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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE Entered at the post office at Barnwell, : of- S. C., as second-class matter. JOHN W. HOLMES 184-0 — 1912 FOR FRITZ’S SAKE By MAUNA COWLES. B. P. DAVIES. Editor and Proprietor. THURSDAY; FEBRUARY 6, 1910. Why the Double Standard? There are two very distinct classes of newspapers in this country two ex tremes—and the public sets a differ ent standard for each. Just why, no one knows—but it does. Of the one ^requires truthfulness, decency, and moderation. Of the other it requires pothing— it just takes what is handed out, and looks for more. The great metropolitan daily gath ers up the news of the world and that news is read at the breakfast table, or during the day, or after the even ing meal. The reader seldom pauses to re member that reporters ^ind editors have warped and colored much of that news up to satisfy the public craving for sensations. It may contain a few grains of truth and a few bushels of fake. The country paper gathers up the news of the home community and sends it forth on press day. That news im^t be TRUE, or the editor’s reputation for veracity is ruined and his career of usefulness is at an end. Faults that are condoned or entire ly overlooked in the big daily are unanimously condemned in the hum ble weekly. The city daily often builds up a tremendous circulation by pandering ‘ 0 .. one ?/ »H worti elemento jn hu-1 te&t&e999SS&SSSSSSSS&SttSSS$Mt& C .niwricrl, ♦ u.- *i.~ ' . des ire manity -tht- scandal. The country weekly .builds up its circulation by catering to a higher plane of citizenship, by the dissemi nation of facts in its news columns, by a rigid adherance to truthfulness in its utterances. The world has apparently learned to expect about a certain amount of fakery, exageration, * sensationalism and sensuality in the metropolitan daily—though happily there are a few dailies that are disappointing to their readers in this respect, they are de cent. Of the country weekly it demands the traversing of the straight and narrow path—the elimination of sug gestive and questionable matter—the publication of a sheet which would not shock Christ if he came to earth. Why the double standard? —o— Swift Company, the meat pack ers, have been trying to explain away that recent government investigation. A short time ajro they published .an advertisement entitled “Swift Dol lars—Where . They Go.” The dollars that come our way are all so dern swift that it’s impossible to see where they go. , f. ——O— Well, since the mountain (as repre sented by the Court House) would by Blackville) let Mohammed come to the mountain. A Dollar’s Worth. Last Saturday The State printed a dispatch saying that butter was sell ing at wholesale in Kansas at 38 cents a pound. That same day it was re tailing in Columbia at a price nearly a hundred per cent, higher. In all the great markets a tremendous drop in many of the staple foods, including fresh meats, has been recorded in the last fortnight. To w'hat extent have householders * l + in Columbia, so far, derived a benefit? If retail prices in Columbia and oth er towms df South Carolina have not fallen proportionatelyjwith wholesale prices in the central markets, there may be reasons,; And The State does not pretend to deny; in advance their soundness. Nevertheless, it seems to The State that in these times there should be ample room for enterprising competi tion by sagicious and farseeing mer chants in Columbia and elsewhere that would result in the saving o£ thous ands of dollars daily to the whole body of consumers, and them we advise to (Copyright, ldi8, by the McClure Kewepa. per Syndicate.) “It Is perfectly outrageous for you to go on talking German,” Mrs. Van Ber gen told her daughter Freda, as they approached the hotel where the Van Bergens had their winter apartments. Freda raised two Teutonic eyes to her mother appealingly. “But Fritz can not understand English,” she said, “Can you, I^rltzi, dear?” At which a very long 'Short-logged dachshund, whose silky coat showed Freda’s de voted care, wagged his tail and flapped his ears. ~ , - - “Well, of course, you will do as you choose—you ahyays do,” said Mrs. Van Bergen. “But I think you are taking risks. You are a perfect