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a J PppHpnpfgMii 9AQM SIX. THS BARNWELL PKOPLE-8KNTHCEL. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1»30 HOPOCATRUC i- 1 a & m t By G. Chilmers McDermid. Eug-ene Chatterton, Agricultural Representative of the South Carolina Power Co., told me that he had re cently been to the canning sections of Delaware, New Jersey and^ Maryland, and he finds that the garden pea grow- m in that part of the country are making less peas per acre that we are. Those folks are selling <>* their peas to the canneries and are more than making p. living at it. Maybe we Carolina pda growers could get in an acreage of ALASKAS and put ’em in cans. I read a very interesting bulletin iast week— “DAFFODILS”—U. S. Department 'of Agriculture Circular No. 122. Every lover of flowers should have a copy. This circular i s complete in every respect and takes Daffodils from bulbs through the flowering stage—telling how to fertilize, how to plant, how to f orce —how to grow them in vases in the house and many other interesting features. So much for that. Everyone has been hearing hard times for the past few months—but just listen to this little anecdote I heard the other day. “Bill Goodfellow and John Every man met one day at a restaurant and sat down to lunch together. Bill or dered a nice substantial meal, while John only ordered soup and bread. “Says Bill, ‘Whatamatter old timer, liver out of order, or lost your job or what?’ “Says John, ‘You know, Bill, with time s so hard, its just criminal to ^pend so much money for a meal. I just feel as though I ought to econo mise at every turn.” “Says Bill,, again, ‘Listen, big boy, juat suppose everybody felt as you do about spending money how much cash do you suppose would be in circula tion? Don’t you realize that if every man in the good old U. S. spent just one dollar more each week that there would be over a quarter of a billion dollars more in circulation each month.” “Don’t you know that if money is not spent., folks can’t buy cotton or food products, or manufactured goods and the farms and factories will all Have to clcse down—and then we’ll have hard time* sure enough?” John thought a bit and said, “Bill, 1 never had thought of‘it that way, you’re right!—Waiter, bring me a steak, some asparagus tips, hash, browned potatoes, spinach and a quart of milk.” Are you spending your weekly dol lar, my friend*? Just think over my little story. Maybe I haven’t told it in the best way possible, but you get the “drift of what I mean. One dollar more per week from every man in South Caro lina will mean a million and a half new dollars in circulation in this good old State every month, and then— Folks’ll jes plumb forget about hard times. Odd Beliefs Long Held Concerning tbe Sneeze The Greeks, when they ask for a blessing upon those afflicted by sneez ing, “claimed to follow the example of Prometheus, who stole celestial fire to animate the beautiful figure he had made of clay; as the fire perme ated its frame, the newly formed crea ture sneezed, and the delighted Pro metheus Invoked blessings on 1L N Ac cording to Aristotle, the first man who conceived the Idea that the head was the principal seat of the soul, re garded the sneeze with great respect because It was the most manifest op eration of the head.. Hence the com pliments of the Greeks and Romans, “Long may you live; may you enjoy health.*' * Some rabbis explain the custom by declaring that not loifg after the ere- atloijL God made a general decree that every man should sneeze but once, whereupon his soul should depart from his body without previous warn ing or indisposition. Jacob got the de cree withdrawn so that man can sneeze as often as he chooses without dan ger. Therefore, whenever a man finds himself still living after a good gusty sneeze, people should express their gratitude with a blessing. Birth Rate of Leaders Found Below Average Except under very favorable condi tions, such as that In royal families, the successful sections of society have filways tended to die out. 1 Just now our college graduates are easily dem onstrated to be vanishing ns a human breed. From them have sprung near ly three-fourths of our leaders, and , In the future nearly all our leaders will secure spme form of higher in struction. v In addition. Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins has shown that all oc- ( cupationol classes, which he divides Into nine categories, are disappearing ns groups, owing to Insufficient birth ratk Only thre^ classes, he find*, are reproducing themselves, namely, the farmers, factory workers and miners. The other six, namely the profession als. clerical, trade, domestic service, public service, and j transportation groups, are not maintaining them selves.—Albert Edward Wiggam. HOW EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS HAVE AFFECTED AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. By E. B. Ferri*. Some twenty-eight year* ago, a re tired business man of Nejv Orleans, then possibly seventy years old, visit ed the McNeil Experiment Station where we were in charge, and told us how much the lands of South Missis sippi reminded him of his birthplace in Germany. He said that as a young man he had emigrated to thig country, a? thousands of others like him had moved to various foreign lands, be cause German soils were too poor to offer them the opportunities desired. That such soils had become depleted from continuous cropping, and there was then no known means of restor ing them in a large way. He was an educated gentleman and knew thoroughly the history of his native and adopted countries, having repeatedly made trips back to Ger many since he had left there. He fur ther stated that soon after his emi gration, German scientists began to study the relationships between soils and plant growth and to find why the soils then were not so productive as in their virgin state. That as a result, of such studies, Germany had learned to use commercial plant foods intelligently, just as we were trying to do at McNeil, and had gone to the far corners of the world and even thousands of feet into the bowels of the earth to get them. That she had gone to South America for her ni trates, to Africa and America for her phosphates, and had found her potash thousands of feet under the identical soils that were^ starving for it. Thus he said, from sheer necessity, Germany had been a leader in the de velopment of scientific agriculture, and as a result of the knowledge thus acquired, had converted her worn soils into the most productive ones of the world. That her agricultural prosperity had been reflected to all other lines, the consequence being that at the time of his visit with us, Ger man emigration had practically ceas- ed, her young men finding it advisa ble to remain at home and develop with the Fatherland. Ever since that time, the writer had longed to visit Germany and see in person the places where these scien tists of long ago had labored to dis cover the facts that have meant so much to the world at large and par ticularly to our own country. The most noted of these German scientists was Justus von Liebig, better known as the father of agricultural chemis try. It was our privilege while in Germany to visit the house where he was born, this having been purchased and set aside by national patriotic societies as a memorial to him, just as we have done with Mount Vernon, the old home of Washington. This house contains now much of the old furni ture, books, laboratory equipment, etc., used by Liebig in working out j the facts on which our present knowl- The Barnwell Knights of Pythias | edge of scientific agiiculture is based. Taat for Posturo An excellent test for correct pos ture, says Marguerite Agnlel in the Parents' Magazine, is to stand facing the wall, placing the hands against the wall In front of the thighs so that the palms point upward. Now notice which part of the body strikes the wall first. If It Is the chest, well and good; If It Is the head, It is not so bad. but If the stomach touches first, something Is wrong. T° attain correct posture stretch the arms above the head until the hack Is arched and the chest high. Then with elbows pulled all the way down, draw the hands down to the shoulders, head bock. Now retaining the general position of the body, return the hands to the sides and you w*ill find yourself standing perfectly. Exercises for correcting had posture include pushing up with the arms from a reclining position and raising the trunk from the same posi tion without lifting the feet. LOCAL PYTHIAN LODGE HOLDS RALLY MEETING Local and Personal News from Ellenton Ellenton, Nov. 8.