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.f.Tr^'f^if "T-TT” *3i;' | ■■■nm ■ ri-j" THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1932. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA WAKES UP TO FIND : SELF WITH 2 WIVES ■a « . ^^Man Remembers Nothing of Second Marriage. Kansas City, Mo.—Liquor, according to Peter Van I>iest, tiiirty five, who awakened in the police holdover one night recently- to discover that he was the husband of two wives, causes a man to do some peculiar tilings. V an Diest was arrested when wife No. 1, Mrs. Velma-Diest, Kansas City, Kan., traced him there after he had been missing from home since the Sun day before. The first wife also discovered dur ing her search that her husband had acquired a second wife the day after his disappearance, without obtaining a divorce. The twice married man was in a repentant mood after his arrest and during the time of his arraignment In the justice court on a charge of big amy. News to Him. ' "Thar second marriage Is sure new’s to me.*’ he told a detective. “I left home Sunday to take a motor car ride and I met (me of the fellows. He sug gested a little drink and I took one. Of course that called for another and I guess I must have gotten pretty drunk, because the next thing I re member was taking op here three * days later. . "What news—some policeman told me I had two wives," he moaned. "Lord, it’s hard enough to care for one the way that times are. “I was sure there'was something wrong, because I could- remember only one wife, Velma." • Mrs. Kern Wells, wife No. 2, told lice that Van Dies apparently had en drinking when he called at her home Sunday and began making love to her. However, site didn’t believe, she said, that he was in such s con dition that he didn’t know what he ■was doing. Mrs. Wells said she met Van Diest once before, but hsd never kept com pany with him. When he called at her home he painted such a glowing pic ture of what they could accomplish to gether as man and wife that she agreed to marry him. she said. She said that the difficult time she hsd to earn s living for herself and small daughter had prompted her to accept the proposals. Big Job Nonexistent. The fact be told her he had a won derful Job. paying a huge salary, awaiting him In Arisona also Influ enced her decision, ahe admitted. Van Diest. according to Mrs. Wells, awoke the day after their marriage, borrowed $5 from her with which he planned to hire a taxi to take him to his last place of employment to obtain money to take his bride and step daughter on their honeymoon to Den ver. It was during his absence .with the borrowed money that the first wife appeared. Mrs. Van Diest was In an unfriendly mood when she conferred with detec tive*. , Mrs. Wells said that she would , stand by her husband, despite the fact that she is wife No. 2, acquired Ilk- PAGS gaily. r-’ na Western Indians Fight for Fishing Rights Portland, Ore.—Indians along the Columbia river are on Ihe warpath,# after many years of peace. They seek, however, to settle their grievances lo the white man’s courts. Members of the Yakima, Warm rings, Umatilla and Lapwal tribes tve entered formal protest against asserted violation of treaty rights by private property owners near the Dalles. The landowners, the Indians say. prevent them entrance to and use of their ancient Ashing grounds. The treaty of 1885, by which the In dians deeded their property over-to the government, provided In exchange that the Indiana were to be allowed All Ashing right* and also called for /exclusive reservations. United States Attorney George Neu- -ner baa been authorised to bring suit against the private owners if neces sary, according to the Department of Interior: ! Rubber Tube Provide* Food for Patient, Six *Columbus, OhIo.—For 19 months six- year-old Alan Holycross, in a hospital here, has not swallowed food, yet he «is In perfect health. Two years ago Alan swallowed a cupful of lye water ■ and burned his esophagus so badly • that lie could not swallow food. Almost starving, he was taken t6 the ■ hospital. An incision was made, and a rubber tube was connected with his ( dl^tive organs. Six times a day j nurseVpour liquid food.through the | tube. Doctors hope that In six or sev- J • «n years\e will again be normal Always a Bright Spot in the Densest Gloom There is no situation in life so dark, so depressing, so apparently hopeless that It has not a single gleam of light somewhere, and it is this bHght spot that should be the starting point for thought, not the mass of gloom that surrounds It Who is there who can not say he has not experienced quite a lot of sympathy and friendship in troubles? Somebody has shaken him by the hand, some one has said a kind ly word to him. more than one pair of skilled hands have tended him in ill ness. Is that all worth nothing? There