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9 i > mm DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. C f , as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: , One Year — $1.50 Six Months .90 Three. Months — .50 (Strictly in Advance.) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1932 ;; Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. »»»»»»»»»» We Kept Up With the Jonese*. It has been mighty hard on ns to keep up with the 'Joneses, but by Heck, we have done it—and the Joneses are busted and so. are we, but its their fault; they started this high living thing. The day after old man Jones fetched that 7-tube, super-he f rod'ne, ftoll-mesh, extra grid radio home, we installed a set just like it and played as loud as they did. They bought a new car in 1929, and so dij we. Ours had 4-wheel brakes too. money out of chewing gum stock. I sampled it too often. .When I finally sold the entire shipment, I was ex actly 60 cents short gnd all of the gum was gone. It took half of ; my cotton patch to finish paying for stuff. My prize for selling 2 do worth of gum was a pretty little scarf pin—and I never had a scarf irt my life. I had to return a shipment of spavin cure for~horses once. Folks didn’t worry about sick horses ‘way back yonder—as they used mules mostly. I peddled rheumatism electric rings for 2 months and won a pocket knife that wouldn’t cut hot ice-cream. My reward for selling £4 bottle of “Herb Juice” for stomach ailments was a pair of ear muffs that were big enough for a wild jackass. I got a spyglass (that would make a fly twice her regular size at 6 inches away) for working 6 months trying to sell insect powders; nobody paid any attention to insects back then— they only “shoo-ed” them now and then. All of that was fine experience, and taught me patience, and how to endure the pain of fooling with all kinds of people. I still enjoy tackling tough customers. Mi's. Jones diddent get to wear her 2-carat super ring but 3 days till our family had one just like it. They began painting their house on Tuesday, so we borrowed some money and started painting our hou.«e on Thursday. We got done a day ahead of them as our house is smaller. Mrs. Jones and her family wont to the seashore in June and me and my family went to the seashore in June. We borrowed money for that also. Willie Jones went to college in 1930, so our boy had to go to college too. And we sent him on credit. We had no idea of letting any of the Joneses out do or out shine us. (K)Nights of Long Ago. .—Settin’ up with the corpse used to be a common thing but somehow or other, that fad is disappearing in .some communities. I always enjoyed it until I got married, as I would try to set up with every corpse in the neighborhood where my sweetheart would be present. I still think well of this custom. It never was nice for folks to set up with a corpse if he or she hap pened to be kinfolks; so, naturally, a fellow didn’t have to feel so very sad if the person in the coffin was only a friend or an acquaintance. Me and Susie would usually do our set ting up on the back steps or in the front piazza or mebbe upstairs. Susie could always look mighty sad when necessary. The Joneses traded at the very best stores in town, and so did we; only they paid cash and we had a charge account. The Joneses bought some stocks outright, and we bought some stocks on margin. Mrs. Jones after hers was built, measures 20 by 30 feet; ours built the following week after hers was biult, measures 20 by 30 feet. She has snails and salaman ders in her pond and so have we. The Joneses cook with hoik elec tricity and ffas; we have 2 .«tov:s too. They have an automatic refrigei ator; oura is just like theirs, only ours aint quite paid for yet, and so aint our car and stoves and radoi. Old man Jones ran for the legislature, and so did ou r old man—and both of os got beat. We would make coffee or sassa fras tea along about midnight. As we did not care to ramble around in the kitchen of strangers hunting cream or sweetmilk to go in the coffee, Susie and I generally were de legated to go out to the barn an< milk a few squirts from old “Bes. 5 .’ We hated to wake her up for so small an accommodation, but she never seemed to mind it very much meaning the cow. This is the only time in history that the Joneses—who always set the P*ce—got it in the neck. We are hoth poor now and we borrow from keep up with us and we aint trying to up with and we aint trying to keep up with them. Our families are on good terms and we actually vi«t one another very often and we go to church on Sunday too. The Joneses are nice folks. I Learned to Sell Merchandise. -—I am a merchant. I have been in the mercantile business about half of my life. I enjoy the game as much in bad times as in good times; what I like about it is the work, and work is entertainment to me. Idle- would kill me in a month. When I was a kid, I