—Mr Albert H. Mims and little daughters, of Baldock, were guests of relatives r here Sunday. W. C. Harley, of Donalds, spent the week-end here with hig relatives. E. M. Buford and Howard Buford, of Donalds, visited their mother here during the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moody and little daughter, of Dunbarton, visited Dr. and Mrs. Fred C. Brinkley Sun day. F. M. Youngblood and Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Youngblood were visitors in Au gusta Friday. - Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Smith and chil dren motored to Aiken Saturday. W. B. Turner, Jr., of Barnwell, spent Sunday here with his parents, v Miss Edythe Pearce, of Greenwood, was the guest this week of her aunt, Mrs. Ralph Dunbar. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Greene and little daughter were visitors in Bam- weH Sunday. F. D. Wilson, of Beech Island, was a business visitor here Wednesday. S. J. Langley, of Augusta, was here Thursday on business. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Turner and Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Dunbar attended the >weddmg of their nephew, Francis Otia and Miss Anna Mulherin, in Au gusta Wednesday. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. in regret that they left thia for Barnwell, where they will their home. Mr. Duncan will be with the Ford Motor com- of that city. i of Mr. and Mra. Arthur are find that their little Fielding, la improving after a lodge held a rally meeting last Fri day evening with an enthusiastic number of members and their wives in attendance. An oyster and chicken supper was served in the dining room an d Mrs’ 10 ^ Methodist Chuich by a com mittee of ladies of the church. Grand Keeper of Records and Seal C. D. Brown, of Abbeville, Past Grand Chanceller C. A. Edwards, Col. E. N. Wood, W. O. Scott and W. G. Ellis, of Columbia lodge No. 1106, and Mr. Lagrone, of Johnston, attended as in vited guests and all made short talks It is located in the city of. Darmstadt in the Providence of Hesse, where also is located one of the most noted experiment stations of the world, directed at the time of our visit by Paul Wagner in an advisory capacity. On August 25 last. Prof. Wagner pass ed away at the ripe age of eighty- .^even years, and a world scientist spoke of him as “the last survivor of the classic period of growth of agri cultural science.” The fundamental work of Paul Wagner was done at Darmstadt some in the interest of Pythianism during fifty years ago, and this, with subse- the evening. Judge John K. Snelling acted as toastmaster on this occasion. A delightful supper and a pleasant evening was enjoyed by all present. Several members of the local lodge quent work at the same station, has possibly influenced the agriculture of the world, our own country included, as much as any other institution in existence. We were much impressed were initiated into full fellowship in 1 aa we made notes of their work, done the ‘*Hokus Spokus” club. This was especially enjoyed by the ladies pres ent. "c'-’IJP “Petticoat Rule” of Town Opposed on Pound Law Yellville. Ark.—The feminine city government of Yellville Is having its troubles. , As a remonstrance against the “petticoat rule,” the city pound fence has been cut repeatedly, liberat ing stock which has been impounded. One of the first measures adopted by the women after they won in a city election was an ordinance pro hlbltlng stock from running at large. Tom Snelling, of Charlotte, N. C., spent Friday here with his parents, Judge and Mrs. John K. Snelling, who accompanied him home for a visit of several days. Auditor and Mrs. W. H. Manning and children have recently moved into their new home which Mr. Manning pwrehaaed from Mra. W. H. Duncan a few weeks ago. —' w w ♦ t ».i Th* largely in pots, with the influence of balanced plant foods on the growth of all classes of crops, and how the omission of any one essential element 'resulted in depleted growth, often in a failure to mature at all. Here we were told that Germany, smaller than our one State of Texas, used annually 800,000 tons of actual potash as com