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w Tb« Bamwtll P«opl«* ^ tt tlM past ofTka at Barnwell, 8. C., as •acood-ckia matter JOMM W. MOLMfcS 1840-1*12 B.P. DHVIR8, Editor and Pnprietor Sabacripbow*—Hy the year 91.25; six months, 75 cents; three months, 50 cents. All subscriptions payable in advance. AdvartiMinanu-L e g a 1 advertise ments at the rates allowed by law. Lo cal reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertise ments under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve month. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of re spect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advestising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Commamcaboiu—We are always glad to publish news letters or those per taining to matters of public interest. We reouire the name and address of the wnter in every case, not for publi cation but for our protection. No arti cle which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not respon- ■ible for the opinions expressed in any communication. THURSDAY. AUGUST 28. 1913. VoL XXXVI. No. 52. The above heading appears on the first page of this issue of The People. It means that this newspaper has round ed out thirty-six years and we believe that we are safe in saying that they they have been years of usefulness If they have not, then all the love and thoughtful kmdneaa of the founder of The People, as expressed through the columns of his paper, have been wasted and his life was lived in vain Wr like to believe otherwise For the past eight months The People has been under the present manage ■sent, during that time wr have ear neat ly tried to keep the faith H.>w wr;! we have aucreeded or h<>» miaersbh we ha ve fatted is for our readers to say Certainty wr hav e made mi* takes W* esperled to. foe no human beiaf that ever breathed is infallible boose one has aatd that the fault oes •ot la asaktag mistakes, but in mas mg the aame asiotake twice (>a a number of urrmiont • r have been tempted to espeeea an opmion or to "lake aides in miners, but after carefully thinking it ovrr and asking ounglf (he ijueetiun. W ouid Ms r e , have done that' we have refr-uned We do not think tha! »r have l«wt t > that policy (htr idea haa been that a newa(«a{<er ahould be osore of a purveyor of new* and less of a moulder of opinions There are times, of rourae when it is expected of an editor that hr takr • definite stand in a pubuc matter but ea the whole a fair and square preaen tattoo of the facts is much better than a colored editorial o’union But it is not our intention to moralur Suffice it to say at this time wr will try, to the beat of our ability, to con tiaue conducting the affairs of The People along the same lines as those laid down by our distinguished prrde ceaaor, ‘with malice towards none and good will towarda all ” The many kind words of congratulation and other ex pressions of approval in a more materi al way have led us to suppose that we are succeeding to some extent in our endeavors to give our readers the best and newsiest paper published in Barn well County. t of the old State dispensary and a eownty dtfwnaory it merely a replica of the State dispensary on a smaller scale The Orangeburg Timet and Demo crat does not think that the whiskey question has been settled by the re cent elections and advisea that "no jgreat expense be gone to in putting in a plant to handle whiskey in this coun ty. We look for the issue of State wide prohibition to be made next year in this State, and we believe it will be carried by a large majority. Three- fourths of the counties in the State are dry now, and we believe they will in sist on the whole State being made dry when proper laws are passed by the Legislature to carry the provisions of the Webb Law into effect in this State.” In spite of their attempts to discredit the present administration, the Repub licans have failed to bring about the business depression that they predicted would follow the success of the Demo crats in the national election. Presi dent Wilson has shown himself to be a most remarkable man, one of the great* est Democrats, many think, since Thomas Jefferson. The following arti cle from Bradstreets, New York, is sig nificant of the success of the Demo cratic Administration: "Optimism, concurrent with good buying, furnished the keynote for this week’s trade report Visiting buyers have held sway in most of the country's leading markets, and while those from parts of the drouth affected Southwest have of>erated rather conservatively the general run have bought with more or less lit>erality In consequence, house trade, especially in drv goods and allied lines, hai broadened ;>erreptibl\ "Taken by and large the situation is encouraging, and it is patent that the prolonged policv of buvmg from hand to mouth haa strip^ied the selves ■■ the result of which a Taction toward rather extensive huvmg has set in \d\nr* from tevf r n- <rnt«-*"x