was ali the time selling something. I would “or der or for pills and chewing gum u®d other junk to sell for prizes. Mickles and dimes were very scarce and it took real “bucking down” to Mil 24 boxes of pink pills for droopy people at 26 cents per each, but I illy succeeded in doing that stunt in 60 or 90 days—and then got my prise watch—which wouldn’t run. —A sad experience overtook me one winter. I had a medicine house up in Maine send me 2 dozen boxes of worm tablets that I agreed to dis- poae of at 50 cents, per box, and when I sent them their money, they would mail me a fine air rifle. I peddled worm food for 2 months and sold only 1 box. Two or three of my brothers broke ino my cracker-box trunk one night and ate every single worm tab let I had. It took me 2 vears to ex plain that to the company. The boys got well alright, but were never again Motchad eating worm candy. had * tough time getting any In the winter time, we frequent ly popped some corn about 2:15 a. m Roasting -ome potatoes # at 3:10 a. m helped some. Nearly everybody hac ’simmon beer when 1 was the “set ting up age.” and we drank that to keep u< from getting too sleepy. Susie was alway? very resourceful; she occasionally slipped into the kitchen around 4:11 a. m., and fetched forth some cold biscuits and a chunk of meat; we broiled the meat on the coals in the fire-place and made a fat- back sandwich with the bread. That’s fine eating even to this day, if you don’t know it. The erosion problem, one of the most serloos facing the farms of the (United States, has been practically solved in one section of Missouri where the federal warnings have been taken seriously. In this area steep hillsides which for years had been whshed by heavy rains, have been planted in corn by the so-called ter racing method. The results have more than borne out the contentions of the experts who have maintained that this method is the only one which will save the fertile top soli which In unprotected regions has been washed away either by sheet erosion or by gullying. To illustrate, accurate measure ments on adjacent fields subject to the same rainfall as the terraced fields disclosed the soil washed away last year at the rate of 140 tons per acre. On the terraced fields the loss showed an average of 2.3 tons per acre with one particular development with Just 85 pounds over a ton loss. There are two methods of terrac ing, one which provides a gentle slope from one flat down toward the ter race leading to the flat on the next lower level, and one in which the various flats are made as level as possible. In the case of the level areas, the loss was held to the mini mum. The amount of soil lost annually through the erosion Is tremendous and experts are endeavoring to bring all farmers with fields subject to the swift wash of heavy rainfall to a realization of the danger to their fu ture prosperity in the continued Ig noring of the steady drain on their capital involved in the loss of top soil. < *v Wonder What Party ^t t Other End Was Saying! Albert D. Lasker’s pet story of the week is about the colored maid in the home of a friend who answered an imperative ring of the telephone. “Yas’m,” her mistress heard her say. And a second time: “Yas’m.” Then she added: “It sho is,” and hung up. The telephone rang again imme diately and -the girl made identically the same replies, then disconnected. "What kind of a conversation was that. Lucy?” her mistress asked. “What did they want?” "Well, they asked if this was the Blank house and l said Yas’m. and then they asked if Mrs. Blank was home and I told ’em yas,” the girl answered. “Then they said. ‘Long distance from Washington,’ and I said TT - sho \vas7”—Chicago News. For lazy liver, stomach and kidneys, biliousness, indi gestion, constipation, head ache, colds and fever. 10* and 35* at dealers. Capudlne best for JEADACj because- them. Contain* no op«»«. * • Won’t mV*** stomach. Being Uqnid.itKrtquickar than pHls or powder*. ■ Sold at drug stores m 10e,30c Candidates* Cards. I ■ Second Democratic Primary Election For Coroner. I hereby announce myself a candi date for election to the office of Coroner for Barnwell County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election, pledg ing myself to ijbide by the result of the election and to support the nomi nees of the party. S. H. USSERY. We commenced to thin out along about 5:30 a. m. 1 walked home with Susie nearly every time; if she stayed over for breakfast, I’d have to go home by myself, as I had to be there in time to feed the mules and shuck the oxen and slop the hogs and make fires in the stove and wake up my brothers and set the table and ring the farm bell. Our 1'egular getting- up time on the farm was just before day-light, summer and winter. Rat-Kangaroo Still Lives The rat-kangaroo of Australia, long thought extinct, has been rediscov ered by IL H. Finlayson of Adelaide university, that country. In a letter in Nature, a scientific periodical pub lished in London, he points out that since 1843 it had been feared this queer animal had become extinct. The writer claims he has not only re discovered the long lost desert in habitant. but has obtained specimens in all stages of development. They live in the sandhill country between the Diamantina and Coopers rivers. They are marsupials and possess pouches in which they carry their young. 