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iPeopk-Smtux! JOHN W. HOUUB 5 tMt—iiifc B. P. DAVIES, Editor mad Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell S. C., aa second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ---/ |l»60 Six Months JO Three Months — .50 (Strictly in Adrance.) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928. perennial r ' This charm it in turn reflected in hundreds of homee—the homes of par- rhneere who hate been hired by an at tractive window • /Or She otne 6// Nancu Hart A Happy New Year. Week ai^. :r *v ck d jrir.ff thp past year we hr,/ * (hr:>nicled your achieve ments and recorded your triumph'*, re joiced in your success and sorrowed with you in ycur bereavements. Now w? start a New Year together, and the host wish we can make for you is that we may hear such news of you iais it will be a delight to pass on toi others through these columns. A Happy New Year to you all! Don’t Fail to Register The voters of Barnwell are remind- To be quite the thing this year each gift must have its modern touch—even if it’s only in the wrapping. And what an opportunity to in dulge in modernistic objects the season offers! There is the new pottery, modern sculpture and mo tifs applied to useful accessories; modern fabrics developed in scarfs, kerchiefs and hags—an endless list of fascinating things to tempt us. Many stores are providing smart modernistic boxes as containers for * otherwise conventional gifts—and ' so achieve the effect of novelty. If you contemplate giving such usual things as plain handkcrcMris, hose, gloves, stationery, for example— > remember a flashing modern box of gold and black and silver costs but a few cents extra—and gives the gift a surprise quality that makes it doubly appreciated. ed of the fact that the registration books for the coming special election were opened Thursday of last week at DeaaojvYi Drug Store and will remain open for one week only. Those who have not already done so should se cure their registration certificates at once; otherwise they will not be en titled to vote om the question of selling the light plant. -*'4 * While it may not be any of our buainem and all that, we might re- § mark in passing that it has been many a year since such promiscuous shooting of fireworks on the streets as marked the Christmat season in Barnwell this wek has been allowed by the town aU- thorXies. Heretq/ore, those who saw fit to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace in such a warlike manner have been made to confine their ac tivities more or leas to their own back yards. Monday, however, white and black were throwing “torpedoes’ a r d fire-crackem at the feet of pedes trians, many of whom were ladies. Most communities have outlawed fireworks at Christmas time and it might be well for the Barnwell city fathers to take some action along this line next year. Nineteen Hundred end Twewty-Nlse. AmAher leaf falls from »he tree of Time—juwi 1929 is with us. Seeing the <^kl year out an* hailing the new ore is a merry cve-t that at the aame time contains a deep ele ment of tragedy. It lem.rds us that time ia fleeting. Yet 192H wa* a year so rich in accomplishment* and adven tures, and so marked by progress, that we surely cannot complain of its brevity. This was the year of the twenty- fifth anniveraary of flying; and the year of the thrilling, heroic, epoch- making journey of the C.raf Zeppelin. This was a year in which the gooc will among natior*- was furthered as never before—a year of peace anc friendship. This was the yen*- when “sound” aryi talking motion pictures grew out of their infancy, when invention ot the robot or mechanical man gave promise of a future lessening of the labor of men, when new machires like the com- btnod harvester were invented to light en the strenuous tasks of the farmer. In this year radio was used to an 1 extent never before even approached —as in the vast nation-wide hook-ups of political utterances. The advances in radio, science, transportation, medicine, sovial wel fare and intellechnl fields during the past year have been many ard varied. The gams made in every department of human activity makes us envision 1929 as a twelve-month of still great er progress. We confidently look for ward to a year in which mankind will make tr' ;rvndous