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Missionary Tells of Chinese Customs C. P. O. Box No. 1234, Shanghai, China, Feb. 15, 1929. Dear Editor We are in the midst of the Chinese Big feast—Chinese New Year. Every one’s birthday comes on this day. Should a child be born in even the last hour of the last day of the old year it would be two years old on New Years. New Year came on Sunday, Feb. 10th. Every store was closed. All work stopped. But it was not quiet! It was like many a Fourth of July’s in one. Oh! the fire-crackers!! At midnight I was wakened by a vast broadside of large and small fire crackers and they kept it up for days. In the morning the ground was cover ed as by red snow—the “confetti” of exploded fire-crackers. Fire-crackers are but a part of the feast—the noisy part. The Ir^rt day of the year everybody is busy—the men at closing up their accounts. All bills must be collected and all debts paid. Woe be to the man who does not pay his debts. The women are very busy. The house 6 6 6 is a Prescription for Coldf, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. It is the most speedy remedy known. 5-2-22t. SPECIAL! “Mikado” Pencils: 6 for 25c. Per doz. 45c The People-Sentinel Barnwell, S. C. INSURANCE ! te'FIRE WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH T SURETY BONDS ^ AUTOMOBILE i t , THEFT Calhoun and Co. P. A. PRICE, Manager. MONEY TO LOAN Loans made same day application received. No Red Tape :V HARLEY & BLATT Attorneys-at-Law Barnwell S. C. jp’v M T. & EUia | B^US ENGINEERING CO. ' 1^ JUmt 8arraying a Specialty. & C must be made jas clean as a; pin and decorated, and thk broom* hidden— bad luck if they appear on New Year. Before the New Year sun rises all kinds of food must be gotten ready! Guests—many — will come during those days and they must be feasted. Few people see slumber the last night of the old year. But when the sun rises, calm reigns over the house-hold. As one walks out between 6 and 9 a. m. the whole town is asleep. Sunday indeed! But excitement arouses them and about 10 o’clock you’ll find the streets alive with people dressed in their best “bib and tucker” and you hear, “Kong Hyi Fah-dzai”—“Con- giatulations and abounding wealth to you,” shouted from one to another. The closed doors are plastered with appropriate sayings written on blood red strips of paper. Go to open spaces of the city and see crowds en- circljrg pkippet shows, acrobats, monkey performers,* squirming drag ons, entertainers of all kinds, and peddlers of sweets and children’s toys —Vanity Fair. Go to the temples and you find thousands burning incense and candlfes before all the idols, pray ing for wealth, old age ard bliss. One interesting god connected with the New Year is the god-of-wealth which is worshiped especially on the 5th—his birthday. The money spert on fire-crackers in his honor would pay China’s national debt. Few begin work again, until he is properly wor shipped. Another is the kitchen-god. He is a paper god and sits over the stove in the kitchen where he spies on the doings of the family for a year. On the 23rd of the 12th month he is given a big feast. Sweet syrup is put on his meuth and he is put, |n a beautiful., paper sedan chair and burned in plorious style, accompanied by fire-works—which is sending him to the L'pper-god to report on their year’s doings—all this fuss and sweetness is to bribe him to speak well of their family to his majesty. When he returrA on the last night of the old year—a new idol is bought and placer! with little ceremony—in the old nich—it will be a year before he reports again—why “taffy” him now? Next to idol-worshipL v gambling takes a big place in New Year cele brations—gamblirg everywhere! What they eat and drink, and the firtVcrack- ers, and gambling, all, in some way or other, symbolize or point to The £ound “Kao-sen”—exce’si^r! in the sense of rising high in wealth ana station—especially in wealth. It’s in deed a wonderfully** interesting time, and is indulged in even by beggars— for they receive a harvest of alms. The Nationalist Government order ed that Chinese New Year should not be observed this year. It might as well have tried to turn back the greatest tidal wave of history! National commands stop the obser vance of Chinese New Year’s cus toms?! Only the conversion of these people to Christ will stop this idol worship and lead to the worship of the true God. And to us the glad part of it is that each year more leave the false and adopt the true as the Chinese one by one are born anew. We are not discouraged. Pray much for China. Kindest regards and best wishes. Yours in Christ’s glad service, (Rev.) H. G. C. Hallock. P. S. Enclosed is a Chinese kitchen- god. WOMAN’S DEATH CAUSED BY INFECTED BLISTER Williston, April 19.