u-'l ll m y r h r All return* wen t i n t.v mall n lll-t tu- properly • a ami I'to tn 1 t'll ami '*■ it in \<y tlm ji i i - f Kef *rt411 \ ' IH f‘Ifi ; bev e m be s ■ee, • tea Tli. ' 1 4 W • Irwi - that .o per iu i t pf 11- ult) • iiall be a'b 1 c 1 »fi e r Et It )rt 1 l 2' c " , Mooilv, A H. C X - - r—w v Is You OU'.dlt not to p )-f !).)!!•• r')S Savings A •enunt simp!v !>?('.rise \ posit may Iu: a sni dl n ;c \Y , you to heyin now hv »l;*j)o*it in y < t.. tins strong hank iviictc in 1 ■ .r interest, ,ind is protcete I in' ’ la and Surplus of anv State Hitr; in S pen p ■ tii.i 4 o|o Paid on Savings BANKofWESTERN CAROLINA BARNWELL . S. C. CAPITAL <3. SURPLUS SSOO.OOO.op ~~ : ' 1 LOCAL D/RECTORS I—~T7~. Geor^e M Bates J.M. Easte r 1 in<7 Butler Magood P.M.Buckin^Iiarn HORSES & MOLES ONE CAR OF Fine Horses AND Three Cars OF THE Best Mules THE West Produces Just Received AT * Idcpliftcd will) dje f’anr^i’s’ I.'pioi) Deposit your Money and receive 4 per cent in Savings Department OFFICERS: Harry I). Calhoun, Lrcsident N. G W. Walker, Cashier William L. ("ave, Vice Lrcsident K. C Carroll, Asst. Cashier * i * i » ♦ v t ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ * ♦ ; i 4 { 4 ♦ (). Miller Greene, Attorney Another Car Load Arrived Sat- urdav, Ftdtnuirv tlh • • 25 MULES A NO 4 HORSES! i'c: ^ a ’, i p. me in t. e lu A m.o si : : ot the We-t. liny 'All ! !' >t . V on ’ an ! ' U ; ; r \ , c S. s’ ; llg, N, lUtll 1 . we 1 ma:le, 1 i ; \ c .i’c! t: art aide tl ..it t Ihw w ni \ ci ’ i••( • and s, 11 tliemselx n 1 . .me . at ■ aw '* a:;-! d ui t m:si the hest op| "irtunity of la-.t vi ar " \ ' .ir t; id next ve.r ^1 i i i \ (' ! : V • W* g-ns. 1 1 iggies. S'.trrevs, It trm •s'-, e’l t go with these : • * s c r. 1 ’ i ices u ' 1 'C as al iv a v > at the ! 1 • w • ■st ; issili ‘ * P ’MIC CHARLIE BROWN. : "'.l, 1 ,. ^><^>^> $<§>'§ i UP-TO-DATE BLANKS FOR SALE AT THE PEOPLE OFFICE Note and Crop M utpa^es that take the place ef the (Li Mercantile Lien for Advances, Kent Lien-., Land t itles, Mort^a^es, M'dicy Ronds, ( hattcl Midt^a^es, Hills of Sate, Liens for Ad vances hy land owners to tenants, Share Crop Agreements, DiNtress Warrants, Ltc , Lte. l J. D. WHITTLE S ULA.CKVIU.E, - - - . SOUTH CAHOLIXA., HARNESS As Manager of the Allendale Live Stock Company I have just arrived with a car of Kentucky raised and Ken tucky broken H igh Class 1 torses and a chr of Tennessee MTi i Mules, all yoirn^, sound and ready lor work of any kind. We will sell at reasonably low prices for cash or satis factory paper. ALLENDALE LIVE STUCK CDSIPAM, .1 J. L Lllis, Secretary and Treasurer Allendale, South Caiolii^