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PAGE SIX. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1932. & K-;,, Si?' it,' OLDEST MAP FOUND BURIED 4,000 YEARS Hand-Size Tablet Dug Up at Nuzi Site in Iraq. Cambridge, Mass.—The oldest map In the worfd, drawn more than 4,000 years ago, on a clay tablet 3 by 2% Inches, is the unique find of excava- fitors for the Semitic and Fogg mu- Iseuins of Harvard university, under the direction of R. F. S. Starr, Fellow of the Fogg Art museum, at the site of ancient Nuzi, in Iraq, 200 miles north of Babylon. The tablet is so small that it may be held in the hollow of the band, and the point at which It was found is more than 20 feet underground, so that only the merest chance revealed the map to the world. Other ancient maps have come from the same region, but none from a site as old us Ga-sur, the city underneath Nuzl, which Is dated by archeologists as 2300 B. C. Shell of Clay Baked Off. The map found at Nuzi was almost undlstlngulshable from the clay till which surrounded It. Five weeks of careful drying and Anally baking at a high temperature were required be fore the lurroupdlr.g clay could be removed arffl the drawing deciphered. Three of the four Y>oliits of the com pass are marked on the borders of the map In the ancient symbols of the i>eo- ple who preceded the builders of the Nazi temple. According to authorities on the Sumerian and Akkadian lan guages, It Is apparently a map of .'05 gnn of garden land, belonging to Aznln, or Shat-Azala, who eleurly must have beeti^a man of wealth. Place names appear «*n the tablet, and a river, runs front north to south. dividing into thfei^atAnirhw it tile f*'i»C of the map. Mountains Ihink the river valley on east and west. These are drawn In the characteristic Babylonian •tyle of many centuries later. Fortress Is Dssignattd. The locality In which Shat-Azala's land was found is not dearly known so much has the face of the territory surrounding Xuzl changed In more than 4.000 years. One place name can be read ns the "fortress of Ih la.” The site of the excavation where the map was found,!* near the "Kter nal Flames" which the natives believe to be the site of the original fiery fur nare of the Bible and Koran. Then* flamo*. burning uninterruptedly, are fed by sulphur dioxide gas escaping from suhterninenn pockets. Nual Is eight miles from Kirkuk and 120 miles southeast of the site of Nineveh. Pica of Insanity Win* Acquittal for Robber Kansas City.—A plea of emotional Insanity, caused by hunger and worry for his family, won acquittal for Rob ert \V. Terry, although he admired on the stand the holdup of which he was accused. Terry, twenty-seven, lived In rv-; Moines With his wife and their three children. He had lost Ids job. When he was unable to find work In Ih** Moines, he started to Kansas City with only f.* In his pockets. Quickly he was penniless and went without food for four days. On the night of October 3 he startvsl to dtive about aimlessly. When the car had begun to sputter because of no gasoline, he saw a couple parked in front of n resilience. He found one of his children’s toy pistols In the car and used that to hold up and rob the rnupte. Thirty minutes Inter he was fomuj by the pollcejwlth the girl’s diamond ring and .<11.:»2 In his pocket. • Surgeon Wields Knife in Rays of Flashlight Caldwell, N. J.—Under the feeble beams of hastily procured flashlights. Dr. K. C. Butler continued an emer gency operation on Mrs. Benjamin Pfltzenmnyer here, after the electric lights In his private hospital had gone out. Just as he had made the first In dslon. While Mrs. Pfitzetimayer’s life hung in the balance, Mayor William II. To bin of West Caldwell summoned by telephone the emergency squads of Caldwell, West Caldwell and Kssex Falls police and the Public Service Electric Llglu and Gas company. The flashlights were augmented by high-powered searchlights grouped around the operating room and the^ operation was completed successfully. ' • ’ • -- «i» \ ■ LIGHTS ► TRUMBULL of NEW YORK At one of those annual luncheons to which members'of the Dutch Treat club bring their children, one of the principal entertainers was Al Baker, the magician and ventriloquist. Mr. Baker was doing his ventriloquist act with a doll, hut the actor who made the