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I yURNING away from meat I mtwVoi* B'fl Hotels Meal. entire PJ -i vegetables Art Increasing I y In Popularity. I AcfordJu* to the Now York Tim* I m dloei-sJ of the American metropolis I beionilng vegetarian*. Approxl I lely seventh to ofMHIftb of the l??ts *l hotel ? hero today are or \**iut vegctahiea for their meala lq 1*^ j at#. All of the bit hotels lEo ? fer* oare'u* of the salea Ij^, different IteniM on tho menus for I h jay, a nri ? recapitulation made IKotl.v at the Hotel Pennsylvania re ffiwl tbat ii surpVlal? percentage of I ((V?s omitted meat Items entirely I? (heir lunch and dinner orders. |L,|e (|ir percentage for lunch wild Loob hlgtior than that for dinner, the liUiuher Of dinner guests who re-, Ertd from meat entirely was also Ivfrv 1?i*go. I (n ,|,e opinion of Chef Jullen Jac I lfr of the Pennsylvania this Is the lijult <'f y('ars of **??>Pha8la on the JS# of vegotariaulsfOL The vegetart? La few years ngo. was very general IU?the butt oiT the comic papers; but |*llli the war a great deal more c#me L > thought <>f him by people who (fount! thAt ? thoroughly satisfactory LWI oould be made from vegetables liotl at much less cost. Chef Jacquler tajeves that this Is responsible for the L*py niiis given nowadays In the 6lg listeis for vegetable luncheons aud (ijfoner*, wh,cl' ''"ve 8 place on I (lie menus. [ancient laws of interest Oldest Known Written Code Has Re : cently Bo?o Translated by Emi. | nent French Scientist. I What Is said to he the oldest known Ifritten code of laws In the world, [probably antedating that of Ilnnimur j?bl by at least 1.0Q0 years, has been discovered In part among the hitherto Untranslated clay tablets from Nippur at the University of Pennsylvania tnu K?um. The ifammurald code was prepared about 2HK) H. (*.. and was discovered about 20 years ago on a large dlorlte ?tooe by Freneh explorers. The laws. Just translated by Ahbe Scheii of Paris, deal with responsibili ties of hired servants, rentals, rights of slave women who have borne chil dren to their masters, punishment for adultery, etc. 1 One Interesting statute provides that rentals must run for three years in case a man has taken over a house the owner does not know how to man age. This Is somewhat obscure and may mean that all rentals were for that term. In any event property could not be idle or be Improperly osed. Incase a slave bore' children to her master slie and the offspring were frre. and if the master married the ilave the eldldren became legitimate. ? Indian Is Mode' Soldier. Accusations that he was a German fpy caused Odis Leador, Choctaw In dian. to he made a hero and Inciden tally to be eho.-*'!) as a model Ameri can soldier for a portrait made to upon the walla of tho* re<lernl building. Leader. in war days a foreman on 1 ranch near * Calvin. Okla.. lenrfied |fw>ni Tcll?> minor in his neighborhood that he \v?M - accused of being a German spy. He Immediately enlisted and in the cour>v nf a brilliant war record "wa? cited- for bravery. During the en gagement for which he was cited he captured two machine guns and 18 prisoners, manning n machine gun for three days after the remainder of his crew had been killed. Dowarreux, the French artist, picked upon L'eador as hi? Ideal of a typical American soldier and made a painting from him which b?w graces t li?-? walls of the French Federal bnlldlng. Twice wounded and . twice gassed, kador. has been doing vocational work ??d only recently brought home his bride to McAlester from Oklahoma Cft?.? Wichita Beacon. Largest Motor Ship. The Africa, which wax launched at flopenliairen. Denmark, Dec. 11, 1919, the KaM Asiatic company, Is said 1? he th?? largest motor ship In Ihe w?rld. Her dimensions are: Length **?" all, 404 feet (1 inches; beam on fnmes, p>o f?>ct ; depth from awntnf wk. 41' feet; displacement. 18,600 t0DS 'lead weight, 18,250 tons. Her 'sain engines are two slx-cyllnder, our-stroke cycle motors of ordinary '***? K?''h engine develops 2,250 In lawed horse-power at 115 revolutions P*r minute. The diameter and stroke 0 the r\ i ? rs are 740 millimeters *&d 1.1. iii millimeters respectively. Wo rn<n Expert Life Saver?. ,,nf> man at least chooses woman life sitvprs in preference to men for tt'.rotlinc bis beach. That is Mr. <,rs.v. ma: of the parks pools in S' l.i)ui>. M.> According to Col. W. : ,nv. life saving expert of the Ret! rnos, \j r. <;ray declares that lmc* trying women at this Job during war when the bronzed heroes were b>? would rather have them 'tan mpfi. Many women are now qual '^'0* a? life savers and are getting trainir. g for their tests In the Y. If /. cour.: Gifted Imagination. "Wrs. A>res has great icifts Imag ^?tion, hnsn't she. " ^ don't know. Why (Jo jrou think *rd her sp '<> In as *?i Transcript. *r 'i 'n *" '*ar towD hou?e.'n? I .1,-r] f||>r 0f tjje flat ($. USA, by Mocitr* Ne,w?pMi>?r dyildlvtt<' < Tt h iis June? the mouth of roses Mint bride* tint! hurdy<gurdles, "ll Tiovh ' 01 ?