The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, February 05, 1925, Image 9
THE BARNWELL PEOPLE. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE BARNWELL PEOPLE
Entered at the post office at Barnwell, 1
S, C., as second-class matter.
JOHN W. HOLMES
1840-1912
John J. Howell Dies;
Was Youngest Rebel
J -
Jt*hn J. Howell,W Susie Grimes
and Samuel Howell, pa.-sed away at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. D. G.
Robertson in Augusta, Ga., Thursday
evrrrinjr, January 22nd. at the a^e of
71*. He was laid, to rest in the St.
George cemetery, the Rev. Mr. .Whi
taker conducting the funeral services.
For a number of years Mr. Howell
owned and condultetl a newspaper,
known as The Dorchester Democrat,
was postmaster at St. George for
many years and was prominent in
THl'KSPA Vj FKlHtUAin 5TH, t Carolina polities, having served
eight years as county superintendent
of education of Dorchester County,
B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.60
Six Mouths
Three Months
(Strictly in Advance.)
Always
Ready to
Compromise
.60
“|*av Pav Has Come.
State Senator John F. Williams, of
and always took a prominent part in
the educational *vork of his county.
\iken. delivered a straight-from-the-. .
^ ... , . ed the service of the Confederacy oe-
shoulder talk to his colleagues several I . . .... .
days ago, his theme being “Pay Day
Has Come in South Carolina.” . We. .
1 * , . . ! reconstruction days of lS/(*
regret that space does not permit pu‘>-
lishing the Aiken Senator’s remarks)
When hut ir lad of fourteen, he enter-
f the Confederacy be
ing a meml*er of tht* farmers “Red
Shirt” brigade, during the
in full, as they contained food for
thought and certainly should be a
warning to those in the General As
sembly who seem to think that the
State can continue indefinitely its
wild orgy of spend| thrift extrava-
gance.
The South Carolina Gazette, Walter
K. Duncan’s new State weekly, jioint-
<•(1 out a short'time ago that to pro
vide even the $‘J,700,000 and odd dol
lars as recommended by Gov. Mc
Leod and the Budget Commission for
the support of the State government
this year, a levy or 10Vi miills.would
lie necessary, as against six mills last
•year and this must be assessed against
property, unless new and additional
sources of revenue are found.It . is
true that the present Governor ran
on a platform of high taxes, but ho
need not think for a moment that
tin* people of South Carolina expect
ed him to “gn r hog-wild.” if we may-
lie permitted to um* a homely expres
sion.
We have heard people talk about
high taxes for In, these many years,
'but never before in our recollection
stirring
He had
the distinction of being the youngest
soldier in the service from that sec
tion of the State if not the youngest
in the whole Confederacy.
Besides a large circle of friends the
deceased leaves one brother, E. S
Howell, of Heflin, Ala., and one sis
ter, Mrs.. Elizabeth Morrison, of
Marysville, Wash., and the following
•children: Mrs. 1). G. Robertson of
Augusta; Mrs. K. F. Woodward, of
Barnwell; Mrs. It. L. Klaubor of St.
George; J. E. HoWell of Florence;
\’. iW. Howell of Augusta, Ga., and
J no. A. Howell'of St. George.
has the complaint been so persistent
and earnest. While nobody pays any
attention to the wild talk of “rebel
lion." it is very true that the people
aiv aroused as they have not been
for many, many years. They have
been forced, bv “hard times,” to! Hu
Joseph Koger Chapter
Meets at Blackville
Blackville, Feb. 1. —The January
meeting of the Joseph Koger chapter
was held at the residence of Mrs. M.
M. Still with a good attendance. Af
ter the usual preliminaries the re
ports of the officers were heard and
especially that of the treasurer was
encouraging as. it seems that no mat
ter how muc h is paid Out the chapter
always has a pretty good balance in
the bank.
.loseph Koger regrets to lose one
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Daughter to a Savannah c hapter, Mrs.
W. H. Hines, who was a valued and en
thusiastic- member. Mrs. R. B. Still
reported that the medal indorsed liy
the national socie y and secured for
local y ditto I. WnfHftr-v-xhihition at
prac tice rigid economy in the adminis
tration of their own affairs and they
cannot see why their public- officials
cannot do the same thing in public-
affairs. v v
It was a certain French Queen, we
believe, who taxed her subjects be
yond the point of endurance.' V\ hen
at last their angry mlitterings reach
ed her ears, she inquired as to the 1
reason, t pon being told that- they
had no bread, she unfeelingly inquir
ed. “Why. then, don’t they eat cake?"