Gretchen type.” “But Van Bergen Isn’t German—-it’s Holland Dutch,” inslste’d Freda. “And anyway, I’m sure I don’t look like a *py. M “You can never tell,” reiterated the mother. “Sometimes simple-looking people are shrewd enough, and It would be Just like the Huns to make nn accomplice of a simple little Gretchen—and that’s what you look like ” The next morning, as she was tak ing her breakfast in the Van Bergen apartment, with the cherished Fritz sitting on a cushion in a chair at her fide-—for Freda breakfasted an hour or so before her parents—she glanced at the headline in a newspaper, emit ted a little shriek of fright, and then began to fondle Fritz’s soft long cms because she needed some encourage ment. The article whpse headlines she had read told of the taking of a girl as a spy, and of the suspicion entertained by the secret service men of three or four women accomplices. One of them, the account said, was a blonde young ‘ No! 11287. Treasury Department. Office of Comptroller of the Currency. Washington, D.l^., Jan. 15, 1919. WHEREAS, by satisfactory evi- ’or.ro presented to the undersigned, it, bas been made to appear that “THE, i iRST NATIONAL BANK OF I BARNWELL, in the town of Barnwell, I in the County of Barnwell and State of-South Carolina, has complied with all the provisions of the Statutes of the United States, required to be com-, plied with befdre an association shall be authorized to commence the bus^ ness of Banking; NO\V. THEREFORE, I, JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, Comptroller Y ' . ■ . ■ ' . . - ‘ • Hj t Allendale Motor and Battery Co. of the Currency, do hereoy certify that “THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF j BARNWELL, in the town of Barn-1 /: t:. well, in the County of Barnwell and State of South Carolina, is authorized ] J to commence the business of Banking as provided in Section Fifty-one Hun-1 4% dred and Sixty-nine of the Revised X Statutes of the United States. ' CONVERSION of The Barnwell! ♦> Banking Co., Barnwell, S. C. i IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF wit-! f ness my hand Seal of office this fif-1 V teenth day of January, 1919. <£4 JNO, SKELTON WILLIAMS, X Comptroller of the Currency. Recorded this 17 day of Jany., 1919, in Charter Book A, page 300. l-23-8t W. H. DUNCAN, Clerk. T ❖ , v'/rw-V - V - . T ♦14 Notice pf Final Discharge.. scrutinize their bills^tcrwatch prices she should be on her best behavior. type. Soon, however, Freda forgot her fright and she was light-hearted and Joyous when she started forth from the hotel with Fritz. When Freda returned her mother hud gone out for a shopping tour and again her only companion was Fritz. He sat beside her as^she practiced a Beethoven sonata on- the piano.* The telephone sounded and presently her mother’s maid came to her to say that a Mr. Drew wished to speak to her. But as Freda had never heard of a Mr. Drew and did not wish to inter rupt her practicing she asked the maid to take the message. “He says he is very sorry, miss, to disturb you, but all he wants to know is whether or not you’re a German.” Freda thought immediately of the headlines she had seen in the pai>er. “I can’t imagine why he wants to know,” she said. “Will you please ask him who he is and what his business is.” • . The maid returned, saying that Mr. Drew realized that he had been abrupt, but he would cull and explain himself at the apartment. All Freda’s fears returned and, gath ering Fritz’ in her arms, she hurried to her room. Presently the maid came to her ri*om, hearing a card. Under the mune of Mr. Drew there was the simple words, “National Detective Bureau, and the address of that concern. “He says If he could please to see you, he would explain why he was in trudln^i” th«< mMid aaitL iu er and bluer than ever, and her heart had never before beaten so fast. “If I bad only taken mother’s advice,” she whispered to Fritz in German. “Tell- him I’m—I’m ill,” she said to the maid. “And If he starts to search the apart ment,” she added with trembling voice, “Why, you’ll know J’ye gone down the fire escape.” Mr. Drew did not attempt to search the apartment, but he told the rauid he was extremely sorry to hav^both ered Miss Van Bergen, and that he was surprised that she was ill, since he had seen