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r L: A -v i.. v-» 'T73T 7T / / SIXTY SIXTH YEAR ESTABLISHED 1852 SIXTY SIXTH YEAR VOL. LXVI. . BLANK CARTRIDGES FIRED AT RANDOM '~n ■ J -«. j , By .iusT^Js*. T and Lot us get together “What a? magnificent foil to to That stunning girl’s beauty !” •exclaimed our Sherlock Holmes to Dr. WatsonThe other day as ►-they stood at the Western Caro lina Bank corner. * , “Eh? What,?’’ ejaculated Watson , “Why, Uncle Sam’s unifoim around her young escort,” said Sherlock, as th c y moved across ine square, the light of under standing beaming all 6yer Wat son and proinptingjiim to say— “That’s so. Sherlock, a girl never looks better these days than when she is stacked-up against a suit of khahi.” WILLIAMS—SANDERS AS OTHERS SEE US BARNWEUL r S. Cm-Vh^RSDAY, ABRIL 4, 19LH i rr • / * 4 J ■ -*V NO. 24.- - COOPERATIVE EXTENSION WORK **For Uio’ye won the prize of' fa,.*est fair, And tho’T heard him call you fairest-fair, Let never maiden thipk'fhow- - ever fair, She is not fairer.id new clothes than old.” rout every man approached rn the “subject of a Business Mens’ Association in Barnwell had kind words for the^sugges- tion, and in most instances ex pressed a willingness to join such a movement. The level of enthusiasm was not by any means the same, varying from a lukewarm to a decided inter est,' but no cue questioned the wisdom of the step—provided a united spirit was maintained. In every case the inference was that the speaker would be all right but tin- other fellow was a doubtful quantity. Now then, this much 1 will guarantee : If everv .man wbpj has doubts of ■ 1 the other fellow will do Ins part the movement-will be crowned with a brilliant success. ‘Cine of our popular magazines carried, recently, a well tiiouglit- out article oil the changing con ditions of ‘busTiies-s throughout the United States,, and stated That “Business is on the brink of a tremendous readjustment.” In the readjustment many of the avenues leading to the mer chants’ wares, as well as those through which a constant stream of dollars flow today, will i»e closed, and the lesson of forethought is to build new avenues of approach. The best wav to do that i- through team work _ among merchants and other business men. Many such men find ambition slackened by reason of the burden of advanc ing vears, of ill health, or that what’s-the-use feeling, but even These should—wake up,, square their shoulders ami go to it, un der the impulse pf -a common movement. In all "such uni ted, sports the weak and dis couraged are carried along by the force of young blood united to the steadying element of ma- « * “ - ture vears and the lessons, of experience. Miss Merlihe Williams, .of Allendale, who has been lidd ing a position in Wilson, N. C, was married a few days ago to The place for the speed mairac Terre Sanders, the Rural Carrier from that city. Mr. and Mrs, Sanders~have the best wishes of many friends for a long life of happiness. ■ — ■■■ flfc— ■— I. ■■ <* * CARO OF THANKS. ; Little Ashton 'Holland, who recently underwent a successful ,, operation in a New York hos- ±_pital, wishes to thank his many ^friends for the numerous nice cards and letters that he has re ceived from them and sends of them his love. - / J3enatqr B. R. Tillman has been seen from so many, angles by the people of- South Caro lina untill it is a, matter of genuine interest to see how he appears to others. * We take pleasure in repfoducing an editorial which appeared in the editorial columns of the New York Times of March 2bth., and reproduced in many of the state papers. “Certain pushing, aspiring politicians in South Carolina are trying tb elbow Benjamin Ryan Tillman out of hrs seat in the Senate < and not being able to allege-that they are bet ter men than he in any other re spect, they bring forward the, argument that they are younger Tillman, it seems, is guilty of of what Pitt did not call “the atrocious crime of being an old man.” Well, South Carolina knows her own business best t If she thinks she can be better served by somebody with Hum bler legs, who can run around to the departments faster and get more errands vdone for bis constituents, she is entitled to that preference. Still, that is not the only assfet a state can have in its Senator. A Senator is not merely the voice - or,- in this new" South Carolina con ception, the legs - of his con stituents ; be is the ambassador of his state in the council of the nation. He is more, he is the State itself in the imagination of her sister States ; that is, if he is big enough to be. “Is that a sentimental asset only? No, it is a practical asset. When