It was not -o very long after that
before she was , dethroned. FortU
aleTy Tor the people of this Sfate,
they don’t have to “dethrone then
officials by force. An effeyfive means
is provide,d throiiedi the medium of
tlie ballot. Let; them; then, take Iced.
Let them uiidcu-^Kiiid that the people
expect a KtatnC'IION in taxes this
Near, not/bn IN( ItEASF
greatly ad-
tbc‘ drug store and was
mired by all.
Mrs. S. H. Still .-poke of the possK
bility of securing a boulder for the
marking of the Slaughterficlrf battle
ground at much lower fig^HV than we
had hoped.
Delegates to attend tbc 1 natbmal
congress was elc-gted: Mrs. J. V. Mat
thews as regpm’s alternate and Mes’-
dames T. P^Bola'id. II. D. St Ml. R. It
Still, .L^M. ilalfold, F«. II. W ( issi'iger,
S. IK'StiH. Gharl -s Fickling. S. R.
(>nnpton, It. F. StoiMie and Koeer Still.
Plans wc'lenna b' for the February
meeting to W hel’l atj the residence of
. 1 Mrs. .1. V. Matthews, 'riii.-. i- to be a
moittiiitr .1..hi-.it mo- ; W.. bit til-
social meet jug echbrating the
day of George Wa hington.
V\ onderful Device.
The editor of an exchatfge say*
two radio .fail's in bis sec tion ‘
devices whcieby they canchatig
tc-iina c-oi’iiections v.hen static i:
iiTVct
TuT TTm
radio out."
we .would! ’'
millions, a -
soon make :
t hat
'a vc
nn-
bad
iraUe I'ca’uio TiT
had sta-h. ;i -devic e
•mioc
h we
envy Rockefeller his
ur bank account would
cat of tins world’s richest
The ehapter dec idc'd that when invi
tations arc*' issued to those eligible
the corresponding' secretary shoiiy
ptress the fact that tln'\ have 1 only a
limited time in which’ to accept ami
! get their papers're ady for admi!taiici‘
to tlu 1 chapter. This is why or.ly those
i known to he eligible are invitf*’!. Three
| new prospe-et ive rnembers were* voted
| >oi ami as '-oon -as . these, present their
! papers and they are accepted by the
’onion 'I '..iiOy i'-.-y will l>.
By MARTHA WILLIAMS
,(4l. lul'i, McClure S>
Romantic muthers are among tlia-
things helpless infants slionlcl pray
to be delivered from. Witness Golden
Summer—whose* mother telt that
there was rare discrimination us well
us poetry in Uie name of her baby
girl. Naturally, when the girl grew
into a tall, olive .skinned, bbu k-
biowed young woman, with cloudy
gcuy eyes and dark lushes, the name
udded something of acidity to a tem
per none too placid.
“Sueli outrages should he made
criminal," Golden would scold. “Then
folks would think twice before pla
guing their young. Summer is had
enough, any way you look at it—-but
you couldn’t help what you were
horn to.”
“I’m sure I think you have a love
ly name,” Mamma Summer always said
placidly, smiling at papa. They dldUtT;
tell their outraged child her name's
real reason ofsbeing—the golden sum
mer they lupl spent falling In love,
getting married, and setting up a small
pretty home. Maybe if they had told
her—but speculation is Idle. In truth
they were a bit-sorry for the miscar
riage of their so-beautiful thought, hut
really it was nothing serious—when
(b»!dio was transformed 'into Mrs.
James Bin-ton, In the bliss of her new
name she would forget the vexation
of, t he- obi.
Sure* to happen? Of course. Hadn’t
James been her sweetheart from slu»rt
frocks upward? A tine satisfying
sweetheart, lo the parental eye and
mind, well-born, well heed, distin
guished looking If ugly, and heir to
the finest farm In all Brush Creek
neighborhood. Moreover an orphan.
A crowning mercy, this. No bothering
elders to curb vagrant fancies—noth
ing in the worlR for a bride to do hut
t<* walk In, look about, and say jmli-
riaHy: “H-in! James, this is all very
nice—-but I am so fond of sunshine,
and red and yellow, and purple, I
think vou’ll have to let me brighten
■*» '
filings a bit.” Mamma Slimmer h
often in anticipation exactly Ud* In
flexion Golden would give her words.
James would of course be wax in her.
hands he had been Tor all of teii
years, so the future was secure. „
trainers say a <s>lt that is
nrlsed a pet is apt to prove a hand
ful When IT eoinek to actual breaking.