n,t cate that uflr mai h nrrv is slsr't'-g .i; and a’ thr sam« ’ :nr \ ».r'> ' « » dr v « Mrs at«our 1 The ...unlrv is in g ■ - -1 hands I •’ the (he heathen ragt SHOULD BE BEAD IN EVENT COUNT NOON MfWUM Advwrttaor Praia— Prwawat- m#*»t of Bornwoll Grand Jury. The Edgefield Advertiser wa« very favorably impressed with the recent presentment of the Barnwell County grand jury, as published in these col umns a short time ago. The following comment is taken from that most es timable paper: General reports of presentments of grand juries are stereotyped in form and contain but little other than refer ences to routine work of sub-commit tees. However, the presentment made by the grand jury of Barnwell county recently is a notable exception, and a portion of it should be read in every court room in South Carolina. Believ ing that the opening paragraphs of this presentment should be given the widest possible publicity, The Adver tiser reproduces them Conditions have become almost in tolerable in Barnwell county because of the failure of the county officials— "from the honorably judge down to the most obscure lawyer"—to do their duty. Having borne and forborne for a long time, the citizens who com posed the grand jury made bold to speak their minds plainly, and in our opinion they have not gone too far in criticising the presiding judges. It rests solely w ith them as t j w hether a case shall Ik- forced to trial or a con tinuance granted u[>on some flimsy ex cuse devised by some designing law yer. It is unfortunately true that the Jieople have lost to a large degree the profound respect for our courts which they once had. the expression b«-mg quite common nnwadav" that th*- law vrrs run th«- coii-ts. and rint th*- judgi * If the pendulum swings mu< h f-i'-thcr ’ tow ard loos«-n*-ss and lavro-ss i.n tit- part of tin- judgrs. ti t- rad a d'» ■ trim- of !h«- rn a , 'if tt r ; u U arv » crrtainiv sprrad It n*-«-d nut (*■ nr « ssarv * - a ; tiding , u d g«' ! * i i r - a' a r. must « rr :.-t tx iti d a'rga'd eg • ga f i .fni s a f. d (r < f. 4 ( « « - J t ? • • • r a r r - t • 1 g - a * ' -1 g 101 • n 4 a - 1 a''*' (if: ^ a -i « _,»-.( v x" • • a ! v. rr • ! r * • ! a, < t 1 ■ * ? ‘ • - ■ , * * ' a. 4 *1 » ’«•' i*«* ' < * * ‘ * * * ; *'’ *** '*• ''a' * i • ' + • ' .t . * «. a * % ' a * ’ i # • it*'**' * ’ aw • 1 '*1 »'* | Thrrr irrmt ! ' -r Ihingt VKTvc mr - w d (hit wor'd t g-p-ia - a ar.a-«- \\ at VI■ I * • . (hr rditnf "f a V>• r ga- iw;*-- * ' marnrd ;n an ap r v.i a-r a- a fair nra( nttKilV a t - d -g ( •• ' nu ti(xr of tv<'uf *■ d a-' 4 a ha'f t«Cpn Iif’rrrtt (■• (' r >.•,; r • * n takr (rr r.an r ’l.' •• %r ' though( wr -an ha/d » '• arr.r ! k r ftvr m (>•■' hr a ttr rd'* ' t It and n.. J..-t • * I Unqurnt tukw. - !»-s a f- Th» 1‘ropir a i i % % * a- -1 ! * a.-ra ' « V V I *-w aoas **«#*“• ♦% vkHAT orhi 11 ran : fl «l at a • ■ r« h M n. a- : n (a h* t !» • kr prraanta! « r >ia> of 1 r- (v \4u has int'-'«tj< rd a »• .rgialalurr prt»h.(•!(.ng w irr.rn i - a" »1 ' ' a ' a d a • v * ' • h r a *» , a , 1 a « a " r •f r I (fit hettun ! trn *ra-x 9 *f 8 « ear. ng d rr **»-1 tf « l 11 * r . ui-n VI i ttai k u n irss thr t> uttonx t>r a* • -gr Si • i-mg !>r g.. a dollar Thr hill |iru\ idra fur a f.nr .«f 'r. 4 urx! ' 'f r r 11 to SA with a ja il sentence f^r d> ha<.a f.vCl.r tistrnt yffr ndrrs \nd * r tut a f ax k r t It n. dough nut against (hr hoir that s in it that the f>oor drvil is married and hat had aome rxfienencr in hooking the madam up the back Tha Diapanaary Elaction. The vote in the election on the 19th inst. can leave no doubt in the public mind as to the wishes of the voters of Barnwell County. With a majority of more than three to one in favor of the re-establishment of the county dispen sary it can mean only one of two things: that people want whiskey and the revenue derived from its sale, or that they had grown tired of the non enforcement of the prohibition law. While the editor of The People has heard numbers of people say that if it were possible to have prohibition in Barnwell County they would support it at the polls, etc., it is a significant fact that in Barnwell, where, in the past few months, there could hardly be any eomplaintof the enforcement of the law, the vote stood 188 for and 40 against the dispensary. It is aineeroly hoped by all concerned ftaf a wise selection will be made in the moa who arc to control the af- The people have The Anderxon Intelligencer, a Bleaxe pafH*r, endorse* the goiernor s stand in refusing to call out the miltia to pro tect the alleged rapist in Snartanburg several days ago The Columbia Record points out that in a case of this kind it w is the dignity of the law that is being upheld and is not the protection of a criminal. • v r ,.d'« - * < : » -hI * < This would havr 'K-rn a fcc of the A certain local wit recently- ridded his system of a pun to the effect that Aiken must have been intended, pfi- marily, as a place of rest in view of the fact that it was so well "laid out.”