The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, May 25, 1916, Image 8
THE GAY STATESMAN.
A Tribut* to tho Voroatile Ganiua
Aloxandar Hamilton.
BreawCiUn imm r«»
-nrmTHSPIT ellher for koo<? or'eTll. with
every lueiitlon ofJUnr’a name the flit-
tire of Hamilton rises,, an avenging
ghost. Even liefore that precocious
young native of the Went Indies walk
ed into bur military history at Prince
ton. a lad only nineteen, lost hi thought,
a cocked hat pulled down over his eyes
while his hand rested upon a cannon
that he putted alisentmiudedly as if
it were n favorite horse, he had done
valiant work for American liberty With
his pen. From the time he touched
our shores to the July morning more
than thirty years later when Burr's
bullet laid him low he was a force to
be reckoned with.” * v
And his was one of those natures,
keenly alive on many sides, whose as
tonishing maturity of intellect did not
snuff, out the zest of life. He became
“my boy” to Washington very early
in his service, worked willingly at
headquarters day in and day out with
a sober application equal to Washing
ton’s own, yet contrived to snatch from
such never ending drudgery youth's
dear and fleeting Joys. He brought
gayety even to Washington's mess ta
ble, courted black eyed Elizabeth
Schuyler under the muzzles of British
guns and in the years of their mar
ried life together managed with all
his prodigious labors to bend social
graces as well as the solid qualities of
his mind to enriching their days and
nights.
Besides l>elng a great statesman, he
was “an enjoying gentleman,” to use
the quaint old phrase. Talleyrand,
corrupt and appreciative, looked uimn
him with amazement. “11 avatt divine
rEurope,'.' he said, which, from a Eu
ropean of that day, about an American
was near the highest praise. Hamil
ton’s management of the treasury,
without breath of scandal or self seek
ing, tilled the Frenchman with even
greater astonishment. “I have beheld
one of the wonders of the world,” he
exclaimed—"a man who has made a
nation rich laboring all night to pro
vide his family with bread.”—Helen
Mcolay in Century.
The Only Fool
Copyright, 1918, by the McClure
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THIS PLANT IS A THIEF.
Sarah Martin married Jim Hewsfon
because she was a hired girl and work-
ing for $2 a week; because, again, she
was tired of work and wanted a home.
Jim Hewson married Sarah Martin
because he also wanted a home and
because he knew that she earned $8 a
month. That would pay the rent on a
cottage in a village In those far back
days. ' p
Jim was lazy. He was born that
way and couldn't help it He hadn’t
energy enough to sweat a shirt collar,
and therefore when he worked he got
paid according to his energy, which
pay seldom exceeded 15 cents a day.
The bridal tour of the newly weds
consisted of walking a mile arm In
arm, each with a basket on the free
arm, to a huckleberry swamp a mile
away. There they picked twelve quarts
of berries—that is, Sarah picked ten
quarts and Jim two. Then they walk
ed back to town and sold the berries
to a grocer for 60 cents in cash. *
“You see,” said Jim as he Jingled the
money In his hand, “we can get along
as easy as grease. This money would
buy us provisions for a week.”
The bride half laughed at the re
mark, but aoon felt aerious and hadn't
much more to say. Two weeks later,
however, she hud. Jim had gone to
aee her in the kitchen In which she
worked and was feeling glad that he
was a married man when ahe aaid:
"Jim, I have been thinking things
over.”
“Well?” waa the query.
“I have come to the conclusion that
I waa either a lunatic or an idiot to
have married you/ You are all wrong.
You are lazy andjBhlftlesa. You haven't
g6t the energy of a potato ^bug. You
want me to work and support you in
stead of It being the other way. If
you were the (test husband in tbe state
I wouldn’t do It”
“"Well, what are we going to do?* 1
H. R. ERWIN,
Civil Engineer and Surveyor,
ALLENDALE, S. C.
march *16 -
Dr- HARRY B. HAIR,
Dentist,
WiLLISTQN, S- C.
Office open every day in the week.
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Office In Harrison Building.
oct31-12-lyr
Dodder Steals All the Digested Food
of Its Clover Neighbors.
Possibly he's too lazy to feed him
self, or It may be that he came from
a family of criminals and cah't over
come bla heredity. At any rate, 'he's
a rubber, a thief and a plunderer. None
of these nHxies is too severe, and tf j
you doubt it ask tbe farmer, who
t—-'.-a Mm foo the damage be does
every year to the clover mid alfalfa
crops. The plant is the dodder.
Perhaps we can forgive the dodder
(or not preparing his own food, for be
has nothing to prepare It with. Nearly
all plants have chlorophyll, tbe sub
stance which makes plants green and
dtgeatf'tUe, food which they take from
tbe ground and tbe air. The dodder
has no chlorophyll-
So It has to turn robber to live. After
tbe seed springs from tbe ground the
dodder vine reaches out until it touches
some other plant, clover, for example.
It attaches Itself to tbe clover stem by
its tiny rootlets and begins to eat the
food which thp clover has taken and
digested. ^
After awhile the root withers and
dieg^and the vine keeps reaching out
for more victims, biuding them to
gether with Its tiny threads. You prob
ably have seen the small, pale, bell
shaped flowers climbing over a field of
clover.
Once dodder gets a hold in a clover
field the farmer's only escape is to cut
clover and dodder alike and burn the
crop. And the farmer believes this
death none too- horrible for the little
robber vine.—Philadelphia North Amer
ican.