—Mrs. C. R. Du bose, who was Miss Alma Richardson, died at an Augusta hospital Wednes day at 10:30 p. m. She was taken ill at her home in Ellenton about a week ago, and taken to the hospital Tues day where everything was dore in her behalf, but death came ^ a result V)f blood poisoning which was caused from an infected fever blister. Mrs. •Dubose made h?r home here for a number of yeais with Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Dubose. She v;as twenty years of age and a member of tho Williston Methodist church. Surviving Mrs. Dubose are her husband, .C R. Dubose, three small children, Marfcie, Frances and Clar ence, Jr., two brothers, D. A. and Pierce Richardson, of Blackville, ard two sisters, Mrs. Edna Heath, of El lenton, and Miss Ruby Richardson. Funeral and burial services were corduct o d by Rev. W. R. Davis, pas tor of the Williston Baptist church, at Windsor. T Standard of the Pope Flown Again m 1 ' HC; Ip vX> ;S X ■N ScSS: >x:. :K:-- mm :v»ig m si ... i :- i This Fortune Teller Out of the Ordinary '*Of course I don’t believe In fortune tellers and all that bunk but I went to him just out of curiosity. Betty swears by him. She says he told her things about herself that even she didn’t know. So I went to him just out of curiosity. Well, ray dear, he said I had the most extraordinary crystal. He’d never seen a crystal as extraordinary as mine. He said my aura just glistened with fame and for tune. He said that I would make a wonderful writer. Yes, he said he saw pens in my crystal. And Pin going to travel. Maybe not this year but next year or the year after. He didn’t say exactly where I was going but he dis tinctly saw a train or a boat in my crystal. And listen to this, dear. He said I was going to marry a tallisfi, sort of dark man with grayish-brown eyes. • Isn’t that a perfect description ot Fred? He isn’t exactly tall, but he Is more dark than light and his eyes are more gray than blue. I’m sure he means Fred. He said we’d be mar ried next summer or the winter after that It’s really quite remarkable the things he tells you. Of course, I don’t really believe in fortune tellers and I know it’s all foolish, hut he’s awfully good and you must go to him—Just out of curiosity.—Kansas City Times. In our modern day, with the pace that our civilization tries to establish and to maintain, a great many people are made nervous by peace and soli*’ tude. Our speed of life is such that; usually, when we seek repose, we make a mad dash for It But solitude has a hand to still the pulse’s leap, n voice to calm and reassure. Solitude is a room Into which we can retire whenever we need a change front pres- ^ ent company. It Is a bourne of solace nd reflection.—American Magazine. Jewelers Unable to Duplicate Goa Stone Goa. a settlement on the West coast of Mala, has for centuries been the property of the Portuguese, says an article In London Tit-Bits. Shortly after their occupation, the Jesuits ap peared and set up a monastery, and it was, there that a special sort of "Jewel” was made. The Jesuits made these stones, which have come to be known as Goa stones, from various eolldined drugs, but we today are totally “In the dark” us to what drugs they were conqHwed of and how they were made. Each stone was mounted In a silver filigree case and represented tine ex amples of old workmanship. When the owner of the stone was troubled with Indigestion he had only to scrape off a small portion of his stone, and drink it in a glass of water, and he was quite ail right In a few moments. Goa stones today, however, are rare and are only to be found in valuable collections of antiques. •f u» pops shown bslng flown ouulds tbs Vatican for tbs first jsaro. 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If a mother will think of such things, serious injury is spared the baby at its investigating aga She can teach the older children to co-op erate with her in keeping sharp objects, such as pencils, scissors and knives from the baby’s grasp. Medicines and matches may be kept on a high shelf, and while cooking, the handles of pans should not be left in such a position that baby can grab at them and spill the hot liquid. Eternal watchfulness is^the price of safety! Old Roman Sacrifice TheXrelief of Anaglypha’ Traianl In the Roman forum represents the sac rifice of Lhe bull, sheep and pig which usually adcompanied the purificatory ceremonies\>r lustrum. Each animal represents a\aluable part of the farm er’s stock. Tr\e ceremonies generally took place at the close of the census and for the arbiy at the beginning of a campaign and probably also In connection with the. founding of tem ples and other simila^ occasions. The animals were led around the assem bly and then sacrificed/ Free Ice! 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