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WET GUNCOTTON.
t«r« Stable Than Dry aiMl Explodes
Only From a tavara Shaek.
Owing to Its high percentage of nitro
gen oxide, guncotton whan axpeaad to
air In a dry state rapklly abeorba oxy
gen from the air and becomes very
dangerous, exploding spontaneously or
from slight shock. Dry guncotton In
unconflned mass merely burns with a
flash like gunpowder, pnly much more
tepidly; It does not exert explosive ef
fect unless confined, hs In a shell. In
He dry state guncotton Is seldom used
for primers and detonators, as it is too
unstable and will explode with a slight
shock or blow.
The guncotton carried aboard war
vessels and submarines for the ex
plosive charge of torpedoes is always
wet guncotton, kept in air tight con
tainers to prevent evaporation of mois
ture. Wet guncotton can be exploded
only by a severe shock; hence primers
or detonators of some more powerful
explosive are necessary, these expldd-
ing on impact of the torpedo against a
ship's side and in turn exploding the
guncotton in the war head. Fifty to 100
pounds is the usual charge of a tor
pedo.
Ordinarily safe if properly stowed
away from heat and kept moist, gun-
cotton becomes dangerous from liabil
ity to spontaneous explosion when
alight excess of add is present, and
constant and regular tests for acidity
are part of the duties of ordnance offl
cera of war vessels and ammunition
depots. Guncotton giving a high acid
test is promptly condemned and either
destroyed or reworked and washed.—
American Druggist
- COLOSSAL GRAVEYARDS.
I m peeing Meunteine That Are flu IK r4
Animal Skeletons.
Many of the most Imposing mountain
ranges of the globe are largely made
up of limestones composed slmost en
tirely of the hard animals
which once lived in the eea< the most-
important of these rock building foruft
being of a very email size. The solid
earth is, in fact, a colossal graveyard,
and many of Us most lmi>osing eleva
tions are stupendous tombstones.
The cbalk making up tbe white cliffs
to which England owes her name of
Albion (Latin, albus, white) is chiefly
composed of microscopic shells closely
resembling those^no^v,, ,fpun^ at the
bottom of the sea. Hills and mountain
ranges largely made of this bhalk ex
tend from Britain and France round
the shores of the Mediterranean and
Won at a
Shooting Match
By OSCAR COX > -
PEACE RECESSIONAL
LAW OLD AND NEW.
A Cynical Visw of Past Methods and
Those of tho Present.
Law, more especially criminal law,
has usually been an occult science. It
U still the practice in Burma, we be
lieve, to give two disputants candles of
tbe same size, to be lighted at tbe
same time. Tbe one whose candle
burns longest gets Judgment against
tbe other.
Less than 100 yean ago a defendant
la an Engliab criminal trial appealed
to the ordeal of battle, and the court
mors or less surprised to And that
tbe ancient law on which be relied bad
never been repealed.
Determining a man's guilt or luno-
eence by his ability to walk on hot
plows ha rea or carry a hot Iron or
drink a poisonous decoction or by
throwing him bound Into water has
been practiced for ages among many
peoples. Tbe medieval method of let-
ting accused and arc oner fight K oat
with waapona was common over Eu
rope.
Our modest ancestors confessed their
InabUtty to find tbe merits of the
cause and ao relegated. the whole af
fair to the Intervention of supernatural
agencies. The main difference Is that
we art leas modest Instead of tbe
ordeal of battle or tbe old key and Bi
ble test or the “sirre witch.” we have
tbe defendant play a game of trip tbe
court If bo can catch tbe Judge put
ting down an *1” dot over an “a" be
wins and Is pronounced Innocent—Sat
urday Evening Pont*
•miff and a Creek.
Robert Pinkerton once told a story
of his father, tbe founder of tbe de
tective agency, which Illustrates tbe
elder Pinkerton's caution. A noted
criminal was detained In Pinkerton s
Chicago offles. Tbe elder Pinkerton
left tbe room and when he returned
took tbe precaution of bolding a re
volver In front of him ready for use.
fie saw the criminal standing by the
door with a snuffbox be bad |>lcked
np from Pinkerton's desk In his band.
