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eOTHAM DUPES PAY PALMISTS MILLIONS M Huth Money" Part of $2S y - 000,000 Annual Toll. . New York.—Fortune telling net* $23,000,000 Hnnuiilly In New York, ac- jcordlng to John Mulholland, niaalcian- jlecturer and arch enemy of fraudu lent fortune telling. Pari*, he snys, pay* Just $0,000,000 for Its glimpse* Into the past, present and future. * A major portion of thin huge sum is nothing more than pure blackmail, llul hoi land say*. “A man will tel! his wife that he 'I* going to work at his office, but he plays poker with the boys, ,, Mulhol- jland said, illustrating one form of iWckmail. “The blackmailers get Iwlnd of it in ways which they alone can divulge. They make the man be lieve It Is ‘in his fortune.’ They ithreaten to tell hi* wife he was seen Un a cabaret with a blond. • **Hc wasn't with a blond, but he iwasn't where he told hi* wife he was *going to be—so he pays off. . “One group dnce worked three .years to get Its ‘evidence.’ A select ; girl*' school wa* singled out. Its stu- ! dents were told ‘Aunt Beatrice’ would .Invite them to spend the week-end with her ami send a liveried chauffeur to the school for her—all for a very , nominal fee. The students took ad vantage of the opportunity and several visited 'Aunt Beatrice.’ Pay Heavy Toll. “Thn*e years Inter, after they had been Introduced to society and mur- 'rled, they paid heavily for the visit | to 'Aunt Beatrice’—and h fortune tell- <er claimed to have rend their MndiS' Icretions’ in their palms. “The blackmailing fortune tellers ( . never collect toll from guilty persons, ^ they scare vulnerable* by threatening to tell an untruth that cannot be (proved an untruth gracefully.” Mulholland will walk into your of- • flce, write something on a slip of pa- j per and tell you to put It in your | |K>cket without looking at It. He then causes you to write u series of letters, ; numbers and dmw pictures on another •piece of pa|K*r. You may write what 'you please at this sugg«»sMon, select- . lag what numbers, what letters and what picture* to draw. He then nl .lows you to eliminate nil but one num ber. oil but oue letter and all but one ‘Jlgure. Yon look at llte slip of paper In your iKaket and discover that you (bate left the same le'ter, number and figure that lie wrote lu the tim fplnre. He has caused you to do his J bidding by suggestion. And to convince you that h* knows 5 his stuff lie’ll change a quarter to a j imlf dollar, make It disappear and .then reap)>e«r-all of this not siv ' indies from your eyes, and the coin, j apparently, never our of your sight .until the moment It disapyenr*. I But like all magicians he doesn't explain the trick to vou. He tells you j that be has mystified you iu order to Illustrate that magicians really know a lot about the phase of lat.vcholngv which has to do with react Ions. The iTTmoporoe 0* cmomain-s. • magician's trick Is know ing just w hat J to d« to make an audience react the .‘way he wants to. i Jiki, Teiki and Nobe Are Tokyo Market Term* Washington. —That the Jargon of * Wall Street, witJi its “bulls’’ and , "tHumj,'' “trends'’ and "cycles'’ to worry the laymen, Is not less Intelligi- | ble than the vernacular of the Tokyo l 8tock exchange Is indicated by a re- t port of Japanese stock trading by Mer- $iert M. Bratter of the Department of (Commerce. Three kinds of transaction* are “UMnle—spot, known as jikl, deferred, or nolie. and teiki or long term. Spot deals form the least Important group. The short-term deal* are similar to the New York, while the long term ' are patterned after the Ijondon sys- t leai. \ Certain sjait transactions called ■Jlklja are effts ted outside of exchange • hour* by unlicensed brokers. The s>ys- ^ tern lias no official status. t Japanese traders have * significant ’barometer of market conditions in the i«tnck of the Tokyo Slock exchange it- 4ftfUr, known as Tokahu, which 1* widc- My traded in. Japanese Stock exchange practices 'were modeled after tiie customs of -i the early rice exchanges. a Professed Vegetarian i & * Runs Amok for Steak Millville. N. J.—Obsessed by thoughts !«f succulent steaks, Leon Jloun, fifty, a 1 professed teetotaler in ineat. fell off -•the vegetable wagon at might of a plump Jersey cow in a pasture here. ’’".Smelted the animal to death with a < small jam knife and took about Sot) .’.