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«v r is. •/r The Barnwell Sentinel 1 7 Owned and Published Every Thurs day by The New Sentinel Publish ing Company at Barnwell, w-* - c Chas. Carroll Simms, John K. Snelling, Sec.-Treas, and J. B. Morris, Jr., Business Manager. W. M. JONES,Editor Entered as second class matter, Feb ruary 14, 19105 at the Postoffice Barnwell, S. C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. - 'BJL."" -J L—U5JJ I-J! L -IL-if4jL.g- Sukacriptiea Rates. One yera $F:60. Six months 90c, Three months 50c. 4 In Advance. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1919. The Duty to Save A brief history of our present prob lems of the high cost of living may not be out of place. , By common consent gold has become the basis of <vur financial system, because its val ue is nearly statonary. It then stands to Reason that* any hew - dis covery of gold will at once depreci ate the purchasing value of a dollar and increase the number of dollars in circulation. Prices will rise or what is the same thing the value of a dollar expressed in purchasing pow er wji 11 fall. This happened when gold was discovered in California, and later when the Rand mining district in South Africa was opened up. There was a consequent rise of prices when the Alaskan gold fields were opened up, and when it was found possible to treat the low grade gold ores by the cyanimide process. This increased gold supply accounted for the rising prices from 1896 to 1914. Another factor in high prices is that war always increases the nation al debt. War necessities must be se cured at once and at any cost or the war is lost. Consequently a great deal of money that has been with drawn from commercial channels must be spent for war necessities. High wages always go hand in hand .with war conditions. Higher wages with the majority of wage earners who have had to live within their for mer means will Invariably result in the extravagance of fh$ nCrAIwi* buy ing of luxuries. Recently it has heed found that the majority purchasers of furs, silk hose, pianos and automo biles are from the" ranks of Workers who were formerly receiving barely a living wage. Instead of saving for a rainy day, they are ma’ring hay while their sun shine 1 --, with - no thought for their - tomorrow which must come. When then* wages are " Tjced, as they nuist some day, they will have nothing but memories to remind them o fth^ir high wages. Sav- the scenes of their earthly life what must theyMbink of their successors who hnve permitted this beauty spot to- fall in^o itv present low estate? This spot so richly associated with -tfur community life and .so. readily adapted to a rare development into civic beauty has been allowed to be- . President j-ctmle' an eyesore to ourselves and a regret to our visitors. For cheap twdriness it cannot be surpassed. What would ft mean to us as-&■ community- centre*if instead of the present unsightly platform-we had in its centre a neat and artistic band stand which yrOuld serve all pur- posWr-Tor which its unsightly prede cessor is used? Would it not be a wise exchange if instead.of the present thoroughfares which have turned it to country highway we walks, and its borders well sodded with grass? The unsightly stumps of .dead trees could be removed from sight and the circle reforested with ornamental trees suited to ow-^wn climatic conditions. The circle could with a little cooperation and’ compe tition be turned into a riot of color from its possibilities for flower grow ing. The whole Circle might “fie sur rounded with an artistic and orna mental means of enclosure which would embrace at once both the ele< ments of strength and beauty and be far removed from its present dita- oidated railing. Its very outline, a circle is the most harmonious of all geometrical figures, and lends itself most*readily to the highest results in ornamentation. It would he amiss to offer a small prize for the best -design submitted for its artistic development or to secure the opinion of a trained land scape gardener. If* it is all that the town wants it to become then-it is a true index then we should make it what some other town would if they hud it instead of being located Barnwell the weevil he. would now know what r to do and what not to dd, We would no\v have , had the .opportunities to Lest out.thc suggestions of, one man, by the experiences of others. As the tnajtter now stands with the m&jority •* of farmers nearly all that has? been given them has been forgotten, and the efforts of our experts Tiave been practically wasted. Prepare a scrap book "ini save your boll weevil sug gestions. r Timer to Dest/oy All Cotton Stallca. ing left As we have a very heavy Infes tation of boll weevil in Barnwell County, we want to use^every means to destroy "a 11 weevils