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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
THRSDAT, JULY
County Club Boys
Hold Encampment
Joining with Orangeburg and Dor-
cheater Counties, the Barnwell Cotin
ty dub boys hdd their amnual club
encamfMnent at Whisenhurats Pond in
Orangeburg County last week. Twen
ty-three boya from Dorchester Coun
ty, twenty-five from Barnwell Coun
ty and aixty-aeven from Orangeburg
County were in attendance. The pro
gram laated from Tuesday noon until
Friday afternoon.
The program was made up of in
atruction, lectures, contest}* in iden
tifying seeds, fertilizers, trees, etc.,
and bathing, stunts, yells, baseball
games and so on. Trucks and auto
mobiles were used for carrying the
boya to the camp.—■"~
The annual boys’ camp is a feature
of club work that appeals to the boys
and is looked forward to with much
interest. These camps stimulate
much interest in club work and it ia
showing better results each year.
Two of Barnwell County’s club
boys attended the Short Course at
Clemson College this summer. Their
expenses were paid while at the Col
lege ar, a part reward for the good
work which they did last year.
Puby Creech, one of the club mem
bers from the Tin Shed Hercqles
club, won first prize in the cotton
club in the State^ last year, having
made more than two bales of cotton
on his acre. With the county agent
he attended the banquet in Hartsville
for the State prize winners at which
time he was presented with a beauti
ful gold watch- chain and club em
blem. The county agent is proud of
the showing that the club boys from
this county are making and asta
every inter^t in the county to co
operate with us in making it develop
from year to year.—H. G. Boylaton,
County Agent.
Wonder
Joiim, Atlanta, (ia. i<mUv is
i'w acknowlrdxrd rating wonder of
tin- ago Hi» for 72 hole*. 6 bet-
ici than exer wored in British open
"lie play, t\«»n lh< crown and hight-M
honor*.
Advertise in The Peqple-Sentinel.
Barnwell, S. C.
Friday, July 29th:
“Everybody’s Acting”
Featuring
Betty Bronson, Ford Sterling, Louise
Dresser, Lawrence Gray and Ray
mond Hitchcock.
A Comedy-Drama based on a real
life atory—of an orphan girl adopted
by the members of a theatrical troupe.
15 AND 30 CENTS.
Specil picture show Saturday after
noon at 4:80 o’clock for the benefit of
out-of-town children.
PRICES 10 and 20 CENTS
Monday and Tuesday
August 1 and 2:
'Love ’Elm & Leave ’Em’
Mamie loves Bill but Janie, her
fickle sister, stole his heart So
Mamie decided from that time on to
“love 'em and leave 'em.”
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15 a»d 30 CENTS.
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Wednesday - Tuesday
August 3 and 4
“A Notorious Lady”
15 aad 30 CENTS.
Bond of Brotherhood
Between Poetic Sottii
A certain young woman, a ateoog
rapber for a New York firm, is beat
known In an admiring auburban dr-
de as a “poeteta.” She Jots her In
spirations down In shorthand notes,
transcribes them oti her typewriter
and submlta the effuslona to the local
newspaper, which sometimes finds
place for them.
One morning as site was commut
ing from New Jersey there was a
heavy fog on the North river and the
ferryboat was proceeding on Its way
gropingly, with frequent stcf>s and
much whistling. At one time, out of
the gloom, a great hoarse whistle,
suggesting an ocean liner, sounded
near. There was a stir of uneasiness
among the crowded passengers, and
the poet’s,male companion looked op
from his newspaper with a nervous
frown. m '—.——^
“Are you afraid?" he asked of the
poetess.
“Afraidthe word"* came with
wltberlnfe scorn. “Afraid I I? Why,
you know Shelley died by drowning.”
—Harper’s Magazine.
Stained Clast Makes
Appeal to Converts
In the center of a Christian settle
ment in the jungle at Mednk, Hydera
bad, India, stands a Christian church
of the proportions of a cathedral.