her that morning. —— Freda kept to her room the rest of the day. She did not want to go with out dinner, for she was hungry. Be sides, if she said she was ill, she would V>e treated as an invalid, and this she etested. What she finally did was to ip away before dinner time, leaving Word with her.4nother’sfaiald that she had gone to : %iue withyS* chum and would be back right after-dinner. The ehmn with whom she wished to dine was not at home, and what refresh ments she did have that night she j;ot at a French pastry, shop. When she came back’, she found her inotheVand father, whom she had not seen before that day, and there was something in her mother’s manner As she greeted her in the hall that told her that a guest was present, and that Notice is hereby given that on Mon- i day, the 17th day of February, 1919, at 10 o’clock a. m., I will file my final account with Hon. Jofrn K. Snelling, Judge of Probate of Barnwell County, as sole qualifying executor of the last will and testament, of M. L. Baugh man, deceased; and at the same time and place will petition the said Court for letters dismissory as such execu tor. .~ Dated this 21st day of January, 1919. C. C. Baughman, Executor of the Last Will and Testa ment of M. L. Baughman, deceased. Published in The Barnwell People, January 23, 1919. ....FIRE INSURANCE: Absolute. Protection Strongest Companies * L P. WILSON BARNWELL, S. C. % % 4 * Money to Lend Brown & Bush / * » Lawyers. General Practice. Money to lend at 7 per cent for any length of time. Loans made promptly. We pay all postage on mall orders over 50 cents. Owens Drug Co., Fair fax, S. C.. l-30-4t. I J " v ■ f We wish to announce * •* -r y that we handle a com plete line of genuine Ford parts. In making repairs see that you get nuine * ', m Allendale Motor & Battery 302 Main St. Company Allendale, S. C. TaT a X • r the “flu” SYMPTOMS: •s. y 4-.C ■•T''* A VERY CONTAGIOUS KIND OF COLD, ACCOMPAN’IEl) BY FEVER, rains IN THE HEAD. EYES,'EARS, BACKOR OTHER PARTSDF THE BODY A NI > A FEEIING OF SEVERE SICKNESS. SYMPTOMS DISAPPEAR IN THREE TO FIVE DAYS; SOME PATIENTS DE- ’ VELOP PNEUMONIA, OR INFLAMMATION OF’THE EAR OR MENINGITIS.” 1—(U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH BULLETIN.) WHAT TO DO: Go to bed and call your doctor. WHAT NOT TO DO: Do not try, nor have others administer various remedies., PREVENTION: There is none that is certain. A new combined vaccine wiH usually prevent complications such as pneumonia. A physician (and he only) can administer this*— -—— ————r—-r- L - - Mouth, Throat, Nasal and Skin cleansiness is desirable— t USE AN ANTISEPTIC SOLUTION FREQUENTLY. SUCH AS DOBELL SOLUTION SALINE ANTISEPTIC AND SOOTHING) 25c and 50c. (NON-ALCOHOLIC, DeVilbiss Atomizer, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00. PRESCRIPTIONS I 'RUSTED IN OUR CARE ARE COMPOUNDED BY ‘ EXPERIENCED, LICENSED AND JUST AS INTENDED BY YOUR PHYSICIAN. MAIL ORDER PRESCRIPTIONS ARE RETURNED ON FII&T TRAIN, AT THE SAME REASONABLE PRICES CHARGED AS IF PRESENTED IN PERSON. 2) and to do their utmost to see that they get dollar’s worth for a dollar.— The State. Trespass Notice. All parties are forbidden to hunt, fish, haul wood, straw’, or go in bath ing on the Sabbath; or in any way trespass on the estate lands of Re becca Hutto* in George’s Creek tow’n- ship. ^ V Henry Hutto, Trustee. •’mwysirmfl aoiabf MB? Trom a German officer on the battle field of France at Owens Drug Co., Fairfax, S.C.T O 2-8-41. /1'he guest was Henry Drew. Her fa ther had recently discovered him to be the son of one of his best friends. Everything in Freda’s parent^’ man ner showed. supreme approval of the young man. “I especially tried to get in touch with you thte morning ” Mr. Drew told Freda as soon as they could have a little tete-a-tete convecsation. “It was awfully impertinent of me, you see I’m working for my uncle—the dne that has a detective business-rand Pm ob ji shop-lifting esse—trying to locate, seme-stolen goods.” ^ - - - “Then you—you don’t think Pm a ■ywTf"ffwrf <l TIffff Two Licensed Druggists. ■pj !• SfflFiW Pm thst Gretchen girl with the dsehs* bund they’ve been trying to find?” . “I think you are the most charming ttttit girl In the wortg,” said Mr. Draw. Prescriptions Filled ©«r ■or Night Burr Street Barnwell, S. C.