"This Is good snuff." affably re
marked the crook an he took a sniff.
“For tbe eyes or the nose?" asked
Pinkerton, who knew that tbe crook
bad intended to blind him In an effort
to escape.
“Well," remarked the criminal. “I’m
aorry to say that tbe nose gets It this
time.’’
away into Asia and are largely repre
sented in other parts of the world.
Even more remarkable Is the limestone
of which the pyramids are built.
This Is chiefly made un of coin shap
ed shells (muinmulltes)W,'artly respon
sible, no doubt, for eastern legends of
magic money. Tbe limestone contain
ing them attains a thickness of sever
al thousand feet and Is the material of
which many mountain ranges are
largely built. Beginning on the west,
we have the Pyrenees and Alps, fol
lowed by the Carpathians. Caucasus,
mountains of Asia Minor, north Africa
and Baluchistan and, lastly, the Sulel
n an mountains, Himalayas and ranges
in China and Japan.
Vo’ want to know why we culled
gemmelmen nebber fought a duel—
case we got mo' sense 'n white folks
Wha' de use two ulggahs staudin’ up
to fight to’ deir bonuh wbeu delr honab
won’t bp no use to 'em when dey get
killed? One live man is wuth two
dead ones any day. m
De’ neares' 1 ebber come to seeiu'
two culled gcmmelmcu tight a duel
war down in Mississippi aftah de wuh.
One ob de Liucun culled regiments
wah disbanded down dab. Majah
Wa'fleld. dot belonged to Curuel Wa’-
fleld befo’ de prokelmntlon. wasacap'n
ob de regiment—dat Is, so mady ob
de white ossefers wah killed dat dey
had to put in culled ones. De majah
was mighty swelled up wld bein''
called majab and put on all de airs ob
a plantah what owned a t’ousand ulg- j
gahs. All de culled gals was stuck ou
he fine manners and dc brass button!
he wore and buzzed about him like
flies on a sugah bnr’l. Wha'ver he
went der war suah to be a string ob !
slrnp'erin’ gals at he heels.
• (Apologies to Kipling)' , "
Goddess of Fortune, known of old,
Fat* of our thin brown battle line---
Beneath whose kindly hand we hold
i The lows of Peace from palm to pine;
GoddeMgof Peace, make us aware
Sh«*jj*We prepare? Should we pre
pare ?
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The tumult and the shouting dies
The peace ship sails to foreign shores
We hear the - thundering protests
rise,
We watch the flag which proudly
soars,
Goddess of Peace, hear thou our
prayer,
Should we prepare? Should we pre
pare ?
If deaf with din of war we lose
All thoughts of bitter sacrifice,
Or miss the greater good and choose
A*golden calf to canonize,
Goddess of Peace, do thou declare,
Should we prepare? Should we pre
pare?
JOHN J. JONES,
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Practice in all the State and Feder
al Courts of South Carolina and Geor
gia. Prompt attention given to Col
lections. . '
0 . Office 413 Dyer Bldg,
.But de majah didn't want any ob *itpitsta
fern 'cept Sue Venables, de likeliest AUGLST ^’ GEORGIA.
THE JUDGE’S CHARGE.
it
Who
Dazsd the Culprit’s Lawyer,
Felt He Had Won His Case.
The following experience of a Mis
slsslppi lawyer was related by himself
years ago. He said:
^ I was defending a prisoner for horse
stealing, and seeing no other means of
defending him under the circumstances
I set up the plea of innnutty. i argued
it at length, read many extracts from
works of medical jurisprudence and
had the patient attention of tbe coiirt
The prosecuting attorney did nof af
tempt to reply to my argument or cou
trovert my authorities. 1 seemed to
have things my own way and whisper
cd to tbe prisoner that he ueedn t be
uneasy.
