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Wr& v- ■ ■ - * ■ -' «• ■ i/a Barnwell 50 and 25 Tears Ago. IftUrwtiag Items Qleswsd From the Files of The Barnwell People. APRIL 3. 1W4. 1 About 2,600 liens have been filed in the Clerk’s office up to date and stilt they come. Dr, D._K. Briggs has opened an of fice in Blackville and U prepared, to make war on the many diseases to which the human family is subject. Dr. Wiley S. Killingsworth, surgeon dentist, of Williston, has concluded to locate at Troy, Abbeville County. ' ' J ' ■ The bank robbers who were arrest ed in Allendale and transferred to the Augusta jail made their escape on Monday night after a week’s imprison ment by cutting the bars of the win dow with flies which they had con- ceakd on,their persona. The Republican County Convention will meet at Blackville next Saturday to elect delegates to the State Con vention which will elect delegates to the Republican Convention at Chicago. Arthur and Lincoln are the favorite candidates of the Republicans in this county. A man. who has successfully tried the prescription tells us that he pro tects his corn crops from crows, thrushes and other bad birds by scat tering in his fields corn, peas, rice and grits that have been well soaked in a strong solution of salt. He says that it kills all that eat it. "Mr. Alison Williams, who lives in the lower part of the county, tells us that one of his children drank a quart APRIL 1, 1909. An Odd Fellows Lodge was organiz ed at Barnwell Tuesday night. Asparagus farmers are busier now in fact than fair dreamers of Easter hats wre in fancy. ———— Mr. J. Herman Walker writes us from Villa Ahumada, Mexico, that "home papers look good to green cow- punchers The saw mill of Mr. P. J. Zeigler, located about six miles from Allen dale, was burned on Friday night. It is thought that the fire caught from the furnace. He had no insurance. Mr. J. B. Morris, Jr., who has suf- ferod so long and so painfully from rheumatism, is almost entirety well, “havtmfTliscarded erutehes and carry ing only a light cane as a safeguard. A« Mr. J. H. Collins and Mr. A. N. Black were on their way from-Black ville Tuesday evening, Ma*rch 23rd just at Double Pond Church a strange dog trotted into a covy of partridges arid the birds were so frightened until they did not notice the church and two of them striking ~ the top of the building came falling to the ground and lay there , until moved and same served good for breakfast the next morning. Robert Coleman, a colored boy about 18 years old, committed suicide near Blackville on Monday, using a bor rowed pistol to end his life. He was charged with having forged the name of-hht father, -Orange-Coleman, to a tity of dissolved concentrated lye not long ago. It was unable to swallow and blood trickled from its mouth. Vigorous remedies were used but by Rev. W. G. Britton, Mr. Wgsh nothing did any good until stiong vinegar was poured down its throat. This gave instarif relief and effected a speedy cure. check drawn on the Bank of Black ville. Married at Barnwell on March 28th Boyles to Miss Minnie Bates, both of Barnwell County. The Court of Common Pleas is bringing some nice strangers to town. Higher Gas Tax Threatens State’s Trade and Revenue Judge Essolene by the facts as you find them when you test it in your own way.. in your own car. Just try a tankful. That’s all we ask* We leave it to Essolene to do the re best] \Essotube Motor Oil in the crankcase enables Essolene to do its S T A N D A BUY AT THIS SION This sitfa idsatifiss’30,000 Emo ■alcrsfromMi Performance Cepr. ISM, Esse, lee. lo Loaisisns who represeat the services sad prodaets of the world’s leediaf oil orgsaisatioo. M P A N Y! OF N E W JERSEY Island of Tavalora Has Two-and-Half-rMile Aren Considerable -confusion exists over the question of just what Is the smalb est republic In the tfbrld. Newspapers and magazines have mentioned both/ Andorra and San Marino in this con nection. Asa matter of fact to neither of these does the honor of being the most diminutive belong.- Andorfirtias not been a republic for centimes, and the fact that this country in the Pyrenees mountains” on yne Franco- Dunveg/rn castle the Maccrlmmons were /hereditary pipers for more thar/300 years. There were actually two memorials unveiled: one a loaolith,. the otlmr. ■« cairn, i.whiflh.. occupies a position 200 feet above Loch Dunvegan and near the site of the old college of pipers, with this Inscription in Gaelic: “The memorial cairn to the Mac- crimmons, of whom ten generations were the hereditary pipers of Mac\- l.eod. and who were renowned as com J/aji, thotrinp motor rrffittrution on Jan. -il. indimtex nrarly half xtutr'tt motor car* and trurkx are reyixirred in harder rounfiex. QOLUMB1A. S. C.