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THURSDAY, OCTOBER®, 1932. BARNWELL 50 YEARS AGO. Interesting Items Gleaned From the Files of The Barnwell People. OCTOBER 5. 1882 Barnwell.—The infant son of Mr. mad Mrs. P. J. Drew was baptized at the Baptist Church on Sunday after- moon by the Rev. P. J. Wilson. Rev. Edward Palmer, the oldest of Barnwell, died on Sunday Inst at the residence of Hon. I. M. Jlatson, his son-in-law. Mr. Palmer man 94 years old and his last illness lasted only 24 hours. He was buried In the Baptist Cemetery on Sunday afternoon. Cooks and cotton pickers are scarce and in demand. WBlbton.—Mr. F. M. Weather'sbee and Miss Bessie Loud were married an the 28th ult. Mr. R. N. Miller has bought Stan- Mar’* Patent for the manufacture of ^brpentine, etc., for the State, pay ing 114,000 for it. By this process «very cord of pitch pine wood is con- vorted into 15 gallons spirits tur- pentine, 80 gallons pine wood oil, hd bushels best quality charcoal, 150 galkms, more or less, pyroligneous add, or wood vinegar, 40 to 50 lbs. wegetable asphaltum and a large ^foantity of inflammable gas. TOackvllle.—Two hundred and eigh- ty-aine bales of cotton were received an Saturday. The High School opened on Mon day with 75 scholars present and loTpe accessions are expected. The last trestle on the Barnwell Railroad has been completed. The first freight train over the Barnwell Railroad carried out on Tuesday ten carloads, of spirits and rosin, shipped by Moore and McLaurin. In the municipal election held on yesterday Messrs. H. L. Diefenbach and W. ft. Kelly were rival candidates for the effice of Intendant. Capt. A. A. Henderson, the courte ous telegraph operator at Blackville, will transfer his quarters to Barn well when the road w completed. Mr. W. T. Faust will be section master and John T. Willis conductor of the Barnwell Railroad. the lands which have r been conveyed to them and that the State sinking fund commission , will convey the lands which have been conveyed to it. In some of the counties, many tract; of land are held by the forfeited lands commission and they have been want ing to know what are their powers in handling such lands. The ruling is that such commissions will make deeds to lands held by them—“if the forfeited lands commission can con vey the title to the sinking fund com mission," the opinion reads, “it can convey the -title to any other pur chaser.” WELL SAID v . . THOUGHTS OF A FISHERMAN Work really gives us life. A Very few old members are being returned to the Legislature. A colored w<$man in Florence has given birth to a baby weighing 33 pounds. Allendale.—Over 1,500 bales of cotton have been shipped since the 19th of August. ^ Cols. L. W. Youman." and L. B. O’Bryan, who have been on the in valid list for some time, are rapidly recovering their wonted health. Col. J. J. Brown will soon move to Barnwell. A Spartanburg farmer has made excellent syrup from watermelons. Cold Winter h Seen by Weather Prophet fhar “^now Expected.—Last Week of October to Be Cold With Prob ably Killing Frost. •“Gaining events cast their shadows before,” according to a well known proverb which applies no Mess to the oNother than other mundane circum- #taaoces, says W. P. Houseal, of Col- vafaia, Dutch Weather Prophet. Tbva, he says, observations as far lack as June indicated the cold period of temperature which h&« been experienced during the past week, ■when the mercury dropped to within tea degrees of frost. Cold winters are now due in the last half of the cycle which usually governs temperature. The complete cpele is around 35 years—divided by abont 17 years between moderate and •cold winters. Within either period, however, one or the other may altei- naZe during several seasons—that is, a wacm winter may occur in the cold hodf of the 35-year cycle and vice- orr.'** in the warm portion of that period. This happened last winter when the cold-winter half had begun in 1930. The drought that year affect ing temperatures to such an extent a& to cause condensation of the at- morphere to such an intense degree that it was reproduced in 1931 and wangealment (cold) could not form ontd the end of the winter solstice in March, 1932, when th? two snow? ■acmrred as forecast by the Dutch Weather Prophet one year ago. killing frost. One snow i* indicated for the win ter, .so far as the observations of the Dutch Weather Prophet extend. He twos unable this year to make snow dbaervations as definite as formerly accomplished. More even distribution of precipi tation and also an equally abundant vinantity is indicated for the year 1933-33 for the South Atlantic States a» compared with last