Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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W, Ot?tOU t6i "Al. (YPpone( in "AU. Town and Oities. embers of the county boards of ro i to acq aint se v of n%Watohnearn. vidO tih&h books shall be ope#! lIn the Vius towns and OJties throughout bhe counties. The Inw is as follows: "An act to amend section..&179 of the code of laws,-of South Carolina of 1902, volume 1, relating to opening of books of regiftration. "Be it enacted by the general as sembly of the state of South' Carolina: Seeti6n 1. That sectioi 179 of the code of 'laws of South Carolin-a of -1902, volume 1 be.amended so as to read as follows: See. 179.-The super visors of registration for the several counties of this state shall, in every general election year or in any year in which any special electioi is to be held, subsequent to the first day of September, hold in each and every town, city or industrial community containing 300 inhabitants or more, in their respective counties, at such time as may be designated by the board of registration, after two weeks .,notice, published or posted in such town or city, one meeting, at which shall be registered such qualified electors of the county as may present themselves. "The books of registration shall be also opened on. the first Monday of. each month at the court house for the registration of electors entitled to registration under said constitution, and be kept open for three successive days in each and every month until 30 days before a general election, when they shall be closed until the general election shall have taken place: Provided, That such persons as shall become of age during the said 30 days shall be entitled to reg istration before the closing of the books shall be opened for the regis each general election the registration books shall ze opened for the regis- I tration of electors entitled to regis- I traition. under the constitution on the first Monday in each month at the court house until 30 days preceding I any general election, when the same shall be~closed until said general elec tion shall have taken place. The reg- < istration books'shall be in like man ner closed five days before any spe cial election. "In those counties of the.state hav ing more than 50,000 inhabatants, as shown 'by the last preceding United i States census, in every general elec- i tion year, when the registration books i are opened in the month of August, they shall be kept open continuously every day except Sunday at the court i house up to and including the 15th I day of August of said year, for the ( registration-of qualified electors, ind i this particular pi'ovision. shlall in no wise affect tihe registration of elec tors in counties hlaving less than 50, 000 inhabitants, and any additional I Scost inlcurred by reason of tile parti *cular provision in. regard to keeping books open in August ill those coun- I ties of over 50,000 inhabitants shall be paid b)y such respective counties. "'In Sumter counIty tile supervisorsi of registration lInay attend at leasti one day at some public place in each 1 voting precinct in said county, of< cvhich due not.ice shalhl be given.'' Violation Landf Lease a Misdemeanor.t .Another law of considerable im-r *por-tance, especially to landlords and< tenants, is tile following, whichl makes the violation of a contract between t tenant and landlord a misdemeanor: ''An act to declare the violation- of a I lease of land or tenements and a i failure- and1 refusal to cnter upon the due performance of. a.contract for leasing lands or- tenemon-ts, and t a the violation of any such contract upon01 tile -part of the landlord, a <] misdemeanor, and to provide a pun ishment therefor.t ''Be it enacted by the general as sembli of the State of South Caro *ina: "Section 1. That any Person ory persons who shall hereafter go into possession of any farming land of an-t other, or shall enter into a written i agreement or contract to go into pos- I session of the farming land of anl \,other as a tenant or under a contract 11 -to farm and cultivate said land,' and v *shlall without just cause or excuse , leave, desert or quit the land so leas- e ed or contracted for, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fin- I ed, nols than $25 nor- more than ,a $10 rsuffer imprisonment not lesst s than' five nor more than 30 days, in i the discretion of the court.g ' "S99 ih any person who shall I - 4 of 'the contracIs mention- n v > ecton 1 *of this act shall be seined guilty of a misdemeanor and v b6 fined nlot less, than- $25 nor more v than $100, or suffer imprisonment g p,ot 1 '.y five nor more than 80 ( dayas' ialetion of thie court. 