are, fortunately, very few peo ple In this world who are really alone. There are a good many who are lonely, bu^ that is not quite the same thing: even In their case the fault often lies with themselves. Friendship, comradeship, help, and sympathy have to be earned, like everything else In life that is worth having: and they have to he earned by a willingness to give what we ex pect to receive. But, In any case, what’s the use of worrying? There is always another day with all Its possibilities and its chances. There is always tomorrow. "Let us make haste to live." sai<T a wise old Homan, "sinee every”day to a wise man is a new llfeJ* There is no need, even to wait until tomorrow. You never know what the next hour may bring forth. Even the next minute may provide the way out that worry will never find.—London Tlt-Blts. Croesus Credited With Invention of Coinage. Authorities on the subject tell us that It is to Lydia that we owe the Invention of coinage. In all times and in all countries, ths privilege*.of coin- age has been allowed the soverelgiu Croesus of Lydia was the first moi? arch to Introduce a bimetallic system of coinage—gold and silver In tin* proportion of about three to four. This was some time between .VX) and •’Tfl B. C. Metal was chosen, doubt less. by renarin of its durability and. In the case of gold nrd silver, by rea son of their intrinsic value. Silver and brass were first used, particularly In Greece, from a lack of sufficient gold. Ijiter, however, this deficiency was overcome. The less liable a metal Is to change In value, the better It la suited for a standard. The Greeks first issued real coin some time during the Seventh century, B. C. By the Fourth century the entire cl\lilted world used money. RECALLS HISTORY MAKING AIR TRIP Coast-to-Coast Flight 11 Year* Ago a Thriller.* Romsn History Eacrf of the triumvirs or rulers. An tony. Octavius and Lepldus. In the pe riod after the death of Caesar, took steps to get rid of his political ene mies—those considered to have been in the conspiracy against Caesar. They decreed a formal proscription. “Sitting with a list of chief cltixens before them, each picked out the names of the victims he personally required, and each purchased the right to pro scribe a kinsman of his colleagues by surrendering one of his own. The fa tal memorial was headed with the names of s brother of Lepldus, an uucle of Antony and a cousin of Octa vius." The great orator Cicero was a victim demanded and obtained by An tony. Such a proscription or massacre was customary during that period of civil war In Rome. Shakespeare tn his play. “Julius Caesar,” keep* close to the fact* of history. Chkiigo.—Aviation history was writ ten in the skies eleven years ago when air mull pilots made an experimental transcontinental night flight over un lighted airways to demonstrate the value of flying mail at niglrt as well as by day to Influence congress to make appropriations jfor the lighting of the present coast-to-coast airway. Of the nine pioneer pilots engaged in that historic flight made over un- lighted airways and In old war-time planes, ail but one are livlhg and six are still flying. Three of them. Ray Little, Frank Yager and Jack Knight, now fly mull and passenger planes on the same route, which is operated by United Air linear After a night and day east-west flight had failed back In -1921, a relay of pilots pushed the west-east trans continental mail from San Francisco to New York In XI'hqurs and 20 min utes, at an average speed of 103 miles_ at hour. Starting from San ' Francisco, Farr Nutter and Hay Little scaled the Sier ras before dawn and were at'Reno. Pilots Jack Eaton and Captain^Bill Lewis flew the two planes.from Reno to Elko, where Jimmy Murray flew the load \o Cheyenne. Then the night sec tion of the flight began, as Frank Ya ger roared through the falling dark ness toward North Platte. There Jack Knight swung Into the cockpit and at one o’clock In the morning landed at Omaha. There was no relief pilot, but the big stunt was not off. Knight vol unteered to fly the next leg from Omaha to Chicago, although he had never flown east of Omaha. He land ed at Chicago before daybreak. Jack Webster took the mall on to Cleve land and Ernie Allison, who Is now piloting air mall planes In China, climbed the Alleghenies and landed on Long Island. That flight started an appropriation i which resulted In the expenditure of approximately 81.non.noi> on the light ing and Improving of the New York- I Paclflc coaat airway, which now car ries nearly one-half of the nation’s air mall and on which United Air lines ! last year flew more than 6,500,000 I mile*. Um for Diviaiag Red New hope for the rescue of ava lanche victims and for the early recov ery of bodies of 4he killed which oft en are not found until the winter's snows have melted has been found In the divining rod.. A mountaineer of Traunstein, upper Austria, deeply moved by some recent avalanche trag edies, ha* been making a aeries of ex periment*. Objects likely to be car ried by every skier, such as a watch, ring, coins, ski-knife and ski-foot plates, were buried very deep in the snow, and a “dowser" set out with the divining rod to search for them. In each case the rod~f5v5aTStl the lo cation of the metallic objects. It Is believed that the new discovery will save scores of lives in the Austrian Alps every year. _ Survive* Sea Peril 60 # Yean; Killed by Fall 'Truro, N. S.