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ftAGB rout. THE BABNWBLL PEOPLE-gENTINEL, BARNWELL. SOOTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. DECEMBER ». 1M7. ( TTiABarnwll People-SentiiiBl JOHN W. HOLMES 1840—1*12. B. P. DAVIES, Editor>ud Proprietor. ■■ —^— Entered at the poet office ait Barnwell S. C., ae second-daaa matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATBSx. One Year — «J0 Six Months ' *90 Three Months C— .50 (Strictly to Adrance.) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1927, & "It won’t'be long: now” until the voice of the candidate is heard in the land. ■windier is tho National Better Btfli- nesa Bureau. It provides the machin ery to protect honest profits and edu cates Tnvestort who might "otherwise be taken in by some clever scheme. Whatever headway it makes toward overcoming: the business fraud loss will be* applauded, by. honest mer chants, because it means more legiti mate business for them. Oj-t- Better Jurymen. The brand of farm relief the coun try needs i?i less than one-half of one per cent vbfcal. We sometimes wonder if the reason Adam broke with Lilith wasn’t that Christmas was drawing near. After*' seeing how some of them look, it is easy to understand why children don’t believe in Santa Claus. You’ll find most of the Presidential Senator Norris; of Nebraska, is reported to be working on a plan en abling selection of better jurymen than are chosen under the present system. He believes signs of intelli gence should be no bar to selection. Competent veniremen, ho observes, are rejected if they admit they have read about the case in the newspapers. Since in these <j**rs of widely circulat ed, widely read newspapers anyone with even moderate worldly knowledge will have read about an important case, Senator Norris cannot see how an adequate jury can be chosen if all such veniremen a re rejected. This system of selection probably has a great deal to do with the aston ishing verdict* rendered in some recen 1 triala. But Senator Norris will find he has his-work cut out for him in ef fecting any chainge - even though the Jk- New Wheat King C. Kdson Smith of Cor allis, Montana, competing in Chicago with the best ~vvKeat producers in the United States and Canada, was crowned wheat king of North America. He is the third of Urt- cle Sam's wheat growers to win the cup in 17 years of competition. candidates parked under the mistletoe | "ysf* 1 ? does make it ehsy for smart these days, hoping that thear party' lawyers-to bring about a miscarriage will sgy them. An Oregon man put a billiard hall in his mouth and couldn’t get it out, thereby proving there is justice in the State of Oregon. New York drinkers have been warn- «d by. doctors to test their hooch dur ing the holidays, and they probably will with their eyes. Probably the purpose behind these schools of crime occasionally mention ed in the newspapers is to teach the young idea bow to shoot. — Out of ft.000 convicts in New York state prisons. .1,000 are said to be idle, and theru. at least, the unenfeloyment situation seems to be serious. Mothers might find it easier to eoax some work out of thiiir daughters now if they would put a steering wheel somewhere in the kitchen. of justice. Helping Retailers. Congress has been asked to author ize a survey of retail merchandising under the direction of t^e Department of Commerce. There is need for such a survey since, for the most part, whatever information is now available to help retailers solva their problems has been gathered by private agencies with limited resources. Estimates of the total volume of the retail business run from $35,000,000,- JMM) .to ..$40,000,000,000 annually, nr about half the national income. Among small retailers the rate of business mortality is far greater than it should be. ao anything that will help them is worthy of consideration. One thing such a survey should most certainly include is reliable and complete data on th* part advertising | plays in the distribution problem, i Figures gathered in a number of cit-| tea show that a startlingly large per centage of firms failing in those cit ies were non-advertisers. If Congress authoriar* the survey—and Congress should—the Department of Commerce in gathering the data should seek an- 1 Nobody love* a fat man. they say. thontative information showing how- but anyway the fat men we know! •d**rtising affects the rata of business manage somehow