a State towers in the •‘national council chamber, when its head rises above the! general level, ,when it commands | respect and attention from its felloW.States, it is an asset of the highest practical value even ; in the obtaining of those small ! things which in the* minds of some shortsighted men are all a Senator is there to get. We mention this sordid aspect of the matter with distaste, ant\ only-because to some minds it seems important. A much weightier aspect of the Senator- ship is that the nation’s know ledge of a Senator, when that knowledge is coupled with re^- N spect and affection, is. a thiug-in which his State should take pride and not a thing to be lightly foregone. If South Caro lina packs Tillman home to fill his place brick young anony mity- anonymous to the nation, however well liis name may be known at home - she may get a gratifying increase of activity in her Senator, hut she will be giving up something that seems imponderable and yet wejghs heavily in the scales at Wash- EXPECT TROUBLES ington * J DESERVED PUNISHMENT. A young man temporarily re siding in Barnwell, was arrested last Monday by the Chief of Po lice for reckless driving, and lined fifteen dollars. It appears that the young man is an habit ual offender! liav tng neen wariu ed several times by Chief Hayes* without effect. Oil Monday the violation mf the ordinance'in the case was so flagrant that the chief’s patience was exhausted. is at the front in France, where wide opportunity for maiming and killing is afforded, hut the streets of our cities atod towns are meant to be safe for women and children, at least. The uni versal verdict of the town is that the chief of police did his full duty, and no more, in the ctf%e under consideration, and that, our mayor did his part nobly when he made the punisnmenl approximately adequate to the offense. - - . RCB-MY-TI8II — Antiseptic, Relieve Rheumatism, 8prftiaf, Neuralgia, etc. lo Africulturv and Home Economics S'.ste of South Carollos Bishopville, S.C. March 12^ 1918 To The Boys; Df South Carolina: , We* are noivAin the early part of a new year, which yfcar may go down in history as the most important in all the his tory of the world. Wonderful things are - happening- among air the nations of the .earth r This means that the world is being made over, and it is, your good fortune, and mine, that we have a part in this re-mak ing process. Let us see to it that not oiie thingis left undone that will help make the world a fit place for Christian people to live in. .. c , -A plentiful supply of corn and hogs MUST be grown. Our State responded nobly to “the call oUthe President for an in creased production of food 1 in 1917. The corn crop was in creased 248.000 acres, and the yeild 11.949.000 bushels over that of 1910, In this increase the Club Boys played an im portant .-part*. . Coin is not the only great nee’d, and in th production of which we can engage. We are told that the world is facing a shortage of hogs. Besides the necessity of supplying tlie needs of our own soldiers, we are be ing called upon to furnish greater quantities to-the allies. The gravity of this situation should not be underestimated. Each boy in South Carolina should be asking, “What can I Jo?”. You can join the Boys’ Corn and Pig Clubs v which are being conducted .by Clemson College and. the United States Department of Agriculture cooperating, and be a producer of food, and thereby help to feed a soldier-that* soldier--may be your brother. There are thousands of good bright boys on the farm of South Carolina, practically all of whom should be enrolled as members of the Boys’ Corn and Pig.Clubs, and secure the splen did training to be received from valuable lessons taught them ’through the study-‘of-the soil, cultural "methods, plant and anijmfl life. Besides, the .^lendid profits that may be de rived therefrom. \ If you are interested,, either get in touch at once with your County Farm Demonstration Agent, who will be glad to en roll you, furnish you with all necessary information, aJid assist you in getting good seed corn and a good pig, or you may have your-teacher forward your name to the~Cdfmty Agent asking you be enrolled. I am sure he or she will take plea sure in assisting you. You should not delay tbismatter, as the season is getting late,— i L. L, Baker, Supr. Agt. of Boys’ Club Work, THE BARNWELL TEACHERS ASSOCIATION. The regular monthly meeting of this body was held in the Barnwell graded school build ing on Saturday. Mr. M. IF. Self of Williston presided; A very insiructiveTalkT on the war situation was given by Dr Rufus M^rgari, the rector of the Barnwell Episcopal church. '* Remarks were also made by Supt. H. J. Crouch, Supt. W. B. Oaks, anti others. Mrs W. D. Rice, who is in charge of the teachers’ training school in Orangeburg, gave a very inter esting statement, of the work being done there. 