-worth of beef home in a child * ex press wagon. He so testified yesterday ''when arraigned before Mayor Harry Jones. WJten his housekeeper saw hi* cargo wf meat she became irate, he said, and j|ie threw it all In the Maurice river, maintaining Ids vegetarian statu* after bH. Bonn, a Junkman, wa« sentenced '~te pay $75 to tha owner of the cow. THt brother paid for him. -PorUmoutb, England, Ban* Movie* on Sunday Portsmouth, England. — Tha city Teouacil of Portsmouth haa decided by YU SO to 15 vote not to grant aeran la amdoa picture ptubibit* the showing ad (Prepared by the National Oeoxraphle Society, W»*hln*ten, D. C.) I N THE Isolated Indian pueblo* of New Mexico and Arizona during the past six year* scientists have been gathering data that have been made it possible for them to write one of the most fascinating de tective stories of science that has been unfolded since scholars deciphered the famous Hosetta Stone of Egypt. The work, carried on by Neil M. Judd and Dr. Andrew E. Douglass under the auspices of the National Geographic society, has involved the collection of thousands of sumples of wood of living trees and of beams from ruined Indian villages so that the tree rings— “the fingerprints of time”—could lie studied ami compared. As a result of tliis work u unique' tree-ring calendar lias been constructed which extends known dates In the New World back to it time more than eight centuries before the arrival of the S|Mini»rds in what is now southwestern 1’nited States. By translating the story told by the tree rings laid down during the past twelve and a quarter centuries the scientists hn\e established a chron ology for that period more accurate than if human hands iind written down the major events as they occurred. It Is now (MMLsihle definitely to an- nounce the im|»ortnnt dates in the his tory of I’ueblo Bonlto, oldest and largest of the great Indian commun ities, In rhacn Canyon, New Mexico, excavated and partially reconstructed by the National Geographic society. Furthermore, It is [>ossil>ie now to date nearly forty prehistoric ruins ir» the Southwest and reconstruct there a surecssion of major event* through which Indian settlements rose, passed their heyday, and disappeared. Just mn the far famed Kosetta Stone provided the key to the written mys teries of ancient Egypt, so the roltec- tion of an unbroken scries of tree rings has made clear the chronology of the Southwest. Through this work we have learned of some outstanding events in America which sere cotitcm|>orfineou* with the conquest of Spain by the Moors, and we know that certain Pueblo Indian settlements were enjoying their golden ages when William the (’onquerer faced Harold the Saxon at the Battle of Hastings. These researches have carried the calendar back to A. D. 7U0 in the Southwest, and they have provided the beginnings of a continuous weath er chart for 1.200 years. Tree Ring* Tell Much. Many a prehistoric Jewel lias been glxcn to the flames unwittingly be- cause no one knew the importance of tree rings in recording the passage of years. Where fuel was scarce, frag ments of precious |iml»er* ut many an ancient ruin in the American South west have been used as firewood by the sheep-herder, prospector, and even archeologist. They were scraps of wood, nothing more. The Bible story of the stone which the builders re jected. hut which itecatne the head stone of the corner, has found a coun terpart In the wood that the uwderu searcher overlooked, for it ha* be come a key to prehistoric chronology. Through long-past age* and with un broken regularity, tree* have jbtted down a record at the close of each fading year—n memorandum as to how they passed the time; whether en riched by added rainfall or injured by lightning and fire. By learning how to rend these records—specifically those of the pines—we have discovered a magic key t*i open mysterious books and Interpret the meaning of their writings. In favorable region*, rings in trees may be Identified, each one iu Its ap propriate year, and traced back till we get to the utmost reach of living trees, and then beam* from ancient ruins and burled logs carry the »tory back for many more centuries. Thu* these tree records*have pro vided o* with an American calendar reaching beyond the rise of Charlee Martel or the Mohammedan Invasion of India. Some of these trees were cot a thousand years ago. From them we have learned the exact building dates of major ruins of tha southwestern United States as firth tub as we have been able to fix the dates of Old World monuments of the a&dtnta whose rec ords are Inscribed os stone. Seen from one angle, the assembling ef these tree-ring samples poshes back tbs bounds ef history la oar Sooth west and gives ns human activities—-even the native teats tor hundreds of View of Pueblf Bonito, New Mexico. . na the climatic story of the Southwest with amazing accuracy. When a real theory of climate has been developed and we can predict drought and flood over a period of year*, this Arizona story in tree rings will have played a creditable part in developing that climatic foresight which Is perhaps the most valuable economic advantage yet lying beyond onr reach. Reading the Records. The method used in extending the historical calendar of the Southwest is the outcome of a long attempt to read the diaries of trees. Every year the trees In our forests show the swing of Time’s pendulum and put down a mark. They are chronographs, record ing clocks, by which the succeeding seasons are set down through definite imprints. Every year each pine adds a layer of new wood over Its entire living surface of trunk nnd branches. If every year were exactly the same, growth rings would tell the age of the