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Interesting Items Glesned From the Files of The Bsrnweil People. MAY 31, 1881 Any young man is made better by! • sister's love. Lt is nzit necessaiy tor it to be lus own sister. A tenant house on Mr. Leroy Wil son’s place near Allendale was burned on Saturday night. Two colored chil dren were burned in it. The mother, Annie Kirkland, had left them alone at home and gone to a* religious meet ing 15 miles off. Mias Mary Tobin will be happy to receive the calls or her numerous lady friends at Mr. E. W* Vogel's. She has some very pleasant news for them and is always at home. WHliston.—A valuable Newfound- dog belonging to Dr. J. M. Smith went mad last week but was killed before any damage was done. Peck crates of Williston peaches eel! readily in Charleston for two dollars apiece. Mr. Archibald Armstrong’s Skye terrier has adopted and is raising three mctherless little chickens. She Took It by Prosy:—A beautiful young lady tripped into Dr. Patter son’s drug store a few days ago and told young Mr. Eaves, who presides there, that she wished sxne castor oil aj^d asked him if he could fix it up so as to disguise the ti&.de of it. “Oh, yes,” says Eaves. Presently Eaves says: /‘Will you have a glass of soda water, Miss ?” Oh, yes,” tsays she. After drinking the aoda water the young lady waited awhile and then asked Eaves if the castor oil was ready. “Oh!” says Eaves, “you have already taken the castor oil in the soda water." “Great heavens,” said the young lady, "I waned the oil for my mother.” MAY 28, 1908. a Married by Rev. John K. Goode on the 20th inst., Mr. John C. Mixson, of Allendale, and Miss Josephine Hick- sen, of Kline. But for baseball, passing candidates and visiting automobiles from Black- ville, Barnwell would be indeed quiet these Spring days. Rev. R. A. Yongue attended the Golden Anniversary of the marriage of Dr. and Mrs. N. F. Kirkland, Sr., at Buford’s Bridge yesterday. With the assistance of a big stick and a small dog Mr. J. A. Lightsey, of Sycamore, killed in a two nights hunt in his barn 72 rats—not mice. Married at Beaufort May 12th, 1908, by Rev. A. B. Watson, Miss Edwarda Elizabeth Patterson, daugh ter of Dr. and Mrs. A. B. Patterson, of Barnwell, and Mr. Edward J. De- Costa, of Port Royal. Ellij Merritt, colored, who escaped from the Barnwell jail in 1897 through the chimney, did not travel far enough. Sheriff Creech received tid ings on Monday of his arrest at Mc- Clenny, Fla. Mr. J. A.*Rentz, cf Bamberg, died V bank in Barnwell, I sometimes had more than $100.00 in cash in my trunk, collected for remittance,. My foolhardiness lead to an attempt to break into the place one night in my absence, Mr. Rice driving the marau der off with his pistol. After that I was more careful. • Barnwell 46 years ago! I can re call the shady streets, the quaint old- fashioned homes and sweet-scented old gardens. There were no pave ments, no electric lights. (I think there were a few kerosene lamps about the public square), no w>ater works, no automobiles, and, of course, no distracting movie pictures or radios—and no prohibition! Barnwell was a “Sweet Auburn” then. These splendid paved highways that cross right in the heart of the town and stretch away endlessly^ it would seem, in every direction, putting the place in close contact with the great outside centers, this won derful new park and civic center, these fine schools and modem homes, leave me almost bewildered—another Rip Van Winkle! When I came to the town, the Civil War had been ended only 21 years. Today the World War has been over nearly 15 years. There were then more Confederate Veterans living here than there are now men who served overseas. And the former conflict was much nearer to the peo- 1«t week of blood poisonin* caused p ' e th “ * hc . , . ... , I Barnwell County, like Flanders Fields, from bruises on h;s toes as the result ....... ' , . . . Y' , . . . ! had felt the heel of the invader, of wearing tight shoes to a picnic. ... ... , . „ ,, , ^ 8 Vividly do I recall Mrs. Walker’s telling me that, viewing the smoking ruin? of her own home here, she had anxiously inquired as to the fate of her mother’s home in the county that lay in the path cf Sherman’s march, to be informed by a Yankee soldier that it toe had been burned to the ground. Her experience was doubt- The tees and one leg were amputated in arid effort to check the disease. New Candidates:—Senator George H. Bate? for reelectien; R. P. Searson, Jr., Esq., for magistrate at Allendale; Caipt. O. W. Barker for county super visor; G. C. Still fer mag : strate at Blackville; W. H. Duncan for Clerk of four:; Horace J. Crou.h for coun- J ies« but one of many. The wounds ty superintendent of education. RECORD BREAKING CROWD hers whom I recall were Col. George tCONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE) •ent to posterity the achievements of your people. Thu is a matter of the highest im portance, already too long neglected; it ia for the eduoaUsd youth of tjday to assume a leadership and see to it that the negligence of our people in this respect be corrected. 