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. THE PEOPLE, BARNWELL, 8. C. r- 5I ^ 25Z5Z5g525gg5;S25a?5gra; ^ZS2SZS25SZ5g25Z52S252S25gS25g5?.525252S25g5gSgSg5gSgS2S2SgS2SZSgS« Started With a Smile gasg5 ^ S2 ^ 2gg Sg52SZSagS£5aS£5a5ZSE5iLSg5?5^?^ 1 ^ t ^ 1 T2^?g^gg5?5? & q?^g & ‘TPOS??? q>5? q? «r?<^ ~ ‘ T-.’- im .j/ ..M.i i&SlL jk '/.< < WO^vX; ' < • ■ ^ mimZ i/'y-ifiA ;' - 5 v :; -' * * >% ■M mm f® K s V j ill siPj The New Year C»»jrTi*fcl, Ittl, W«M«r« N,*apap«r L'nloa OHM AN HARDY »•■ bom on N>w Year's day. and deemed tha fact a decided misfortune. There was one '0~, " feature In which hts father specialised — system — and this Involved discipline. “A strict disciplinarian." he wwtdd boast to his neigh- bora. -Thai's me." and be looked It and acted It out until Norman fancied he had been placed In the world simply to become the butt and victim of rigid rules. When Norman's tenth birthday was only eight hours distant, his father gave the order, sternly s|K>ken: "You will be In the house for-the night at seven o'clock." and Norman jnof>ed In a martyrlike way, envying his boy friends who had mapped out a joyous New Year's eve program of skating, hill sliding, and like boyish pranks. He wondered what > was coming, but his father simply viewed him specu latively and sent him to bed at the usual time. He was awakened to And- his father roughly pulling at his arm. “Get up, Norman, and come down to the kltMien," said-Joel Hardy; “ymrneedn’t dress.-T Norman arose, rubbed his eyes, and followed his father downstairs. There was a light on th* lahle and beside It the house clock. Norman noticed that It told the time as ten min utes to twelve: All was still and solemn except Its mohotonous tick, and outside an pc-r caslona! echo "of shooting, an nouncing Impa tient celebrants already prepared to herald In the new year. “My boy,’’ ?poke his father after a moment of ominous deliberation, “when I was a lad of ten, my father taught me a lesson that has left its impress on my whole life In a salu tary way. Upon the tick of midnight Just preceding my birthday he always called_ me down to the kitchen and gave me a good sound strapping. It hurt him more than it did me, he used to say, but the reminder would I be ever present with me. Until I. was twenty-one, regularly, upon each birth day the strap played its part and I think it did a good deal towards teaching me that I had a-master and in making me a better man. 1 have concluded to adopt that feature with my system. You’re^pretty,gpQd boy^, but for fear you might kick over the traces I’m going to bplk the system until you are of age. Now, then, take your punishment like a man." Joel Hardy produced a short, thick piece of tanned cowhide and Norman winced, but did not cry out during the unique castigation. It was five |•a^l later, and with the usual routine ite In the afternoon Joel Hardy re minded Norman of the pending mid night event. His eyes bulged and his face betrayed overwhelming amaze ment aa Norman stood up before him. a tall, well-knit stripling, sirno^ r:,en artng in his hearing as be aaitf; “Father there wtt! be do strapping I T H the whirling drifting of aaows Come* breathless the wild New Yeeri While hitter north wind blows. O’er the holds the! lie stark and drear. Yet hope ia alight in bar a7as As sha leeks frow the heart ef the sterns, "Earth sleeps ia her abroad," she cries, "Bet the life ia her heart ia warm. "Death ia het a draam ef the night And the kyne ef joy Is kegea. Far slowly seeking the light The greet glebe terns to the ana. "Beheld. I will bring delight la piece ef darkness and celdi Safa a a dor tha asaadaws so whits Is hiding tha battarewp geld. * "And sammer’s splendor shell reign la piece ef tha wintar's dsartk, 1 Her color and music again Shall gladdaa tha patient earth," * h <| Hark to tha Naw Ysar’s Voice Through the murk of winter dreerl Oh, children ef men, rejoice I , At the tidings of hope and chaer. • —Celia Than tor. another. “The barn was stored with grain and machinery and the Insur ance rah out last week." Norman was crushed with a sense of his culpability. He felt like Hying from home, town and all the peo ple he had ever