tree nnd little more. Only In rare enses would they record exceptional events of any Interest to ns. But a tree is not a mechanical robot; It is :i living thing, and its food supply and adventures through life nil enter Into Its diary. A Hash of lightning, a forest fire, insect pests or a falling ueighlatr may make strong impressions on Its life and go into Its diary. But in the arid regions of our South west, where trees are few and other vegetation scarce, the most important think to iiinn nnd trees Is rainfall. So. in the rings of the talkative pines we find lean years and fnt years recorded. The same succession of drought and plenty np|»ears throughout the forest. This fact hel|»ed vastly in the dating work, for «*crt)iln sequences of years become easily recognized from tree to tree, county to county, even from state to state. The development of this tree-ring study present* an example of how a scientific research starting with a defi nite Idea may lead Into unforeseen channels. Originally INwtor Douglass’ work wa* a study of sun simts. It Is known that there Is a periodicity iu their occurrence; they are most num erous at intervals of eleven years. As nn aid in that astronomies! Investiga tion. he studied trees, for solar changes affect our weather, and weath er In rum affects the trees in Arizona'* dry climate, as elsewhere. Sun Spots and Tres Rings. The study of sun spout and their iu fiuence U|H*n weather and the conse quent effect upon vegetation as re corded by tree rings progressed uums! successfully. The fir*t confirmation of the general interpretnlion of a re latiomdiip between tree rings and sun spot periods came In n dramatic way. Evidence of the eleven-year sun spot cycle had been easily found In Arizona pine tree*. The regularly re curring periods had been recorded for 500 years by tree rings, except for the interval from 16.10-1725. During that 73 years the tree rings gave no evidence of periodical changes in the weather such as were to be expected. Several years after this puzzling fact had been encountered the late Dr. K. Walter Maunder, an eminent English astronomer, unaware of the findings, wrote to Doctor Douglass that be bad discovered that there were nn sun spots between 1045 and 1713. and that if the tree rings did not in dicate some effect of this absence of sun spots, the work was being conduc ted on an erroneous hypothesis. The coincidence between the failure of Arizona tree* to register any sun spot effect upon the weather during those years, and establishment of the fact, by entirely independent study, that the customary sun-spot cycle did not occur during approximately the same period of years helped confirm the relationship between the growth of trees and solar chAges. Specifically, tl»e tty-ring calendar, as finally worked wtttoM these things aftodt Pueblo Bontto. the ruin whose date problem brought about the alx years’ search: Its earliest recovered beam was cut In A. D. 919 from a tree that wan 210 years old when cut; and 1 Pueblo Bonlto reached Its golden age lu 1067 and waa still occupied In 1127. Not only has the age of tbia great one time metropolis of the Southwest been fixed, but the tree-ring calendar haa also dated some 40 other ruins whose time ef occupancy hitherto had been unknown. Important among these Is the Maaa Verde group of Colorado, in which CNF Palace la dated 1078; Oak Tree House, 1112; Spring House. im ; House. J190-1206; Square T2m. and Spruce Trot 1210 aat Improved Uniform International StmdaySchool ’ Lesson ’ (By REV. p. R. KITZWATER. DP Mem- Iht of Faculty. Moody fllblo inotltuto of CtaicAKo.) <©, 1130. Wentorti N#*«paper Union.) r Lesson for April 13 THE CHILD AND THE KINGDOM LESSON TEXT—Matthew 18:1-14; 19: 13-15. GOLDEN TEXT—vSuffer little chil dren, and forbid them not to come unto Me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesus, the Chil dren’* Friend. JUNIOR TOPIC—Jesus the Friend of Girls and Boys. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—Growing in the Kingdom. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC—The Sin of Neglecting and Mis guiding Children. I. The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven (vv. 1-4). 1. The disciples’ question (v. 1). The prominence given to Peter in connection with the announcement of Christ’s purpose to build the church and the payment of tribute with the money in the fish’s mouth, provoked jealousy on the part of the other dis ciples. The transfiguration scene re vealed the divine person and the pro gram of His kingdom. Seeing that the kingdom was t^ .come to realiza tion despite the tragedy of the cross, disciples wished to know their place of rank in the kingdom. 2. Jesus’ answer (vv. 2»4). He taught them by placing a little child in their midst. (1) Condition of entrance into the kingdom (v. ,*!). The great question was ns to whether they were really in tiie kingdom. Their behavior revealed the fact that they needed conversion. Before they could even see, much less enter into, the kingdom, they must be born from above (John S;.