year when rainfall was “spotted” in many sec tions of our State and other sections mi tkt East from th? Potomac south ward—drought even prevailing to same extent. It will be noted that forecasts here in for temperature and precipitation Meteorological phenomena occur- rmc during the summer this year and gviig into fall up to this date (Octo- lanrl) indicate a cold winter for 1932- 33L As the major cycle is now in its lOOtb period, the coming winter may Me one of the coldest within the past wmtarj- Jhe winter of 1831-32 was one of Che ualdast ever known in the South. TBhe "eald Saturday” in February, 1832, was no doubt similar to the f, February 14,1899, when dropped to eight degrees r aero as the heaviest snowfall In nay yean ceased. In Col in February, 1899, the mercury . not drop as low as at Newberry, xneest temperatures in October I occur during the week beginning 22nd. At that period it may be a baaed on phenomena which pre vail concurrently with the Jewish New Year, when the harvest period comes and the physical year begins. It is quite significant that such indi cations were likewise discovered by the Dutch Weather Prophet nearly 50 years ago contemporaneously with the late Daniel B. Wheeler, of New berry, who was at that time the part ner of my father in the mercantile business in Newberry, without any knowledge of each other making the discovery; also in 1915 the Newberry Obseiver published a forecast by a weather prophet in Iowa who predict ed a warm winter based on exactly the same observations made la s t year by the Dutch Weather Prophet—and each had never heard of the other until that time. Each piediction was fulfilled. Opinion of Attorney General on Forfeits Beattie Says Forfeited Lands Commis sions of Counties May Convey Title to Lands. A. J. Beattie, comptroller general of South Carolina, has 0 sent out to the forfeited lands commissions of the several counties of the State, copies of an opinion, rendered by the office of the attorney general, out lining the functions of the-o com missions, which are composed of the auditor, tieasurer and clerk of court in the counties. Some confusion apparently had arisen in the minds of some of the members of these commissions as to their authority to convey title of lands which had been taken by them be cause of the failure of the owners of the property to pay taxes. The con fusion was brought about by several acts, passed by the general assemoly, dealing with such lands and the duties of the forfeited land commissions and the sinking fund commission. It is pointed out in the opinion that in 1920 an act was passed creating the forfeited lands commission in the 46 counties; it authorized them to dispose of forfeited land* by selling thrm for cash at public sale after due advertisement and instructed them to notify the State sinking fund oom- misrion of such sales; another section of this act provided that th« sinking fund commission should report to the forfeited lands commission all lands in their respenctive counties. Another section provided that the sinking fund commission should make all deeds to the lands sold by the forfeited lands commission, this section being neces sary because at that time the title to all forfeited lands was in the sinking fund commission. In 1929 another act was passed on the subject of forfeited lands c un- mission; and in 1930, still another, making a .special provision as to Flor ence County. The point at issue was whether the sinking fund commission or the for feited lands commission could convey title to these lands on which taxes had not been paid. The opinion sets forth that the for feited landa commissions can convey Few are pacifists in a pinch. r r ' Time Is money, but la It, always? . Experience generally leares a sore spot Hitch-hiking began with the first stowaway. Good manners consist, first, In not being fidgety or loud. Most common sense consists In not doing anything unusual. Men can explain why they fall, but not often how they succeed. Don’t ridicule any other state in the Union. All are vulnerable. True love demands that your sweetheart quarrel with you—a little. The outstanding evil of the divorce laws Is that they carry no speed limit. • • A picture in next Sunday’s roto gravure is worth two in the solemn schools of history. The language of friendship is not • words but meanings. It is Intelli gence above language. He who is not in some measure a pedant,* though he may be wise, can not be a very happy man. Civilization Is built up as slowly ns a coral reef by coral Insects—a little here and a little there. No one dodges the work he likes; but at the age of choosing work , thousands of young men don’t know what they like. _ /> Something said by one man to an other spreads with great rapidity and can soon become what Is called pub lic opinion. If one is a success at selling peo ple what they want, he does not need to become expert in selling them what they don’t want. I lock a newspaper wdth me to my fishing-hole. It contained the Jsllowing amaz ing information: The State of South Carolina has nominated and will elect to the U. S. Senate for the fifth time a man having the following qualifications: 1. He is a real Christian. 