—“After braving the flgors of the sea for sixty years, pass- "ing through two wars and the Boxer rebellion, where he was forced to fight off Table bay, South Africa; being tor pedoed by a German submarine off Ire- ! land and encountering a hurricane at Mobile, Ala., when his vessel was washed bodily from its moorings, Capt. . Joseph Dillon, ninety, slipped on Ice In , bis backyard and died a day later. Thought* of Druid* When you are la Curnac In France, and you go out to see the mysterious Druid menhirs, which are among the most impressive in the wofld, you will, of course, be told, as you were at Stonehenge, in England, that they mark warrior graves or are stones con nected with sun-worshipers and so'on. It Is well to recall that we know very little of the religion of the Druids, In fact, one of their laws was, “Do not discuss religion among yourselves.” Other laws were, “Women may be come Judges," “No child shall be reared in a city but only In a village,” and Caesar has left the testimony that “It is a law of the Druids that no man shall be richer than his neighbor.** Quarrel Between Young Lover* End* in Suicide Washington. — “Lucy: Good-by, sweetheart, I am going to Join my mother. You can get another boy friend, now*, who has a car, money and can dance. Elmer.’* This note, telling how s quarrel be tween youthful sweethearts ended In tragedy, was left on the bureau In the room of twenty-year-old Elmer /Tip- pens, In the 200 block Fourteenth place N. E. It was written Just be fore the youth ended his life by firing a .22-caliber rifle bullet through his head. . The Lucy of tt>6 farewell not* found the boy’s body. Miss Lucy Body, sixteen, of the first block Todd place X. E.. a friend of his family, came to the home to see El mer’s sister. The sister was not at home. The girl told the police ahe had 'quarreled with young Tlppens earlier In the day. A Casualty hospital In terne who examined his body said the shot probably killed him Instantly. Tlppens was unemployed and lived with his brother-in-law. Believe Petrified Logs Part of Ancient Fort San Antonio.—Four petrified logs, believed to be ruins of Sants Crus de Clbolo, an ancient Spanish roadway garrison, have been discovered by a party from the Witte Memorial Mu-, seum here. The garrison was built In 1734 near Karnes City by Governor Sandoval, ac cording to Col. M. L. Crimmlns, a mem ber of the exploring party. Ancient documents show It was erected to guard the highway from San Antonio to Matagorda Bay, Spends 20 Year* in Jail; Going Back for 5 More Milwaukee.—William Lovely, forty- five, who has spent twenty years In Wisconsin penal institutions, wa* sen tenced to five years in the atate peni tentiary following conviction at Ra cine on a burglary count. .Testimony disclosed that the gun Lovely drew on the policeman who arrested him here was stolen by him when he bur glarized a Racine soft-drink establish ment s • Not the College Motto The guard escorting a number of Temple university students on a tour of the Eastern ‘Ten’’ stopped to point out the coat-of-arms of Petmtylvania the cell blocks. " “That was painted by one of the ‘boys,’" he said, and after a pause, “the only thing wrong'with *it fa that those three words—‘Virtue, Liberty and Independence’ seem a little out of place.”—Philadelphia Record. Pavement Fall Kill* Daar Medford, Ore.—A deer slipped on the pavement north of here and broke Its neck. Needy families ha^ venison. Iowa Hen Makes Up for Vacation Days Keokuk, Iowa.—One of H.’ B. Hopp’s hens lays an egg every day, but on her “working days” the hen’s egg Is of unusual size... ,Hopp.jBaj£j larly lays a double egg weighing approximately six ounces. The -outer shell, measuring six inches by nine Inches in circumference, contains another complete egg In addition. ir 1 , *1 :>-£• . ‘ , iMafli" 'T-'-r P: li ' ' A Durham Duplex SAFETY RAZOR WITH / Paid-in-Advance Yearly Subscription TO * ■» i— | The People-Sentinel Don’t Pass Up This Extraordinary Offer! «? V We have a limited number of the cele brated Durham Duplex Safety Razors, with two extra blades each, ih 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. There are absolutely no strings tied to this offer. 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