possible be fore killing frost. As soan~*as kill- frost fall air weevils will have the cotton fields and found win ter quarter?. • .. Wherefore at once CUT DOWN and plow under all cotton stalks and clean up all weeds and trash. By doing the above a large number of weevils wilT be ^estVo'yed. This will increase our chances of- making a better crop of cotton next year pro vided not over 5 to 8 acres of cotton arc planted in cotton. Ffcnce your fields and grow more hogs and pcanutsand. less boll weeviL More wire ^ fencing means more' prosperity to the farmer. . II. G. Boylston, County ~Agent. in The Monkey and The Cat. ing would be the highest wisdonrTor t)ie salaried mail. -it .The war fimde America immensely rich, because we had things to sell’ which other nations must buy. Their gold flowed here to purchase our pro visions and munitions of war. They -'Tiave no gold reserves now’ as former ly to secure their paper money. \V’e have received their gold and at the same time lost thbse countries as our accustomed markets. The natural consequence of this means shortened production from our.maffufacTuring enterprises and a consequent reduc tion of labor as soon as we have sup plied our home markets. Labor pur poses to meet this situation by a shortened day of labor so as to give all labor a chance to W’ork, and re quire the consumer to pay as much then for half of what he now receives. Capital has sa\'ed and made enough to be indifferent to the coming condi tions. The middle class of people are going to be caught between the up- }>er and lower millstones. A dollar today will buy only one- half of what it would a year ago. It will buy only one third as much as in 1914. The suggested wisdom then is while dollars are easily made it would be wise to same them until they will be w’orth more than they are today. There is a well known story of a monkey who wished to pull sorrte roasting chestnuts from a hot fire, and being unwillmg to scorch his own paws, persuaded the cat to do the work for him.. This has given us the proverb of making a cat's paw of unother. Somehow there ' in an inescapcable impresion among our re* turned soldiers that they have been made cats paws by sonic who staid at home while they went to the army. There is a well marked case of before—and- after in mw tmrfminTr of oil? soldiers. Then they were tuiile<» as our greatest lieroes *Tdr whom nothing was too good. We gave them u send off that was the best we had. We intimated that theyjaere the luckiest me qglive and they were the luckiest men alive and to go with them to war. We told them that they would lose nothing by their absence from business and so cial ]ife. One of our contemporaries rep resents a returned soldier who wore a wound stripe saying that while 1 he did not regret his war service, yet if he had to go over it g£?in he would have been better off if he had slipped into some essential indus- JLry, or had availed himself of osme technicality in the draft law. There is no mistaking the Tac-t-iftat Urn aV- erage returned solid*?** who is de pendent on himself for a livelihood feels that the stay-at-homes have WLL GO TO FRANCE. Capt. James T. Moore of Columbia Bound Overseas. .>» u.Ny rV l. Week Commencing MONDAY November / J 1 - Everything Moral Capt. James T. Moore was in Co lumbia Saturday and Sunday with his parents, Gen. and Mrs. W. W. Moore. ~ Captqjn Moore reports in N’,CW York today for duty And Refined with the United States marine corps in Brest. ,lje has recently' been in Command of a casual detachment at Quantico, Va. Prior to that he ser ved 31 months with the marines in Santo Domingo. He is a graduate of the Citadel, being a member of the class of '14.—The State, Nov. 11. MASTER S SALE. The Neglected Circle. i^Macauley closed one of his fa- jnous assays with an eloquent des cription of a Ne^ Zealand native looking over the ruins of London as he fished from a broken span of its bridge. What did he think of its passed and present Barnwell has a splendid history for no ,ane can go through the streets and by ways of the older part of the town and look at its giant trees, and situ ations of the dwellings far back on their lots without feeling that the city fathers of former days had *a sense of things, beautiful, This is elearly seen in the setting apart of the town circle for its appropriate place in the town life. If the de parted spirits do revisit earth awd- those from JJarnweil^ftfme back to made U catspaw’ of him to pull their chestnuts - from the fire created by the war.. If these returned soldiers have a just foundation for their semie of re sentment, we should recognize the obligation that we are under to them for their service in defense of our principles and possessions. We should see that they shall lose noth ing because of their years in army service.. We