Then cams tbe Judge's charge, in
which be reminded tbe Jury that
there was no dispute between counsel
as to the facts of the case. Indeed,
there could not have been, for several
witnesses had sworn positively tbni
they saw my client steal the borne
"But," concluded the court, "the plea
of Insanity has been set np, and I
charge you. gentlemen of the Jury,
that It should recslvs your very grave
and serious deliberation, but I must be
allowed to say. gentlemen, that for
myself, upon a review of tbe whole
ease, I can discover no evidence of In
sanity on the part of the prisoner, ex
cept perhaps in the selection of his
counsel.”—Chicago News.
gal on de Venables plantation. < and
de only reason he wanted her war j
case Jim Archibald war gwtne to
marry her htasclf. Majah Wa'fleld
waa like a rooster In a chicken yard
dat won't Mow any udder Tooster dah.
He went shinin' up to Sue. and soon ;
ns she sor dat she could git tin ossefer I
she kind oh dropped Jim. Deu Jim
says, says he:
“Ef yo' want Majah Wa’fleld mo'
dan yo' want me I'm gwtne to slide
out.” '
“Who said I wanted Majah Wa'fleld
mo' dan I.waut yo'?”
Bell ’Phone 3237.
A. H. NINESTEIN,
' ' HERBERT E. GYLES,
Attorneys-at-Law,
BLACKVILLE, . - . . s.
Will practice in all Courts.
Money to loan op Farming Lands.
DR. W. C. MILHOt'S.
Dentist.
Office hours;. 8:30 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Persona living away from Barnwell
will please make appointments before
| coming.' By so doing they will be sure
jof immediate serviep.
Dr. HARRY B. HAIR,
Dentist, «
W1LL18TON. S. C.
Office open every day in the week.
Flexibility of English.
English is not only, as Richard Jef
feries asserted, the most expressive
and flexible of tongues, but also. In
Swinburne's opinion, the most musical.
He proclaimed tbe lines—
Music that gentlier on tho spirit lies
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes'
to be uumatebed for melody In any
language. And few would venture to
This Country ef Signets.
America Is a quarter section, not
square foot country. It Is the land of
tbe. biggest lakes, the longest rivers,
tbe fastest trains, tbe tallest buildings,
tbe land of tbe huge corporation and
the spacious farm and the prodigious
Industrial enterprise. Tbe Inhabitant
of this country of bigness feels tbe
urge of these Immeasurable Interests
therefore his fascination for large fig
ures and enormous scales of measure
ment He feels that be must keep up
to tbe pace of business or get out of
the game or be run over. One advance
step nedessKates- a -longer stride to
follow. He mqst always have his
’•next” • • • Big and swift busi
ness always fascinates the American
mind.—From "American Ideals,’’ by
Clayton Sedgwick Cooper.
contradict suclnrmaster of music god
tongues. But surely French ranks next
on tbe roll of languages. Fqg clearness
Of faction It is unrivaled, ahd, thanks
to its abundance of vowels (close on
one for every consonant). It flows
rhythmically from the tongue.
An Odd Apology.
Ttate la the classic apology of a cele
brated statesman of the last genera
tion: “Hr. Speaker. In the beat of de
bate I stated that the right honorable
opposite was a dishonest
unprincipled adventurer. 1 have
now, in • calmer moment, to atate
that I am aorry for It**
i One Lesson Leamsd. ___
Tn this practice to become a soldier
your first 'lesson moat be of prompt
and unquestioning obedience to your
superior officer." . . v
“That’s aH right, captain; Fm mar
ried. What’s tho next lesson r-Balti-
Amorirtn.
Habits of tht Wildcat.
To say that a dog can “whip his
weight In wildcats'’ Is to pay about the
highest tribute to his strength, cour
age and activity, and there are very
few dogs that would care to earn such
a tribute If they understood all It im
plk*d. Not that a wildcat is of a spe
dally aggressive disposition. On the
contrary, he would sooner mind, bis
own business any time than figtat. So
anxlods is he as a rule to keep out
of trouble that he has often been ac
cused of cowardice, but he lias on so
many occasions given evidence of the
most desperate courage that it is
doubtful if the accusation is a fair
one. When wounded or at bay he is
perhaps as dangerous as any ci^eature
of his size.
