The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, August 16, 1928, Image 2
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Tree Represents Man On Horseback
WILL DIG UP OLD
FORT OF MEXICO
Cross Words and
the Puzzle
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS
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Sciepti^t Plans to Excavate
Monte Alban*
Mexico City.—A party of Investlga-
tora, headed by Alforso Cuso, a re he- !.
ologist, and Miguel D. de Mendizabel, 1 ; EpBNWAY looked at the Uttle blue
ethnologist, representing the Mexican * .Mgn with its brilliant orange-col,*
Historical Itevicv, will begin a study, ored ottering hanging so bravely out
before the end of the current year, the city sidewalk and the single
of the ancient fortified mountain city | wor( l “Coffee” lured him in for a cup.
known as Monte Alban near the city ;: * e,t the neeci sonicthing any-
of Oaxaca way ll8, not an hour * )e ^ ore » h e and
Monte Attwnrts part^f-the tfillcs of ! the one « lrl had had ver y cross words
strange prehistoric builders who mod- ^ 80 cro ?«* t n fac L that Fenway won-
Ifled entire mountain skylines by carv- d ® re(1 what it .bad really all been
lug terraces and erecting pyramids, i*® 00 **
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COTTON!
MfISDOM!
CHAS. G. HOUSTON
COTTON FACTOR — AUGUSTA, GA.
COTTON!
COMMON SENSE!
There are tfained cedar tree* on the ground* of Mr. and Mrs. U.J.
Prucha which he hat trimmed and designed into all tort* of animal*. Hi*
•‘tree menagerie” i* a beautiful exhibit and touritt* delight in visiting the
place. Photo show* Mr. and Mr*. Prucha standing hetide one of their
trained cedar* representing a man on horseback.
County Game Warden Sends Out
Licenses to His Representatives
Can Now Be Obtained from Same Places in County as Last Year, Says
Angus B. Patterson.—Game This Year Reported in Abundance.
—46 Deer in Colleton Pea Field.
Hunting licenses have been distri
buted to representative* in the various
towns of Barnwell County and may
now be obtained at the same places as
last year, according to a statement
made to a representaive of The Peo
ple-Sentinel Monday morning by An-
> gu s B. Patterson, county game war-
de.
An abundance of game in South
Carolina was reported from every
county in the State by game wardens
who went to Columbia during the past
we*k to obtain licenses for hunters in
anticipation of the first day of the
open season for deer in South Caro
lina, which wa s yesterday, says Mr.
Patterson, and according to A. A.
Richardson, chief game warden, from
whose office 165,000 licenses werct is
sued to wardens during the week, the
supply of deer in Colleton County is
becoming a liability instead of an as
set, as they are prusent in such num
bers as to render material damage to
growing crops, particularly cow peas.
As many as 46 deer were counted in
one farmer’s pea field several days
ago. Another farmer reported that
he found 20 of thei animals feeding in
his field on a recent monlight night.
Bumper Rabbit Crop.
Quails, doves and wild turkeys also
abourvd in practically every county in
the State, and the crop of squirrels,
rabbits and opossums is also said to
be a bumper one.
The open season for the various wild
game specimens is as follows:
Domestic game birds and animals.
Thanksgiving Day to March 1st, ex
cept deer, Bucks only may be hunted
from August 15 to Jaunary 1st.
Raccoons, opossums and foxos may
be hunted from September 1 to March
1, provided that between September 1
and Thanksgiving day, rabbits may
be hunted without firearms, and squir
rels may be hunted without dogs.
Th<«re is no open season on pheas
ants.
The open season for trapping fur-
' bearing animals is from Thanks
giving Day to March 1, but there ig no
open season for trapping deer and
foxes. It is unlawful to use dead
falls an,d steel traps except within 200
•yards of a person’s residencci or with
in 25 yards of any poultry house
where the traps are set for the pro
tection of property.
Du c k in November.
The migratory bird season is as
follows:
' Shrek, geese, brant, coots and snipe
may bo hunted between Notember f
and January 1, rails and gallinuleS
from September 1 to November 30;
Woodcock from De:ember 1 to De
cember 31; doves from September 1
to September 30, and from November
20 to January 31.
There is no open season on rice-
bir^ds, nedbirds, wood duck or sum
mer duck.
Bag limits are: Duck 25; geese 8;
brant, 8; coots. 25; Wilson snipe, 20
a day; sorm, rails and gallinules, 25 a
day, but not more than 15 of any one
apecieg of rails and gallinules a day,
except sora; doves 25.