*t, 5). (2) Whosoever |M)Ssesses childlike humility is the greatest (v. 4). The child Is de|>eiMlent. lowly and modest. Those who have been born again, or con verted, have these characteristics. II. The Lord’s Identification With His Believing Ones (vv. 5-fi). 1. Receiving the believer in Christ’s name is receiving Christ (v. 5). Through faith in Christ we become Cod’s children and so completely is our life interwoven with Ills that He regards treatment of us as treatment of Himself. 2. The peril of causing a believer to sttnnhle (vv. fi-P). To cause to stumble means to give occasion for a moral fall. The par ticular reference was to the carnality and selfishness which were expressing themselves in their contention for pre eminence. Their behavior was not only an injury, but a stumbling block to others. Everything causing one to stumhle. though it he as vital us bands and feet, should be removed. III. Believers Are Specially Cared for by the Heavenly Father (vv. 10-14). 1. They are under angelic guardian ship (v. 10). So precious is the believer In God’s sight that angelic messengers are pro vided (Heb. 1:10). These angelic messengers have access to the very throne of God. even beholding His fa<-e. So high is the honor bestow’ed upon believers that tiie highest angels are sent to guard them. 2. The Son came esi»ecially to save such from their lost condition (vv. 11-14). j . The Heavenly Father does not will that any one of these should They are objects of the Father’s seek ing love. The salvation of the hum ble believer has been secured by the incarnation ami tiie sacrifice of the Good Shepherd. IV. Jesus Receiving Little Chil dren (Mutt. 19:13-15). We should carefully note the setting of tliis text. Jesus had been speaking of Hie sanctity of marriage, which Is the bulwark of the home. Into the sacred enclosure of the home come* childhood to complete and ennoble It. 1. Children brought to Jesus (r. 13). Doubtless they were brought by their parents. Many parents today who are careless ns to themselves, de sire to bring their children Into touch with Jesus Christ. 2. Rebuked by the disciples (v. 13). They regarded children as too insig nificant to engage the Lord’s attention. Christ place* high value upon chil dren. 3. The disciples rebuked by Christ (v- 14). Those words uttered by the Lord have placed a peculiar dignity upon the child. It i* Cbristllke to care for children and no service In the world pays such large dividends. 4. Christ laid His hands upon the children (v. 15). For More Poses on Earth I/O** chest!ness nnd more bowed knees make for more pence on earth —Christian Monitor. Condemning Other* There is nothing more delicately dangerous in the whole Christian life than the condemnation of other*.—G. D. Watson. Bible end Money “But thou slialt muemlier the Ixml thy God; for It la He tbit glvetb the power to get wealth.** Untaught Rustic Youth Rom to Famo os Pool The first English poet whoso name can be found In ancient archives Is Caedmon, who lived in Northumbria, near the Streanhalch monastery. Strcanhalch is now known as the town of Whitby. Caedmon is re garded more or less as a saint by the Anglo-Saxon church, although for the greater part of his life he lived a monk and died faithful to ids vows on February 11, G80. The legend of Caedmon’s first in spiration to poetry is us follows: At a feast attended by Caedmon, then a raw country youth, the harpist ap plied to id in for u soug. Abashed ut his inability, to compose even a drink ing song, Caedmon left the hall and fled to the hills, where he spent the night. In his slumbers, a song called “Creaton” came upon him, which he remembered and sang when he awoke and returned to Ids village. The village bailiff, or reever as he was then called, took the singing rus tic to the Strennhalch monastery, where lie was induced by the Abbess Hilda to take holy orders. He dwelt the rest of his life in the monastery composing many fine ecclesiastical poems and translating the Scriptures into the current Anglo-Saxon of the country of that time.—Vancouver Province. Mysteries of Vitamines Sought, by Scientists Vitamines are one of the essential elements in foods. Lack of them has been proved to cause eye diseases, sterility, rickets, scurvy, beri beri and stunted growth. They exist in certain foodstuffs only, and even in parts of foodstuffs, such as the husks of rice and potato peelings, which are not generally eaten. Methods of remov ing these clement m from unpalatable parts of foods are most important, as they may thus he added to more palat able diets otherwise Inadequate to- the main.enance of health. Science Is attempting to solve the mysteries of vitnhdne production and removal, says a writer in the Wash ington Post. Ultimately It expects to manufacture these valuable food con stituents synthetically in its labora tories. When that day arrives human health will have l»een promoted Im measurably. for no other single Item is more important, particularly to chil dren, than the vitamine. Firefly in Commerce