This Is the central plaCe of worship
for the great community of Indian
Christians, numbering over 50,000,
who have gathered around Rev. C. W.
Posnett, a Wesleyan missionary, aa a
result of his 30 years’ work In this
native state. The church was opened
a year ago, but there seemed some
thing lacking In Ita beautiful Interior,
despite the marbles and many tinted
tiles. There was no stained glass In
the windows. Six thousand Indian
Christians have given the money for
a window, designed by Frank O. Salis
bury, a well-known British artist The
subject Is the Ascension, and Mr.
Salisbury says of the window: “The
desire of the donors was that their
church should be as beautiful aa any
Mohammedan mosque or Hfhdu tem
ple, and I trust that my work will
hel[5 them to realize their ideal of
beauty aa an aid to worship.*
Queen Victoria Story
Some amusing slories concerning
Queen Victoria are told by Sir Felix
Semon In his autobiography. The
jueen had a great sense of dignity,
hot she also possessed a keen sense of
bumor. For Instance, when Sir Jamee
Reid, her majesty's physlclan-ln-qMll-
nary, became engaged to -one of her
maids of honor, the Hon. Miss Baring,
the queen was exceedingly angry, and,
lending for him, lectured him severe
ly. He ought to have known, she told
him, that nobody was permitted to
propose to a maid of honor without
obtaining the queen's permission. Sir
lame* listened, then humbly answered
that her majesty whs quite right; he
certainly would not do It again! This
so strongly appealed to the queen's
«ense of humor that she laughed heart
ily, and without further ado extended
her pardon.
Strictly Private
He was a newcomer to the bank and
consequently found his duties rather
hard to rememlier; hut all this was
forgotten when he 'received his first
pay envelope.
In a businesslike manner he quickly
checked the contents before signing
the receipt. Then his eye caught the
words underlined In black:
“Your salary Is your personal busi
ness and a confidential matter. It
should not be disclosed to anyone."
The clerk grinned as he picked np
a pen and signed his name. Below be
added, briefly:
**1 won’t mention It to anyone. I
am as much ashamed of It as yon
are.”
tndia*» Holt Festival
At the time of the vernal equinox,
on the night of the full moon, the
popular Holi Festival Is celebrated by
the Hindus of India. The ceremonies,
lasting for three days, are derived
from the ancient spring festival. This
festival, originally a solemn religious
rite, has degenerated and Is now
known as the Saturnalia of India.
Bonfires are lit around the temples
and sacrifices are made to the gods.
Red powder called kunkuma Is thrown
about, as Occidentals throw confetti,
and the clothing of the people becomes
covered with It.
Brain Works Rapidly
Assuming you began to think con
sciously at the age of five, then at
thirty, if you have done an average
amount of thinking, your “Impressions”
would number about 1,920,000,000.
Those whose work Is entirely mental
would double those figures.
A woman’s brain Is about five
ounces lighter than a man’s, but It
Is of superior quality—of a higher
specific gravity. It lasts longer, too.
On an average a woman of sixty has
a 20 per oent better brain than a man
of the same age.
Hats Not Alwoays Common
In Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,*
the Merchant had upon his bead “a
Flaundrish Meter hat” It seems that
from this period hats became more
frequently worn, for there la mention
In some of the early writings by dis
tinguished people of “felt batten,** and
“Mem batten" Throughout modSerat
times the wearing of hats was n mark
ot distinction and of nobis bfrfh.
^ The Colosseum at Roms.
(Fr#P Soc?etr y w-MhiScton* 1 0^)^°*“* I 8, °P« «nd the highest are seldom
N THE Colosseum in Rom. ®” r “ ""T ,h,, * ,h *
olosseum the slope was steep—ap-
W+3
I where many hundreds of early
Christians were crunched by wild
beasts under the sanction of an
ancient Roman government, Rome’s
present-day government recently re
placed a huge wooden cross commemo
rating the martyrs. The cross, ortg- (
Inally placed by Ipope Benedict XIV '
In 1749, had been absent since 1862.