WALL * HARLEY,
Well Drillers.
- Let us Estimate on Your Work. J
BARNWELL. 8. C, R. F. D. NO. 2.
H. R. ERWIN,
Civil Engiaeer and Surveyor,
ALLENDALE. S. C.
march ‘16
EDGAR A. BROWN,
JAS. JUL1EN HUSH,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Money to Loan in any Amount for any
Length of Time
-“Wha’ -yo'. eotton to him so fo* if f Walker Building, "Barnwell,
yo’ don't want him?"
8ne. she wouldn't give np de majah.
and she wouldn't gib np Jim. Dat’s
de way wld some gals. Seems '■ If
dey want to msk' trouble ’tween de
men. De majnh amt Jim kep' giftin'
hotter and hotter till dey war Jnst sis-
alio*.
At las' wha' war goln' on spluded.
De majah, who had carried de pistol
In an affair ob honab 'tween two gem
melmen and reckoned be mus' put on
all de airs ob whits folks, sent wo'd to 1
Jim dat If be wanted Sue he mus' fight
fo' her on de field ob honab. Dar war
no odder way to git her.
Wbeu Jim got de challenge be war
walkin' town'd de ba'n, and settln’ be
side de ba'n do' war Unrl# Mose. a nig
gnh wha' bad de moc* sense ob any
nlggnh on de plantation. Jim toT
Mose about d* challenge, and Mose
says, aays be: . %
"Dat fool niggah fink he mighty
sma't Jes' case he belonged to de
army. Yo' leab It all to me. Jim. I
git yo’ de gal."
Jim agreed, and Move called on Ma
jah Wa'field's second to arrsuge de
te’tna.
“De bes’ way fo’ to settle de mat-
tab" says Mose. “Is fo’ Majah Wa'fleld
and Jim to see which Is de bes' shot.
To do dls dey needn't shoot at each nd-
der. Dey kin shoot at u ma'k, fo' If
dey git killed wha' use ds gal to
'em?"
The majah was persuaded to leave
Sue to de bes’ maMcamnn, and Mose
said dat dey shoot at an. egg hung to
a thread. Whoeber put de mos' 'shots
Into de egg war to bah de flel' cl'ar to
git Sue.
All de nlggahs turned out to see de
sbootln' match. Mose. bein' de oldes'
niggah. war master of ceremonies. He
hung up an egg, and, lookin' wise, he
said:
“Yo', Jim, yo' fire six shots at dat
egg. Den Majah Wa'fleld fire six
Shots at anudder egg. De one dat
puts de mos’ shots In de egg gits de
gal."
He handed Jim a revolver wld sis
shots In It. Jim tuk de pistil, shot Ids
eyes and fired, hlttlu' a niggah stand-
in’ to one side In de heel. Den he fiiTd
some mo', o|>en!n' his eyeg mo' and
mo', and de las' shot he hit de egg and
splattered It ull ober de crowd staudin'
roun’. ^
Majah Wa'fleld he lafed, feelln’ sho'
dat he could hit dn egg eltery tima
Dr. J. W. Reeves
Dentist
In office last week of each month.
Barnwell, South Carolina
Offles In Harrison Bulldlag.
oct31-li-lyr
The Orkney Island*;
“The member from the Orkneys” Is
the only man In the British house of
commons who can say be sits for 200
Islands. Only sixty of the Islands are
inhabited, but the constituency em
braces more than 00.000 ppople^ 1-
The Orkneys were once given by
Norway to England as security for a
queen’s dower and never redeemed. In
tbe islanda tbe voters must go to the
polls by boats, and in some cases the
distance to be traveled fs eight miles.
on tbe
The OM Family Tree.
let ef men get Job*
•f their ancestry?”