Night hunting is not allowed ex
cept for opossums, racoons and foxes
and them is no open season on domes
tic and migratory insectiverous and
song birds.
The seasons for, domestic game
birds and animals may be shortened in
any comity on recommendation of the
county delegation to the general as
sembly.
Game Business Your a.
Something of the growth of the
State game warden’* department in
the last 15 year s may be gleaned from
the statement of the chief game war
den that since he took office in 1913,
the total receipts from the sale of
licenses and prosecutions ha 8 grown
from $1,956 in 1912 to $202,120.07 for
the year which ended June 30.
The Statc/s game laws are enforced
by a corps of nearly 100 game war
dens. Counties in ivhich the greatest
number of hunting licenses are sold
are Richland, Orangeburg, Spartan
burg, Greenville, Charleston, York
and Laurens. Fifty-five per cent of
the total receipts from the sale of
licemis is used in enforcing the game
laws and for maintenance of the
State game department. Forty-five
per ceqt is turned back to the school
fund in the counties whero collected.
Ninety thousand dollars have been or
will be distributed to the various
counties for school purposes from col
lections made in the year ending June
30th.
Better organization in the depart
ment and cooperation of the county
game wardens enforcement of statu
tes together with the recently enacted
law requiring the wearing of the
large license button by hunters re
sulted in the sale of 58,000 morel lic
enses ia 1927-28 than the previous
year, according to M r - Richardson.
Unadorned Tomb for
Count, Lauft Decree
A turret that is a tomb still attracts
attention on the Chateauvillard estate,
adjoining the forest of Fontainebleau,
France, but guidebooks do not tell the
story that makes It Interesting.
The count of Chateauvillard rests
In the great, tower-Uke mausoleum,
but he was placed there only after a
lawsuit. His will provided for the
erection of the tomb, Just as It exists,
but added that on the walls around
him should be placed the pictures of
a dozen beautiful women with whom
he had had notorious love affairs. His
wife and his children balked at that,
and the story of his life, told in
court, furnished Paris with gossip for
a year In 1870.
The count’s exploit in Jumping,
horseback, from the window of tlie
Jockey club to the street below, kill
ing his horse, convinced the court he
was abnormal, much morq than did
his love of handsome women, and the
widow was authorized to forget to
hang her rivals’ pictures in her hus
band’s tomb.
Outside the mausoleum. In ac
cordance with the count’s will;' are
’buried his horse, hls dogs and his
monkey.
until they looked like scallops on a
petticoat.
Practically nothing is known of the
race that conceived the unique notion
of leaving its mark notched on the
upland horizon, and the archeological
Once inside he sat down to a cozy
table In the bow window and waited
for the* waitress to clear away the
remnants left by the previous occu-
‘pant He also smiled as he saw the
newspaper left lying on the table.
I.
city was old and deserted when the : ^ was folded back to the dally
Spanish came to subdue Oaxaca along 'cross-word puzzle and only a few des
ultory words had been filled in.
“Perhaps If I can solve this puz
zle,” thought Fenway, “I can solve
the human cross-word puzzle, too.
This one has a reward of $100 for a
correct solution and I suppose the
human one has a reward beyond the
price of rubies—if one can solve It.”
with the rest of Mexico.
_ Looks Like Work of Motes.
Today, swathed In Its age-old pad
ding of earth and vegetation, the site
of Monte Alban, seen from its highest
point, suggests the work of giant moles
which burrowed and upbeuved ou a
geometrical plan. Xhe city tv hose ^ i ^ n( j w hu e sipping a large cuful of
angles are now curves, whose square
pyramids are grassy mounds, and
whose sunken terrace gardens are dim
ples In the earth, looks down upon
modern green and white anu pink
Oaxaca nestling in the sunny valley
1,000 feet below and five kilometers
away.
The ridges are leveled off at differ-
ent heights, and a series of mounds
coffee Fenway amused himself putting
In the somewhat staggering words of
f the cross-word puzzle.
’ Fenway felt particularly brilliant
after finishing the last word, and he
decided to send to the solution.
