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— V FAGB FOUR. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 1932. NAPOLEON’S ISLAND HOME TO BE MUSEUM French Government Takes Over House on Aix. Paris.—Rare new relic* of Napo leon's life on. the island of Alx, where he passed the last days of his life in (•'ranee before goiiiK into exile at St. Helena, have come into the possession of the French government. It has been announced the house where Napoleon lived at Alx will be come a national museum. The familiar painting of Napoleon aboard the British warship Bellero- |»hon shows the defeated and disheart ened man, who a few days before was atill emperor, gazing buck upon the island of Aix and the fast receding coastline of the mainland of France. Fled in Stage Coaches. Fleeing from Baris after the disas ter at Waterloo In 1815, the fugitive ex-emperor sought to escape his pur suers by flight from France. Fast stage coaches rushed him south to the Atlantic coast, but the path to free- <k>ra was barred. At every port Brit ish men o’, war lay off the coast wait- iB g to trap the little Corsican who had become a hunted outlaw. It was June 22 when Napoleon re nounced his empire In Paris. A few days later he reached Rochfort and crossed to nearby Aix, seeking shelter in a friend's home. July 8, 1815. Be fore landing at Alx Napoleon had been harbored aboard the French frigate Soale and among the relics in the mu seum to be opened at Alx Is a diary •f his life and reflections while hiding aboard the man-o’-war. Surrendered In July. On a day in the middle of July Na poleon left the house at Alx for the last time, surrendering himself to Cap tain Maitland of the Bellerophon. With the ex-emperor on the voyage In to exile went his old aide-de-camp, Bar on Gaspard Gourgard, who shared the solitude of Napoleon’s life on the bar ren rock in the south Atlantic. The great-grandson of the aide-de- camp, the present Baron Gourgaud, has been responsible for buying the mansion at Aix and presenting it to the nation. With the house he has given to the state many books and other souvenirs of Napoleon, which the baron has collected. LIGHTS ► TRUMBULL of NEW YORK Trip Around World in 36 Days Now Possible New lx>rk.—A 86-day trip around the world is now scheduled by train and steamship. By using airplanes the globe trot ter can make the Journey In about one-third the 80 day trip of Jules Verne. The new belt line follows roughly the route blazed by Catty and Post instead of the beaten path via the Mediterranean, Suez canal, and India. The short cut across the United States and spans the Pacitlc ocean from Seattle to Japan. Keeping well to the north Siberia is crossed by train, reversing the famous Journey made by Marco Polo In 1208. The new route crosses Russia and from Moscow and Leningrad the globe trot ter proceeds by tlx* shortest route to Sweden. On Hie theory that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points the traveler sails from tJothenberg and skirts tlx* northen cape of Scotland4»n the direct route to New York. The new belt line re duces the trip from about 25,000 to 18,000 miles. British Circus Stages* - ' *— Most Grotesque Stunt London, -r The world's most gro- tesque circus act, that of an actual hanging on the gallows, Is being fea tured by a traveling show throughout Britain. The spectacle is made the more au thentic by the fact that the demon- atrator was a former public hangman. "With the gallows and a “dummy” body, he goes through (lie motions of throwing the trap. Gasps of horror greet him everywhere. Attention of the government has been called to the act, but the home minister, Sir Herbert Samuel, said there was no means so far as lie was aware to prevent such a display. Sentiment appears to be.against the net, but a few, with humor, suggest that this sort of an exhibition might prevent serious crime. Poison Gas Is Being Used in Squirrel Drive 1 Livermore, Calif. — Poisonos gas. made from burning straw and sulphur, b being used by Alameda c<^|pty agri cultural authorities In a nev attack upon ground squirrels. T. S. McGraw, in charge of county rodeat extermination, has devised a poison gas machine which he believes b 96 per cent perfect, as compared with the old method of extermination tu means of poisoned grain. JlcGraw's machine uses 12 sacks of ntraw a day ms fuel, and operates mt capacity on 40 pounds of crude anipnor. The gas is generated " in a steel tank and is carried through several ■tees of hose, with the aid of a blow er, tete the squirrel holes. , — One of the things apartment dwell ers of New York miss most is an attic. When we were young, every