known. He skulked i behind a hedge as • group of girls ■ r.d raine » lo n*- They were discussing the fire so excitedly thdt they paid no attention to a lone member of their group trailing on behind them. Nor man noticed her. however. She was Milly Daniels. He startled her by stepping directly In her path. "Just Unger for a moment, will you, MlllyT" he spoke under high agita tion. “or I'll walk with you a bit. I'm ! U> terrible trouble, and Tm going to 1 leave town for good," and Norman re- | cited the entire etory of the evening. "There's only one way out, don't you 1 see It. Milly T' he said. “I don't dare 1 to facw Fanner Logan; I’m going away ! to male# feoniethlng of myself, and the I day I have got the money to make It square with Mr. Logan I'm comlnt I hack. And Milly, dear, you have been my truest friend and have always stood by me. Will you try to think of me while I'm gone, will you—will you wait for me? For *1 shall never I love anybody but you.- # Five fears, went by. Not a word had been heard from the truant son. JoeF Hardy had forbidden even the mention of bla name In the home. Mrs. Hardy, half heartbroken, repined In silence. Milly Daniels became an orphan, and when Mrs. Hardy needed a nurse and then a companion, it came about that she found a per manent home with the mother of the this time. I'm through with jt u Half ..mao she loved, the town bus "Heard of It, uud the hoys taunt me and the girls twit me. Not that I care for any of them ex cept Milly Ihtniels, and she's true blue and stands by me, and 1 won't have her humbled and shamed. Tin going to spend this New Year’s eve with the crowd, uud I’ll be home to breakfast" “If you don’t report here by ten o’clock I’lr send the town marshal after you,’’ pronounced his father, whip tire in bis eye. Norman marched out of the house, hung around downtown until eight o’clock, and then repaired^ to the agreed-on rendezvous of the crowd, an old buggy shed attached to a great barn owned by Farmer Logan. He felt uneasy, stubborn and nettled. Re cently he had been dared by his com panions to smoke a cigarette. He had met the dare and now, with two of them in his pocket, he lit one, and, in sheer rebellion against his father’s system, was about to puff out his re sentment when the signal cry of his ’ comrades echoed forth. - Carelessly throwing the lighted" cigarette Into a corner of the shed, he bounded out and for, over an hour forgot all save the excitement of the moment. The unruly coterie rolled a.giant snowball and let It slide down the hill leading to the town common; they got up into the town hall tower and rang Us beljr In the midst of setting loose a drove of cattle from a live stock enclosure they were attracted by the dash and „ rush of the village fire- cw*r mattings Norman. '^^Tve for a vivid, spreading'glare. ' “Why, It’s Farmer Logan’s place!" shouted a chorus of excited voices, and Norman Hardy’s heart stood still. He recalled the cigarette and the littered woodshed. He stood dumb and ■cared. The flames completely en gulfed the great frame barn. Norman slunk off alone by himself, oppressed with an appalling sense of guilt Hla emotions were doubly Intensified when he heard some one say: “Logan thinks It wss set sblsze. Arson. 1 pity the Brebog if he’s caught. It’s straight 14 years In the penitentiary." ^fcZwlli ruin Logan, they say,’’ spoke Nhe and Mrs. Hardy, with the tyrant father, all unaware of it, cherished a mut ual memory of the absent youth and took comfort In watching and hoping for his re turn. . ‘ •It was a few minutes after midnight, five years to a day since Norman Hardy had gone forth into the world to seek his fortune. Milly had pleaded to sit up and watch the old year out and the new year in: All three of the family, though In different w’ays, were thinking of the boy who had run away from home. The bells had Just finished a resonant chime w ? hen the knob of the outside door turned. There stepped Into the room a bronzed, stalwart young man, at a sight of whom Joel Hardy gasped incredu- lously, his wife uttered a Joyous scream, and Milly stood breathless and tl uttering. “1 waited till I was sure the final hour of discipline