cannot afford to' remain under an implied allegation of sel fish ingratitude. We heed an or ganized effort to give them something more than a memorial for their pos terity. Boll Weevil Scrap Book. State of South Carolina, Barnwvll County. Court of Common Pleas. Elizabeth Meyer, et. al., — . ■ ■P4*»*n r against Beulah £L Gamble, et- ' ■ . Defendants. By virtue of a dccietal order to me directed in th* above emit led cause; I will sell at Barnwell, in front of the Court House, on Monday, the first day of December 1919, it be ing salesday in said month, within the legal hours'o^, sale, the following described, veal estate:. All that cer tain tract or parcel of land known as the Killingaworth Home Place, con taining about six hundred (600) acres,, more or less, and bounded on the North by lands of Hinton Ander son and lands formerly of R. R. Rountree and now owned by Coon Owens; on the ftast by lands of Lsaac Rountree; South by Miller Ander son Place/, now owned by T. A. Greene and on the West by lands, of -L Ar—KiUiftgsworth, now’ owned by James N Killingsw’orth. ALSO: A,LI,...that cei.-Lu.ii- Any man has forgotten more than he knopvs because he took steps to preserve what he has learned. Some where he.had read in the papers cer tain statements that he now wishes that he could lay his hands on, but a poor memory has failed him.. All that he can say is that he has read suqh and such things. The boll w’eevil has had more writ ten about him than has been w’ritten of the president of the nation/ In season and out of season, here a little and 'there a little/ the cotton fanner lias been told how to raise cotton in spite of the pesky varmit. The average farmer coyldn’t place his hands on the merest fraction of what he has read^jn-helrd of the con trol of the The idea of making and keeping a Jboll weevil scrap -book is not to be ■ despised. If the average farmer had three years ago-kept a-sc rap book in- -to which he ’had' pasted everything written, or epokaa -the control -of lanu in said fttate and.County known as v the Nathan Anderson piace, bounded North by lands of James Barker and I. W. Rountree, on the East by^ Lower Three Runs; on the .south by Adams Branch, separating it from lands of Isaac Dunbar and M. O. Wall ahd on the West by lands of I. W. Rountree and W. J. Mc- Cutcheon. and containing three hun dred and 1 fifty (350) acres, more or less. j Sale of the above lands will be made according to a plat to be made theeof’and above description is. sub ject to the lines and acreage that may be established by the plat to be made as aforesaid. Sale of above lands to be exclus ive of the timber claimed by Kendall Lumber Company upon the tract up on which the alleged lease exists in its favor. , • Sale of above lands to be made first in parcels and then as a body. Master to accept the bid or bids for the highest amount offered, so that the said lands may bring the highest price at said sale. Terms of sale: One third cash and the balance on one and two ye.ars credit; the credit portion to be se cured by bond and mortgage of the premises, bearing interest, f reight per cent per annum, payable annu ally, default interest tj/bear interest at the same rate until paid, with the privilege to the purchaser of^pur- chasers to pay all cash,if desired. ^ Purchaser to pay for pape-rjrlir.d stamps. _' /• H. L. O’BANNON, . . ^ Master. Master’s o^’ce. Nov. 11th, 1919. E. F. Sease Nov. ?0 Mi«ses Ma**naret Swan am Hogg spent Tuesday'in Augt Leslie ?ta. A large number of Barnwell peo- ,Dle are attending the F^jr’in. Aug ta Uua STANTON (tA ret Famous High Diver FREE 4 & tOP. a Tam V And Offer My Entire Stock of DOLLARS t — Worth of the Best Lino of Fancy Groceries in Section My line of Coffee is complete, come in and let us show you our two lots of Greeue-Coffee, 1,000 pounds of Brazilian Golden Java and 1,000 pounds Brazilian Golden Santos. I have-oyerl2 different standard brands of Parched Coffee. Coffee is high and going to lie highpr; Brazil’s crop is short and with a world wide demandr Can save you from 5c to 10a per pound on parched Coffees. I have over 300 Barrels of the very best Self Rising Flour to offer you at wholesale prices. , ’ —, My line of Canned Goods are the finest quality. I have every thing that’s put up in cans; also Candies, Nuts, Citron, Cakes, Crackers, Crockery Ware,"Glass Ware, Tin Ware, Enamel Ware, Plug and Smoking Tobacco, Cigars and Cigarettes. I have a complete up-to-date set of Fixtures, Showcases, Ice Boxes, Refrigerators, Soales, two large Safes, and same are for sale/ A You are personally invited to come in and inspect the stock of Groceries and Fixtures. ' • . YOURS FOR BARGAINS, : ir “The Place Where a DollarJlte Always Done Its Duty*. 1 iBLACKVILLE, - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, » W . * ' — - - • """" r •_ -