I’nniiligtify with human kind has bred
contempt, wnmethlng kindly, also some-
thftrg tolerant, in-the canny breast". It
''will do all tilings gsked so long as the
asking seems play -hut to work, actual
and serious. It shows obstinate resist
ance. Possibly men bate itiiidh of
likeness to colts.
Certainly Golden's .Tallies turned
rusty in the most unexpected anti
Impossible fashion. Within six weeks
of the wedding day at that and,all
because bis bride-to-be declared round
ly she Wouldn’t go to Ills home Unless,
and tin'll, he took down the marble
mantel, the pride of his mother's heart,
and put insiead of It the simple hewn
beam* demanded by tbe big sfone ti're-
jdnee uf pioneer days.
Maybe spo btuked thi'L James had
been bred to veneration of (be mantel,
snot,-rpnly as a work of art. but a^ tbe
crowning bargain of a thrifty career.
His fatlier had bought It at auction in
the capital, city. Ils owner, a bank
rupt builder, bad been glad to get; ten
dollars, ami tbe taking away, for it.
Father Barton had brought it home in
state, sending to town, for It, when
tbe railwity delhered It there, the big
ti\e horse wagon wherein bis great
grandfather had fetched bis bouse
plunder across (he Alleghenies. Tile
successive preachers hail been some
what shocked by the dancing nymph
But somehow he couldn’t yet see any
of them in Gulden s place.
Antelirf Johnson knew he needed
help for' that, go get about providing
tirst aid to the deserted. Better look
ing Hialn Golden, but no^bUig like mo
good a cook, she hail the courage of
her aspirations. In the atrength of It
site went boldly to James asking gifts.
Ills fruit was wonderful that season—
unaccountably the Johnsons iuust"de-
pend on their neighbors. Amelia
didn't say it outright, hut custom or
dained that, given the fruit, she should
divide product liberally with the giver^
James hail a sweet tooth—upril now
he had been satisfied V vitli Aunt Jinny’s
provision for It—but the vision of
Golden's preserves, Jams. Jellies, and
so on, made the Jinny brand unappeal
ing. So he amended the motion.
Amelia +rn<I''better . come and do up
fruit for both of them at Ids place—
everything ready there—old Jinny
would love to wait on her—and so on,
and so on.
Hence It came to pass that Amelia,
In ward of her Aunt Susan, toiled
valiantly through August days and
on into September. In result there
was a grand array of jars' crocks and
bottles—but oddly, James took scant
interest In them. Fie admired per
functorily, but took pains to keep as
much as possible out of sight. Not
withstanding, he began thinking
Amelia might do—she was tidy, neat
of figure, and always smiling. That
was against her—downright Golden
had left her mark In his consciousness
4
—It inatlc oversweetness cloying.
Amelia might have won out hut for-
a providential Hurry of rain. It
brought a carload of her mates to the
house seeking shelter. They Wanted
to set* the cause of war. Of course
she took them to view it. Standing
hunched In front of it, light streaming
In from hared windows, she said to
them: “Golden is a big fool—she
ought to have waited till she,wa^
mistress here. I'm going to. have/fiiat
thing out before Christmas, niuRJnmes
will think he did it all him<elf.’’•
A door, shutting sojffy, made her
start, and look iiytfr her shoulder.
was In sight. But
that night a^gJggling black hoy deliv
ered to MXs Golden Summer a note
fairly writ«**n which ran; “Honey,
I tloili think the mantel will make a
oper tombstone, but ii se*^is to me
If would tit tine over tbe door of tbe
new spring house I aim to build for
you this winter. Send me word,
please. If I may come and talk It over
with you. As ever, your own Janies.’*
Golden read It. glggjing, hut with
misting eyes. She scrawled hastily
mi the hack of the precious note:
“Run right along over, James, dear-—
you know T’m always ready to com
promise—and yours is line -says:
. “Your Wicked Golden."
VAMP THEATRE
TUESDAY, FEB.
One Night Only
by the chapter.
Mrs. R. 11. StilLn ad a paper on Mrs.
Isabelle Simms.
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no!mm|\' i 1 >t*
-11> hav
f. 1m
ii. able
.'a I'j^rtlmg
—Ue.
The sound hoard of a piano, al
though it is actually a thin sheet of
fir wood, Is a wonder nof fully under
stood in its efleets. Most people know
that every note has a complete and
very elaborate set of vibrations which
give it iis pitch and character, and all
these separate sets are reproduced in
the t sound hoard quite Independently.
