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*a«;e eight. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 26TH, 1932. MAY 18, 1882. MAY 25, 1932. A Slight Mintake.—A man with a hrlrirr rnme into the .‘•anctum the other ilay and commenced explaining the beauties of the article for hold ing .silver halves, etc^ uni he had g/Aten half through l>ofore he fotind file was in a printing office. When he saw his mistake, he went to the door, sadly opened it and kicked himself cle^r down the steps. old days of long age. The lid and bottom cf the box ar e full of vjnscrip- yibrvT plated double back a etfo» coin ti n' but our memory serves u» so Memorial Poem.—The Rev. Mr. Suares will deliver a memorial poem on the late Mrs. Mary G. Harly at the Patterson House on Thursday evening, 25th inst., at 8 o’clock. Ad mission 10 cents. A Cod Change.—The change of temperature within the pa^t week is unparalleled in our experience for this season of the year. A portion of the thme it was cold enough for fires and overcoats were comfortable. Some apprehensions are felt as to the effect of the unusual cold .^pell upon the crops, but as there has been no frost it is not probable that they wriB sustain any injury. The almost unprecendented atmospheric pheno menon has been the subject of univer sal comment with our citizens, who say they have never seen anything like it. An Old Relic.—We were shown on Wednesday by Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, now visiting at the Patterson House, ji pocket book of the olden time. It is a tin case about five inches in length, two wide and three deep. Mrs. Walker inf< .imed us that it had been in the family about one hundred and fifly years, and was used by her great grandmother for parrying around the solid money of the good badly that we could not translate them. Naughty Nat.—Our jolly good friend Nat Walker dropped in to see us a few moments cn Monday, full of fun and pleasant chat about th^ pret ty girls. In speaking of ice cream festivals and sarcastic girls he said: “I am told that sarcastic girls are getting more numerous every day. With equal truth it might b t . observed that sarcastic girl^ generally get left duiing the ice cream season. It’s the confiding little duck who gets away with the congealed lacteal fluid.” We hinted that as the dancing season was about ever, this favorite recrea tion of his Would have to be dispensed with until fall. “Oh, no,” said Nat, “a new' dance for warm summer evenings has- just been invented. The couples have nothing to bo but stand and hug while the hand plays a solemn air. That beats the ‘racket,’ which gives no leisure for hugging.” -x- Hoarders heap bum BILLS ON , TREASURY Called Upon to Redeem Mutilated Currency. Washington.—The amount of burned, rotted and mutilated money arriving at the treasury for redemption has vaulted to its highest level since World wnr daytfc Hlackville.—We have now a tin re paid shop in town. A colored woman wa s sent to jail the other day for stealing chicken-. Whiskey to the front, screens and partitions to the rear. A child of Mr. Mathews Free, near Lee’s T. O., caught on fire cut in the yaid, buriningj her so badly that she died >n about three hours Aged year-. In the cas^ of The State (J. II. Rivers) vs. 'Fred Nix, Jr., the court found the defendant guilty of assault and sentenced him to pay a fine cf five do 11ais and cost or go to jail for ten cays. Defendant paid up. Exeunt cmnes. TEXAN LIKES THEIDEPRESSION Hy Henry Ar,<ky. see much of each other eon-equently we sort of lost interest in each other. I never went home to lunch. Al>out twice a week I went home to din.ner_ at 6:30 o’ch ck. I never ha<] time to go anywhere with her. If I did go on a party, I could never locate her, since there was always a “blonde” or a “red-head” available I didn’t much worry about it. My wife belonged to all the clubs 1 like the depression. No mi.re prosperity for me. I have had more fun since the de pression stalled than I ever had in my life. I had forgotten how to live,’i* 1 town. She even joined the young what it meant to have real friends, mo ^beia-club. W.e don’t have'any what it was like to eat common every- children, hut she was studying—and .day frod. Fact i-, 1 was getting just between playing bridge and going to Ji little high hat. clubs, she was never at home. Then—and Now. We got stuck up and hifalutin’. Three years ag >, wnly one man of We even toi k down the old family the News-Globe organization could bed and bought a set of twin beds— I** mu; of town at a time and he had on th t . instalment plan. to leave at the last minute and get hark as soon a 3 possible. Many times I have d riven 100 miles t> a banquet, *-at through three hours of bunk in order to make a 5-minute speech, Ihm drive the miles back so as to he nady for work the next mern- ing. Nowadays, a* many News-Globe employees as are invited make these trip.