1 About the only tiling tjiat comes easy is wrong doing. Every thing worth doing must be done'4w spite of. Obstacles, The most of us are farmers or we depend on the farmers in directly for financial success. We sometimes think that we see ; n the course of the agri cultural year au element of per versity.. The labor situation at at present is hra very unsatis factory condition. We. are having a great deal of unsea sonably cool weather following a very warm spell. Truck growers cannot get their as paragus out of the ground. Cutters are charging exorbitant prices for their work. Trans portation is delaying the getting the truck to the markets in good'condition. After a -wjiile we will have 1 to contend with too much or too little- rain. Just as the corn readies the earing stage a drought may cut it short. So the story runs year after year. Now the quitter will find in these troubles a good excuse Tor quitting. But as a Kansas editor who* has made enough out of the newspaper busings? to retire on says “If you make money, you must make it in spite of hard times and unfavor able weather, That is the sit uation in which others made their money, while you .were excusing your had luck.* The fanner must realize that times are always hard, the weather is always too hot or too cold, too dry or too wet. Go to it.” This doesn’t mean that we are to hunt for troubles, x>r even welcome them when they come. But it does mean that we are to believe that we are big enough to hold-down the average- man size job, under the same .con dition as where the other fel low gets rich. NEW RULING ON PARCELS FOR AMERICAN FORCES Only articles which soldiers in the American expeditionary forces in France request in writ ing can be sent abrod in future, according tq_the latest rulings of the postoffice department, in formation of vhicli lias just been received here by Post master R. A. Deason. :The order relative to the rid ing is as follows ; ‘.‘Oil and after April 1, 1918, parcels for 'members and in dividuals connected \vith the Axhierican expeditionary forces inhEurbpe shall not be accepted for nniiling'ror dispatched unless they -contain sileli articles only as are being sent atthe writ ten request qfU the adtlressee, approved by, his regimental or higher commander or avn ex>K cultive officer of the organizat ion with which lie is connected.” BUBBLES FROM THE BOLLINC SPRINCS. A NEW CAME. ! J “Catching Herman spies bids fair to replace “Draw Po ker” as the Great American Game, if one may judge from the activity in that line shown by the j e>ple of .Southern IHT- Lyndhurst, April 1.—We are having art.Unauallyrearly spring this year. “Farming operations are up with this season, how ever, Quit.c^a large acreage seems to have been planted in corn, which ought to make glad the heart of Mr. Hoover. Some ?otton has.also been planted hut a small part of the crop is now in the ground, / Messrs. R.H.'and 1^. M. Gaunt have enlisted in the army, quar ter master department, and are tiow at Camp Johnson near Jack sonville, Fla. They seem pleased with the service and write that army life is all to the good. Mr. Win. F()w£e. who went with the Rizer party to some where in Michigan to bring back some machines through the country is now back at home; It sure was some trip. Miss Alfred, -of Cleveland, Ohio, is now, on a visit to her uncle* M. Joseph Alfred, of this place. . -1 Mrs. O. P. Hay and children of Raleigh, N. (’., are now here on a visit to the family of Mr and Mrs.'Jjio M. Gaunt. Mr. R. M. Hay, who has been s^endig some time in Charleston with relatives, has returned. We still have several - cases of measles here but the -sick ones are improving and we hope will soon be o. k. Mr. L. C. Fowke who is now a soldier at Camp Sevier, sur prised all of us by getting marked the other day. His .bride was Miss Mary Mercer, oT Kings Mt., N. C. Getting married seems to he an epidemic these times. That old -song ‘*Wa1t till the war Jove is over” is certainly a back number. Mrs. WaM. Steinmeyer and several children, of Beaufort, yame- up for a day or so last week. “t ' ~ Capt. R. P. Gantt had quite a serious attack of illness oil the night of the 18th, but wb are glad to report that he is almost himself again. Mr. E.G. Hay, Margiellarper and some other took in “The Birth of a Nation” in Augusta on Saturday. Whistling Itufus. A CHASE COYERINC BARNWELL’S v x \ HISTORIC POINTS. The baying of