biggest hit with the grown persons in the audience was a little girl he In duced to come up on the platform. .She was about eight years old and she had no eyes for Mr. Baker. She looked only at the doll. The doll spoke to her and she answered gravely. Then the doll leaned over and whispered and she put her lips close to Its eur and whispered back. Mr. Baker asked the child whether she would sing with the doll. She said she would. “Perhaps she' doesn’t know my son got*' said the doll. » • “Oh, I think .she does,’’ said Mr. Baker, and he mentioned “Hush a Bye. Baby.” The little girl said she knew that one, so she and the doll sung it together. The little girl woe- too young for skepticism. She heard the doll speak with her own ears, and that was that. Even when she grows older, she probably never will forget that very remarkable doll. BANKERS DEVELOP NEW FINANCE AID President of American Bankers Association Describes Plan and*Senrices of National Credit Corporation. Gold Treasure Trove Discovered in Hedge Towednack, England.—Eight articles of goftl found In a hedge at Amalve’or form, here, were declared by the coro ner to be treasure trove.. He seized them on behalf of the crown, but said he. would give consid eration to a claim lodged on behalf of the duchy of Cornwall, from which the prince of Wales draws clues. The articles were stated to be 3,000 years old< and three of them were fine specimens of torques or collars, or seek chains. Wale* Plan* to Teach —““TttrNepWfwrwBmr London.—The prince of Wales plans to become a boxing and gym Instruc tor to his >ypung nephews. Lord Lath oeUes, son s df the princes# royal. The residence of the princess royal (Princes* Mary) at 2 Green street, Park Laae, contains a full-slsed box ring and two gymnasiums. I was surprised to learn from Le- Jaren A. Hiller, the artist, that he had been to the fop of Kutzlmo, or the Enchanted Mesa, that great, circular rock which rises in K4>lltary grandeur from a New Mexico plain. Compara tively few persons ever have climbed to the top of thl4 rock. The first white man known to-have scaled this mesii was I'rof. William- 1.ihl»cy of Princeton. He accomplished the fv-at by means of a mortar from a life saving stalipn, .whh h he transported td the foot «lf nl.'d tua-d t«j shoot a line over the top. This was In Jul^. 1SP7. In September of Mint same year. Dr. Frederick Webb I lodge climbed the rock In three hours, by means of ladders and ropes. It had taken Professor Ll|ihcy four days. Then Cliarles K. Lumtui* made the cllmh with n party which Included Imvld Starr Jordan. latter he climbed It with other parties. There I* a leg end that the Indian* lived on the En chanted Me*u bcfo.*e they moved to Acorna, another lofty mesa. Hodge and I.ummls found arrow heads, heads, shell and {lottery which at least confirmed the story that the Enchant ed Mesa once ha<l lo-en Occupied. NEW YORK.—The National Credit Corporation, a billion dollar coopera tive Institution, is the method worked out by 'bankers to put Into practical effect the central point in President Hoover’s plan for renewing the com mercial and Industrial activity of the nation as proposed in his statement to the nation of October 7, Harry J. Haas, president of the American Rank er* Association stated in a recent Inter view, The corporation is strictly coopera tive In character, he said, to Unite the entire banking system and increase the effectiveness of the financial ser vices of banks to their communities In rural districts as well as the cities. The plan will marshal the banking re sources of the country, he explained, by creating a national institution whose funds will be loaned when nec essary to banks which have assets in their portfolios that are thoroughly sound but are not eligible for loans at federal reserve banks. They have told me another Henry Ford story. It seems that Mr. Ford bus telephones pretty mtirh all over his house, and !uukes a practice of u*- ^ng them. One day he rend In u mag azine an article which interested him and culled up the editor. The maga zine was published In Mlrhlgun. “This Is Henry Ford.” lie salil “I want you to send me two copies of your magazine.