1 wish you Godspeed! Barnwell Forty-Six Years Ago. I graduated from the Smth Caro lina College in the clis* of 1885. The following year and a half I was back the old institutmn as tutor in French and English, at the same working for my Master’s degree In January. 1887, Dr. D. B. John- mm, then Superintendent of Columbia City Schools, was mked to send .-mme one to Barnwell to inaugurate the then new ‘Graded Sch.vl System,” which had obtained a high reputa- tifn from its successful tryout under him in Columbia. i w a< selected, and, though I was in the middle of my second year as tutor <>f my work for the A. M., the lure of the dollar was too great (I was offered $100.00 a month for the remuinder of the session), and 1 was released from my lucrative job at the college, which was paying $25.00 a m. nth. Nei her President McBryde nor Dr. Joynes felt that he could stand in the w ay of my securing so princely j h salary. ATTENDS COMMENCEMENT, Mr - William Gilmore Simms, and Gen. Johnson Hagood, great scl- dier and citizen, lato.y retired as Gov ernor. A distinguished Board! It was (Jen. Hfgood who gave me the fright, by undertaking to draw me cut on my knowledge (I should say, my lack of knowledge) of American history, in which ne was well versed. Now a fresh graduate from a college has usually left U. S. history so far be hind him that he has forgotten pretty much all that he ever knew; and I almost trembled in uncertainty of the | General* next question . In some way I managed to get through the quiz, ‘ and my election was confirmed. I then was taken int: the home of ; of that terrific strife had not yet healed. Judge A. P. Aldrich was then living —venerable, distinguished in accomp lishment as in appearance. Many de lightful evenings I enjoyed with that charming family at “The Oaks,” love ly and typical old Southern mansion, now gone. The road to it was by this same transformed Turkey Creek; many a time I walked there and back. That form of locomotion not taboo at that time. I also recall a delightful visit to the home of Colonel Willis Duncan, many mile* further out the same way. It was a little too far to walk! His sons, Willi* and Willie, and several attractive young daughters were there, all unmairied. I remember tco a trip out to the i attractive old Savannah river home a very dear old lady, Mrs. Nat. G. W Walker, who mothered me for the iQ * ^ PmLkne >' There l aaw whole time I was here, made me Uka ! the * ,ortra,t of an «tiemely handsome my quinine with every meal, and daughter of the family, who took the best of care of me. She had marri ^ G * rM ‘ ral Rudol P h has long since gone to her reward. * f CTur.eston. In the house with me were Mr. Ben The bar of Barnwell of that day was T. Rice, and hi, attractive ycung wife a notable one: Judge Aldrich was re- (they had not long bten married), and my entire corps of teachers, I namely, that inspired teacher and revered woman. Miss Anna Walker, who, I am sure, many generations ef Barnwell and cth?r people will “arise and call bie.'Sed.” . Her tact and popularity with the patrons of the school doubtless carried me over many rough places. It is one of the l most delightful features of this oc- *Bice, a Vaiucd friend; Icasicn that she is sti l^ere to grace do not^recall whether l it with her presence. The sohoolhoure was a one-story tired, as was clso the talented Judge Maher, whose daughter, Miss Fannie, was one of the bright particular stars in my school. In addition, there w?s Cclonel (later State Senator) George Bates; Mr. William Gilmore Simms, sen and namesake of the great novel ist; Mr. Duncan Bellinger, able and fearless solicitor; Hon. Reoert Al drich-, later circuit judge;/Mr. Ben T. d others. 