The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, April 18, 1929, Image 8
Kindly Shopper* Had
Consoled Mary Ellen
On a shopping sipedltlon In tht
Christnias holldsys, little Mnrj Ellen
had a dollar with which to buy a
present for dsd. On the wsy down
town with her mother they met her
annt and little cousin. Arriving In a
large department store, the children
received permission to go to the toy
department while some shopping In
another part of the store was done
by the elder folk.
After about an hour the mother and
aunt raw a crowd collected at the
basement stairs and found Mary
Ellen In the center of the group In
tears, with several of the women
weeping copiously, she having thought
she had lost her dollar.
Everything was lovely when mother
explained she had her pocketbook and
the present was then bought for dad.
The next day while on another
shopping trip with her mother, Mary
Ellen had 00 cents that her mother
did not know she had.
“Where did you get that money,
Mary Ellen?” asked her mother.
“You know yesterday, when I
thought I had lost my dollar, those
women made me take It.”—Indian
apolis News.
“Old Sol” Classed as
Quite Ordinary Star
The sun is a very humble unit
amid the great stellar population ac
cording to a leading astronomer. It
Is, he says, a very ordinary star
about midway In the scale of bril
liancy. We know of stars which
give at least 10,000 times the light
of the-sun; we know also of stars
which give 1-10.000 of Its light. But
those of Inferior light greatly out
number those of superior light.
In moss. In surface temperature,
in bulk, the sun belongs to a very
common class of stars; Its speed of
motion Is near the average; It show*
none of the more conspicuous phe
nomena. buch s* variability, which
excite the attention of astronomers
In the community of stars the sun
corresponds to a respectable middle
class dtlten.
It happens to he quite near the cen
ter of the local star cloud; hut this
apparently favored position Is dts
counted by the fact that the star
cloud Itself Is placed very eceentrlml-
ly In relation to the galactic avatem
(the Milky way), being In fart ne.ir
the confines of It. We cannot claim
to be at the huh of the universe.
Bird* Datksd to Dootb
According to authorities on bird life
ths lighthouses of the New England
coast cause the death of thousands ot
sea fowl every vear lo their mlgra
tlons to and from the southlands the
birds, tf caught In a storm, try to And
a safe haven
The filed white lights seem to have
the greatest attraction for them Ely-
Ing at high speed they dash them
selves agiilnst the thick lenses and are
either killed outright or are stunned
and fall to the rocks or the sea be
low snd perish Strangely enough
fln«hltig lights snd also red t»eaina ap
pnrently repel them, hut the Minding
steady white r*>* take heavy toll
from their mnks
Contniry to f»’pular rx-llrf. the
fowl do not «w»ek southern climes to
avoid cold weather.
Death Valley in Java
Exudes Poison Gases
For years traveler! la Java have
told of a “death valley** on the alopea
of the volcano of Tangkoban Prahn.
The bottom of thla valley, ao they re
port, Is paved with the akeletal re
mains of blrda and llsarda. and, ac
cording to some, even the skeletons
of a few venturesome human beings
who dropped dead there or staggered
out of the fatal howl only to die on
Ifs rim. This valley has now been
definitely located by the chemist of
the volcanologlcnl survey of the
Dutch East Indies.
The Java valley, says Dr. E. E.
Free, seems to deserve Its name, for
Inconspicuous vents In Its bottom
have been discovered by the chemists
to be discharging not only carbon
dioxide gas, which displaces the oxy
gen of the air and might suffocate
the unwary, but also a still deadlier
poison, hydrogen sulphide gas. This
compound Is the evil-smelling gas
given off by rotten eggs. In the small
traces set from such decaying sub
stances, or as used In equally small
amounts in chemical laboratories, the
gas Is not seriously dangerous. Anal
yses made In Java’s deadly valley
show, however, as much as 10 per
cent of this gaseous poison in the air
—enough to poison any creature that
breathes It for more than a few sec
onds.—Pathfinder Magazine.
Slumber Long, Advice
of Woman Physician
Dr. Stella Churchill, repeating the
saying that a man slept six hours, a
woman seven, a child eight, and a
fool nine, remarked during a talk at
the Institute of Hygiene. Condon, ‘*1
am glad to say I am numbered among
the fools.
“After the age of three, hnman be
ings do not require daylight sleep,
except on Sundays, when the national
had hnblt of overeating makes them
drowsy. The more one eats, the more
•leep la required. -
“For an average person i advocate
between eight and nine hours' sleep.
“Crowing children should sleep on
a hard mottn-ss, and the bed should
never he placed against a wall.
“One’a Judgment Is Impaired by
lack of sleep. v ftlrls have married the
wrong man and refused to marry the
right one Itecnuae their Judgment haa
t»een at fault following sleepless
night a
“People should not he wakened
from sleep We ire still suffering
front the old fashioned Idea that
there la something shameful about
being asleep as exemplified In the
h)mn a (tout the sluggard who la dis
inclined ts wake up.**
I
On* of th« Band
Sat unlay uflerntMtu was a d iv km
apart for the village Mam! to Indulge
In Its weekly practice march.