family had an attic and a cellar and some had outhouses as Weil. Much that came In the front door progressed slowly to these repositories. There were per sons who made a pretense of cleaning out the ,r attlc every spring, but It al ways was full, a storehouse of mys tery and history. There you could And things which hud belonged to your grandfather un<f grandmother, to your parents, to your uncles, flaunts and cousins, and things which nobody defi nitely could place, either for use or ownership. Usually the attic was floored, but frequently there were places where no boards had been laid. Then it was fun for boys to walk the beams. Occasionally an accident hap pened ; fas, for Example, the time Julian Street’s foot slipped and lie went through the plaster up to his hip. Some of the McWilliams family were extremely startled to see a human leg waving through the ceiling above the stair well. - • » * Rut there is no such thing as an attic for those who live in New York apartments. If you are so drugged by the scent of flowers in the fields where Proserpine roamed that you let some Sicilian sell you an antique chest, so ancient that it still lias fresh Kiwdust in all the seams, you cannot, when you get it back to the United States, just put it in the attic and forget about it No indeed. You put it in the foyer or the hall, which is narrow enough any how, where it is convenient to run into it in the dark. And, if that relative whom friends always said should have been a pnniter, gives you the picture copied from one in the Louvre, you cannot put it in an attic, with a fair chance of getting it down in time in case file relative comes to visit. No, you have to hang the tiling on a wall never intended for pictures anyhow, because that is the only place where there is room for it. The closets nat urally are .tilled with folding bridge tallies, old magazines, cameras, score cards, empty suitcases, clothes and shoos. There certainly is no room for anything on the,tables or mantelpiece, except for those ash trays picked up in various parts of the world, the bronze and ivory elephants, crystal balls with figures in them and snow flakes which fly when the globes are shaken. Cigarette boxes, and the few little kniekitacks brought by friends from China, Japan, Paris, London. Mexico, Sweden and Atlantic City, to gether with the cute little carvings of the wounded lion we purchased In Lu cerne. and the book ends from Flor ence. There is also, to be sure, the iron gondola match safe from Venice, and the paperweight from the Umpire State tower. And there they stay. There is no attic to which they can progress. * • * You could give those things away except for the fact that no charitable association would take them and you don't like to give them to anyone you know; what is the use of making ene mies. You might, if you were in the country, pile them in some meadow, hut there you would have an attic, which would lie the natural receptable. If you tried to pile them outside in the city, they probably would arrest 1 you for littering the street, conspiracy against the street cleaners, disorderly conduct, obstructing traffic, and'driv ing without a license. I can well remember once exploring in the attic of my childhood and find ing a bow and some arrows. It was no Indian bow, but a relic of the interest in archery of some modern. And would that how shoot! Even in my inexperi enced hands, it drove an arrow right through the board wall of a cowshed belonging to a neighbor. I certainly had no thought that a cow could be leaning against the inside of that wall. I never could quite decide which car ried on worse, the cow or the neighbor. (©. 1932. Hell Syndicate.)—XVXU Service. mb.—Three Indian skel eea unearthed in this at months. The latest that ef an adult male. * nWteaand University (May Close School of Religion Peiping China.—Yenching university, an interdenominational institution closely associated with Harvard uni versity and representing a union of several missionary schools, is threat ened with having to close its depart ment of religion. The Nanking government takes the position that under its regulations for eign mission schools in China may of fer religious Instruction as an elective but not a major course. The fact that students at Yenching university major in religion and study in a separate de partment, administered by a dean, is held to be in violation of the govern ment's regulations. Shower of Ducks Is New Canadian Freak jaanff. Alta.