* and we stay as long as we want to. The whole outfit could leave the < ffice now and it wouldn’t mak,. any difference! I tike the depression. I have time to visit my friends, ,to make new encSw Two years ago when I went tn a neighboring town, I always stayed at a hotel. Now I go home with my friends, stay all night and enjoy homeeooking, I have even -pent the week-end with some of the boys who' have been kind enough to invite me. Time, Neighbors, Clothes. It’s great to drop into a store and feel that you can spend an hour or two or ihie P or a half day just visit ing and not feel that you are wasting valuable time. I like the depression. I am getting acquainted with my •irighlairs. In the last six months I have become acquainted with folks who have been living next door to me fpr three yeais. I am following the Biblical admonition, “Love your neighbors.'’ One of my neighbors has one cf the be t-looking wives I faavr ever seen. She is a dandy, I nm getting acquainted with my rieighhcrr s and learning to lov? them. Three years ago,, I ordered my clothes from a merchant tailor—two •or three suits at a time. All my ctethes were good ones. I wa* al ways dressed up. But ndw, I haven’t hcnRhl a suit in two years. I am mighty proud of my Sunday go-tc- meeting clothes. When I dress up, I dr© sed up and I don’t mean may- fce. I lilte the depression. The Wife. Three year* ago I was ao busy and wife waa ao busy that we didn’t When I would come home at night, if my wife was at home, she would already be In her bed and I would crawl rin mine. If he came in first, it »vas vice vetsa. Beds and Clubs. We lijoe the depression. We have com e down c^ff cur pedestal and are really living at my house now. The twin beds are stored in the garage and the old family affair is being used. We are enjoying life. Instead of taking a hot-water bottle, to bed these cold nights, she tucks her heels in my back,, just like she did before H over was elected. I haven’t been out on a party in 18 months. I have lost my book of telephone numbers. My wife has dropped all th t > clubs. I believe we are falling hi love all over again. I am pretty well satisfied with my wife. Think I will keep her, at least until she is forty and then if I feel like I do /new, I may tiade her for two twenties I am feeling better since the e’e- pres.-ion. I take more exercise. I walk to town and a let of f. Iks who used to drive Cadillacs are walking with me. I like the depression. My digestion is better. I haven’t l>eon to see a doctor in a year. I can cat -anything I want to. Frod—and Food. I am getting real, honest -tc-gecd- ness food. Three years ago, we had filet mignon cnee a week, now’ we have round steak and flour giavy. Then, we had rcast breast cf guinea hen, new we are glad to get sow- ho.-om with the buttcn s cn it. I like the depression. My salary has been-cut to where I can’t afford to buy lettuce and spinach and pars ley and we can’t afferd to have sand wiches and frozen deserts and all that damfccliihness which has killed Treasury officials attribute the In creased receipts of mutilated currency to the widespread and unusual hoard ing activities which followed last year’s record rmmber of bank-failures, says the Chicago Tribune. Beginning shortly after the hank failure rate reached a high peak last year, the amount of burned, rotted and mutilated currency reaching the treasury bus Increased monthly until today employees in the currency re demptlon department are forced to work overtiide to take care of hoarded currency which came to grief. Failure of hoarders to remember that their Hfe savings had been placed In the stove for safe-keeping until a fire had been built lias proved respon sihle for much of the money reaching Washington. In many cases money has bVen hoarded in chimneys to' the great detriment of llie currency when fall fires were built. In other in stances money became damaged after l.eing placed in mattresses or other places for safe keeping. Causes Heavy Losses. Hoarding which results in currency mutilation causes losses for the gov ernment and in some cases to the in dividual. About 75 per cent of the mu tilated money is redeemed. The gov ernment loses because of the expense of financing a division for the purpose of redeeming money. In recent months, it was stated at the treasury, practically every claim in mutilated currency cases has been ac companied by a statement from the owner of the money telling how lie hid Ids savings In some place he thought secure rather than deposit, it in hanks he believed to he insecure. The extremely delicate work of mak ing good this mutilated money is done hy several women clerks of long expe rience, whose word as to the authen ticity of the claim is virtually infal lible. The task of ascertaining the valid ity of the ashes or pulp which is sent In hy hoarders as the remains of good money Is imrtieularJy exacting in the national hank redemption agency, whih redeems national and federal re serve hank notes. In this bureau not only must the remains he identified as genuine currency before it can he re deemed, hut the expert must also as certain the member hank which is sued'it. In the redemption division of the treasurer’s office, where notes of Unit ed States issue are redeemed, only the fact that the remains are those of real money is necessary for redemption tn be made. In both bureaus, of 