M!e*. Si ore Window 4. Store window* ir.rke the holidays. The man who knows the art of window dressing well enoughs to make an effective Yuletide or New Year’s dis play, contributes, greatly to the gen re! spirit of festivity on those days. Hue matter of window dressing is tremendously important W h ? r e sriadows are attractive, the persons that pass on Main Street are made gayer, more alive by looking at them. Th#y provide inspiration. They ambition, with dull store windows dead in comparison to streets decorated, illuminated shops. Vegetarian Menu Cream of corn soup Sweet potato croquettes Creamed onions Grilled tomatoes Beet and egg salad Apple pie, cheese Non-stimulating drink Afternoon Tea Cake Half cup butter, 1 cup sugar, creamed well; add beaten yolks of 2 eggs, then slowly add cup milk, 2 cups prepared cake flour sifted with 2 level teaspoons bak ing powder, and fold in stiffly beat en whites of two eggs. Bake in small loaf pan and serve while fresh. Escalloped Cauliflower and Ham Scadd 1 pint m»lk, add 2 ta blespoons butter, seasoning and 3 tablespoons quieg-cooking tapioca and cook 15 minutes. 1’ut layer of mixture in buttered baking dish, then layer of cooked cauliflower and dumped ham and sprinkle with buttered crumbs. Bake in moderate oven. * --r Chocolate Walnut Jelly Chop ki cup Fnglish walnuts and V& dozen figs Bring pint of milk to boiling point, afd dissolve in it a package of chocolate flavored gelatin. When beginning to hard en, add nuts and fruit. Mold and serve with cream. For Spotted Windows If there are any finger marks on windows or mirrors \ou need not clean the entire surface Just dip a cloth in ammonia and rub lightly over the spots. Dispute Over Origin of Frontier Weapon Two >llglitl> dlircrotil storios uppeiir to liu\»* !m*«*ii |m»■>♦«*(I «|<.\vn to iM»t>t**rit) con evening (lie origin of the bowiv knife, famous us a weapon In (lie du>s of Texas Independence, says s writer in the Detroit News, one of these tales has it that the weapon waa made by Jesse Cliffe, blacksmith, an employee of Keren Bowie, father of the man genrally known as the in ventor. Some time after the invention of the knife James engaged in an alter cation with MaJ. Norris Wright which resulted In Wright shooting at James. The latter was saved when a silver dollar In his pocket deflected the bul let. Drawing his own pistol, James alined at Wright hut the trigger snapped. His father then gave James the knife, saying, “This will never snap.” The other story of Its origin gives to James Bowie entire credit. He Is said to have made a model of the knife and a Louisiana blacksmith fash ioned It for him. Major Wright ap pears In both stories, although in the second he Is supposed to have shot Bowie In the leg. It was this cir cumstance, the second tale contends, that led James always to carry the knife on his person thereafter. Shoes Discarded by South Sea Islanders A party of 24 South Sea Islanders from the Islands under Japanese man date arrived In Tokyo recently on a sightseeing tour of the country. It was their first trip away from their native habit t They were barefooted when they arrived third class on a Japanese ves sel at Yokohama. Among the petty dealers who met the ship wag a shoe salesman who soon convinced the en tire party as well their gaurdtans that they would need shoes before they had gone far to Japan. Orders were taken for 24 pairs, and without measurements the entire lot was delivered on the ship before they disembarked. The natives succeeded in donning the shoes, but by the time they htd walked the distance from the pier to the railway stations to get to Tokyo they were howling with pain. It was the first time they bad worn shoes and their new footgear, in addi tion, was ill-fitting and misshapen. T»t man, the natives, once boarding the train, took off their shoes and re fused to wear them again while they wen in Tohj* _ . ThislVeek n y Arthur Brisbane SOMETHING FOR FLORIDA THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL U. S. NOT MILITARISTIC TOUNG MEN. OLD WOMEN FREE <; Illustrated Catalogue of Plants, «* Roses, Fruit and Nut Trees ! [ upon request. On all orders re- eived by January 1st amounting to $5.00 we will send FREE one plant—our selection. FRUITLAND NURSERIES P. O. Box 910S. Augusta, Ga. ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. T. B. Ellis J. a EDto ELLIS ENGINEERING CO. Land Surveying a Specialty. Lyadhurst, S. C We have an excellent variety of FRUIT and SHADE TREES, ROSES, SHRUBS, EVER- GREENS, HEDGEPLANTS, VINES and ORNAMENTALS. ADVERTISE in Th« People-Sentinel CATALOGUS UPON REQUEST THE C. C. DORN CO. 101 Ninth St. Augusta, Ga. THE RIGHT WAY TO TRAVEI is by train. The safest. Most com fortable. Most reliable. Costs less Inquire of Ticket Agents regardin( greatly reduced fares for short trips SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM A suggestion for Congress, with Republicans now in charge, that Florida has gone Republican snd becomes debatibte territory, why not do something for Florida? First: Repeal a law discriminat ing against Florida in the way of taxation, practically nullifying Florida's right to enact its own legislation. Second; Let the National Gov ernment regulate flood conditions in Lake Okechobee. * The overflow of that lake caused greatest dam age in the recent high wind. That was due to the fact that the Fed-, cral authorities compelled Florida to keep the lake waters at a certain height for navigation purposes With or without the nation's help, nothing will check the growth of Florida^ or permanently injure its prosperity. If the people of Florida knew as well as outsiders do what their prosperity and values must inevi tably be, they wouldn't SELL ANYTHING. Temperature more than forty degrees below zero in the North west reminds the East that the Old Spagish Trail is now open from the East Coast.* through Florida, Texas, the Gulf Coast re gion, and on through Arizona to Southern* California with good roads. Only two ferries between Atlantic and Pacific. The trip takes you through Northern Florida, past the Old. Spanish ® Missions of energetic modem San Antonio. And once well started, you can leave your motor out of doors and sleep out of doors. No more freezing until you com* back to the Northeast President Coolidge says this country is not "militaristic or im perialistic.” Certainly not, but it is an em pire, a good solid one, all tied to gether, from the northwestern tip of Alaska to the. southeastern tip of Florida. And it means to be ready for unpleasant approaches by anybody thatjs militaristic. A Massachusetts woman, aged sixty, formerly assistant pastor of a First Christian Church, marries her twenty-one-year-old Sunday school pupil, and the world criti cizes. > The boy's mother says, "I am . sorry for him.” The bride’s thirty- year-old son says, “Mother must have been crazy.” Plato t wise philosopher, would , not criticize the couple. Mor^ than 2,000 years ago he said that older women should keep very young men out of mischief. He said also that men should become father*; in middle life when they have intelligence developed. If more young men married old women, waited, respectfully and faithfully, until they died, then married wisely, some one younger, the race might improve. However, that will not happen often. All forces worked 40 hours without sleep A S the storm rages, gathering waters * rush down the mountainsides, flood ing plain and valley. Earth slides fill railroad cuts and fills are undermined. Swollen rivers wash out bridges and inundate the rails. Transporta tion is at a standstill—but not for long. The spirit of railroad men under such circumstances is shown in the following telegram sent to the President ofthe South ern by one of its General Managers when a recent flood in the Blue Ridge mountains interrupted transportation on some of the Southern’s lines: Pitting their strength against the elements, men shoulder the task of opening the lines, working day and night to get the' trains through. At such times men show their mettle. It is their crowded hour. "Afthevllto-Sallsbury line opened at. T A. ML Tbl* wa» aeeoiapHshed by all fereeu working 40 hoars withoat sleep. I expressed to them year ap- This is the spirit of men bred in the service and traditions of the Southern and the South. UT RAILWAY RN SYSTEM From tbs Northern Gateways at Washington, Cincinnati and Loots villa ... from tbs Wsstsrn Getaways at 8l Louia and Mam- phis ... to tbs Ocasn Porta of Norfolk, Charleston, Ssvsnaah, Brunswick and Jackson villa ... and tbs Gulf Porta of Mobile and New Orleans ... tbs Southern tbs ras umvrmmmn ummwmu twm