-^It doesn't rain "cats and dogs'* at Banff In the Canadian Rockies; it now rains wild ducks. During a recent brief but heavy storm, a night flight of wild ducks were forced down, and mis taking the Illuminated asphalt and oiled roads for streams, “dove in." breaking thefr necks. Banff youngsters reaped a har vest of dimes next morning bj collecting the deed birds for a W* GINSENG IMPORTANT ITEM IN COMMERCE Crop United States Grows but Does Not Use. Washington. — “Ginseng’s popular ity with the Chinese seems to defy falling markets and political disorders, for last year more than a quarter mil lion pounds were exported from the United States to flbng Kong," says a bulletin from the National Geograph- ic society. —— “Ginseng has been an item in United States commerce since Colonial times. The first AdieriVan cargo boat that cleared New York for Hong Kong, in 1784, carried ginseng. The Chinese drink ginseng tea for its tonic quality. Though we raise it and sell it, the tea has never been highly regarded in the United States, anil very little is con sumed here. “Ginseng is a plant that grows from 8 to 20 inches high, has oval-shaped leaves, bears greenish-yellow blossoms in mid-summer and red berries in the fall. It thrives in mountain areas of temperate Norvh America and Asia. Thp above-ground portion of the plant is not utilized; it is the'thick root that enters commerce. “Long before Marco Polo passed down the Cathay coast, ginseng tea was a favorite tonic among the nobil ity and wealthy people of China. The poor could not afford to drink the brew. It was once worth its weight in gold. Last year’s shipments aver aged about $8 per pound. ^ Made Oriental Nobles Rich. “Most of the early oriental ginseng grew in the mountains of Korea and Manchuria. Every plant was owned by the ruling houses. Korean kings derived most of their revenue from ginseng roots. Manchurian rulers waxed rich. “Shape has much to do with ginseng price fixing. The more a root is shaped like a man, the more valuable it is on tlie Chinese market. "Ginseng played an important part in oriental politics in the Seventeenth century. Manchu nobles, seeing their supply of wild ginseng depleted, made laws to protect their plants against the raids of southern Chinese. Protec tion of ginseng resources was one of tlx* reasons for tlx* laws which exclud ed all Chinese from the domain of tiie Manchus. Operations of ginseng smugglers, however, persisted. “Chinese prefer the wild ginseng, al though the American layman cannot detect the difference between tlie wild and cultiVated ntrtts. With the de pletion of the oriental wild ginseng supply, tlie American Colonist readily found a market for tlie roots which grew at the back doors of their vil lages. “Perhaps the first American ginseng collections were trappers who discov ered the plants while making their rounds. Later search for the plant led professional hunters into the trackless American forests. Tims gin seng helped open up new regions to tlie Colonists. Ginseng Farms Established. “Wild ginseng thrives in mountain regions from Minnesota to Maine and southward to tlie <hdf coast. As in tlie Orient, domestic wild roots became scarce and high prices paid for tlie roots led enterprising Americans to establish farms. Some growers have profited from ginseng cultivation, but small fortunes also have been lost It takes from six to seven years of ex pert care to develop a mature root. Some domestic ginseng farms have been established in the woods where tlie wilif roots thrive. Others have been established in clearings, but in these cases the farms are roofed so that only one-fourth of the day’s sun shine will strike the plants. “Most of the ginseng exported from the United States today is of the cul tivated variety." Gold Tadpoles Found in State Fish Hatchery Columbus, Ohio.—T. H. Langlois, chief of the bureau of fish propagation of the division of conservation, report- ed to State Conservation Commissioner William Reinhart that golden tadpoles had been found in the state fish hatch ery at Xenia, Ohio. Declaring that lie had never heard of a golden tadpole before, Langlois expressed the opinion they were the young of the leopard frogs. He ob served that such tadpoles were ordi narily black, but that the golden color may have resulted from pigmentary changes. Still another theory was advanced by state museum authorities, who pointed out it “migtit be albinism, although albino phases have never been discovered in adult frogs and al bino tadpoles would naturally be white." The golden tadpoles are Wing seg regated by Ernest Harner, superin tendent of the Xenia hatchery, for study and experimental purposes. RARE BONE MALADY PUZZLE TO DOCTOR Eleven-Year-Old Mias Has Had Many Fractures. Chicago.