*' and he mimed the month. The editor was a smart fel low. He didn't know which of his friends was kidding him over the tele phone, hut he wasn’t going to let him get away with It. “Why ohly two copies, HenryT* lie Inquired. ‘ If I had your money. I'd order 1,000 copies.” “Nevertheless." answered Mr. Ford, “I want only two copies, but I’d like them right away." “O. K.. Henry.” said the editor. “I’ll send them right around In a truck." Then he hung up the telephone, grin ning a bit at his perspicacity. A couple of days later the editor’s telephone rang again. The same voire came over the wire, hut this time It was conslderhhly sharper. “This Is Henry Ford.” It said. ”! asked you to send me two copies of your magazine. They haven’t ar rived.” The editor began to have a queer feeling In the pit of his stomach. Therq v/as something about’ that voice which sounded real, and he was re membering a number of things he had said. “Yes, sir,” he stammered. “Sorry, sir,” he mumbled. “I’ll look It up. sir.” he stuttered. Mr. Ford got his two magazines. (©. 1932, Bell Syndicate.)—WNU Service. To Benefit Everybody “There I* no citizen In the United States hut will benefit In very practical ways from the results of the opyrath.n of this forward-looking plan of coiper- at ion. which may he regarded as one of the m>wt constructive * steps that have been taken toward revival of sound hu-dness activity,’’ Mr. Haas declared, adding: National Credit QorporaMon rvpre *et)eA»’’aif* kiAVruiuetltalh*#, . Ifcyt 1 should have far-reaching chert In re storing the confidence of the public. The plan not only has been formulated by the country’s leading banking au thorities. hut alto rill bercarried out locally as well ** nationally by bank ing representatives who have given their time and thought to thlil under taking as a real ptibll; service. “The American Hai.kers Association convent Ion was 4n session at the time the plan was proposed and unanimous ly endorsed it in principle. 1 have ex amined, the detailed formulation of the working plana as developed by the Incessant labors of some of the Na tion's leading bankers who have under taken to put it fnto practical operation In aingle-tslnded devotion to. the na tloiial welfare, and I am able to say without reservation that the National Credit Corporation aa set up by them constitutes a practical, sound and effi cient means for carrying out President Hoover's proposal.” VAST SALT DESERT TO BECOME A LAKE Spectacular Phenomena Long Mecca for Tourists. Tulsa, Okla.—Oklahoma’s great salt desert, for years one of the most spec tacular pehnomena of the Southwest and mecca for thousands of tourists, has completed Its last season as a “show place." Called one of the seven wonders of the world by Capt Nathan Boone (son of Daniel of Kentucky), who led a body of United States troops on the first official exploration of the gleam ing white expanse, the 40,000 acres of salt plains will soon be transformed into a salt lake, the third largest In tthe United States and one of the fed eral government’s proposed projects of 115 lakes as migratory wild fowl refuges. Beautiful to gaze upon, but as bar ren as the Arctic wastes which it re sembles, the Cherokee salt plain. In western Oklahoma, has for years proved an enigma to scientists and a thing of wonder to wide ey4d trav elers. On Its more than forty square miles of sun blistered salt only four forms of life exist—two Insects and two .plants. For years tourists have visited the region, riding in automobiles across the brittle white surface of the un natural “desert," shading their eyes from the intense glare of the light reflected* from the salty carpet and gazing oft at mirages produced by the combination of sun and salt. For years, too, residents of the little town of Cherokee, Oklu.. feur miles to the west, have used the plains us picnic ground* becau** evenings are co«»| out on the salt slopes, where uo buildings shut out the breer.e. There it re- iiiuihs .light long* after dark. And there Hr**- -flM'ir *>r .tnftksiuilue*, to pesiwf pleasure seeking‘folk. The preliminary survey of the plains has been completed, and the lands have been turned over, by executive order of 1'refhleut Hoover, (o the bio logical survey. The actual waterline of the salt plains lake was begun in 1U3II. Engineers plan to complete, the final survey, after which It is probable construction will get under way. Residents of the salt