1 neral Hagood, en, was a mem- Bamwell’s leading cit . ber of the bar; Re/. Robert Barnwell starting frame structure, then new, that store! experiment I near the * ite pf present hand some High Scho rooms. I all the higher ever the other, with all the lower c a«*es. Two teachers, with—more than a hundred pupils, in about ten At cU-M Fo: several days before out on thu wonderful understudied Dr. Johnson, absorbing] -all that 1 could get! #rom h:m person- •«dly and. from observation of his class room methods, and then, armed with ku blessing and 'the printed rules and or urses of study of the Gc'umba Schi els, I ret out for Barnwell, j j grades! Well, we did the best we was only a little over 21 years of, cou!d: an(1 the ^ oplc »^nied . t atrs- ■agi—a callow youi'.h 1 ! ^ od At that time we changed cars at I recall that I received a goocTden Brunthvi'tie and agarn aft Blackville. ‘ valuable moral support from /n and Barnwell was *1 the terminu* of, almost unknown young frien-d, Juries a little branch road from Biackville. Hagood’Aldrich, son of Bobeit I recall hearing on the train for the A !d, 'i ch - who circulated among the first time th.? story, whether apocry- a report he had from Columbia was rector of e little Episcopal Church, and Re/ Robert Lide, I think, Th re were two ! was P aitor °/ the l ai '£e and streng prided over one, with Barti* ton^eMion. J Miss Ann i Major John Holmes was the hldliant editor of/^The Barnweil People.” Amo/g physicians I recall Dr. Be- thumv Patters n, who, I understood, h:rei/ lately returned from studies abtpad; and that unreconstructed old | Confederate soldier. Dr. George Todd, I was told, never- forgave- ph>*l or not, of the great ante-bellum planter who objected to the railroad craning through his plantation to powerful athlete. Barnwell for fear that the trains might run over somei of his “little nig- gtarsv” and how he kept the railroad rewt for many years. It took quite half a day to come Tnim I '-bimbia to "Barnwell. I arriv ed ten o'clock art night and went to Oh* hotel cn the square, still stand ing, one of the very few landmarks that seem almost unchanged and that link me to the past The next day I met with the Board sc mf Trustees for the first time and it it proving a rather terrifying I wua as I said, rery young: The cHadrmsn of the Board 'was that splendid man, Duncan Bel- r, who proved himself always sympathetic friend. Other who, I was told, neve * forgave - -his sister, Mary Tcdd, for marrying Abe Lincoln. Dr. Todd’s wife, by the way, was Miss Lyles of my native Camden. His son, George, was in one of my classes and simply would not prepare his grammar. I expostulated with the doctor who, as you know, was some what eccentric. He wrote me that he didn’t care for George to take grammar at school, for “a gentleman learned to speak English in his own home.” w Had he added that it is al most: impossible to make a student speak good English if he doesn’t hear it in his own home, I should have agreed with him. Among prominen: business men of the place I remember that estimable old gentleman, Mr. A. P. Manville; Mr. Mike Brown, who had just opened here a big general store, a branch of his kirger establishment at Black- villv; and Major Herbert Brown, who had the leading drugstore. Major Brown was one of the meet interesting men to me in Barnwell, a room in Mia. Walker's yard, and, as | typioal gentleman of the old school, there was (if I remember right) no 1 decidedly original in his uae of Eng- (Heaven knews howV fcha:,/ho I lookr ed small and weak, I wa? really a! It whs pure fic- j tion, of course, .but I/bless that dear j boy’s memory’ to this day. He in nocently did me a/mighty good turn, though, I am thankful to relate, my athletic prowess w^s never nut to the test. One trival/ incident I must tell in some vainglory. There was then no bookstore/or bock depository in the town, sp I ordered direct from the every text needed in the and sold them to the pupils at coat. Perhaps had I been older harder I should have felt that I entitled to a small commission for my work, but no such thought en tered my brain.