On this particular day they hnp
pened lo half outside the loonl Justice
of the |h*.ue’s house. The latter was
s very Irritable man who hated bands
Consequently, he was far from pleased
when the sound of martial music fell
upon his ears.
“Look here!” he cried, rushing up to
the bandmaster. “If you don't stop
that Infernal din, I’ll go and fetch our
policeman !’’
But the bandmaster was equal to
the occasion.
“You can’t do that, sir.” he smiled.
“That’s Mm playin’ the trombone."—
London Tit Bits.
Hat* Denote Wealth
The Vamis. who live on a little Is
land south of Formosa, have two am
bitions—to build tine boats, whose
sides they ornament with beautiful de
signs, and to possess silver hats—the
larger the better, for by the measure
of his silver hat Is the prestige of
the Individual judged.
The first requirement Is a quantity
of silver coins, which are laboriously
beaten with a stone Into thla strips
The strips are then made Into cone
shaped hats. Some of the hats be
longing to the more affluent of the eol
ony come down to the shoulders. An
oblong opening Is left for the eyes,
so that the owner may survey the
admiration his large hat attracts.
Jacwbit* To**t
When thruugti an ot might no fin
ger bowls follow your dinner, Ju«t be
philosophical, remember that for 313
years the B«ittab royal family gtM
along aomehow without them. But It
wa* fur from an otentlghi with the
klnga and queens of Britain. After
the exile In IdHH of Jaine* that Old
I'retender, the Jacotiltes, hl« adher
ent*. Instituted the clever custom of
lifting the gtaasea In auch n manner
a* to bring them over their finger
l*owl«, mid mi were In reality toasting
the "king over the water.** Suddenly
finger bowl* were conspicuous hy their
uhmenie mid the Jactdiltes knew their
deception wn* delected. It was not
until Edward Nil !>egsn reigning In
l'.*U that the tmwl* reappeared.—I)e
troll News.
Furfural I* Now Cheap
Once m chemical curj<»si!y. selling
for $.’50 n pound, furfural, widely used
as an Insecticide, now sells for 10
cents a pound as n result of recent
discoveries by chemists who have sue
ceeded In producing it from ont hulls
and other waste farm products.
A discovery by Prof. Orlnnd R,
Sweeney, chemist at the Iowa State
college, has opened up an entirely new
source for furfural In sugar beets.
Aft£r the sugar has been extracted
from the beets, the pulp Is put
through an additional process which
extracts the chemical.
Besides serving as an Insecticide,
furfural Is used in making synthetic
resins.—Popular Science Monthly.
Word's Many Definitions
Of the 414,825 words defined In the
Oxford English dictionary, completed
after 70 years of labor, the one that
gave most trouble to the editors was
the three-letter word “8et.*’~tt has
many meanings and so many exten
sions of meaning. The Living Age re
porta that the editors were obliged to
devote a 30,000-word treatise to It
alone.
The sun sets In the west A surgeon
•eta • broken arm. A woman give*
birth fo three seta of twins In five
years. A yachtsman watches the sei
of his •all*.
R la an untiring word, as anrful at
fools that boys used to
Lucy Cable Blckle, In her biography
of her father, George W. Cable, In
eludes a letter in which the novelist
described his meeting with John Drew,
the actor;
“Margaret and I,*' reads the letter,
“went last night to hear John Drew
In ‘The Second In Command.’ . .
We went behind the stage after the
play and saw him and his daughter.
He said, ‘This Is the first time I’ve
had a chance to tell you how I cried
over “The Cavalier”—over the cap
tain’s death.’ I said, ‘You make me
proud. Did you cry?’ He said, ‘Cry 1
I bawded!’ ”—Detroit New’s.
Tit’ for Tat
Down dropped the policeman’s arm
and immediately the traffic stream
was in motion, one car shooting out
In front of the other vehicles.
At that moment a pretty girl made
an Indiscreet dash for an Island In
the center of the roadway.
She would have been knocked down
by the swiftly moving car bad not the
driver Jammed on his brakes.
“Women and donkeys are alwaya lo
tbe way!** be shrieked furiously at
tba fid.
“Glad to aee you’ve tbe mnarera tc
put yooneif laatr retorted tbe girl
cootlj. ^
Quarterly re pod of
orer of school claims paid for tbe
quarter ending March 81st, 1929;
J. B. ARMSTRONG,
County Trea.
District No. 24—Aahlelgh.
Blackville Hardware Co. ..
$33.65
Lula Rountree
. 50.00
Nan A. Martin __
_ 90.00
J. H. Lancaster .
5.00
Mrs. B. B. Kammer
117.96
Mutual Trading Co.