0 tm ~ A skoll(LY;~aw OlfteA Voithp Amid E0t Green 1ud' a EquIiam.' Dr. W. Thalbitzer and his wife , lavo just tgrned . t Cofnhagen v p'om a fi-ten :mutl?r' f, to ;the 't 01st -of Getilad. V6q do6tor t lent.there 1is a scie tif nan ito r study -the Esquhiaqx bf4tAhit coast. I RTot. even their existenee was known antil Lieutenant Holm of the Danish .i navy discovered them in 1883 and a passed the following winter in their t iettlements: Mrs. Thalbitzer, a well known Dan- v isl ecluptor, accoinpaniea her hus- e band in' order to make models of: the I iatives in wax. 'l'he place where they lived among the natives was Angmag- 1 alik, one of the most isolated places < in the world. It is connected with -the outer I world only once a year, when a Dan- j ish steamer visits'it with mail and upplies for the solitary white family I ivilg there and with trade goods for Ohe natives. The vessel leaves in a rew days for civilization again, carry ing the skins, furs and eiderdown the LEsquimaux have collected during the 1 Vear. d Angmagsalik is a little place where ] Ihe entire native population of east I 3reenland, more than 400 souls is now I !entered. Esquimau ruins are scatter- 1 Ad along the coast as far north as ex- f plorers have penetrated, but today t -he people are living only in this won- s lerfully grand and picturesque moun- 8 ,ain region near Cape Dan. 'When the snow melts in the spring i ie land is covered with a compara- c tively rich vegetation composed of M imall shrubs and mosses. But the ( vide glaciers everywhere thrust their i Aoses far out into the sea, making valls that the iatives could not cir ,unvent. This is why the east and ve.t coast natives did not know of I ach other's existence. 0 Here the Danes established a trad- f ng station in 1894. As the little a 'teamer carrying Dr. Thalbitzer and t is wife pushed through the icy shore S hiey saw Johann Petersen, the only A vhite man living in east Greenland, s n the harbor beach waving a welcome 'o them. t He, his wife and little s6n are the b mly white persons living on this 1) -onst. - He is' the governor of Danish t ,ast Greenland and also the trading e igent of the Danish government, bar- s ering goods from Denmark for the !ommodities the natives ha,ve to ex ,hainge. A little haven near the nouth of a ford offers safe anchorage, ' md the place is very busy until the ressel steams away again, not to re ippear until another year rolls around a These 400 odd natives are all that s ire left of the once large east Green and native populatio'n. A wonderful -A -hange has befallen them since Hoin evealed them to the world twenty- F our years ago. When he discovered them they had S o knowledge whatever of their rela ives on the west coast of Greenland J md had never heard of the big out ide world. They had long been able C o use some articles made by civilized nen, for' their harpoons were tipped 2 v'ith iron, sharpened from the hoop ron washed on their shores, and rel- I es of many a ship that wvent down >r'obably hundreds of miles from their e won'st were found in their humble mtds serving some useful though un- I mcnstomed purpose. It is supposed hat they reached the east coast ages C Lo by passing around the north end f Greenland. Today they buy with the commodi ies they collect im'plements, matches T mid many other European commnodi ies. -The white man is helping them h o reduce to a minimu,n thge hardships f' their lives. C In fact there is a good pr'ospect hat they would lose many of the s hlarnettristics of their primitive con- t ition and for this reason Dr'. Thalbit- ti er and his wife were sent among a hem to make them the subject of a a rear of study while they were still 1 me of the few bands of Esquimau ace wholly unmodified by contact with tihe whites. To reach these peop)le, cut off from1 he rest of the world as they are by ee, requires a long and most uncom 'ortableo journey. Anugmagsalik has o direct communication with Copen agen and Dr. Thalbitzer had to go rest to Greenland to take the steamer vhich once a year visits the east 'I east. It is usually difficult to get through a lhe wide belt of ice that presses 'I gainst the eastern shores. Owing to his obstacle and the stormy weather b was two .weeks after the ethnolo. C 'iet left west Greenland before he ti rnded at the little -east coast settle- d ment. Dr. Thalbitzer had lived among the tU rest coast natives and Was familiar lj rith their dialects. This helped him reatly in his worlk among -the east 0 breenlanderI, who speak a distinct . laleot, though the east and wes ' bast hatives can underdaad e ther with little diffletilty. Here Che white man and his w fe ived among them for many monfid 'isiting -them daily In their soione vinter huts or their summer skin onto, talking and gosbiping with Iem, .studying their - ways; of life, heir intellectual range, collecting iany of their traditions, more than - 50 of their folk songs, many pro 'erbs, studying their dialect, and mak ng phonographic records of their peOch and melodies. During-the win or his wife modelled a large number f busts and statuettes in wax which 1il enable her faithfully to repres nt these people in museum models of iatural size. This year of work among these iso ated oativos yielded a large amount f material for further study.-and the >reparation of Dr. Tjialbitzer's re iort. The scientific results of his ourney are to be published in "Med lelelser om Gromland" this year. Tew York Sun. When Coffee Was Unpopular. Coffee was introduced into England 11 1652, and within the next ten years ecne the fashionable drink of Lon on. A -few years later, however, in 663, there was a great uprising gainst the "oriental baveragg of indes." It wa. satirized on every and, the bitterest invectives coming rom the pulpit. One leading minis 3r characterized it as "the sirup of oot mixed 'with the essence of old hoes," and another declared that it 'as "a poison which oGd had made lack lint it might bear the devil's wn color." This bitter crusade soon ,ore itself out, and by the time of ,harles II coffee bouses were known i every .village in the land. NOTICE 4CHOOL TRUSTEES. The trustees of the various School listricts who intefid to prepare a list f the polls and dogs in their district or 1907 will please do so at once nd hand same to some member of the oard of assessors from their town biip, between the 5th and 19th of larch, as the boards'will be in ses [on then. If possible the School Trustees or 4eir clerk should meet -with the oard of assessors and see that each oil and dog is properly entered. I link by this method we can avoid rroneous entries and increase the hiool fund in each district. W. W. Cromer, Auditor Newberry County. 'OWN AND TOWNSHIP ASSES SORS. The following perso.is have been ppointed to serve as town and town hip assessors for 1907: No. 1, Town-Otto Klettner, Jas. Burton, Sam B. Jones. No. 1, County-G. MeD. Sligh, B. .-Julien, M. B. Caldwell. - . No. 2-Dr. W. C. Brown, Chas. S. uber, J. D. Nance. No. 3-J. 1H. Smith, B. HI. Maybin, H. Ringer. No. 4, Town-David Duncan, P. B. dcli, H. V. Taylor. No. 4, County-C. H. Shannon, ach HI. Subher, T. B. Carlisle. No. 5-T. HLayne Chahners-, C. WV. uiford, E. P. Matthews. No. (i-I. Mc. Smith, Geo. P. Booz .', N. P. Abrams. No. 7-Press N. Boozer, HI. B. indsay, RI. S. Boazmnan. No. 8-W. H. Long, G. T. Blair, IH. .Long. No. 9, Town-A. HI. HIawkins, A. [. Lester, WV. T. Gibson. Nor 9, Couny-Rl.T. C. Hunter, W. .Pugh, .J. WV. Hartmnan. No. 10-Jno. D. Sheely, L. Q. Fel rs, D. B. Cook. No. 11--Perry Halfaere, John A. raham, Gleo. B. Aull.I TIhke abIove namied town and town iip, assessors will meet at the audi 's omee, Saturday the 9th of March, take the oath of offie and trans et other business in r'egard to the ssessment of hprop)ert.y for the year )07. WV. WV. Cromer, -County Auditor. ONE THAT YOU CAN BUY. he Victor Talking Machine is regular SUNSHINE FACTORY. here are no dullI days when ou have aVictor in your home. home and hear a few songs by ie great opera stars repro uced by the Victor. You will tink you hear the singers' ving voices. 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