* I occupied a little lish. In fact, he coined words to suit the occasion much more expres sive than any to be found in the dic tionaries. For instance, he described to me a rather ne’er-do-well boy as being “no good; in fact his ingredi ents have been no good for 'several generations”; and his dogjtha/t would not stay at hime he characterized as “the most vicissitudinarious dog he had ever seen.” Delightful man! Doubtless his original expressions, like his good deeds, linger after him in this community. Among the prominent families of that day I remember the O’Banncns, Moairs, McNabs, Buckinghams, Lan- cs-iters. Holmes, Ryans, Easterlings and Tobins. I am dure that I have omitted many names that were as worthy as those given. The omissions, it is scarcely necessary to state, are of memory and not intention. I shall not make the blunder com mitted by my friend Fltz McMaster, who in speaking at a semi-centennial, celebration recently in Columbia, call ed by name the belles of Columbia “fifty years ago.” The next morning’: paper repeated his remarks in t< and that evening “the belles of fifty years ago” made hi* ’phone hot with indignant protests. I was succeeded as principal by my friend and classmate, Lewi* W. Parker, afterward a prominent mill executive; and he, I believe, by an other friend and college mate, James Henry Rice, naturalist and publicist, who has recently given a modt inter- taining account of Barnwell as he knew it. That he and I find pleasure in such reminiscences proves that we are both getting into “the sere.” I have prolonged mine, I fear to the point of fatigue. TO RAISE FARM PRICES IN NATIONAL INTEREST Pine Logs Wanted! V, Will buy clear Pine Logs 12 inches and up delivered our mill on Columbia highway, eight miles North of Blackville. Cash on delivery. For prices and par ticulars, address— Badham Lumber Company . . ; . / Blackville, S.'C., R. F. P. / 4 In assuming responsibility for the administration of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, George N. Peek, ad ministrator cf the Act for the United States Department of Agriculture, states that it is oniy fair to agri culture, to so much of industry as is affected by its openarion, and to the consuming public, to state the prin ciples of that legislation as it is in tended to apply them. He says in substance: • • In the first place, the sole aim and object of this act is to raise farm prices to a point, generally speak ing, where farm prducts will purchase as much industrial products as they did before the war, and to keep farm prices at that level. Its purpose is to enable farmers to do something for themselves that they have been prevented from doing —to do whit" ill• OThff producing social gretips do,- and that is -4af»- proximatey and in the long run) not to produce and send to market more | goods than the consumers at home | and abroad want and ha\e money to i pa>yur. But farmers mm: help do I tl/s particular job. In adopting the law end through the work that will be done under it, the Government goes the limit to help the farmers help themselves. A? for the food and textile in dustries, the spirit and purpo-e will be to act with as little interference with established institutions and methods as is consistent with the fix ed purpose of the law; namely, to raise farm prices. With the help of those concerned,' thd difficult task will be worked out in such manner as will least interfere with their business and established methods, with as little government interfer ence in their affairs as is reason ably possible, but none will be per mitted to forget the purpose of the legislation—to raise farm price* in the_ national interest. To the consuming public it is unnecessary to. say that what L to be done to bring about economic justice— to right a social wrong— which grew up under cur economic system in the false theory that the urban half of our population could! enjoy the benefits cf an artificial pro- 1 tective system, leaving the rural half largely outside the benefits cf that particular device. Agricultural prices for a long time have been unduly depressed and ruinously below their fair relation to other prices. Putting them where they belong has the support of all fair-minded people and will not. be a heavy burden on any person or class in our country.-’: Agriculture must be restored to its proper place in the Nation’s life, not only for the sake of the farmer but fer the gen eral welfare. ************* ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. Nature’s Own Nitrate Fertilizer... with Nature’s vital impurities, immediately, non-acid. Insist upon Chilean when you buy. Y^ur dealer can supply both kinds — Champion and Old Style. Fine condition. Lowest Price in History I tt SAVANNAH’S BEST . y-That is the reputation we have gained as the ^ result of an unceasing endeavor to provide for your enjoyment delicious, wholesome foods, and comfortable,most satisfying accommodations. 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