E'en in comparatively simple music
there are frequently thousands of vi
brations going on in that piece of thin
briitle wood, whicli we can'hear hut
cannot see; and with all the crossing
and reerossjng of ili»> vibration lines
i which inns! lake place there is never
anv contusion, and it is possible to 'se
lect any group of vibrations as the
one to vviiii h we can pay the most at
tention. Perhaps even still more won
derful |s the fa*t that the piano maker
can make the hoard susceptible to dif
ferent kinds of vibration without
knowing how he does it. .* •,
AND ALL-STAR CAST. A
TOP.NADO OF LAUGHS,
MUSIC, SONG, DANCE AND
PRETTY G'F.LS, DIRECT
FROM A 4 MONTHS’ RUN
AT THE COLUMBIA THEA
TRE, COLUMBIA. ,
PRICES: $1.50, $1.00, 75c and 50c. SEATS
ON SALE AT THE J. and J. MARKET.
V v ’
In l!.c ..nt..r pH net, hut novcui. n |u-iw
lid P'llon continue to
;h-. ci'jmi values pci; farm
i eauntie
to suc-e
feature .
u. y ’ . a
••hi on'
Uiuh
Ti > r N' 'lit h t
Riding To a Fall.
*- tIC.iVH
1 < 'utility^ comes
fourth. . .
■vj’ M 's-fbi i ri i' "fr-mh
t:on valued at S
ip the
•i al crop
>! mn. ,\!
St ate,
statis-
endale
am
. I >:inivve
' A (', VV*^
redlU tio:i
asscmblv.
along tin
t),c
Tl/' r
! r-W
looking f'.>i
iiaiuL of tic
• ha
-hut
any.' tax
general
vrith^n crtii) inanliie-I
.. i
'•21 |u r f;u m, with I
I'ibon crops a close s/a -nd vv-ith |
Met Yu mi ok is Iasi with only i
!>eeii lots oT tali,
iwlias not come
U12.
$.">21 worth of crops prodiuaa! -per
farm ue»«lfi2M. Tht* average for the
from people who know what they.aiv 1 entii'P State was -^1.1 <’>.». Thus .it Will
talking iibout. Tin* prevailing lemlen- seen that A'll unlale t’ounty with
ey of the legislatun* today is in. the t ' , '°l ,s valued at $1,780 per farm, and
1 direction of speiidine the earninirs. of Ikirnvvpn .with $1;.02 were well above
the people. That 'entiment that si’Ves! average.
and conserves is week, very weak, and Spartanburg, with her_ci'op produc-
theie seems to be no other way for tion. valued at $12,“>28.s,;{, led in
it than that the wild orgie shall go total values. Orangeburg ranked
on arid on until there is nothing left "second with $10,5fif),280. Jasper was
to spend. Of course there are those ^ist with $1,011,473. I he total pro-
who know that there is to he a day! 'iuetion of the State .was valued atj
of reckoning. Sooner or later'the fiTfri' !; - > -^> ,> ^>Ji•’*
(Her must Ik* paid in governniental ex-
travagenee. But the time and man
ner of the inevitable reckoning ap
pears to be too vague and far away to
have much influence on the present.
So those who would avoid disappoint
ment will hold down their expecta-
'tiunfc- -Yorkville Enquirer.
IF YOU HAVE
Ml Malaria,Pile*.SickHeadache,Cottiva i
Bowels, Dumb Ague, Sour Stomacb,
■ad Belching; your food doe* not
•••imitate, you have bo appetite,
vJiiU’s Pills^
will reeted/ tke*e trouble*
tesf fr«>m ,:iny in>>uth until Golden,
viewing the masrerpleee erlth'ally.
•gave her decision. Which was:
‘'.Limes, I simply can't live with that -
It's-so like m tombstone. Can't you f
have If changeif into* a monument to !
your family? Set it up as sn|*t of
gate with a rock wall hebiml it. and a j
♦ablet up above, saying things about
them.’*
It speaks vohyms for. James’ self-
control that Ids answer was a simple:
“\c>. 1 can't! No. I won't !*’
To wbii h <h>hh‘Ti saiil, reekpw-dv:
‘Tve said I can't 1 add I won't. So
that's that ami here’s your ring. Mr.
-R-arton.’'
Kart hiplake! That 'would ha v e
4>eeH 'nothing beside the uproar that
followed. The older, picker, more in
fluential folk were all against Golden.