the hounds are silenced save for an occasional heartless yelp. The fox hun ters had all gathered, just at daybreak, out on the Williston road, and having a hard night with noJuck,were talking about coming in, when suddenly a "sharp, lingering bark from the throat of the little spotted half- breed dug called “Spot Light” game winding down the wind, and a sure-enough chase- was on. “Spot Light” hadvjumped the prey, right a< in that little branch head cio&g to Terrie’s and Hub’s tennant house at the Lynching Ground. NO TIME TO CAMBLE. “i or t!io Snuth to plunge on cotton or tobacco or ' any 'othei£/ speculative crop and to depend upo«-4he com belt for bread and rheat wilU.be for the South to engage in a gamble which may cause privation to the people and disaster to the Nation. For any man now to determine his bus iness operations fron^the stand* poinfof profit alone, without regard to'the Nation’s needs, is for him willfully to profiteer in blood of his fellows who are fighting in France for the preservation of the Repubic. No man can be excused for not taking his share of the respons ibility. “My whole life has been spent in the South. I know the south ern farmer. He will do his duty as lie sees it. I am appealing to every man in the-South to make known these facts—to consider it his busiuess : to make them known—and I shall have no doubt of the results. If they are not made known in a way to impress the crisis that con*, fronts us, there may be hunger in this bounteous land or hunger over yonder in Europe, where it will spell ( ruin for all that is worth while in America.”—Ex change. PATRIOTIC MEETINC." There will Jie a patriotic meeting atwthe Boiling Springs school house on the evening of April 12th, at 8:30 in connection with the ^liird Lib* erty Bond Issue. The public is cordially invited to attend. If you can’t come, come any hoyr. It’s your country’s cause. F. H. Gannt. Here they came! Down the nois. Recently, in several towny) tpad T over the creek, started up the city- !t to tmpoMttto to tluU tb*r* to jSkpUty In * term Wttfe tH|x>T«rlsbcd MR. dttopfctoMd tortWfl. ftfti ftft enrlro*- rpnd villages m tliat section, pro Germans liave been dragged from their homes by vigilance committees, made to kiss the fiag and swear allegiairoe to Uncle Sam. Morning greetings out there “Have you caught your German spy?” The numerous accounts of these proceedings all agree that it is^ grgat sport, and that the net result is highly benefi cial to the Gorman sympathizer as well. As enthusiam in the game abates from scarcity of material tho intimation is that i ‘alacker” will come in for his treatment. - ^ house wdiere Earl Roundtree used ialive. - At this point the dog9 began to wheel and turn. “Spot Light” doubled all the way back to Die Pigeon Shooting grounds while the other dogs dashed about as if bathed. AU at once.a joyous canine gave tonge oyer- Heifer Pen way and the frenzied chase sped like lightning down Calhoun Row, on across the Southern, zig«? zagged all over Bingham, then, on a long, straight away from Brown’s Hill. The dogs were getting,closer now. One more good stretch in the open at»4 it. would all be over. On Brown’s Hill the dogs again got addled and all mixed up. After dash ing hither and thither for a little while one of N the hunters . sighted the- hunted animal over there where Mr. 1 Hughsie had tobacco planted last year. Hi! Yi! lieije we go! .The brave hunters lashed their trusty steeds full speed ahead. Lusty shouts and melodious dog-rau- sjc rent the morning air as hun ters and hunted cleared the- Coast Line almost at a single bound, all headed for Turkey Creek, Q we are close no\y ! up the swamp we go and the dogs close in almost a-top of Hester’s tomb.- We leap'Trom our pant ing horses and rush in to be- pack lieid at bay by Ben Simons’ old brindle Louse cat, _ - ,* DuBois. •On the way back to Spot Light” Turkey Creek hill and branched off by White Oak spring. There the scent was lost for several minutes. “Spot-Light” again took the initiative by skirting around in a big circle, and by so doing hit the trail up there’ amongst Lancaster’s pecan trees. Coming up that little by-road from the Chero-Cola plant the hunt_:hurried, past Holland’s, shop, dashed through the Court house square, around the Cir cle, down Wall street, flashed across. Brown’s lot, split Gil more’s oat patch widq Open, 1 , slammed into the Maurice Man ning road and whizzed past the took up residehiQe in Hell’s Half Acre, and to this day that fickle half-breed refuses to give up his ngwly discovered Paradise. 1 • y } - i 1 \ '\ • « \ ■ Buy Them And Help Win The War TOE SALK IYIBTW1 I i 1