▲ fleed f am fly tree has pre
tty S ph»r—New Toth Tate-
Oxen Cavalry. ViV
Madagascar possesses the only oxen
cavalry reglm^m iiLJhe world. The
climate is so unhealOj-y-for horses that
some substitute h^d t^be found. The
oxen hare been trained to maneuver
with surprising skill, but of course are
not speedy.
Hiq Jeks.
“Hicks has a Job I wouldn't care for
—pooria* molten metal la a foundry."
"Moat be hot work."
“To* bet! Be parspbea at every
It ag'ln. Six times he fired and six
times Joggled de egg. Den Mose said
to him, says he: “Yo* go’n way from
hyer and leab Sue fo’ Jim. She be
long to Jim anyway till J-ou come ’long
wld yo’ fine soldier manners.”
The majah he Jist tu'ned around and
walked away, and he didn’t show his
face about dere no mo* nohow. Mose
tuk Jim by a a’m and ma’ched him to
where Sue waa, and he said to Sue,
says he:
“You quit yo’ foolin' and take dis man
fo‘ yo’ wedded husban’. He won you
at a shootin* match. Ain’t dat enuf to
make him wuth while?"
An' Sue she Jist looked proud as a
young chicken dat bad*-lal{l Its first
egg. fp’ she had been fought fo’ by two
ciiUed gemmelmen an’ dere wn'n’t no
blood spilled, only de flllln’s ob an egg.
An*, she tnk Jim by de a’m an’ led him
away with all de style ob a cakewalk.
Dat Var de ncares’ to a duel 1 eber
see among culled folks Why did de
majah only Joggle de egg? Why. yo’
aee. Hose had taken out de finin', leab-
ta' only de shell De wind ob de bul
let pushed tt aside ao de bullet couldn't
it Majah Wa'fleld might
M. B. CALHOUN
Funeral Director
Allendale, ,
Barnwell,
Blackville.
T'irst-class Undertaking.
Hearse for both White
and Black.
a
Offices. -
Allendale: Home Furni
ture Co., Barnwell and
Blackville.
All calls given prompt
attention.
9-2-15
Pension Notice.
I will be in the Auditor’s office ev-
When Mose hung up nnudder egg de
majah fired. He dldHT hit de egg. but c * • r
Joggled it., He fired ag'ln and Joggled urda / in January, commencing
the first day, to approve pension
blanks and all parties desiring to ap
ply for a pension will please meet me
there on those days for the purpose of
securing pension blanks, which must
be approved before the General Board
meeting, which will meet the first
Monday in March, 1916.
G. E. BIRT.
BANKERS AND STOREKEEPERS.
Bank Jokes is a humorous paper op
posed to big mail order houses/ de
partment stores chain stores, five and
and ten cent shops. Bank Jokes be
lieves that true prosperity follows
home trading. Bank men are “Bank
Jokes” when they trade out of town,
so are clergymen and town officers.
Bank Jokes has been $1 a year, but
for the present it is but ten cents a
year. Do not send postage stamp!.
Address BANK JOKES, Yarmouth-
Mass..—adv.
shot all day
Any weekly wishing to “run the
? above ad for aix months for |4 net
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So you can see it behooves you to
take thought for tomorrow'’ in this
connection. There’s a grand chance
to do it, here nowr^The first-comers
will get the best selections, naturally.
Come In!
Mid-Winter Quarter-Off
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Sale of Clothing and Furnishings
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Coat Suits and Dresses.
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We announce^today the] beginning
of our Mid-Winter Quarter Off Sale.
As^eyerybody in this vicinity knows,
these sales are real events with us.
They offer very great money-saving
opportunities too, for anyone who needs
or will later need, high-grade clothing
and furnishings and who has the fore
thought to buy them immediately.
This year there is a special inducement.
Owing to the war, the foreign-demands
for woolens of all kinds has created an
unparalleled condition in the American
market. There is a tremendous scarcity
of raw wool in this country now, and
the scarcity is daily growing more acute.
Nobody knows where the prices will
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be another season. But certainly they
will be higher.
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Barnwell, S. C