Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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X ^ -'* n ■ '* ' J*?' ■'t ■ ry j- '”:"’i *'" 'V '’.*•’ MR £ f AGE TWO. BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA \ ' . .' .; ■ .. *S-" ’ THURSDAY, MARCH 19?2. The Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1840—1912. B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year -— $1.50 Six Months .90 Three Months .50 , (Strictly in Adrancn.) THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932. “What’s Wrong With Cotton?”— Headline in The State. Everything. Here’s a corking good alibi for the G. O. P.: Depressions are cau.«ed by sun-spots! The Literary Digest quotes the McGraw-Hill publications of New York as claiming that sun- rpots not only affect the birth rate of rabbits, foxes and lynxes, the re ception of your radio, the levels of lakes and the size of grain crops, but that “each of the past four major de pressions can be spotted about 30 months after a sun-spot maximum.” However, until depression began to occur during Republican administra tions, it seems to us that the Demo cratic party was always to blame for hard times.' Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. EVOLUTION OK THE SPE-SHEKS. A. D. 1890 Daughter: “Mother, won’t you please talk to daddy and ask him to let me go to a party tonight at Sai'n Smith’s home? .lames will take me and we will be ba< k t>efore 9:30.” Mother: “Yes, darling, I think dad dy will agree with me that you may go. We both think James is a nice boy.” A. I). 1900 Daughter: "Mother, Jerry is ripp ing for me in a few minutes, go nlgMe help me get dres»ed. 1 don’t wkrit to keep him waiting. I have promised to go to a dance with him tonight.” Mother: “All r.ght, darling.” A. I). 1910 Daughter: “Mother, pleasy stop asking so many questions about whete I gm going. I always get back, don’t I Mother: “Yes, dear.’ A. I). 1920 “Where are you going, Mother: dear?” Daughter: “Mother, please quit meddling in my affair-. If I need ad vice from you. I’ll ask for it. It’s a pity that you and da Idy are such old fogies, llandme my sticking*, get my best dress cut of the c!o.»et and don’t stand there -taring at me. This at tire suit* me and my friends and that’s a-plenty.” A. D. 1925. Mother: “Daddy, it’s nearly three o’clock. O, I am so worried about daughter. !She left with Kay Lam- mity about X o’clock and I have no idea where they went. Daughter has l»een smoking t oo much here of late, aftd she is po-sibly trying to be too nice by taking a Jittle tc.ddy occasion ally.” Daddy: “Why di n’t you lay down the law to that girl ?” Mother: “Since when did you stop laying down the law to vour children? What can I do with her? She never ask* me what to d^ and what not to do.” was to keep m ilk, pot-liker and oth er vegetables from ruining my pretty little lindsey dress. (I had 2 dresses, one for Sunday and 1 for the balance of the time). , .-When I ,r came along” a nurse was an unknown quantity, except the older children nursed the younger children. I raised 3 fine girls and 2 fine boys mysedf, brothers and sisters. It seems that I inherited that nuf^e job for the younger off-springs, and I was never demoted or promoted therefrorm Nursing was easier then that it ap pears to be now: when a kid wanted to bawl, why, I ju*t moved him out of bawling distance from ma and let him bawl. It was good for the lungs. George Washington didn’t tell a lie about cutting down tftat cherry tree with his little hatchet was because *his daddy wait up in the tree eating cher ries and saw him when he done it. . One good thing a bout bringing up a child long ago wa« they had only one garment in the summer-time to fool with and only 2 in the winter time. Nobody tried to dodge such diseases as measles, mumps, whoop ing cough and yellow janders, but ma made a pretense at keeping u« well: she made us wear an assy-fiddity ball around our necks while going to school. The stuff kept disease at a distance; it made folks stand back where they could get their breath in comfort. There was no danger of anybody coughing in a fellow’s face unless he held his nose while so doing. i-The best rule is not to teTl a lie at all unless you have to, but even then, tell cne that your wife will believe for a few minutes