to keep from starv. ■ tawtality among small retailers, ing and to be happy through it all. l Experiment in Crots Breeding h Success A new animal, designed, to combine the milk-giving abundance of the South with the hardiness of the North, has* been raised in the farm attached to Alaska college, at Fairbanks, Alaska. This animal has been developed with Calloway cows as the mothers and yaks from the snowy fastnesses of Tibet ae fathers. Their name as well as their breed has been crossed, and the have received-the name of gallfe. yaks. The galloyak has inherited the long shaggy hair of his father, 1 but the placidity of the mother has evidently been resi>onsible for the reduction of the paternal hump. The animals are handy, and are well adapted to the extreme cold of the North. - The value of the new animal Is great. Us meat is of excellent flaxor, and is extremely nourishing. It- hair has a high commercial value, and first quality leather can lie made from its hide. If their dispute over the annual Army-Navy football game prov *• nothing elae, it *hnwa that both the Army and Navy are ready to fight. Napoleon Bonaparte may have been aa important personage but he never rated a box on the front page, ao he couldn't have been so famooa, after all. Thu American man needs more rlothes conariousneaa, saya one au thority, but it would be too bad for aome of them if it came on them quickly Happy New Year. A new year is bom and an old year dies. It's time to hang up a new cal endar, make good resolutions and bo at peace with the world. But after all, a new year begina «<very day, even though the calendar may disagree. Ever> day affords just as great an opportunity to make good resolution* and to keep them as does January 1. If th. maker of good resolutions re members this, it may be caster for him to keep them. At any late, we wish to those who make good resolutinbns and keep them, -to those who make good reso- hrtions and break them and to those who make no resolutions at all an exceedingly Happy New Year’s Day and a 1928 filled with days inch hap pier than the day before. Swindler’s Profits. Nearly $1,700,000,000, the Treasury Department estimates, could be re stored to the legitimate purchasing power of the nation each year if mal- practitioners weie eliminated from .business. Almost every honest mer chant. whether he be located in th$ largest city or the smallest town, is affected Charles H Tuttle, United States Attorney for New York, ssys^ “the staggering cost fills primarily upon business. It becomes part of" tho general overhead which, must bt met before profits begin to^materalize. And it is not too much to say that hidden in the expense account of every merchant is somewhere the influence every piece of honesty in the One of the agencies combatting the About your Health Things You Should Know Monopoly Not Poeeib/e The Columbia Slate offers Ibis: “When the Hebrew minor prophet Joel wjrote the lovely saying that Dry- den hammered Into an heroic line— ‘Your old men shall dream dream*, your young men ahull see visions'— he was probably—we haven't the He brew text before us—trying .to round out what is known as ■ Hebrew ‘paral lelism.' saying one thing in two ways, rather than two things in a kind of formula. He was sa>lng that eve>y- iKJtiy. with slue HlaialaaHnn. would dream dream* and see vUinn«. a« Job dreamed and saw them in the dead watches of the tiighl. Neither old nor joung has ■ monopoly of dream and vision.” by John Joseph Gair.es, M. D. Prevention of Colds 0 To prevent a cold at this seasbn of the. year; is, possibly, to pre vent a much more dis«otrous ill ness; 'colds lead to serious dis eases. espe ially when neglected, a ' chrome touch i;?y develop, to last ail winter; > cnronic throat is usu ally initiated Lv the common uddL Pneumonia ir too often a conse quence; iie.pt e my topic is timely. The proper time to fortify against taking c*Md is, rght now No de- lav is oertnissiblc. Our every day task shot id be siq plemented by sane precautions against disease At this '.line of ih> year, taking cold is the foremost thiiYg to be dreaded, even if the attack be a mild one. First of all, don't overload the stomach. To eat more than the d’gestion can dispo.->e oi, is the surest way of inducing feebleness of the body: and disease does pot appear, as a rule, unless one’s sys tem -is in some wav „w-cakened"in resisting power. The “run-down” constitution is the waiting host for infection. Then drink plenty ~ df pure water.