pared to a consumption of only 300,- 000 tons in the United States as a whole, and that her consumption of nitrogen and phosphorus as fertilizers was in like manner proportionally greater than ours. We learned on this visit that the German definition of a good soil as being “a good place to put fertilizer” was based on fact rather than fiction. Hampton Indorses Johnson. The Hampton County Bar Associa tion, at a meeting held October SI, unanimously indorsed J. Henry John son, of Allendale, judge of the Four teenth Judicial Circuit, for the place of a—ooiatc justice of the DEATH CORNERS OF SEA TAKE BIO TOLL Most Dangerous Spots for Shipping Pointed Out Washington.—Salvage operations to recover gold worth millions in the S. 8. Egypt sunk off France in a famous graveyard of the sea, revive Interest in wrecks in other waters. Points du'Raz, off which the Egypt was sunk altar a collision. Is one of the most dangerous headlands of France because all ships coming south out of the English ctupmel bound for Bordeaux, the Mediterranean, Africa, or South America, must clear its toothed and hnngry rocks. 8narad 500 Ships. “It Is to France what the Goodwin sandi and the Lizard are to England, and what Nauset beach on Cape Cod, Nantasket beach south of Boston, Nantucket island, and Diamond shoal off Cape Hatteras are to the United States, and King island is to Aus tralia,” says a bulletin of the Na tional Geographic society. “Nantucket is credited with snaring 500 ships from the time of its settle ment down to 1876,” continues the bulletin. “Lighthouses, buoys/ light ships, better weather report service, Increased use of motor power, and, now, radio direction finding, have made the death corners of the sea less dangerous, but they still exact their toll. “‘For 12 hours we passed skeletons of what had once been ships,’ writes Melville Chater in a communication to the National Geographic society de scribing a motor trip along the hard beach of Hatteras banks, ‘blanched victims of the sea and sand, their upstanding ribs resembling files of gravestones, their forests of protrud ing spikes being the grisly grass of the desertlike expanse. At one point we counted 14 wrecks within 100 yards. Due to the enormous tonnage of steel hulls imbedded In the Dia mond, there is a magnetic deviation the compass amounting to 8 de grees.’ “Ship Swallower'* of Thames “Goodwin sands, a trap lying just beyond the mouth of the Thames, has long held the title of ‘ship swallower,’ Innumerable vessels having been bur ied in its wastes. Small King Island off the Australian coast counts, to date. 40 ships brought to an untime ly end on its shores. “Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America and Cape of Good Hope at the end of Africa have vil lainous reputations among sailors. In the same class fall the rock-cluttered straits off the south end of Japan where typhoons out of the Philippines sweep whole fleets to destruction. “Each of the world’s worst waters has Its own peculiarities. Cape Cod and Nantucket are most dangerous in a northeaster when the howling wind tries to drive ships. Europe express lane steamers, coastwise steamers and*. New England fishing schooners, onto the sandy shores that run at right angles to the direction of the gale. “Cape Hatteras, jutting far out in to the Atlantic, extends its shoal water still farther out. Northeasters blowing contrary to the flow of the Gulf stream build up over these shoals the highest, steepest waves to be found along the coast.” Family Hat Dealt in Cotton for Last 100 Yean New Orleans, La.—When Henry ,7. Stouse, Jr., withdrew from the part nenship firm of Airey Sc Stouse here recently the New Orleans cotton busi ness was without a member of the Stouse family for the first time In 700 .years and in the history of the New Orleans cotton exchange. Jean Godfroid Stouse, the pioneer raembei of the family, began cotton trading business here in 1832. Shoplifter Bites Clerk to Make Hit Getaway El Paso, Texas.—A young Mexicac ahoplifter had better be careful hi does not come into Jessie Araujo’t range of vision. Jessie, a department •tore clerk, caught the Mexican bos “lifting” articles from her counter When she seized him he bit her ot the arm and made good his escape. % _____ Driver Commits Suicide After Killing His Friends Prague.