2. He is an American gentleman. 3. He is a dirt farmer. 4. He has brains, education and culture. . \- ;: 5. He has never made trades on the tariff. 6. He is dry. 7 V He is a Smith who does not pout or sulk. How come? 1. Because forty-two year's ago 3. Because South Carolina only three resources—jts soil, water and its people. 4. Because when those three thing.? are mixed, the farmers rule the roost. 5. Because the “common people” have been educating their sons and daughters during those forty-two years. • 6. Because a man who does not drink whiskey can usually think and talk and act straight. 7. Because the longer you look- at a truly good man the better you like him. —South Carolina is to the Democratic I caught four bass in ten minutes. I thought so much of So^th Car0 ^ in the above matter that I ^ided would move there if North Carolm* goes Democratic by less than hundred thousand votes. •>T- party what Maine has been to the Republican party, until last week. Will the legend now change to “As goes South Carolina, so goes the nation?” If it does, then Franklin Delano Roosevelt will have another Smith upon whom he can lean heavi- Ben Tillman put the “common people” in the saddle. 2. Because fourteen years ago Ben gave the above gentleman his pitch- fork, and the gentleman buried it. ly when he tires of his .sticky iT Al- Mrs. Bernice Drummond. fred Emanuel gets out of his dumps, he may have two; if not Ellison Du rant will be Smith enough anyhow. I put down the paper and started fishing and thinking. I felt £o good Letter from Dr. W. M. Whiteside- Miss Mildred Knesce. Interesting Facts About Our Bap tists—Mrs. A. E. Corley. Closing Prayer—Mrs. E. G. Moody. FOSSILS PROOF OF ANTIQUITY OF MAN? The most ancient being known which can be called man was discov ered In Java. It was imbedded In a stratum containing fossil plants and animals of at least a half million years ago. This being, called Pithe canthropus erectus, had a small bead, with huge'ridges over the eyes. Its teeth were much like those of today, and It walked erect. Next In age are the remains of 11 individuals discovered deeply buried in a cave near Peiping, China. These people were much like the Java man, but were somewhat more advanced. The associated animal bones Indicate a period only a little later. Near Heidelberg, in Germany, a human Jaw was found during com mercial excavations. The stratum in which it lay was deposited in the second Interglacial epoch, probably ^jO.OOO years ago. The jaw is huge, it has no chin, but the teeth are human. Another find of about the same age was made near Piltdown, *Sus- sex, England, and consists of a very simple skull, combined with a Jaw which resembles that of a chim panzee. Fifty thousand years ago a people called Neanderthal were living in the caves of Europe. They—.were dis tinctly human, but in many ways re sembled the anthropoid apes. They had long, low heads, projecting faces, and walked in a semi-erect position. ■- About 25,000 years ago they were displaced by newcomers, the Cro/ Magnon, a people much like mode; Europeans. i International Student* / The International Students' associ ation at the University of/ Chicago lists a membership of 605 from 04 counties representing 35 schools. Countries with the largest numbers are: Chlua, 50; Philippine Islands, 51; Canada. 41, and the United States, 138. The three leading colleges, nu merically, are the Universtty of Chi cago, Lewis Institute of Chicago and Northwestern university. Didn’t Mean to Watt* It A Kansas City (Mo.) druggist was requested the other day for a refund on half a bottle of medicine, one of the customer’s children having recov ered from an Illness soner than was expected. 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U. held it? regular monthly meeting Thursday afternoon September 29th, at the home of Mrs. O. H. Owens, with about 20 mem bers in attendance. The f ol owing- program was rendered: Scripture—Mrs. A. E. Corley. Sentence Prayer. Our Baptist Orphanage—Mrs. Jes sie Burckhalter. Our Baptist Courier—Mr?. G. A. Kneece. Letter from Dr. Charles A. Jones . .j*