^At least two glasses should be taken on rising each morfting, hot QY cool, as preterred. Eight glasses of water daily keeps the ashes of the body-fite " moving to ward elimination. It is a gcod practice to take a good* drink of cool water just before starting on a trip in the wintry air,—it renders the throat and mouth fit for the dash of much colder air outside. Keep the surface of the body, and especially the feet—warm. To Weep the h*wd cool, the feet warm, and the bowels open, is advice as old as the hills, but it is as sound today as it ever was And. lastly, don’t worry. A contented, cap able nervous system is one of the best safeguards -against disease that I know of. I would mention clothing, more specifically, but you wouldn’t obey-—*o there! Nest Week—Winter Morning* World’* Largett "Port” The Port of New York Is a district, created by compact or treaty, between the states of New York and New Jer sey and comprising the territory with in a line drawn from Port Chester, across through Wl.lte Plains, over to Yonkers, across the Hudson river to riermont down on the New Jersey side, passing beside Passaic and Pat erson and taking in U»e Industrial territory waat of and hfcluding Ho boken, Jersey City. Newark, all tho way to South Amboy, across again to tl^ New York side, taking In the com plete area pf the city of New “York. The population of the port district lv approximately 9.0UO.0UU. Famou* Painting The painting of “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci -is recognized as one of tthe world's masterpiece*. It was originally painted by order of the duke of Milan on the walls of the Dominican convent of the Madonna del Gruzie. The picture is now in a state of decay, but several very fine copies have been made. One of them, at'the Uoyal academy in London, 1* considered worthily representative of the original. The “Mona Lisa” of the same painter, now in the Louvre, is also rated among the greatest paint ings. DR. A. H .MEREDITH OPTOMETRIST and OPTICIAN Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted Artificial Eyes Matched and Inserted. MEREDITH OPTICAL COMPANY, 748 Broad Street Augusta, Ga. ' "*r 10 Per . Cent Discount Don’t fail to take advantage of our 10 per cent, discount which we are giving on al 1 purchases amounting to $10.00 or more- effective until January 1st, 1928. P. W. STEVENS Jeweler and Optometrist The Quality Gift Store Barnw^)l, S. C. •7 r t NOTICE OF MEETING. •i \ \ ' I All Confederate Veterans of Barn well County are requested to meet at Barnwell in the office of the Judge of Probate on Thursday, the 5th day of January, for the purpose of re organizing, election of officers and making up t.'ie Pension roll for Bam- wtJl County. ' L. F. HAIR, • John K. Snell ing, Chm. 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Another Burbank A little four-year-old girl had been playing with a boy of the same age when (Aie spied a dead bird lying in a neighbor's backyard and persuaded the boy to get It They Immediately be gan examining it, but wished to know something about It- so a member of the little girl’s family was called and several questions • were answered. Finally the little glrf, with a puzzled 1 look on her face, turned and fsked; "If yrti planted It, would U grow into- * Utfr s USED CARS We need the room. New model Chrysler cars are arriving daily. The manager says every used car must be sold. Rrices have been reduced 50 to 300 per cenQ Select your car fiom this liat: v 1 Buick, Master 6 Coach, 1 Buick Sedan Master 6. 1 Chevrolet Coupe, ^ 1 Chxwrolef Touring, .J Chrysler 58 Touring, 1 Chrysler 50 Coach, 1 Chrysler 60 Touring, 1 Chrysler 70 Rqadster, 1 Dodge Roadster,- 6 Ford Coupes. 3 Ford Tourings . 1 Essex Coach, 1 Hupmobile Roadster, 2 Hudson Coaches, 1 Maxwell Touring GENERAL ELECTRIC Refrigerator All moving parts in one hermeticsdty seakd cs^mg'ftever fteefir oiling For Sale by H. J. PHILLIPS, Agent Barnwell, Allendale and Bamberg Counties See Demonstration at Deason s Drug Store DIAMONDS '.-1 WATCHES ~ Wm. Schweigert fic Co.) , _ JEWELERS CHINA CUT GLASS SILVERWARE Rings, Diamonds, Wrist Watches, Broaches, and Beautiful Xmas Gifts of Rdre and Rich Creations. You are cordially invitod see our line of exquisite and lovely gifts. We Re set Diamonds. We Do Repair Work. SCHWEIGERT’S 846 Broad St. ' Augusta. 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