and the strap was past and gone,’’ spoke Norman Hardy. “Mother," a warm embrace. "Father,” and a’ sturdy hand reached out. “Milly," and the young girl swayed to and fro and would have fallen had not Norman caughfher. “1 said 1 w’ouldn't come haci^.tlU l could pay for the damage l did to good old Farmer Logan, (Copy for , Thl» Dopartmcnt Supplied fcy ’ **»• Am«r»c»tt Lerlon Nows Service.) W... COMMANDER WELL KNOWN C. D. Cunningham of Cantralla, Wash^ Was PYoaeoutor of i. W. W. Aa- aaitanta of Logion Men. One of ttrt best-known men in the country In *, W. W. and other radical circles is the new commander of the American Legion of Washington. He is C. D. Gunning- F** HEHF ham, Centralta. W ™ UPl 1116 natlon was ■first anniversary of Armistice day by the wanton killing by radicals in Centralla of four American Le gion men who were participating in the parade. Fir ing from vantag* points on the young teteran marchers, the I. W. \V. slaughtered four outright, wounded others and took to flight. Cunningham was one of the leaders of the chase whjch captured Wesley Everesey, ring leader of the radicals. The state turned to Cunningham as special pros ecuting attorney in the ensuing trials of the murderers. In the court proceedings, which held the attention of America for eight weeks, Cunningham was pitted against the best legal talent that the national organization of the I. W. W. could mus ter. Cunningham was victor, howev er. The radicals were convicted and a year later Cunningham won again, when the Supreme court upheld the verdict a. During the war Cunningham served as sn infantry private at Camp Pika, Ark. HELPS TO FIND EMPLOYMENT Arthur Woods, Head of Hoover Spe cial Committee, Proves Aid to " Ex-Servlos Men. E>t my word. I hear you are struggling with a two-thou- sand-dollar mortgage, father; I can pay it off and loah you as much ropre If you need It Milly, dear, am Vwel- come? I have come to keep my promise true." • Joel Hardy left the-room. He re turned with the strap that had been so familiar to hts son. Taking out hia pocketknlfe, the old man proceeded to cut the strap to pieces and flung them Into the Mazing grate. “You've cheated me out of several years, my son." he observed, "bet I forgive yon. IPs enough to know that y*>« are hack home safe and aseed this blessed New Year's day I" r.tffa I'M Ex-service men throughout the coun try have benefited largely from the operations of Sec retary Hoover’s committee #n un employment Tht former aoldlen and sailors have had e special friend at .court in Arthur W 0 o ds, New York, head of the Hoover special committee which has co-ordi nated the nation^ wide effort to pro vide Jobs for the Jobless. As a special assistant secretary of war in 1919, Mr. Woods rendered dis tinguished service in organizing and directing a national bureau for the es tablishment In civil life of service men. In that work he built up an organiza tion whose activities encompassed the nation and proved his ability to get contlnuwl wr-fpttfc and understand men. Mr. Woods formerly was police commis sioner of New York, and was the first chairman of the American I-egton’s na tional Americanism commission. 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Afc- bama. and the legislative committee of the American Legion that there were no ex-service men of outstanding qualifications to be members of the American commission to the interna, tlonal disarmament conference, there waa i checking up In Washington to determine how service men stand In the eyes of the American eiectorats. A statement later Isfucd by the Le gion showed that the President ap pointed an ex-service man as secretary of the navy and another assistant sec retary. His alien property custodian was In service during the war. The assistant postmaster general Is an ex- service man. An A. E. F. veteran Is head of the national budget. The President confided the task of organ ising the new Veterans’ bureau to a former soldier. The public has elected 26 men who served either In the army or the navy to the house of representatives snd two to the senate. In nearly a dozen states service men are the governors. Eight members 6f Secretary Hoover’s national committee on unemployment were ex-service men. PROVERBS HELD IN COMMON Remarkable Similarity of Ideas Noted Among Nations, Both of the Old and New World. The similarity of Ideas all over the world Is found In the similarity of ex pressions to convey the Ideas. The old English proverb “A fool and hls money are soon parted.’’ finds its counterpart In the phrase. “There la no medicine for a fool." But the Japanese also claim that by good management they can do something even with fools, when they say, “Fools and scissors move according to the mode of using them." Some of us car ry our Latin with ua all our llvsa, r -because we had a good teacher. t^jese, the old Latin saying. “The eagle do^a not catch files." (Aqolla non caplt muses*) will recall old meraortes of the pride and sarcasm of the Ro mans. So also will they he pleased to read the Japanese aphorism, “The fal con does not peck at ears of corn." which la true, aa falcons, especially those of the peregrine type, are moch more likely to seize and carry aaall animals like tarn he. rabbits, chickens. —Philadelphia Ledger. OCEANS HARD TO IMAGINE People ef the Middle Agee Found It Difficult to Conceive Extent of Waters. Eratosthenes was right; the earth was a globe. Rut what philosopher ever Imagined that It was so large! Homer was right when he sang of the “mighty flood." hut he waa thinking of the Insignificant Mediterranean. What poet hud imagination enough to picture the vastneso of the Pacific! Many had surmised the truth, but none had realized Its extent. When the caravels of Columbus had sailed and returned the wise ones of the Renais sance were astonished by the' story hrbught home. It seemed Impossible that there could he so much water. And still the girth of the seat was uncomprehended. It wan only when Mngellan’s Santa Vlttorla had circum navigated the globe and dropped an chor In the Bay of San Lucar that a realization of the world of water be gan to dawn. The Atlantic was as tonishing enough In all conscience; but the Pacific was overwhelming and dumfoundlng.—John C. Van Dyke. A society composed of members who agree to study their own faults would have plenty to do. - In every landscape the potot tt a* toolahment la the meeting ef the *y and tha earth, and that Is aeea tram the Brat hillock aa well aa tnm the top of the Alieghaniaa. The etan at night stoop down ever the hmanaef. nlflcence which they abed 00 tha CtoT pagna, or 00 tha marble deserts at Egypt The upro! led clouds and the colors of morning and evening will transfigure maples and alders. The difference between Inndscape and landscape la small, but there Is greet difference In the beholden. There Is nothing to wonderful la aay particu lar landscape as the necessity ef be ing beautiful under which every land scape Ilea. Nature cannot be sur prised in undress. Beauty breaks la everywhere—Emerson. High Prices. The night cashier overheard a pe culiar conversation In Beaver Groan ing the other day. A fanner waa tat a store buying some groceries. "Want any flour?" asked the grocer. "No, flour's too high. 1 can git along with out It.” After a while the grocer said: “Sold your wheat. BUI?" “Nope; Fm going to hang onto mine; they ain't payin’ nothin' for It yet"—St Louis Globe-Democrat No matter how proud a girl may be of her family name, she’s seldom averse to changing It HAVE NEW RINGWORM CURE * Roentgen Rays Ar# Being Used Sue- cessfully in Treatment ef Most Annoying Affliction. ___ ■ Ringworm is now successfully treat ed by removing the hair with Roent gen rays and then applying a lotion 'which will penetrate the hair follicles and kill the parasites that are the cause of the trouble. Dre. Howard Fox and T. B. H. An derson. both bf the United States public health service, described In tho Journal of the American Medical Asao- ‘ elution the latest technique and cite a few of the* strange results that have followed when the new hair grew in again. ' They have observed that sometimes a golden-haired child Is transformed into a brunette, a straight-haired Into a curly-headed and the kinky wool of r negroes heroines straight. 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