—Nearly half the motor cars and trucks own ed In South Carojina are registered in the 21 border counties, making purchases of motor fuel outside the state both convenient and cheaper if the state’s six-cent gasoline tax is increased. Experience of other states has shown that with border counties having such heavy registrations, a large volume of business is lost to neighboring states with lower gaso line tax rates. That was the effect also of the flat $3 motor vehicle regTstration fee established in Geor gia, motor vehicle owners in neigh boring states registering there in a wholesale effort to save money. Since gasoline taxes cost more per year than registration fees, those close to the situation see not only a loss of gasoline trade to neigh boring states with lower tax rates, but a substantial decline in South Carolina’s revenues from this levy. Of the total motor vehicle regis tration of 160,034 reported January 31 last by the State Highway De partment, 77,659 vehicles, pr about 45 per cent, are registered in coun ties adjacent to neighboring states. Any increase in South Carolina’s/ gasoline tax rate consequent would lift it above the rate;r in North Carolina and Georgia,y^hich would collect taxes on gasoHne sold to South Carolina residents. Since the average consumption per year per vehicle i» 600 gallons, purchases outside the state by ve hicles registered in border counties could cause tax losses to South Car olina of as Jligh as 32.795,000 a year. / Wonders of Science and invention Spanish border has 191/square miles in contrast to San Marino’s 38 cer tainly puts It out of/die running. But even San Mgrino is eclipsed by another Italian /state, the Island of Tavalora, which is off the north coast of Sardinia and which has an area of hut two ana a half miles. Tavalora’* independence has not been unlnter- rupted, but its beginnings go back to RoniAn day* when H was used as a 2 entration camp .for seditious glad ’s. The people on this isle still k Latin, with their pronouncia- rion aided by German scholars some 75 years ago. During the years 1836 to 1886 the Island was not independent, beinc owned by the Bartoleoni family—a gift of King Carlo Alberto. In the latter year the rights of this family were contested and Tavalora regained her freedom, promptly electing a pres ident and six conncilmen who govern the 100 people of the Island without pay. A tie through "Charlemagne exists between the two states of Andorra and San Marino, for It was-hg tbe year of 802 when Charlemagne granted the ale-In- the. Pyrenees hec posers, performers and Instructors of file classical music of the bagpipe. Near this spot stood the Maeerimmons School of Music.” J encq, San Marino that mighty monarch. OTBft The latter’s Latin secretary reported that the ruler died without learning the-1 the state which, declared war on him. —^Pathfinder Magazine. arUdos mmi fatcir tdl V i covered: -Automobile 1 Electricity— Home Made liture—Hunting, FUh- -Ideas toMakeMoney in i or Work— ToU in Sintplm Language Would you like to keep posted on all the new developments in this remarkable world our «? The new Inventions — the latest Scientific Discoveries—the amazing Engi neering Feats—the progress made in Avia tion —Radio—Electricity—Chemistry— Physics — Photography, etc.? These and 1 fa*aaWo^M*_ ^ t a. and V : I Somethin* for Everyone! are devoted*to the home tical ahopman. The radio e wet ion filled with newt and . . - i on construction and main- * nd "“eivini f U ? ere • re •corr* Of I to lighten her daily tath«...lt’t throng B magasine everyone in your family will enjoy. I At All Newsstands 28c I nawodoaUr U awU out,, -V Famous Pipers Honored With Monolith and Cairn A monument to the family of Mac* crimmons has been erected on Skye, the largest island of the Inner He brides, Scotland. The Scotsman of Ed inburgh relates why the Maccrlmmons .family should he thus honored: “The Maccrlmmons were the roost famous of all Highlanders as compos ers, players and teachers of liagplpe Moons of Planets Jupiter has four large and five small satellites; Saturn has ten, while Mars has but two. so far as discovered. Each of the planets may have moons not yet identified. One of the first discoveries made by Galileo with his ‘crude telescope, early In the Seven teenth century, was that Jupiter had four moons. When Galileo reported his discovery few people believed It. One scientist refused to even look through Galileo’s scope. He died soon after and Galileo remarked that he hoped this skeptic -had seen those moons on his way to heaven. It was uot till nearly three centuries later, in 1892, that the other moons of Jupi ter were found. Huyghens, the Dutch astronomer, discovered the first of Sa turn’s moons, in 1655, while the tenth yas found in 1905. .Nearly all .the dis coveries of these small moons have been made In the United States, as we possess the largest telescopes.— 1’aUiUnder Mftgazioe. Largest Reindeer Tke werkF* largest retndeer live on' the Island of Sakhalin, which lies be tween the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk off the coast of Siberia. A leading Russian reindeer breeder says the biggest male ever found In the Sakhalin herds had s weight of ap proximately 450 pounds, which is near ly twice the weight of ordinary rein deer. Females of the Sakhalin rein deer average around 280 pounds, but specimens weighing about 360 pounds Jiave been found In the herds.—Liter ary Digest music, and their college of piping In Skye, which is now a ruin, was at one time attended by 200 pipers.” Moreover, for 200 years It has al ways been s Msccrimmon who has lad the Seaforth Highlanders on which they figured—at Waterloo in 1815, and at the relief of Lucknow In 1857, and at a lot of other places. The unveiling ceremony was per formed by the MaclAod of ’Mac- Leod. the veteran chief of the clan of that name, to whose family at Meerschaum Is a material from which many pipes and cigarette holders are made. In its original state it is a spongy material found mostly in al luvial deposits of Asia Minor, s few other foreign countries and a- very small quantity in the United States, tt is also sometimes found floating on the Black tea and sea-foam, from which It gets its Ger man name—meerschaum. 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