He called the waitress and got from
her pen, ink and envelope and realiz
ing that her curiosity was getting the
better of her looked up with an en-
and terraces ‘result that are as con- \ g A g\ n g 8m n e>
fusing in their number and extent aa t «j. m trying m y inc^ f 0r t hl 8 prize,*
the layout of a large city. The Informed her, “and if I win it you
mounds were flat-topped pyramids on 8hall have ten do n ar8 »
which superstructures once stood, as ( ‘. 0hf ^ j hope you do win,” laughed
stumps of walls sticking out of the the joung girl. “The young lady who
covering of grass still show, and there left rll e paper tries those puzzles a
are many remains of fortifying walls, lot but a i wa y ? leaves them half fln-
formlng battlements for terraces that i 8 hed. \ She has a room upstairs,” she
overlooked the approaches to the
mountain* city.
There are series of sunken rectan
gular terraces surrounded by ancient
added.
“Then I must shAre my prize with
still another,” laughed Fenway, ‘‘and
that only leaves me about $80.” ^ He
structures raised on sloping sides that gi an ced boyishly up at the amused
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give the quadrangles the appearance
of modern football fields with the
grandstands all around. Piles of stone
and weed-smothered earth left in the
centers of these Undosures suggest
that they were altars.
girl. “I suppose you think I’m kid
ding, don’t you? Just wait dnd see.”
“Not at all,” laughed the girl, “only
when do I get the ten?”
Fenway glanced at the paper. “One
week from today. You’ll see me com-
No systematic^ excavations have t n g | n here with a *hundred dollar
look’ and you and that young lady
who was kind enough to leave her
paper will separate me from mort
of it.”
And aa Fenway, left the coffee shop
been made in Monte Alban, but the
evidence of occasional haphazard
ones is significant. A pyramid struc
ture that has been probed by a series
of tunnels in a search for hidden
treasure revefiu that It Is built up of be realized that he had spent a rather
seven artificial levels of broken stone
filled with earth and capped by pave
ments of lime concrete.
The recent earthquake which shook
all Mexico brought down some of the
rock, filling parts of these tunnels.
In the sides of several terraces or
mounds there are ancient sepulchers
that have been sacked, but the cor
belled stone-lined vaults remain,
showing their great similarity to
enjoyable half hour and also that
some one more than passing fair had
arrived at the door about the sam#
time as himself. ________
Fenway held back the door that she
might make her exit and the smile of
thanks he got made the entire world
a more glorious place in which to
solve cross-word puzzle?.
Meantime the waitress whom he had
just left was making frantic signs to
Maya architecture further south. Nar- him from the window. Being of a
row entrances leading to the tombs somewhat intuitive nature and read-
are picture galleries lined with stone !ng the signs aright Fenway realized
slabs carved with human figures that
perhaps represented persons, who were
buried there In ancient times.
DitpuU Over Ownership.
Some people in the region claim
that Monte Alban was the fortified bor- j
deriand between the laud of the Zapo-
that she was imparting to him the
fact that the young lady for whom he
had held the door open and the one
who had left the newspaper on the
table were one and the same.
Fenway smiled his interest in the
good news and determined that he
would win that prize by hook or crook
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rancy
The new ottice girl at Messrs.
Browne, Ltd., was frying her very
best to be efficient In all things.
When a bothersome traveler called
one afternoon, she took his card into
the chief.
“Oh, I can’t spare arty time for that
creature!” declared the great man.
“Go and tell him I’m ouU”
The girl returned to the traveler.
“I ,am sorry,” she said, “but Mr.
Browne says he’s out.”
“Indeed!” observed the traveler sar
castically. “Well, would you be good
enough to present him my compliments
arid say that I haven’t calledT—Lon
don Answers.
♦
Revival Services at Mt.Tjlivet.
tecs, who built the ancient city of , ^
.Mitla. some seventy kilometers away.! ^ d « r tha ( t h h e P resent hl *
anil the Uixtecs. to whom Monte Al-| * m *'‘ bonus t0 bo,h K,r s '
ban is ascribed, especially by modern I J* 6 without t,,e wortd
, being set on fire because a cross-word
puzzle bad been solved and with no
further effort on Fenway’s part he
found that he had actually won the
prize. Even if he hadn’t, so keen was
he to beco’ e acquainted with the girl
of the sunny smile and to preserve
the happy little waitress from disap
pointment, he would have managed
In some way to convey the idea that
his was the lucky name in the paper.
He was relieved that he had not
to resort to underhand methods, and
one week from the day he was there
drinking that excellent coffee Fenway
again entered the roqm and turned
■& the table at which he had saL
was already occupied.
She and no other was comfortably
.ensconced 4a the Jow chair that Fea-
The People-Sentinel has been re
quested to announce that rovival ser
vices will begin at Mt. Olivet Church
Sunday afternoon at four o'clock and
continue throughout the following
week. The Rev. George Hodges, a
former pastor, will conduct the ser-
Jrvicas. The public it cordially invited
f to attend.
ADVERTISE ia The People-Sentinel.
Mixtecs living in the villages below.
On the other hand, modern Zapotecs
claim Monte Alban as theirs.
Mitla and Monte Alban, although
very close together, are radically
apart in style and perhaps in the
time of their building. Mitla is one
of the few archeological cities known
in middle America that is not built
on a series of pyramids as substruc
tures, and there is only one true pyra
mid on the site.* Mitla’s most striking y
feature is the geometrical mosaics of
stone that make up its wall panels
and friezes, which show a Mexican
or northern influence.
Monte Alban, on the other nnnd, U
built entirely on pyramids and ter
races, and shows In its corbelled fu-
neral vaults and carved stones a
strong Maya influence.-
Dr. Manuel Gamio, leading Mexican
scientist, believes it possible that
Monte Alban may even have been
a young Maya city during one of the
early steps in the evolution of that
race, or may at leq^t be an important
link in Its history. ' There seems no
doubt that the enormous amount of
Information there is ready to tap in
the many well-known but unexplored
archeological sites of Mexico will
some day clear up many points in
American prehistory.
Grgeks Fight Locusts
With Cannibal Kin
Washington.—Big predatory locusts,
that prey on their fellow Insects in
stead of on growing grain crops, are
being tried out In Greece as ond means
of combating the pest of ordinary
locusts now threatening the fields, ac
cording to word received here from
Athens. x »
These modern descendants of one of
the plagues of Egypt have been caus
ing serious losses to Greek agriculture
during the last few years and the
ministry of agriculture^fs preparing to
spend 16,000,000 drachmas (approxi
mately $3^00,000) In a campaign
against them, '
way had hoped to occupy himself.
There was, however, a second chair
at the table.
The little waitress, right on the job
where romance was budding, stepped
straight up to Fenway.
“I told Miss Carter all about you
and the—cross-word puzzle—and *1
don’t think she’ll be annoyed if I in
troduce you.”
That sunny smile that had been
lingering in Fenway’s heart greeted
him. He knew now that all the cross
words from the other girl would
never bother him again.
“Here, Little Miss,” he called to
the hastily retreating girl who v had
shown him the way to a happy solu
tion of one of life’s problems—the love
game—“put this right Into that pocket-
book of yours and don’t dare look at
It until tomorrow morning.” And Fen
way pressed something papery into
her hand.
Then he sat down comfortably be
side the sunshine girl.
“I’ve such heaps of things t6 tell
you,” he said.
“Start right in,** laughed the girl.
Tm all ears.”
“Not quite,” said Fenway, gazing
happily at eyes and lips and cheeks
and golden hair—“not just all ears.”
The girl blushed softly and most
happily. '
\ ARE YOU GOING TO USE EITHER?
The old method of each person selling their own cotton by getting local
buyers to make a bid, and then just taking the “Highest Price,’ is recognized
as bad business. For the- simple reason the “Highest Bid’ may be many
dollars under the market value.
O,
How many people can grade cotton? There are 26 different grades
the money difference between them is great, x The present age demands f
specialists and having been in this business all of my hie, besides having -
a competent organization, I can assure you each bale sent to me will be handl
ed in such a manner you will get its FULL VALUE—and not just the
“highest bid.”
Liberal advances at any time. $1.00 covers the expense of selling each
bale and if you hold your cotton, only 50c per bale per month is charged,
which covers everything.
y Telephone Worker
will take your order
for service - -
J T is a simple matter to have tele
phone service In your home. telephone
employe, operator, lineman, or office worker,
will cheerfully quote rates and take your
order for service.
I If you prefer to visit the office you will be
welcome, bat this is not necessary. Any
friend or acquaintance in the telephone
company will be glad to give yon informa
tion about rates and accept your application
•V % •
Telephone service is becoming more indis
pensable in modern life. It not only keeps
yon in toneh with friends and neighbors in
town, bat enables yoa to
in the state or nation.
is only a few
a day.
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AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
(InooarosATm)
Special Attraction!
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Saturday, Aug. 18th
Vamp Theatre
Barnwell, S. C.
With Regular Picture Program
TV—ON THE STAGE—
Frances Ferguson’s Original
and Famous
a
Girls
All Girl Orchestra
SINGING
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Special Scenery Gorgeous Costumes
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Children 25c
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