. 25.02
Lula Rountree
. 50.00
Mrs. B. B. Kammer
117.15
Lula Rountree
. 50.00
Nap. A. Martin
. 90.00
Total
628.77
District No. 33—Barbary
Branch
Isadore Ray __ __
. 40.00
RosaMe Reid _
114.35
Rosalie Reid ! -
110.75
Rosalie Reid __ _
111.40
Rosalie Reid
110.75
Isadore Ray
_ 40.00
Isadore Ray
. 40.00
Total
567.25
District No. 45.—Barnwell.
W. W. Carter, Supt. .
187.50
W. W. Carter, Supt.
1715.30
W. W. Carter, Supt.
...75.00
W. W. Carter, SupU -- --
400.00
W. W. Carter, Supt.
1610.55
W. W. Carter, Supt.
,__75.00
W. W. Carter, Supt.
400.00
W. W T . Cartcr^Supt.
• • ^
1689.55
Total
6152.90
District No. 4.—Big Fork.
R^alie Smith
35.00
W. H. Moody
. 43.80
_Rosali$ Smith
.. 57.50
R .H. Moody
. 32.55
vRoaalic Smith
42.50
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ToUl 211.35
District No 19—Hlarkville.
Rank cf W. Car., Int. on Bds. 990.00
G. Frank Posey 250.00
G. Frark Posey 500.00
G. Frank Poaoy 1607.50
Lydia B. Mrys 50.00
J. B. Armstrong, Tress., .
Note and Inter**! .... 5185.00
G. Frank Posey ......... 400.00
G. Frank Po»ey .......... 180.00
G. Frank Posey .......... 75.00
Lydia B. Mays ...... ..... 50.00
G. Frank Posey ......... 400.00
G. Frank Posey ..... 1607.50
G. Frark Posey r 500.00
G. Frank Posey .......... 76.00
G. Frank Posey .... 400.00
Total
12270.00
District Na. S3.—Cedar
Grove
Georg'* Mitchell ...yc.
250
Folk Bros.
52.92
Geo. Mitchell . - - - -
... 10.00
C»eo. Mitchell . - - - -
5.00
Katherine Green ...
... 40.00
Rob* i i pYweil
10.00
Katherine Green
... 40.00
Robot t Powell ........
10.00
S* rvic* Garage
16.20
Folk Bros. ..
.... 71.17
Katherine Green ...
... 40.00
Total
.. 297.79
District No. 50.—Diamond.
Olee A. B. Holly 35.00
Eliza A. A. Hankinson 35.00
J. H. Boyles 19.50
Olee A. B. Holly 40.00
Eliza A. A. Hankinson 40.00
Barr.well Filling Station __ 21.20
J. H. Boyles 1... 23.00
Ttoal 213.70
District No. 20.—Double Pond.
Mrs. Dot Hammet Hair 90.00
Mrs. W\ C. Buist 117.10
Mrs. W. C Buist 127.011
Mrs. Dot H. Hair 91.25
Total 425.35
District No. 12.—Dunbarton.
H. H. King, Supt. 1219.90
S. VV. Cromer 40.00
A. Chas. L. Arbouin 207.50,
Mozel M. Bush 50.00
S. W-. Cromer 40.00
H. H. King, Supt. — 1211.44
A. Chas. L. Arbouin 207.50
Mozel M. Bush 50.00
S. W. Cromer 40.00
Mozel M. Rush 50.00
H. H. King, Supt. 1307.00
A. Chas. L. Arbouin 207.50
J. B. Armstrong, Treas.,
Bonds and Interest 1632.58
Total 6263.42'
District No. 21.—Edisto.
Thelma Ellison 40.00
Thelma Ellison 40.00
Olive Parker 102.25
Thelma Ellison 40.00
The
GENERAL
EL E C T RIC
REFRIGERATOR
‘ SALE
->
STARTS THIS WEEK
APRIL 1STH
SOUTH CAROLINA POWER COMPANY
Special Sale terms on all models
$10.00 CASH BALANCE IN 30 MONTHLY PAYMENTS
Make a point of stopping at our nearest office and inspecting the new models. Any
employe of the company will gladly quote you prices installed in your home and
explain our liberal budget plan of deferred payments.
Display Rooms at tbe office of tbe
SOUTH CAROLINA POWER COMPANY
BARNWELL BLACKVILLE WILUSTON DENMARK
The
Lyric Theatre
at Blackville
Total
222.25
Has a
Vitaphone!
Think of it! Open every
night in the week to the
public.
Showing ALL-TALKING PICTURES
Formal opening Wednesday, April 17 th with
“TENDERLOIN,” a Warner Bros. All-Talking
feature and Eddie Cantor in “That Party in Per
son.” This program will be shown Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. Programs change every
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Plan now to see every program every week
Think of it!
A VITAPHONE IN BLACKVILLE
And you can SEE and HEAR the great
VITAPHONE pictures every day in the week.
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(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.)