desert region look with high favor upon the pro- new lake, a salt lake that will Ih* surpassed in size by oiriy two oth ers In the United States—the Great Salt lake In Utah and the Sullou sea In southern California. Woman Comes Back to Life on Morgue Slab English Laws Explicit - as to “Leap Year” Rule One of the curious ^complicalifins caused by the addition of dn extra day every fourth year is the creation of a calendar date which occurs only once in four years. He who Is horn on Feb ruary 29 has, hi a strictly technical sense, noi birthday save during leap years. In 1910 this prank of the cal endar makers came in for a legal dis pute when an English father of a son borfi' im- February 29 asked whether his ioh v^ould attain his.legal majority twenty-one years after his birth, de spite the fact that in that time h« would have had only five technical birthdays. " First reference to the law Indicated that the boy would have only one le gal birthday every four years. Black- stone’s language was unequivocal, stat ing that a man child attains his ma jority “on the day preceding the twen- ‘"ty-'first anniversary of the person’s birth." But further search revealed a law among the statutes of King Henry III, made at Westminster in 1236. The language was ambiguous, the text an tique. but the lawyers insisted it left no doubt about Us intent By say ing. “ . . . the day increasing Irr the leap year shall be taken and reck oned on the same month wherein it groweth. and that day, and the day next going before; shall he accounted for one day." King Henry had meant that the hoy should have a legal birth day on February 28 in all except leap years.. SOME GLEANINGS Riches are for spending. • • • Evasion Is unworthy of us. • y • Learn the luxury of doing good. • • • Faith finds food even In famine. , * * • An active tool never grows rusty. 0 We shall not see the sunlight of God’s favor if we keep our eyes shot Abiding in Christ * Abiding in Christ does not mean that you must always be thinking about Christ. Y’ou are in a house, abiding in Its enclosure or beneath its shelter, though you are not always thinking about the house Itself. But you al ways know wheh you leave It.—F. B. Meyer. Covldn’t Walk Without Pain Rheumatic Pains Stopped; Now Rune to Catch Street Car Quick relief from the agonizing pains of rheumatism, lum bago and neuritis la reported by sufferer* who gave up hop* of ever being well, and took Ru-No-Ma. Ko opiates or narcotic*— Is absolutely harm less Regardle** of how long you’ve suf fered. If eomfortln? relief don’t result 3 doses drurglst will refund HARD TIMES RENEW BANKER'S OPTIMISM Former Bankers' Chief Finds Much in Past Year to Inspire Confidence in Financial Reliability Handkerchief 100 Years Old Owned in Carolina Selma, N. C.—A handkerchief said to he more than one hundred years old is owned by Miss Anne Noble. Sel ma. She says the handkerchief be longed to her .‘great-grandmother, Anne Stephens, who was married in 1S25 and caine to America from Scotland. The handkerchief Is in a good state of preservation. Sol Topping of Bel- havep first claimed to own the old est handkerchief in the state. He is sixty-three years old. “Joan of Arc” Leads Chinese Brigands Mukden.-vA beautiful young girl riding a white horse Is lead ing a hand of-400 Chinese brig amis In Manchuria. +;<- Her identity is a pystery. All the Japanese military authori ties know about her is that she seems to exert a remarkable In * iirm y R OME C. STEPHENSON, retiring president of the American Bank- . era Association, declared in an address f on the expiration of hi* term of office | that, in travelling about among the bank* from one end of the country to i the other during the past year, he had I “come out of It with a renewed faith in the strength of our banking ntruc* ture and our banking situation, and a renewed faith partlculerly in the spirit and courage of the men in the bankg that have enabled them to rise uncon quered over difficulties such as men never had to face before, or to accept l\ with fortitude misfortunes that were beyond human power to prevent." When he reflected, he said, that the "entire human economic structure has been brought to the verge of ruin un der the difficulties that have swept over not only the nation but the entire world, and that the results of events of this kind react with particular di rectness upon the stability of our banks, and yet how few have suc cumbed, we may well renew our confi dence in the banks of America; when jve think also of how many of our bankers have stood up under the stress and storms of these times and- how relatively few of. them have been proved wanting in the sacies of crises that have aceaiicd them, we may well feel a sincere pridedn our fellow bank ers.” He added: '.