— Journal and Review. Nay, nay, neighbor. That’s merely an indication that Aiken is a dead town. i • • * ; 4 • * k *»* ’ " r ll ! f .» g h t . f (ioNrrnor H rasr cou.d nd th«- daddx of thr rhildrrn of I'lam Marvin • h" was xilU-d t'> kinard. k tiy! t < an t do that and th« > wi,l ha.r to suffer on and shift for th*-ms«-l\< s NVhs stoiu.d not the man who took th«-ir dadd> from them tie punished ' Why should he Ik* turned loose to go and kill the daddy of some other little children possibly because his little chil dren w anted their daddy back ' Kinard ought to have thought of how he would be missed by his little tots when he was about to deprive the little tots of Marvin of their daddy by sending him into eternltv, from whence he cannot i be called back.—Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Saved Girl’s Life “I want to tell you what wonderful benefit I have re- J J ceived from the use of Thedford’s Black-Draught,” writes J j Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky. J g “It certainly has no equal for la grippe, bad colds, _ liver and stomach troubles. I firmly believe Black-Draught ^ ^ saved my little girl’s life. When she had the measles, ® they went in on her, but one good dose of Thedford’s ® ' Black-Draught made them break out, and she has had no J JJj more trouble. 1 shall never be without j BLack-DraugHT J in my home.” For constipation, indigestion, headache, dizzi- J jp ness, malaria, chills and fever, biliousness, and all similar ^ Jp ailments, Thedford’s Black-Draught has proved itself a safe, £ 01 reliable, gentle and valuable remedy. 0 • If you suffer from any of these complaints, try Black- # J Draught It is a medicine of known merit Seventy-five W ? years of splendid success proves its value. Good for ^ a young and old. For sale everywhere. Price 25 cents. —mm* (profcffionaf Carbf. 1 (J-Ul Strongest State Bank in So. Ca. WHY? ( a 'ita 1. >ur 'lus and Stockholder** I.lability •VMO.OOO.UU Safest of the Safe. « ig - hr .xf.-y . 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CALDWELL GUILDS, M. A., HEAD MASTER A New Brittain, Conn., manufactur ing concern has warned its young women emnloyes that they are not to appear for work wearing the slit, the hobble or the diaphanous skirt. “Each girl is asked to appear for work in business-like and modest clothes.” Ain’t it awful, Maggie? "No others but us know of our great ness,” writes a correspondent to the Jasper Herald in referring to the little town of Hardeeville. And we opine that this would fit a Ipt of people, both in and out of Jasper County. An Aiken man named Crook has pur chased the Wageaer Edkto News, but thca what’s ta a Sow Oats Early This Year. It is not too early to begin planning for getting the oats sowed early enough this fall. Year after year oats are sowed during November or left un til February or March, that might have been put in during the latter part of September or during thr first half of October, if the work had been better planned. It is better to sow oats in cotton, eith er broadcast or in drills—two drills be tween each row—early in October than to sow them next February. It is al ways a difficult matter for the cotton and corn farmer to get the oats in early enough, but every effort practicable should be exerted to get them in before the middle of October and in the north ern part of those sections where oats are sowed in the fall, they should be sowed by September 15.—The Progres sive Farmer. . The Index makes this one political prediction: That the Hon. John Low ad— McLaurin will not run for ■axt year There's a F0R SALE VALUABLE PROPERTY IN THE PROSPEROUS TOWN OF WILLISTON, S. C. THE BROWNE PLACE, 45 acres, large 10-rooni house. ’ THE GRAHAM PLACE, 50 acres, more or less. Both of these places are on the North side of the Southern Railway. On the Browne place is located the fine public school building. Will sell either place as a whole, or sell lots as desired. Prices reasonable. Apply to M. T. WILLIS, Afwnt, Williaton, S. C, or MRS A M. BROWNE, Cam Daily Piedmont, SC Thos. M. Boulwaxe, attorney at law Negotiate loan* on real estate Tan 7"„ money in sums not leas than #5,(HKi.00. Office over Bank of Weatern Carolina, BinnWELL s.c L ALVA MELLETT Successor to- Wm. W. MOORE and E. H. RICHARD SON. Liveryman, Undertaker and Funeral Director. Dr. J. W. Reeves Dentist In office last week of each month. Barnwell, South Carolina Office in Harrison Building. oct31-12-l vr V. SEYMOUR OWENS Jttorneij and CmliMlIiir at Law Office ov t . The Bari.well Sentinel BARNWKI.I., MHTH CAKOII>a — Will |ir»i tier m a l th<- < <«urt» Cn| i*• c11.in• a •I'.-t laltv. I.o»n« to-gi'tlaied , -m ai - * eptaMc »cci; mv. I — James H. Fanning, A1T"KS KY AT I \ W. Springfield. - - - S. C. w I rU of ffi* ' * la r » t I I n ' »■ | U a • r» Alt DR. W. C. MILHOUS, B \KV\ f 1 t . 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