—Killing two of bis com panions and injuring twelve others by rounding a curve at too great a speed In a five-ton truck, a driver of tbe Ho- henmauth fire brigade went immedi ately to his home and committed suicide. oooooooooooooooooooooooooc Never Wore Herself Out, So Now She’s 102 Lynn, Mass. — Mrs. Harriot Lavlnia Horton Hodges recently observed her one hundred and second birthday at the home of her son, Wiliam Horton .Hodges, on Breed street in this city, by holding a reception lor many friends as well as greeting sev eral grandchildren and great grandchildren. Asked to what she attributed her long life Mrs. Hodges said: ‘“Well, you see, I never was very strong, so I never wore Byseif ouf Introducing Cl&ixSSertS NEW TWIST LOAF (SUCED) More Bread, Weigh It'-Better Bread, Taale It! The MASTERPIECE ^ of a MASTER BAKER ( ' “THE TWIST TIES THE TASTE IN” * Future Comfort depends upon Present Wisdom! If you invest your savings in our $6.00 preferred stock your future comfort will be greatly enhansed. (Price $100.00 Ac. Div.) South Carolina Power Co. Ask The Investment Derartment or Any Employee BROWN & BUSH Attorneys-at-Law BROWN-BUSH BUILDING BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA PRACTICE IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE The County Treasurer’s office will be open from October 15th, 1930. tq^March 15th, 1931, for collecting 1930 taxes, which include real and personal property, poll and road tax. All taxes due and payable between September 15th and December 31st, 1930, will be collected without penalty. All taxe* not paid as stated will be subject to penalties as provided by law: January 1st, 1931, one per cent, will be added. February 1st, 1931, two per cent, will be added. March 1st to 15th seven per cent, will be added. Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af- ^ ter March 1st, 1931. When writing fcfr amount of taxes, be sure and give school district if property is in more than one school district. All personal checks given for taxes will be subject to collection. State Ordinary County Road and Bridge Bonds Past Ind. Bonds Constitutional Sch’l 6-0-1 School Special Local » 5 2 No. 24—Ashleigh 5 13 4 1 ! 3 1 4 - J 12 1 42 No. 23—Barbary Br anch . 5 13 4 1 3 4 30 60 No. 45—Barnwell • 5 13 4 ' 1 3 4 29 50 No. 4—Big Fork 5 13 4 1 3 4 18 48 No. 19—Blackville 5 13 4 1 3 4 25 55 No. 35—Cedar Grove 5 13 4 | 1 3 4 28 58 No. 50—Diamond 5 13 4 1 3 4 14 44 No. 20—Double Pond — 5 13 4 1 3 4 19 49 No. 12—Dunbarton 5 13 4 | 1 3 4 27 57 No. 21—Edisto 5 13 4 i 3 4 9 3^ No. 28—Elko 5 13 4 1 3 4 30 60 No. 53—Ellenton 5 13 4 1 ! 3 4 11 41 No. 11—Four Mile 5 13 4 i 1 3 4 14 j 44 No. 39—Friendship 5 13 4 i 3 4 14 44 No. 16—Green's 5 13 4 i 3 4 20 50 No. 10—Healing Springs- 5 13 4 i 3 4 20 50 No. 23—Hercules' 5 13 4 i 3 4 27 57 No. 9—Hilda 5 13 4 i 3 4 35 65 No, 52—Joyce Branch — 5 13 4 i 3 4 26 56 No. 34—Kline 13 4 i i 3 4 18 48 No. 32—Lee’s 5 13 4 i 3 4 10 " 40 No. 8—Long Branch — 5_ 13 4 i 3 4 17 47 No. 54—Meyer's Mill — 5 ^ 13 4 i 3 4 26 56 No. 42—Morris 5 13 4 i 3 4 12 42 No. 14—Mt Calvary — 5 13 4 i 3 4 28 58 No. 25—New Forest 5 13 4 i 3 4 28 58 No. 38—Oak Grove 5 13 . 4 i 3 4 19 49 No. 43—Old Columbia 5 13 4 i 3 , 4 26 56 No. 13—Pleasant Hill — 5 13 4 i 3 4 15 45 No. 7.—Red Oak 5 13 4 i 3 4 16 46 No. 15—Reedy Branch - 5 13 4 i 3 4 21 51 No. 2—Seven Pines 5 13 4 i 3 4 12 42 No. 40—Tinker's Creek _ 5 13 4 i 3 4 17 47 No. 26—Upper Richland - 5 13 4 i i 3 1 4 26 56 No. 29—Willis ton 5 1 13 1 4 i 1 1 3 1 4 32 6£ A' ' Tlie commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male dtiseas- between the ages of 21 and 55 yean. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 yean are liable to poll tax of $1.00. Dog Taxes for 1930 will be paid at the same time other taxes are paid It is the duty of each school trustee in each school district to bm that this tax is coUected or aid the Magistrate in the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. Chocks will not be accepted for taxes under any circumstances n- cept at the riak of the taxpayer.—(The County Tiwsom reoorvw fe* right to hold oil receipts paid by check mil said checks have been paid. > Tax receipts will bo released mtj apoa legal tender, por.cff.ee mooev l J. •e-Mfcjrt*.