^minute'
“1 can’t get a divorce froth you, Jim,
for I haven't got the money to put one
through. If we agreed on a separa
tion it would do me no good, for Pd
■till be bound to you. If I was free
altogether I might stand a chance of
getting a husband who would provide
a home and comforts for me.”
“You mean If I should die you'd
have your chance?” •
Tbe wife didn't ret>ly. She only
looked at him.
Jim rose up and left tbe house with
out a good night and went to his bed
of hay in the atabie. and for an hour
be did more thinking than be had done
In a year before.
- In about a week he tried suicide. He
went over on tbe railroad track in
midafternoon, and when the 3 o’clock
express came along he waa standing
between the rails and facing It The
wblatle screamed and tooted, but Jim
stood there as If spiked to a tie. Tbe
engineer tried to stop tbe train, but
tbe pace was thirty miles an hour
when tbe cowcatcher did its work.
Five minutes later a man who had
witnessed tbe accident from forty rods
away came running up Just as tbe vic
tim was climbing the fence of a corn
field into which be bad been hurled.
He had a slight limp In tbe left leg,
but that was nothing for Jim to kick
about.
Sarah had beard of this attempt and
started out to look for Jim. but ahe
didn't have the luck to And him. He
was missing from his usual haunts for
three or four days, and then he turned
up on a bluff overlooking the mill pond
half a mile from the bridge. He was
going to try the water cure this time,
lue bluffs were thirty feet above the
water, and Jim couldn't swim a stroke.
Instead of striking the water, how
ever. he struck a strip of mud.
“You blamed Idiot! What did you
Jump for? 1 saw you when you made
the leap!” said a passerby.
“I wanted to dife.” replied Jim.
Sarah got every loose boy in town
to hunt for Jim, but they hunted In
vain. He hud one more attempt com
ing to him, and If found at all he want
ed to be found dead. He went two
miles away from town and hired to a
farmer to sprinkle parts green over the
potato vines of his patch. The farmer
left him alone for an hour, and Jim
mixed, a big dose of the powder and
drank it down. It was an overdose,
however, and It was thrown off, and
bis life was saved again.
It was when poor Jim was tottering
down the road toward the 'village that
an auto overtook him and
halted to s!
“If you aren't drunk, then you are
sick. Get In here. Now, what’s the
matter?"
Jim told him all, and, curiously
enough, the autolst proved to be an
uncle of his whom he had not. heard
of since his boyhood days. When the
uncle had heard the story to Its end he
said: „ .*
"Jim, you had a'fool for a father.
You have got three fool brothers and
fool sisters and about five or sit fool
uncles and aunts and the Lord only
knows how many fool cousins, but you
are the first fool in all the family that
ever owned up to being a foot You
shall be rewarded In consequence. I
will buy"you a-house and lot In the vil
lage, give you $5,000 to set you and
Sarah on your feet and bet that you'll
Why He Knew. __ come out very near the top. A man
“Are you sure that yeor wtfe-^com- * fool and knows It Is a better
singular the
kindred and creditors of the said de-
asked the husband after a lapse otJa. ceased^ that they be and-appear be-
Th« Whits of an Egg.
The white of an egg Is made up of
little cells, filled with albumen. By
beating tbe white these cells are rup
tured and oxygen from the air Is in
closed, which gives the white and light
appearance to beaten eggs. The white
of a stale egg will not inclose as much
pxygen, will not be as light and as
easily digested as that of the fresh egg
and, of course, less valuable. The im
portance of beating the egg in cold,
pure air is readily seen. r
A-Mystery.
How Is It that a manacled convict
can esaajie unhurt by leaping from a
train running at the rate of thirty
miles an hour when every time the
average citizen slips in alighting from
a car he Injures himself so severely
that th'e railway company must.pay
him big damages?—Louisville News.
Mixad the Streets.
The dovetailing of the new city plan
of 1807-11 on the old line of New York
streets resulted in a curious complica
tion whereby Fourth street crossed
both Tenth and Eleventh streets, a
fourth dimensioplnl achievement war
ranted to stagger ihe brainleat of
mathematicians.—Exchanie,
Tha Criterion.
“I dined at my fiancee's home yester
day.”
“No doubt they regard you as one of
the family by now, don't they?”
“Not yet They haven’t quite reach
ed the point where they bawl me out.
if I make a spot on the tablecloth.”—
Fuck. ,_V ' • ■ ■ - ■
CITATION NOTICE.
The State of South Carolina,
.County of Barnwell.
By John K. Snelling, Esquire, Probate
Judge.
WHEREAS, John 0. Walker, made
sipt to me to grant unto himself Let
ters of Administration of the Esate of
and effects of J. O. Walker, Jr.
THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to Cite
2nd admonish alt and
fore me; in the court of Probate, to be
held at Barnwell on Monday, the 15th
of May next, after publication thefe-
of, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to
show cauye, if any they have, why the
said Administration^ should not be
granted.
Given under my Hand this 27th day
of April, Anno Domini 1916.
JOHN K. SNELLING,
Judge of Probate.
Published on the 4th day of May,
1916 in The Barnwell People.
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a. m— Applicants must not be less
than sixteen years of age. When
Scholarships are vacant after July 7
they will be awarded to those making
the highest average of this examina
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Scholarships are worth $100 and
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DESPAIRING WIFE
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• The doctor was called in, and his treat
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I had gotten so weak I could not stand,
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At last, my husband got me a bottle ot
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