'course, the experts mytst find out the exact denominations of the destroyed notes. ' Results Seem Miraculous. The records of the claims handled hy the experts read almost like fiction and most of their work seems all but Incredible to the layman. Here Is a case In point: Not long ago a citizen of Ohio ap peared at the national bank redemp tion agency with a bo\.securely bound with adhesive tape, In which he said there reposed the remains of $700. He had drawn the money from the hank, he said, put it In a baking powder can \Vhich he put in a still larger metal can, and had hidden It in the soot at the base of a chimney. A fire in an upstairs fireplace caused the soot to get hot and the cans and the $700 were reduced to a mass of metal and ashes. This mass he wanted redeemed for real money. The sympathetic superintendent of the agency turned the case over to the experts and by noon next day they had Identified not $700 but $710, and had authorized payment of the money in full. Whereupon the money in full. Whereupon the citizen of Ohio admit ted he had expected to retrieve only atyout half his $700. In order to make this restitution the experts were faced with the problem of ascertaining, from hardly more than a handful of ashes, first whether th» ashes were those of genuine currency; second, the exact denomination of each note; and third, which of some ten thousand member banks had Issued the notes. Texas Rangers Consider Use of Radio Receivers San Antonio. Texas.^—Texas Rang ers in pursuit of thieving bands and rum brigands along the Itio Grande may soon he armed with a radio set in addition to “six shooters” and rifles. San Antonio’s police transmitter, broadcasting tips on crime and vice, may he increased from HN) watt pow er to 400 watts. Police Commission er Phil Wright has. invited federal, slate and county officers in kouth Tex as to install receiving sets which will pick up alarms broadcast here. The federal radio commission has announced a favorable attitude. Advertise in The People-Sentinel. mere good men than the World War. Texas who could tell me anything. I like th e depression. Three years ago I never had time to go to church. I played golf all-day Sunday and be sides I so darned smart that there wasn’t a preacher in West Now, I am going to chptch regular ly, never miss a Sunday. And if this depression keeps on, I will be going to prayer meeting be fore long. I like the deprrtsion. \ Goat Ranked Above Cow in Mountainous Ltpdc - Although they keep themselves a.s tioct- und appear to aiVcct disdain n:u for the other, sheep and gua> are, am: apparently always have !>e :i pastured together, the goats e;?lii:g the brush and roughage which the more leader moutheiT sheep will not touch. In rough, rocky mountainous dis tricts as is a great part of the land of Canaan, the goat is u more serviceable animal than the cow, more agile and wonderfully ^sure footed, content TC wander about and pick a mouthful here, and there, able to live without much more moisture than the heavy dews supply, long-lived, and generally free from sickness, especially from contagious diseases. They thrive best in the higher altitudes, and the wild varieties which existed until compara tively recent days in Syria and about the Palestinian Lebanon, are always sought on mountain tops. As the Psalm ist says: “The high hills are n refuge for the wild goats.” It is worth no ticing- that- among all Uls riches of Hocks and herds. Job counted no goats, as was to be expected, since he lived on an Arabian plain where was abun dant pasturage for his “fourteen thou sand sheep and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses,” (Job 29:12) as well doubtless of cows. PISTOL LOST.—Thirty-two, blue steel, fiv e inch barrel, Smith and Wesr son pistol, between Born well and- Snelling cn Thursday morning, May 19th. Wfil pay liberal reward for re turn to J. G. Bates, Martin, S. C. Itp . ^ TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER ADVERTISE IN - I • The People- Sentinel.^ ^x^x-x-r-x-x-x^-x-x-x-x^ v: as Immense numbers Modern Detective Not “Sleuth” of Old Times When did detectives finally discard the black mustache? We observe that detective fiction, at least, with which the book market is flooded, has quite withdrawn from the bhick and scowl ing sleuth with his all too visible trap pings of the chase. The truth Is, it was the melodrama more markedly than the novri that so pictured the pursuers of the transgressor. The best detectives, we learn, arc those whom nobody suspects of “de tecting.” It is your mild-mannered man, often of fair hair and guileless eye, who leads the wicked, step by step, into the trap of the law. Tills “detecting” is a gift, bestowed for the good of mankind. Its possessor learns his powers little hy little and is pos sessed by them. Combined of intuition and an uncanny suspicion, the ferret ing seos its hypothesis grow into stern facts. Such a detective is as clever in constructing the plot of crime as the scientist is in creating the whole pre historic animal out of a single leg hone. Plato’s logic, splitting hairs. 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