Fireflies destroy larvae and Insects, which are their natural food. In ad dition to this, they have u value, dead or alive, in Chinu and Japan, where they are used in the manufacture of drugs, poultice* and pills peculiar to the practice of Chinese medicine. Fire fly grease (hotnru-no-ahura) I* used by woodworkers for the purpose of Im parting rigidity to objects made of bent humhoo. In China and Japan tiie catching and selling of fireflies during the summer months is of such extent as to he considered an industry. The chief center of the industry is in the region about Ishiyamn. near the lake of Oml. where a number of merchant* ship the fireflies to Osaka and Kyoto. Each house employ* from GO to 70 fly catchers. and experts are known to catch us many as 3,000 iu a single night. Tu H Large asking and large expectation Ood.—SH. Still Use Roman Roads Tiie changes which have come over the planning and construction of great highways 'built or projected across tiie continent prove that Hie first builders of roads were the best, according to Thomas S. Bos worth, in the New York Times. The main high ways across Europe, many of them still in use today after 2,000 year*, remain hs monuments to the supreme mechanical genius of the Americans of their day, the old Roman*. Not only did they plan their roads on the principle that the struigltt-line is the shortest between two points, but they built them so well that, with minor changes, the modern cities of Europe still depend upon them for their com munication by automobile. Favorite Vogatablo Jimmie, age four, is very proud of ability to eat various kinds of food that are placed before him from day to day. The other evening there were several guests at the table, and he was discussing his accomplishment to the discredit of his two brothers, whose tastes are not so easily satisfied. “J like almost everything,” said Jimmie. “I even like liver and fat meat. Franklin and Shirley don’t. Liver and fat meat ore ray favorite vege tables.” . v* Early Start A visitor in a mountain village no ticed that one citizen was always up very early, but never did any work. So be questioned the roan’s wife. "Why does your husband rise so early?” "Oh. he wants an early breakfast” "But he doesn't do anything. Why must he have such nn early break fast?" "To smoke after.” Thar# You Asa Any radio fan who doesn't know just what a screen grid tube la might learn by heart this definition; "A screen grid tube Is simply a tetrode which differs from a triode lu that •U additional electrode haa been ad ded to regulate the electronic flew bo- twotn the anode sad the cathode.”— MONEY TO LOAN Loan* made same day application received. No Red Tape HARLEY & BLA Attomeys-at-Law BamwelL S. C. T. B. Ellis J. B. Elite ELLIS ENGINEERING CO. Land Surveying a Specialty, Lyadhorst, 8. C 666 Tablets Relieves a Heada c he or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. 666 also in Liquid Advertise in The People-Sentinel ‘The Rats Around My Place Were Wise,” Says John Tuthill. "Tried yverythtng tu kill ‘thenr. Over a Billion Deadly Cermi in a Single Drop of Water Germs are so small that there may be as many as one billion, seven hun dred million of them in a drop of water. And just a few of these tiny germs, if they get into your blood through a rut in your skin, mav make 3*ou so sick you will be in bed for weeks—may rausc the loss of a limb through blood poisoning—mav even infect you with that most dreadful and you fatal of diseases, lockjaw. » Just because you can see no dirt in & cut dors not mean that it is clean. You cannot see germs. The only safe nnd sane thing to dot, is to thoroughly wash every cut, no matter bow small, will) Liquid Borozonc, to kill the germs, and then dust it with Boroaone Powder, to hasten the healing. Liquid Borosnne costs .TO cents, 60 cents, $1.20 and $1.50; Borozonc Powder, 30 cents and GO cents, and can be had at Epps’ Pharmacy, Blackville, S. C. R. A. Dea-on, Barnwell S. C. Mr. R. C\ King Tells a Wonderful Story About Rat*. Read It. ’’For months my place was alive with rats. Loosing chickens, , egg-, feed. Friend told me to try RAT- SNAP. I did. Somewhat disappoint ed at first not seeing many dead rats, but in a few* days didn't see a live one. What were not killed are not around my place. RAT-SNAP doeg the trick.” Three sizes, 35c ■m $1.25. Sold and Guaranteed by son’s Drug Store and The Best Phar macy, Barnwell. Over 1,000 People Received April 1st CHECKS As Regular Quarterly Dividend $6 PREFERRED STOCK South Carolina Power Co. Are you sharing the earnings of this growing ppStic service company? Ask any employee or write Mixed poison with meal, meat, cheese, etc. Wouldn’t touch it. RAT-SNAP. Inside of ten dayg^^Vf ^ rid of all rats.” You don’t have^^ mix RAT-SNAP with food. Saves fussing, bother. Break a cake of RAT-SNAP, lay it where rats scam per. You will see no more. Three- sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold and guar- * antced by Deason’s Drug Store aiu^ The Best Pharmacy, Barnwell. laveotment Department