Yet she bad her following. In tb<y
society that had syeretly laughed at
the mantel . it certainly did look funny j
In that homespun room, even after the
Barton's bought a (lowered Brussels
•to replace the soft rag carpet "hallowed
by veers of seclu>ion, and tin* feet of
exclusive company.
James held his peace. Whatever i
he may have f*dt was not til he food
fop gossip. He. went about his work
diligently, even blithely.'in the sun-'
ahine hut at dusk, supper dom*. it
was-Hard to sit smoking, and not
dream of Gulden.
He hadn't haunted her—weekly
visits, besides Suwtays • togeilier at
rlpurelt and rare nelghhorhi*od gather
ings, had snfiieed. It took a fortnight
to realize fully she had meant what
she said. Of course, he couldn’t gTve
In to her—also, of course, he would
get ov^r It. Other girls were plenty,
and some of them fair to see, - fine
housewives, good tempered, and un-
UkeQ to coin* to him empty-handed
Rare Motorist
i A ^Melbourne citizen w.i-. run down
by a imtor car the other day while
| perambulating homeward- on a'“push-
bike.” The ear was on ii< wrong side,
and the “bike” was broken across; iis
rider bad a brace of ribs fractured
(Itld .a il.mia-uai oc' ipnt, cuiniimeil with
cuts on the I'uee and many a bra sions.
'J'lie tout for a tiriu of shypoo. solici
tors called upon the injured man and
tried to. persuade him t<> take action
iigaiii'l the car owner for substantial
damages. “oh, I couldn’t do that,”
said the hurt eltfxen. “But you can,”
peiisted tin* tout) “ami you would he
absolutely sure Jo recover.” “Np. I
qaniiot,” |hirsueil ihe vii tim. “Ypu do
not know ilu* whole - eir«*umstanee.s.
The driver ,ha* apologized."—SyTfuey
(Australia). Bullqt in
Early Polo Games
It L a long vista back to tlie hls-
tt>ri>- day when, iif 1x71. t w4»'cavalry
teams played the ( first polo game on
English -oil vvitli a billiard hull and
-hockey slicks; to Prospect jiafk,
Bmokl v jy w lieh^the. elder Bennett and
Foxhall Keene staged tin* tirst game
ofi American s "h in IxT'i. Yet these
two events have made pidn truly in
ternational. Tlie ladies uf these early
players of tlu* eighties have been pro-
foumllv modified until the game h:is
now beeonx*, a seieni e, in which the
pony liqs gradually eomc to share the
honors with his rider.
LONC TERM MONEY TO LEND
Farm Loans 6 per cent., large amounts. Town:pxqp-
erty in Barnwell, residential and business, 7 per cent.
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Loans procut’eti promptly ttt lowest cost.
AJU'iulale, Bamberg ami Barnwell Comities.
THOMAS M. BOULWARE
Attornev-at-law - Barhwell, S. C.
roi
! LONG TERM MONEY to LEND I
4* ’
Y
Y
X
() per cent, inferest on large amounts,
Private funds for small loans.
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BROWN & HCSIi
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BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. >
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Monuments to Apples
Monuments or markers have been
erected lu a few of the most noted
varieties of apple. ' In ISIF* a monu
ment was built to the' Baldwin at
Wilmington, near Lowell, Mass.. The
first In New York was erected In the
town of Camlllui, Onondaga county,
on the original site of the primate ap
ple trees of John T. Roberts of Syra
cuse, In There followed one to
the Northern Spy in 11H2, and the
McIntosh Red iri the same year. A
monument to the Wealthy was erect
M4 at tfrcelalor, Mina., in 1B12.
Severe Pains in Side
HAD had quite a bad
J spell and sickness,”
writes Mrs. Emma
Patrick, of Cattfy, Ky.,
“and it was an effort for
me to go about my home.
I had a very severe pain
in my left side that almost
took my breath at times.
I lost my appetite. I grew
thin, pale and 'lifeless. I
fell off till I only weighed
about 115 pounds. - v
“Cardui was recom
mended to me and by the
time I had taken one bot
tle I saw it was what I
needed. I ate more and
rested better. I kept tak
ing it and my skin and
flesh took on a more *
healthy color. I felt
stronger and, as the nerv
ousness left me, the pain
in my side was less severe.
After taking nine bottles,
I eat anything, go any
where and feel fine. I
weigh Ifl#pounds and am
well. I wel that I owe it
all to having used Cardui.”
k Pain, yLeertain parts of
the bodj3Pk> a sure indica
tion of female compli
cations. The treatment
needed is not the use of
narcotic drugs, but—
CARDUI
The Woman’s Tonic
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