at least. Another good lie-preventive is £9unt 1,000,000 when you -feel a lie oozing out, and then nobody won’t be handy to hear it. I never tell ’em myself except when I am talking. Religious Meeting at Lyndhurst. We had a faiily good log-cabin schcol only fi miles from our home, and we a ll went about 0 weeks in blackberry time and ab ut 2 months in hucklebeiry time and about four weeks in possum hunting time, and then school was out. Real good teach ers were paid enormous salaries of from 120.00 to $30.00 per month, that is, they were promised that by our daddies, M nd sometime* some of them paid a portion of it. The public did not pay for little things like schools then. Lyndhurst, March 11.—An inspir ing series of services were conducted at the. Presbyterian Church here dur ing th? pa.-t week by the Rev. P. D. Patrick, of Latta. Mr. Patrick delivered his sermons in a n earnest; forceful manner and drew quite large crowds to hear him from the surounding country. The service^ began on Monday evening of last week and continued twice a day until Sunday evening, when the final sermon, one of the best of the s eries, was preached. Quite a number w’?re added on profession of faith. More Farm Loan Mcitfy. All tf my 9 brother^ and sisters car ried their dinnefk in separate buckets to avoid fights nt big rece-s. I can see my dinner light now: 2 big biscuits that 1 laired hole* in with my finger and poured therein some hf- mado sorghum, and I generally had a dessert consisting of a piece of fried iweet potato, or possibly a flitter. (That’s what we tailed fried bread.) Nothing has ever been half so good to me as these school dinners. . Otrasiona'ly our teacher would go to sleep during big recess and the guy that made a noi-e loud em ugh to wake him up got a good humping on a The People-Sentinel received tho following telegram Tuesday morning from Senator E. D. Smith: “Washingtcg, D. C., March 14.—My resolution making immediately avail able'the remaining $125,000,000 for crop production purpo-es to.secretary of agriculture passed senate unani mously today and has' g n® to the house. W’hen some question arose as to whether reconstruction finance corporation might not di-pose of bonds in time for spring planting, leaving only $75,000,000 available, I intnduced my resolution making hahmre immediately available. I sincerely hope house will act prompt ly and favorably on this resolution that passed senate today.” Easier to Write Poem Than Make Good Joke To evesy Afti-en |H*nwius who can write verses there Is only one who cun write a joke, u wlaeerack or a line of sfitire. At least, that’s our ex|MTlenoe. Ought not “whrevrnck- Jug” be cultivated In the hnlla of learning as well as |ioetr.v? If Is n form of literature quite us respect able. And so mre that all the satir ists are remembered—while all the (toets are not—not hy n million or so. \Ye beliexe that the fund of humor stump the next day. I remember once I and witticism in the world would he he slept all the afternoon, and af-1 enortnorialy anipllfled If they were ter W’i ha I played till time to go home, we all went and left him still wn.pped in the arms of Morpheu- 1 . Wc learned a little about spelling and riading and playing stink-baft ami 2- holey-cat, hut not much else. I grad ual .*d in the 8th grade and then 1 Was tco big to go to school, and I -topped an I stayed stopped, as yju possibly know by new. A. D. 1928 Mother: “Daughter and I will he away a few hours. Take good care of the house and kids. Lomme have ten dollars. We’ll need a few smoke.'? and possibly some other things at the drug store. Stop looking at me like’ that, and don’t forget to put the cat out and bank the fire.” Daddy: “All right, darling.” A. I). 1932 Mother: “Come cn, daddy. Get the car out. Take daughter and me to the club. You can fetch the car hack. We’ll be home with some friends some time tonight. Hurry up, don’t look so*much like a jacka's. O, why did I ever marry such an excuse for a husband?” ‘ AGED IN THE STICKS this column that I was born very young and in the country to boot. I w»* exactly on® year old *t my first "birthday: I remember it well be- I was given a nice oilcloth bibb f«r a present, the purpose of which BELIEVE IT OR NOT. --Yeiy few folks know that I am a natural-born statistician, but I am. I have been figgering on a great many big things here of late, and one of my principal undertakings ha- been for mulating and promulgating and creat ing a “lie eensus” chart. This me-.ins that I have prepared a schedule,which shows how many different kinds of lies are told in every 24 hours by 100,- 000 ptople, so if you want to find out how many lies are told each day in the United States, just use my basis fig ures and run ’em through the popula tion. pursued as nu arf. It is not even an "oxereine" where Unwniug Is taught. One can write poetry—such ns it Is— with m-arcoly a thought; hut to say something s’-uurt deiqiAUds an intellec tual activity as strenuous as Mic physical cethlty that gets results in iMtsehall, fiMtthall and the other ath letic sport*. Next time that you sit dowV^wilh your overflowing sentiment—and pre sumably inspiration—to write a poem, seek to turn i£s=4f only as a pastime — into an epigram or a hit.of persi flage—and see what you get.—F. II. Collier in the SL Louis Globe-Di*ino- ernt. and lots of people -.There are lots wh^, do not tell a single lie a day: some of thq-e are deaf, others preach for a living, and thousands of onr.cit- izenship are dumb, and couldn’t tel! a lie if they wanted to. Very little ly ing is done between 2:30 a. m., and 8:00 a. m., as the majority of the big gest liars are asleep during this pe riod. The rush hours are around lunch time, during the dinner hour, while bridge is in session, and on down to bed-time. Here’s an estimated list of the type of liars and the num ber of lies told in a day: Intentional lies 254,$54 Accidental lies 60 Plains .453,233 Damms 1 —, t _,_.._654,888 White lies 222,111 Gossip lies 333,444 Alibi lies—by males ...666,888 Alibi lies—by females NONE In conference lies .... ......777,222 Detained at office lies .999,999 Black, dies ■ 111,111 Courthouse lies .234,543 Pay-you-Satufday lie* 899,988 City of Lucerne Rich in Historic Memories Lucerne Is a name to conjure >virh in Switzerland. Not to have seen It. not tnr have meandered over and through Its picture-gulleried bridges, not to have purchased souvenirs in itfc shops, which for fineness compare with any you mn*i see In Paris and London, not to have used th< city as a center for visits to the Rlgi. to Toll’s monument and chapel or seen its tllncier garden, a relic of a pre historic age, Is. to have missed the very heart of your Swiss tour, -Hol bein. the younger was often there. Goethe declined *o pass It by. Hugo has preserved memories of It 'with i Ids pen. Wagner lived there for six years and lu*re composed “Siegfried.” and "the “Tw ilight of the Gods.” Tol stoi wrote a novel on the city while there, and who bus not read Long fellow’s “Golden Legend” and not wished -to see the quaint pictures of the “Dance of Death” on the Muli- lenbr.ucke? Do you wish to see the Axenstrasse? Then you must stay at Lucerne.-^Boston Herald. •> % Just-as-good lies _...._322,223 Cockeyed" lies 999 Miscellaneous lies 999,999 Statistical lies i 900,000 Temple to Crocodile The first'known sanctuary to the crocodile god has hecrrfhund in Egypt. The sanctuary was found in a town sacred • to Sokneptynis (a crocodile god), and its identification was made* possible by Greek inscriptions caned on one of the altars. To the south of a limestone kiosk was found a a paved court, flanked by four mud- brjck buildings constructed for some ritual purpose's It is probable that they were used in connection with or acles, a specialty of the temples of crocodile gods in Fayum. The two en- IrtnceT^tFe'-'s^WW^tnliel" --Some folks believe/ that th« reason lished with lions and sphinxes and other lions and sphinxes adorn the courtyard. At the end of the Sa cred way Is the principal temple In limestone. Its portals are flanked by a statue^ of one of the pharaohs and of a sleeping lion. •j A Durham Duplex SAFETY RAZOR WITH Paid-in-Advance Yearly Subscription TO The People-Sentinel Don’t Pass Up This » # .Extraordinary Offer! We have a limited number of the cele brated Durham Duplex Safety Razors, with two extra blades each, in handsome leather cases, exactly as illustrated. As long as they last we will give one of these razors with each paid in advance yearly subscrip tion, new or old. 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