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PACK rocs. BARNWELL. SOlJjn CABOLDi A THURSDAY, MARCH *, IS28. The Barnwell People-Sentinel i JOHN W. HOLMES 1840—MU. Mother Has A Hard Decision To Make h >• By Albert T. Reid B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Cntored at the post office at Barnwell S. C. # as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year 11.60 Six Months .90 Three Months • ... .60, (Strictly In Advance.) THURSDAY, MARCH 8. 1928. Another point in which marriage is like w$r is that the first fourteen years are the hardest. . A woman’s intuition is marvelous, sure enough, hut just the same she bums the toast now and then. Probably the next great boon for the common people will be the in* v<mtion of an electric can opener. Now that Lindbergh has brought goodwill into our foreign relations, some one should persuade him to visit Congress. Maybe Russia would find it easier to get recognition for her govern ment if so many of her leaders didn’t wear beards. One of these days people will stop talking abouf thu " $hite collar job and refer to it. more, appropriately as the two-pants suit position. A Dream-Fulfilled. A dream that everyone who has ev<«r left his home town has had at some tirpe or other, if he would but admit it, came true the other day for Thomas Merritt, out in Blanchard, la. Mr. Merritt returned, after an absence of forty-five years, to his old home town rich and openhanded. He hunted up his boyhood playmates and told them to get ready for a real reunion with Mr. Merritt footing the bills. And' it was a real reunion. They killed the fatted calf and a couple of cows. ^ Here are some of the things that happened, according to th<» new* re ports: He invited all members of the Kiwanis Club to |>e. guests at his summer resort, Naibouyou, on Lake Superior, and promised to pay all ex penses including railroad fare; he impoited special talent for a special radio program at KM A, Shenandoal.V and st«nt each of the 8Q,0 persons who told him how much they enjoyed the program pound boxes of chocolatos; he bought out all the article* being sold at a ladies’ bazaar in a town nearby, gave the women a check for nearly double the amount they ex pected to realize, and told them to wrap up the articles and ship . them to his home in Dhluth, Minn. Mr. Merritt decided Blanchard hadn’t grown just enough and told the residents he intended to ...... .. • boost the town just as soon as he returned from a business trip. But the story hasn’t a happy-cjnd- ing. On the trip, Mr. Merritt was taken with pneumonia and died in a few davs. A son savs he intends to carry out most of the promises made by his father. And Mr. Merritt, at any rate, saw one of his dreams come true. the world’s telephones, three-eights of its railroads and four-fifths of its a utomobiles. It uses three-fourths of all the rubber and four-fifths of all the petroleum used eaclr year. Each farm worker in the United States produces twelve tons of cer eals although the average cereal pro duction for each farm worker in the lest of the world is only one and two- fifths tons. Each American farm worker, on the average, is feeding nine people* besides himself in this country and one m'dre person in some foreign land. Soni^countries produce more crops per acre than we do, but none produces so much for each farm worker. - . Not a Dirty I*ig. One of the long-standing beliefs is that the hog is a dirty creature by instinct a* well as by trarning. In fact, the expression, “dwty as a pig” has come to be accented W the only proper way to describe the uncleanly. But it appears from results gained by farmers who havi<r given their pigs a chance to be clean that the Animal is more to be pitied than blamed. These farmers repoit that they have found the pig to be as cleanly as any Other farm animal. The trouble is he is seldom given a chance to prove it. (liven clean pasture land to feed on, a chance to get v^gulai baths, and clean bedding, the* pig will-be clean, they say. , Furthermore, he will be healthier and will grow faster. V, — . Figures With a Punch. ^ Statistics ordinarily are dry read-" ing, but not always. An elementary geography "published thks year con tains somo tables , and charts that are anything but dry reading. The information, intended primarily for youthful students, furnished by these tables and charts has more than a spark of interest for adults. These statistics, for instance, show that although the United States has but one-sixteenth of the world's popu lation, one-fourth of the world's sugar is used in this cojyitry. Furthermore, United States has five-eights of Free Conference Committee Cuts % Appropriation Bill to .$9,654,859 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) warden, from $3,500 to $4,000; assist ant and bookkeeper of joint commit- toe on piinting, from $600 to $1,200; commissioner of agriculture, from $3,600 to $4,00Q; state electrician, from $3,300 to $3,600, and secretary- treasurer of the highway commission, from $4,000 to $4,500. The salary of the secretaiy to the governor is fixed at $3,000. * For Forestry. For the first time an appropriation is made for the state forestry com mission, which is given $4,000. The aid for the State fair js placed at $5,000 instead of $10,000 as in for mer years, while for the mgro State fair the contribution is $500 instead of $1,500. Another new item in the bill is $1,000 to assist in financing the annuaj reunion of Spanish War veter ans a t Abbeville and the annual en- ampnumt at the rotate fair. For the enforcement of the com pulsory school attendance law the sum of $23,000 is appropriated. The sum of $2,500 is allowed for the sum- mer school at thtf University of South Department of education, $3,389,- 991 98. State hospital, $949,721.70. Penitentiary, $157,705.81. ■ State training school,^$127,674.50. Industrial School for Boys, $63,- 377.80. Board of health, $260,386.50. Tax commission, $219,251. Department " of agriculture, $98,- 443.50. _Clemson College public service, $279,907.85. As to Tuition Fees. Authorities of the university, the Citadel, Winthrop, ihe Medical Col lege and the State* Negro College teiifple In Rome was always open, while the country was at war, and closed when it was at peace, which last was not very often, though it did. happen in the reign of Augustus* Caesar at the time.when our Savior was born. —Montreal Family Herald. Sickle Still in Use at Galician Harvest A Galician peasant girl frames her -bronzed face with a russet-colored handkerchief. She wears a blouse of blue percale with sleeves of checked gingham, and a gray woolen rtiirt. The white and blue striped apron is crum pled by the sheaf of yellow wheat clasped in her smooth brown arms. * In. Galicia many of the men eml- would have authority to retain tui- : grate to find employment, and the tion and other fees collected from stu-1 women carry on the work of the four seasons. The fields are small; the fa rming rnelUoda. nre. JJjg- methods - of the Homeric age. The red earth is turned injsiiallow furrows with woodeu Plows drawn by biscuit-colored oxen. * The seed is scattered by hand, and the soil is cultivated .with wooden harrows. In June the grain Is ripe, nnd the peasant girl goes into the field wltjt her sickle. The harvester bends low; In the left arm she gathers a ^cluster of grain stalks; with the sickle in her. right band she cuts a swift stroke near the dents for making permanent improve ments, as has been customary for several years. Besides making appropriations, the bill would provide for a license tax of $10 a year, on lawyeis; except judgedand justices, and also would make the insurance agent’s fee $2'a year. Collections from the insurance feei, it is directed, would go to the Confederate pension fund, for which $750,000 is appropriated. Each^et- eran, under this bill, would receive a| roots. Catching tbe severed grain in minimun of $180 a year, as compaied with a minimum of $100 a year pre scribed in recent years. Carolina. Koi the Market Bulletin, issued un der the supervision of the department of agriculture,‘commerce an,d indus- t r u is7 the surn of $9,000 is appropriat- ed. —— The measure provides that the prop erty levy shall not exceed five mills, except foV a quarter mill levy to be ap plied to thu retirement of an issue of $400,000 in state bonds which matures on July 1 of this year. , ' . A proviso in the bill would require the state highway department to turn over to the contingent fund commis sion about $8,000, representing the excess cost of the recently concluded investigation of thu department by the Smith committee above the $25,000 appropriated for the purpose. Principal Totals. Frincipa’ appropriation totals pro vided are: — ....... University, $439,827. Citadel, $201,666.41. Clcm^on collegiate activities, $223,- 234.04, including $24,350.08 to equip new engineening building and $6,000 for fine protection. Winthrop collegiate activities, $449,- .*.52. ; : •*. Medical college, $130,550. State negro college, $124,135.77 School for Deaf and Blind, $111,- 861.67 Roman God Gave Name tallied the names of our months—as we got the names of our days from our Saxon forefathers—first thought of calling our;flrst month January, we are told B. C. It marked a turn of ttfejfear, when the winter solstice endgdL the earth turned from its •short dS^fSecmd toward t he 1 otrger days just about to begin. Janus, an old Roman gA was the god of be ginnings. &<iqiuse war was man’s chief busines^ihen, he especially rope- resented the beginning war. His the curve of the sickle, she raises it above her head and waves it in a cir cular movement-; then, pivoting on her hips, she lays the sheaf on the gfuund behind her. In tireless rhythm she moves across the rows of grain. A hoy follows in the field, tying the sheaves with straws.—Exchange, Sympathetic Public ' All people are alike in enjoying ihe presentation of rogues in drama, but It ineans nothing about their attitude toward rogues in real life.—American Mn gnztne. -• — — ■« ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel. 4-H Club Girls Again Take Part in Contest Barnwell County 4~H €lub Girls are again taking part in the Health Contest as a part of their club work for the new yeai'f The home demon stration agent has weighed and meas.- ured 121 cltib girls and has given to each a list of health (rules and a food habit score card to keep. The girls as a whole are showing a great deal of inteirest in the study of food selec tion as related to health. They do not find it necessary to burden their minds with the rather difficult erms as carbohydrates, proteins, cellulose, etc’, which our text books were ac- custmed to uBe, btft they translate their food terifis into such practical words as milk or milk food, eggs^ green leaf vegetables and fruits— keeping the food habit score carP and following health rules given. Every girl whose weight is as much as 7 per cent under or 20 per cent ovclr hopes to bring her weight to normal.— (Miss) Eliabeth M«Nab r Home Demonstration Agent. You’ll Go Smiling £ x Y T Y Y Y T Y Y Y Y T Y Y x Y T Y Y t Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y X Y —without fear of any 0 automobile trouble if you let us inspect and i* 4 r r - -v overhaul your car regularly. I have employed Mr. George Grubbs, an experienced mochanic, to operate my automooile repair shop, located at the Farmers’ Ginnery, and a trial will convince you that ours is an automobile service" without equal—for completeness, courtesy and reasonableness in cost. 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