‘So I come out.of this year of som ber experiences not as a pessimist, but. as an optimist—as one with a renewed faith and. confidence in the spirit of his fellow men under overwhelming difficulties. Aud particularly do I come out of this year as a banker who is proud of his fellow bankers for the un daunted way in which they have met their part of the great test through which the times, have put the nation. I believe that this year has brought new honor to our banking traditions and oqr banking profession and has won for banker new title to the faith and trust of all classes of his fellow citizens.” • I'anamu City.—'*Tak*» me to another hu*pitul" wu* the remark of l^oitora Azuu, Colombian wotuau of thirty years, who nut up from the slab in the morgue of Sunto Tomas hoiqiltal, on which she had been placed in readi- iic*.< for emlMilming. Leonora had been pronounced dead from pulmonary congestion by the hos pital doctor* and her IhkIv had I wen sent to the morgue. Her hufchnnd had been notified and was on the way wit'a a hearse to take away the body when she showed signs of Irreathing and la ter sat up and surveyed the situation. Uf>on.luihh\’* arrival, however, he was told that Iwonnra wu* alive and the hearse was sent hack to the undertak er's. Leonora had town taken hack to her bod in the hospital after protesting that she did not caro for the treat ment, but later in the day she was pronounced dead formic second time, but doctors refused to perform an autopsy, fearing that she wits In a cataleptic state and might he still alive. Crowds of natives surrounded the hospital following reports In’the eve ning papers that a resurrection had taken place at the national institution. The next day it was decided that I<eonora really was dead and the body was hurled In the city cemetery. Egyptian Monarch Was First Wheat Dictator The first recorded wheat dictator was ilenku. monarch of E^ypt, who apparently considered it his most worthy claim to fame, huvilijf “1 was lord and overseer of southern grain!” gugruxpd^on hia tomb. A ztudy on -food COmrol * for fflrty-six* centuries was made by Mary G. -Lucy, librarian of the United States Department of Agriculture, uud this Is the most an cient deed of price fixing which she unearthed from the musty tomes. , Tin* story' of the pharaoh aud Ida treasurer Joseph, who ran the first re- eorded wheat corner, is known to all Bible readers, hut he was in 1790 U. C., eenturies later than Ilenku. The Egyptian method of control was by the monarch owning all the land, similar to the government ownership in the Soviet union today. Chinn as early ns 1122 R. C. had a system of crop and price control, chief ly concerned with rice. The govern ment bought tlte surplus after inspect ing each field and deciding how much ) each funner might keep. It bought at ! a normal price in surplus yours and, sold at the same {trice in short years, protecting the farmer .In one and the , consumer in the other. froei first _ money. Why wsste time wOh •nvthlnz that doesn’t stop your pa!n? If Ru-Sa-Ma does that you know you will get well. Delay only means suffering. drug CO. R. A. DEASON Barnwell, S. C. INSURANCE FIRE (A WINDSTORM PUBLIC L1AB1LHY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE ■ THEFT Calhoun and Co. P. K. PKICR. Manager. BILIOUS Place of Tragic Memory The Black Hole of Calcutta I* the pnpi-iar name of a cell In Fort Wil liam. Calcutta, formerly used as the guard nxun. On the night of June 19, 1756. the fenKou when the tropical heat of Cal cutta is most oppressive. SuraJ-ud- Dowlnh. the nlneteen-vear-old nabob I of Bengal, who had broken with the j British authorities, thrust ’ 146 em ployees of the British India company 1 Into this cell, a room IS feet long by ! 14 feet. 10 Inches wide. It had but I two small windows covered with Iron bars ami obstructed by a veranda. I The heat and lack of air killed 123 of ! them before morning. The site of this cell is now covered with a black marble slab, and the i event Is commemorated by a monu mental shaft erected In 1902. Famous Rescue Team Is Reunited on Roosevelt New York.—One of the most noted rescue teams in modern American mer chant marine history was re-estab lished when Oairt. Harry Manning joined Capt. George Fried as chief officer on Fried’s staff on the Presi dent Roosevelt. For a time after the famous rescue of the- Florida crew by Fried, in which Manning took an Important and ex- ceedingfy courageous part. Manning was assigned as captain of one of the American merchant marine liners. With the consolidation of the United States lines with the International Mercantile Marine and Dollar inter ests, Manning was reassigned to his old chief. . Admittedly she leads ber men on to carry off firearm^ money and goods. She is always ready, -too, for a battle when Japanese come on the scene. But women and children .ae? In variably spared. Wise Spending Careful and wise spending will help solve our economic problems and will be of untold benefit to the fa river. Our tionbles arc not caused >y tht Spend ing of money,-but bccnncc it was spent unwisely. Texas Hermit Eats Meals From Coffin Mineral Wells, Texas.—An ec centric Texas hermit. Albert Schnocke, has been eating his meals off his burial .coffin for the last eight years. One end Is piled high with groceries^ and canned goods, the other he sets.for bis morning, noon and evening meals. He ‘purchased the casket -eight years Great Land Purchase The Louisiana Purchase was the first territory acquired by the United States. It was purchased from France in 18U3 and comprised the Mississippi river’s west side drainage basin, ex cept that part held by Spain. It ex tended from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and included areas now occu pied by Louisiana, Arkansas, Okla* homa, Iowa,- Kansas, Missouri, Nebras ka, the Dakotas, Montana, most of Minnesota and portions of Colorado and Wyoming. The United States took formal possession of the Louisiana Purchase regions on March 10, 1804, and congress divided It into two parts —the territory of Orleans (Inter the state of Louisiana), and the territory of Louisiana. M I have used Black* Draught. . . and have not found anything that could take Its place. I take Black- Draught for bilious ness. When I get bili ous, I have a nervous headache and a ner vous, trembling feeling that unfits me for my work. After I take a few doses of Black- Draught, I get all right When I begin to get bilious, I feel tired. and run-down, and then the headache and trembling. But Black-Draught re lieves all this.”—k. o. Hendrix, Homcrville, Go. For Indigestion, con stipation, biliousness, take ■•at ■ Thed fords ■ BLACK- DRAUGHT Womsn who naad a tcmic should taka Caudoi. Uoad ovar 10 roars. From Popular Opera Sir Arthur Sullivan wfote the music to “Hail,. Hall, the Gang’#-All Here." It was taken from the Gilbert and Sul livan operatta, “The Pirates of Pen zance." The melody used occurs In act 2, song 12—Samuel and chorus of pirates—beginning, “Come, friends, who. plough the sea," etc. This mel ody Is exactly as it was written in the operetta, btft begins In the middle of the chorus. Theodore Morse made a slight change in the notes at the end of the. present arrangement. I 1 "~^^m elghti’ hiIlS il(AV utul ,<s plan to eat- my (ninetieth birth day dinner right, Jiere,” said Schnocke, a Union Civil war veteran. He was born In Paris in 1842. Submerged Laud Charted Georges Bank, a 200-mile neck of submerged land which* identifies a pop ular fishing arep off Cape Cod, was part of the American continent 25,000 years ago, in the opinion of United ’Stater coast - amd The submerged -land has several hills that come almost to the surface and are a constant-n^nace to navigation. For this reason the surveyors charted the strip. The suirey revealed, sev- eraf'Submarine valleys, which may have been river beds. - More Milk —AND— Better Milk DOCTORS SAY DRINK LOTS OF GOOD MILK (when you know i tis good.) WE TEST-OUR COW& AND STERILIZE ALL BOTTLES AND PAILS. IN FACT, WE ARE CAREFUL ABOUT EVERYTHING USED IN PRO- DUCING A HIGH CLASS PRO DUCT. SEE OUR TRUCK or DROP US A LINE.