1 Lending for Protection Hollywood thought a certain mo tion picture star had gone crazy when he began to lend money to certain of his friends. To be sure, the amounts were small, but the fact that he lent any at all was cause for consternation among the people who, knew him real well. "Don’t you worry,” grinned the star, when it was pointedly suggested that he needed a vacation and mental relaxation. "I haven’t loaned a dol lar more than I'm willing to pay to feel certain that I’ll be left strictly alone. No one comes near you when they owe you money.” Times have changed since I wa.* a boy. Of course the death of a friend or a kinsman has always been a sad and sorrowful occasion, but the older folks did most of the mourning “back yonder',” and setting up with the dead was not any great punish ment to the younger folks of my gen eration. And Susie liked to set up too. She married Hiram Skates be fore I got married. The Magistrate’s Races. Blackville. Grubbs Hammond Blackville 235 Double Ponds 32 Healing Springs __ 13 282 19 61 Totals 280 362 Great Cypress. Harden Sanders Great Cypress 65 s 98 Siloam 57 37 Totals :! 122 135 ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. Brothers, but— Tiie Grand Duke Alexander at a re ception in Washington was recounting some of the more horrible of the Bol shevik murders when a prim-looking man in spectacles said in a reproach ful voice: “The Bolsheviks are o^r brothers.” "Yes,” said the grand duke, “the Bol sheviks are our brothers, sure enough, but remember that Abel had a brother.” ^ - Now Baby Cheats City The birth of Anne Blaker on “leap year day” cost the town Qf Brighton, England, a fortune. Six years ago Sir John Blaker, four times mayor, died, bequeathing $1,500,000 to be di vided between civic improvements and funds for indigent widows, provided his son and daughter remained child less. , No Mystery There Story Teller—And while the little boy was sitting in his chair all alone he heard a horrible, horrible wall right behind him. What do you sup pose it was? Modern Youngster—Static! ' Now Ho’s CuroJ Alice—Your husband doesn’t talk about his old sweetheart any more. Joyce—No. He saw her the other day—after 20 years. Girls aud' Girls “I like Eva. She’s the sort of girl who stands out In a crowd.” “I’m all for Molly. She alts oat I" (Stockholm). I hereby announce myself a candi date for election to the office of Coroner for Barnwell County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election, pledg ing myself to abide by the result of the election and to support the norm nees of the party. JAMES T. STILL. 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Come in, Phone or Write Today. NOW—the more electric service you buy the lower the price. It is cheaper than ever before. E. L. GODSHALK, Vice-President and General. Manager. South.Carolina — POWER COMPANY J. W. RUFF, Local Manager f f T T ? T T T t T T ? ❖ Barnwell County Farms for Sale t t 6 66 LIQUID - TABLETS • SALVE 666 Liquid or Tablets used internally and 666 Salve externally, make a complete and effective treatment for Colde. MOST SPEEDY REMEDIES KNOWN 353 acres 2 Vi miles S. Barnwell, formerly known as M. B. Hagood (Mill Tract), 225 acres cleared, lot fine timber, bordering on stream, tenant houses. One of the best farms to be had. . . r 278 acres I mile W. of Barnwell, formerly known ♦to as Goldie^ G._.Holnaan tract, 150 acres cleared, balance V in woodland and swamp, 2 tenant houses, beautiful loca tion. Don’t miss it. ^~ — 246 acres 1 mile S. of Williston, formerly known ast Edna E. Blanchard farm, 200 acres cleared, good stream, ample tenant houses and out buildings, some timber, 10 acres young asparagus, for general purposes, there’s none better, 95 acres 1 mile South of Barnwell, formerly known as Walker farm, 5 room dwelling, 2 tenant build ings, all cleared and on paved highway. Beautiful loca tion and convenient to market. 250 acres 3 miles N. of Barnwell, formerly known as E. Y. Easterling farm, tenant houses, bordering on stream, 175 acres cleared. The above mentioned farms can be bought cheap and with terms if desired, with 6 per cent interest on all deferred payments. Also, other farms not mentioned are for sale. Phone or write— W. P. WILLIAMS P. O. BOX 7 WAGENER, S. C. • ' ' *■ , '* s *9999999949999999999999999 BROWN & BUSH ' * 1 Attorneys-at-Law BROWN-BUSH ! BUILDING barnwbil, ! SOUTH CAROLINA ! PRACTICE Di STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS