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Yeggs Visit BarnweD and Blow Scife in Post Office Robbers Make Big Haul at Early Hour This Momi About $2,500 in S Stolen SAILORS HOLD ODD BELIEFS No Clue to Identity of Men Who Rob bed Uncle Sam.—Explosion Heard . a.* by Only One or Two Persons. I ■'■■■■ ■ ■■■ mi i ■ ■ » i Yeggmen visited Barnwell at an early hour this (Thursday) morning, blew open the safe in the post office and made their escape with about $2,- 500 worth of postage stamps, between $25 and $50 in money and a watch belonging to Mrs. Pearl Harvard, one of Postmaster Deason s assistants. So far as can be learned, there is no clue to their identity. The hour of the robbery is fixed at about 3 or 3:30 o’clock, Mr. R. C. Carroll, who lives in a small mUoRe iri the rear oi the po*t office butkhng hav-' w ««^* r ** < 1 " oth * r mg heard an explosion,* at that time, which he says he thought was a fire-cracker of the giant variety, the boys of the town having begun some time ago to celebrate C hristmas with fireworks. About 1 BALKED AT EXECUTION five o'clock Policeman J. B. Ross discovered that Obainau to th« L«»t, An.mai com- « I polled Buffalo Bill to Completely the back door of the post office was open and an Empty Hi* Revolver. . investigation disclosed the robbery.* tint ranee into the building was effected by way Bait-Water Mariners Cling With T#» nacity to Many Superstition* at Which Landsman Laugh*. , Nearly all ships carry a horsesho*. Usually it Is milled sTtmewhere in the stern. The horseshoe has been a Ir tish with sailors ever since Nelson nailed one to the mast of the Victory. Sailors have many superstitions. A sailor who wears a bahy’s caul feels himself immune from death by drown ing. And after a long trip the sailor who first sights land will have a good voyage home. Jack becomes decided ly uneasy if he hoars “land-lubber lingo” on the ocean. Therefore, if ever you are a passenger xlou t let him bear you refer to the deck of a cabin- as the “lloor.” the companion as the “stairs” or the alleyway as the “lobby” or “passage.” It is bad form, and un lucky. Whistling, at sea stirs up evil winds. A cuttlefish swimming on top of the waves also betokens a storm. A\iua!l may he expected when an ul- batross alights on the deck or when u seagull Hies between the foremast and the mainmast. Hut if the seagull Hies between the mainmast and the mizzen mast fair winds will prevail. Cats are considered unlucky to have on board ship. -Up to the lust twenty years most sailors wore earrings for luck. No sailor will shoxrt at birds lor fear of destruction of his ship. It la unlucky to kill u petrel. These birds, called by sailors “Mother Carey’s chickens"—a le sal Tor's THemta. They give warning of an approaching I storm.* l ,,,s K that each of tlies«‘ birds bears the soul of ‘a dead seaman.—London Times. pert* llie crack around the door was first thor oughly soaped, the ''soup.** or nitroglycerine, being poured in at the top. The force of the explosion tore the heavy door entirely loose from its hinges, a deep dent in the fioorf o the building showing where it fell. It was damaged beyond repair. As soon as the robbery was discovered Postmas ter Drason, Sheriff Sanders and Chief of Police Hayes were notified, but the yeggs had already made their escape. In their hurry they overlooked about $50. which was found lying in front of the one of the roads leading out of Barnw’ell, but whether it belonged to the robbers or was aban doned by a law-abiding citizen is not known at this time. It is being held by the authorities. Sever al persons now recall having noticed two strang ers loafing about the city for the past day or two and an effort will no doubt be made to locate them. They were seen here Wednesday night. A quantity of dynamite was stolen from a power plant near Columbia a sliiort time ago, at which time warning was issued to the public to be on the . * • * lookout for safe-blowers, and since then two or three robberies have occurred at different points in the State. 1 i •• \ PRODUCES COTTON IN COLORS Southerner Has Succeeded in Growing Green and Brown and Is Experl- .. menting on Black. — -A. W. Rrnbhnm lins submitted to the Cotton exchange of Savannah four samples of colored cotton—light brown, dark brown, "light green and dark- green. They are the resuMs of years of experimentation. Mr. Hrabham says that other colors will npixear when n number of cotton p’ents In his garden that are not yet fully grown begin to ben r. The botanist has not yet been able to produce black cotton, but be says he will do ao.in time. It would have appeared this year, he contend*. If a package of the aeod* of a blue-tinted . iIImI to Kim hr • hnfaniat in' I Luther Hurlumk once told Mr. Rrnb ham that he would produce black cot ton for a million dollars. Mr. Brab ham replied that lie thoueht he could do It more rhrnpfy. and thereupon started his experiments. -w » * •. *ent for a not ft ler pack age of tfcewe aceds, and .be I* convinced tbat If be « them nrltb certain of the catena be ha* •'•y4dv VcbbU trill he hftafik V Girls Traveled Far In Wilderness. Down the wild and- lagged- east shoreline of Lake Winnipeg, Manito ba* where not a farin’ nor a settlement breaks the ^desolation, two young women of eastern Canada recently rowed 2d0 miles In an open boat, tnk log a month for the trip and making their own camp every night. The col leerhm of fossils. In which the region Is TicIk w as the object of the remark able Journey. A lone Indian was the only human being sighted In the en lire distance. The daring \QiiiiaT> •a*y of tbe' lake, and from that point • era wV-tlj dapendont upon their *. * X V T T t % XI y It wntf whtlf serving us a kcuiii un der tfCtoTnl Sheridan in his campaign against the Indiana In western Kansas t t I |i • r’UL ci that Buffalo Bill, carrying dlspabdiea, oi the front door and the manner m which the safe] had to ride u government mat* owing ii * If | to tlie scarcity of horses. The mule was blown has every indication or the work of ex- Ur „ k ,. uuy i c«i> bad to walk 35 I tulles during the inght with tlie animal Ju«l in fr<mt of him. but alwnya out of reach S “Will. wIm»u he got renlljr and truly angr>.“ ^nyn bis widow, “didn't have the sweetest temper in the world. And by the time the sun rose he was just utKHjt l**n degree* higher I ban fexer- lu at in his ailitud** toward the mule. .Sii<|«b*nl>, tlie sohder* in h'ort l^umed iiear*l I tie »'»otid of a «hot about half a lie uway. Titen anoihcr and atiother another. WluU'. tlu-\ reactiexl the - w leTe tlie *lifs*ling hud iM'i'Urrcd U«e> ftaind Will Mubding over a dead mun , t*u**iug en«-r;.etlcull>. “ ’lUix*.’ he said. * the tough est. uienttcat mule I ever m»w in my life, lie made me walk ad night and 1 decided that he wouldn’t e\er do that t«» another follow/-fco I executed Modern Treasure Islands. Situated in the i’ticiiir <H*ean, nearly midway IkHwcoii AiV-rnu and Asia, Is Nauru, n luirreti i*t of rts’k only twelve miles in JlNwniifereiice. Thirty •»r torty >ears ago almost anybody could Iuiv«* had it for the asking- 'l®* nay it is worth untold millions, owing to the helttlwd disetwery that the whole island i< neither more nor less than a mass of phosphate rock, soil fertilizer well known to agriculturists. In Con ception hay, Newfoundland, is Bell bihtnd, sold by its original owner many years ago for It changed hands again for $2,000,000. This euor- mous rise in value was due to the dis covery that the island Is composed al most entirely of iron ore. For years previously shipmasters had been in the haldt of taking the heavy, easily handled rock for ballast, dumping it overboard with the utmost unconcern when they loaded up with cargo. Then one day a Captain more curious than the others had the strange-looking “rock” assayed and his fortune was made. " ir Not of the Usual Sort. A woman who had lived in a cer tain country town an tige at which her friends had scarcely assumed that she was likely to forsake her spinster- hood, suddenly surprised them by an nouncing her engagement t/> a local bachelor who was coiishfotcd xather eccentric. A friend of hers took'It upoir herself to express some little surprise nt the engagement, and when the fiancee replied: “Hut what is it In him you don’t like?” answered: "Oh, I don’t dislike him at all; it’s only that everybody thinks him—well, not exactly eccentric, but. at any ratfc rather singular in many of his wayi/ r , “Thjit may be,” replied Hie prospec tive bride, “but then. *• bp Is *o very unlike other men, tie !•* turely MANYPEOPLE THINK THAT IS WHERE BUSINESS HAS GONE—AND SOME F£W WOULD PROBABLY BE WILLING TO GO THERE AFTER IT. HOWEVER, THAT’S NOT NECESSARY. * „ * * JUDICIOUS ADVERTISING WILL DIS PEL THE BLUEDEVIL OF HARD TIMES AND MAKE THIS OLD WORLD • • SEEM LIKE A PARADISE ONCE MORE. YOU HAVE THE GOODS TO SELL- WE HAVE THE MEANS BY WHICH ifefr -¥QUR»«-M • % FORE THE BUYING PUBLIC AT A MINIMUM OF COST. ^ . COME IN AND LET’S TALK IT OVER OR PHONE NUMBER 89 AND A REP- • • RESENTATIVE WILL CALL ON YOU., f- V Adverb** in The People.