This great amphitheater, shown In in
numerable pictures. Is probably the
most familiar rain In the world.
The Colosseum is a monument to a
highly civilized people’s brutality—a
depth of brutality that Is hardly con- '
celvable from the point of view of the (
Twentieth century. The huge struc
ture was built deliberately to furnish
the best facilities for three classes 6f
spectacles: fights to the death be
tween armed men. fights between wild
beasts, and fights between men and
beasts.
Gladiatorial combats had developed
from customs of primitive Roman days
when on the death of a man of.note,
all his slaves were slaughtered as hu
man sacrifices during the funeral rites.
It was really a step forward In a
way. though a feeble one. when It was
decided to have the slaves fight so
that only half would be killed. These
slave combats came to be staged in
the forums and were viewed by the
populace from teui(>orary wooden
■eats.
As the lust for this sort of spec
tacle grew, the professional gladiators
came Into being. Their combats were
moved to the circuses, the long,
straight-sided courses, lined with
seats, where chariot races were held.
These had been In exlsten«*e In Rome
since several centuries before Christ.
With the spread of Roman arms In
the Hast came the Importation of wild
beasts, and the first fights In which
these animals were used were also
-staged In the circuses. But these
long, narrow enclosures were not well
fitted to such spectacles, and so the
amphitheater, an entirely closed circuit
of seats around a relatively small
■level space, was Invented expressly
for them. Ranged oq their ateep tiers
of seats, a great multitude of eager
spectators could watch these bloody
combats In all their Intimate details.
The%nu permanent amphitheater
was built In 29 B. C., In the reign of
Augustua, of stone and wood. In 57
A. D., Nero built a wooden one which
burned a decade or so later. In 72
A. D„ Vespasian began the greatest
of ampltheaters, which the world has
come to call ‘the Colosseum.” No
short cuts were taken as In the build
ing of many other ampltheaters, where
mounds of earth are thrown up and
faced with stone or concrete. The
vast Colosseum was built from the
ground up, and far below ground, out
of masonry. Few single structures,
until the day of the super-skyscraper
of America, have contained as great
a cubic volume of stone and brick and
concrete as this ellptlcal grandstand
of old Rome, built for the spectacular
slaughtering of man and beast.
Begun by Vespasian, work on. the
structure was continued under his son,
Titus. . It was the latter who sacked
Jerusalem. Twelve thousand of the
many Jews captured at that time were
set to work to complete the great
building. With Its dedication Id 80
began one of the goriest chapters in
the story of Romgn amusements. The
celebration of Its opening lasted 100
days. Thousands of wild animals and
hundreds of men were slaughtered to
make this gigantic “Roman holiday.”
The Colosseum Is not quite so large
In area covered as the modern foot
ball amphitheater. The ellptlcal arena
(named from' the sand that was
spread on Its surface to absorb the
blood of Its victims) Is Id round num
bers 280 feet long and 180 feet
across; while the rectangular playing
space of a football field Is 300 by
260 feet. To enclose such s playing
field, allowing a margin- outside the
gridiron, s football amphitheater most
be 390 feet or more long and about
290 feet wide. Inside dimensions.
Ita Walla, Arches and fiesta.
In most modern athletic amphithea
ter* the seats rice an a relatively gso-
[proxlmately 45'degrees—and the out
side wall of the structure towers 160
feet above the ground, or approxi
mately to the height of a 15 or 10-
story o&ce building. The outer wall
was built of great blocks of stone,
while the interior wsa mostly of brick
and concrete. The outer wall was
made up largely of arches In three
tlera, one above the other, and extend
ing side by side entirely around the
building. The arches on the ground
level were numbered, and through
them the Roman populace poured on
the way to the spectacles.
Thfi choice aeats were those closes!
to the 'arena. From them one could
lean over to tease the tawny lions
who could leap almost, but never
quite, to the top of the protecting
wall; and from them one could almost
feel the air of swishing swords hack
ing at the heads of the gladiators. In
these preferred positions sat the em
peror on a slightly raised data, and
below and to the sides, senators, lead
ing patricians and the Vestal virgins,
the young priestesses of the Temple
of Vesta, who were so carefully nur
tured and guarded by Rome. Many
a time the thumbs of these young
women gave the final signal which
determined ths death of a wounded
gladiator.
Next above the senators sat patri
cians and other citizens In a dwindling
scale of Importance. All but thq top
most seats were numbered and tick
ets were provided. For places in the
unnumbered section the less fortunate
had to wait In line, sordetlmes all
night, as Is the case of world-series
fans in America today.
Grim and ghastly as the purpose of
the Flavian amphitheater whs, it was
In no sense crude. It was a marvel of
solid construction admirably fitted to
the uses to which it was to be put
Beneath the arena In chambers and
passages were concealed Ingenious
mechanisms by means of which sec
tions of the floor could be raised or
lowered, popping animals or men un
expectedly Into view or removing them
as quickly. Also the entire space
could be flooded for naval combata
Fortress In the Middle Agea.
fhe Flavian amphitheater played It*
bloody role In Roman affairs. It was
not without mishaps that might have
put It In ruins much sooner had not
Rome still been a going civilisation.
It was twice struck by lightning In
the Second century and twice Injured
by earthquakes In the Third; but each
time It was restored, and the long ser
ies of deaths in Its arena grew even
greater.
After Rome’s fall. In the turbulent
Middle ages, the old amphitheater, then
the Colosseum, was used as a fortress
by one of the family factions pf Rome,
the Frangipanis. In these times, too,
It was robbed of the Iron clamp* of
the outer wall which held the stone
blocks together. The outer walls that
stand today are deeply pitted because
of these depredations. In 1349 an
earthquake shook down a large part
of the weakened miter structure.
There was no power able or Interested
To restore It, and the ruin of the build
ing then definitely set In.
For a long time after this the
Colosseum was a quarry. Thousands
of tons of travertine, marble, and
other materials were dug out of the
fallen pile or stripped from the por
tion still standing, and carried off for
use in building many of the palaces
and churches of Renaissance Rome.
So active were the vandals that the
Colosseum .might have been entirely
destroyed but for Pope Benedict XlV,
who, In 1749, protected It by conse
crating It to “the Passion of Chriat"
and raising In it a great wooden
cross Id memory of the sufferings there
of the martyrs. From time to time
In modern days steps have been taken
to save the amphitheater from further
Injury. ^ ..
Only a little more than half of the
original structure pow stands, consid
ering the entire cubic contents of the
masonry. Bat moat of those who hate
viewed it feel that the part la
more majestic ♦h** the whole.
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Summer Trips
BARNWELL to
Atlantic City Niagara Falls
and return
$26.40
and return
$36.25
Tickets on sale:
July 27
August 2, 10, 16, 24, 30.
September 7
Tickets on sale:
July 28
August 3.11,17, 25,31
September 8, 14, 22, 28
October 6.
Low fares to other New Jersey Points.
Fares from other points in proportion.
Return limit 18 days, including date of sale. Stopovers on return
trip at Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington amMnany other points.
Tickets, information -and schedules from
J. E. MAHAFFEY, Ticket Agt., Barnwell, S- C., Phone No. 5
Atlantic Coast Line
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AUTOMOBILE! i
THE DAY of hit and miss
garage service is gorve. No
longer do thoughtful owners
of automobiles entrust repairs
and over-hauling • to the in-
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experienced or “hope to be” mechanics. Our garage service is
in the hands ofl experienced and trained workmen, from the
washing of your car to the most complicated job. It i s cheapest
in the long run to have every job done right.
In our accessory department we have only the beet tiree,
tubes and equipment of all kind. Replacements of standard
parts always at lowest coot. One trial here and you will join
the ranks of satisfied customers whom we have served for year*.
Give us a trial. Drtfve in any hour and allow us to demonatrate
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costs no more to Alemite your car than ordi
nary greasing.
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