—Suffering from a strange ailment which has kept hey. a semi-in valid since she was three years old, Mary Mestdagh, eleven years old, of Homer, Mich., has returned to her home after treatment in a Chicago hospital designed to make her bones Jess brittle. / Mary has suffered so many bone fractures in the last eight years that her parents have lost track of them. At least 35 or 40 fractures are re vealed by X-ray pictures, however, her physician, Dr. Frederick Harvey, said. L>octor Harvey is engaged in research work on Mary’s case at Northwestern university. Mary returned to her home from the North Chicago hospital, where she was treated for a broken right arm after her physician in Hom er, Dr. F. B. Van Nuys, sent her to Doctor Harvey. But she will have to return to Chicago at intervals for ob servation. “It is an unusual malady," said Doc tor Harvey. “Virtually every long bone in her body has been broken one or more times. They have healed fairly well. We think that the last fracture is going to heal perfectly, but of course we can’t be sure yet. “We’ve given tlie child special diets containing calcium and are studying the formation of her bones. “Examination revealed that the bone structure is so extraordinarily thin and brittle that any slight stress re sults in a fracture. This obviously imperfect calcification appears to be occasioned through malnutrition of the membrane that nourishes the bone.” Doctor Harvey, a specialist in bone diseases, also has been treating tlie child with injections of glandular ex tracts. These are niade-frdm the duct less glands, which, it has been proved by science in recent years, control to a large extent such functional proc esses as that of growth. Tlie ailment has left Mary’s bones “as brittle as egg shells," it was said. The outer covering is so unsubstantial as to permit of fracture from the least jar or pressure. Her latest fracture was sustained from a slight strain in volving not even a fall. Announcing Our Greatest 1ECTRIC RANGE v. OFFER $>495 ‘x Down 30 Months to pay balance Priest Risks Life to Rescue Altar Vessels Blackstone, Mass.—Rev. Thomas P. Smith, pastor of St. Paul’s Catholic church, ri/ked mis life to carry sa cred vessels to safety as the edifice was destroyed by fire. The church was built in 1800. Damage Is estimated at *200.000. ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel. $20.00 YWR OLD STOVE ANY KIND OR CONDITION FOOD a . ■ Looks Better, Tastes Better, Is Better! When Cooked Electrically. Meats and fowls cook tender and delicious. . . vegetables your family may never have liked before afie welcomed eagerly. • • biscuits, cakes, pies and other doughs and batters rise lightly and brown evenly. Rice, macaroni, oven dishes, any food that requires cook ing, is better for having been cooked in an electiic range. There afe many reasons why you’ll like electric cookery. 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C., July 30, 1932 RESOURCES: Leans and Discounts, made up of 51 .different loans with short maturities T — Distribution of above loans: $17,585.31 Notes from $ 1.00 to $ 100.00 945.90 Note^ from 101.00 to 200.00 —13—1 2387.47 Notes from 201.00 to 400.00 —17— 5462.00 Notes from 401.00 to 800.00 — 3— 1540.00 Notes from 801.00 to 3000.00 — 4— 7250.00 —51—$17585.37 Securities to above loans: Notes secured by Bonds and Stocks readily marketable . $4316.81 —• Notes secured by Warehoused Cotton at 3 3-4c and 4c per pound 4282.00 Notes secured by other Warehouse Receipts and other collaterals 3500.00 Notes secured by two signers and other quick collaterals ; 4486.56 Notes secured by 1932 City Taxes 1000.00 ■ . V $17,585.37 ' United States Government, State of Souht Carolina and County Bonds $61,366.66 Other Bends with daily market W— 15,000.00 Cash on Hand and Due from Banks 45,7763T Bank Building, Fixtures and Equipment 5,000.00 Other Assets 317.19 Two Are Hitch-Hiking Across Sahara Desert Paris.—Two young Londoners have made their way half the distance across the Sahara as the desert's first hitch-hikers, walking and catching rides on camel caravans. William Donkin and Norman Peran were re ported recently to be near Fort Flat ters oq the edge of the Hoggar, a re gion Inhabited by the wildest of desert Hi beg. Prom Fort Flatten they will ga te Pert Pollgnac, then acroas the) $145,045.76 LIABILITIES: Capital Stock Paid in $25,000.00 Surplus-Paid in 2,500.00 Undivided Profits A * 974.91 Reserve Fund — 1,778.82 Deposit? Subject to Check 95,195.32 Savings Deposits 18,540.68 Cashier’s Checks Outstanding 15.86 Other Liabilities 1,040.17 < H < f $145,045.76 C. G. FULLER, President. PERRY A. 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