* mingled willi thtt erles of tlo street. vendor* ? "Strawberries, sweet .straw brnii'* !" J utlo o\Vn found its> way through the revolving door* of thai ornately entranced.. lur.oh room <he "automat." Masle Gallagher. ?0!!iiijui'<hII\ mum-hiug a sandwlclu looked up smi denly and caught I ho #?> ? of u you u'. man seated across the tahl*. separated from hor l?y two foot o i mission furrd lure, a vinegar cruet. sugar '.o\VI, a hottle of tomato catsup ami h salt col lar. Something told Masle that this man was not a habitue of the automat. His woll-eut cjothgs. his deliberately turned uptstacho and Ids nicely mant cyred hands; proclaimed him "differ euKM All of a auddcii&^he" was glad her now straw hat was so becoming and that the floor waller at Tuppen's had given her an extra half hour for lunch. And because It was June she smiled faintly at the young man. "1 say," lie removed the bottle of cut sup from between them and leaned eagerly forward, "You dort't look as If you belongud In this 5-ceut place, I'll wagef tlun tlm head waiter at the I'luxa Is reserving a table by the win dow for your at this minute. What's tho answer? Out for experience ? to see how the other half lives?" Temptation nudged Masle C,*n I In gher's elbow an<9 came and ensconced Itself In hor bosom, aided and abetted by her vivid Imagination and an as siduous reading of the novels of one Robert Chambers, tthe succumbed. "I'm sorry I show It so plainly," she sajd to the young man with a depre eating air. "We are spending a few days at the Plfl,fca before our usual summer at Newport." And, with her elbows on the table, rather confiden tially. "I've always wanted to see the Inside of <hls place, you know. The cakes and omelettes they have In the window look, so perfectly entrancing as I go by in the motor. If I hadn't been afraid of shocking the chauffeur I'd have stopped long ago. Hut we've packed him olT to the1 country, so I seized today's opportunity." They smiled delightedly Into each other's eyes, and then Masle said : "But what about you? What are you doing here?" / "The same thing," hev*eplledt.ctvlng his mustache a deliberate caress with his beautiful hands. "I'm stopping at tlje club over on Fifty-First street, see ing the same fellows, eating the same rich food day after day. until I am sick to -death of It. Beastly bore living at" the club? but the ranter Is out of town, off on a motor trip, and the house Is shut up tight as a drum ? so there was nothing else to be done. I'm mightily glad I decided to give' my self a contrast at t he automat today ? mighty glad !" "Isn't It funny we've never met be fore," 1m* < ??rit iniiecj. making a mental note of the blush. "Well ? not really." replied Masle shamelessly. "You see. fre don't go out soetaHy atalh My father is fW most terrific old autocrat In New York and he says that Paris and Rome are the only places he will allow me to go out In. So, of course, I have missed all l he nice things here." And then, because life always mixes the bitter with the sweet, the big white clock on the wall of the auto mat forced itself into Masle's line of vision. One thirty! Gracious, In 15 minutes she would be due behind the ribbon counter at Tuppen's. She rose. "I had no Idda It was so late." she said. "I have a fitting at Tuppen's which 1 must not miss. "So glad to have met you," she purred. "But you haven't told me your name." exclaimed the young man, hold ing on to the little hand, determina tion in his admiring eyes. "1 must see you again, you know." "I'm sorry," said Masie Gallagher, daughter of Tim Gallagher, of the New York police force, "but it's better not. Father would Insist on knowing where I had met you and there would be a" awful row. Goodby" ? and, with a heartfelt resentment at the station In life to which it had pleased God to call her, Masle made her way back to the ribbon counter. That delicate, aristo cratic mustache burned her memory. She sold five yards of blue ribbon to a plump old lady who wanted It "charged and taken." "Just a minute, ptease," requested Masie listlessly, her mind fur nway, **t li e floor walker must sign for It." And she Cried fibril 1 and loud: "Mr. Foster! Mr. Fo*-ter!u "For Pete's sake. Masle," said Clara Oppenhelm. who also sold ribbons at Tuppen's department store. "Don't you ! know Foster's gone. There's a new man ? Mr. I'ldceon." "Mr. Pld-geon ! Mr. Pld-geon !" she shrilled. "Right here." said a fam'llnr. care fully nindulnte'l voire Is her ear. .Ma sle was looking into the aristi>eratlc fare nf the tnnn at the automat. "Good Lord ! The Plaza and New l?ort !" he muttered, ns ho signed for the ribbon "My Hnuil ! The club!" gasped Ma sle. as she handed it over to the plump purchaser _ Hut am (Wy tfUuxl there is amaze. intMitr Mnste ?nu the same deep ad miration 'n the man's eyes nnd Mr. Plde.-.M- snw the same becoming blnsb p^efty f aee. and. well. ?? June ? the tuou*?) of bride*. CUTTING fHlRD SET OF TEETH M?mphi? (Tcnrt.) Man, at 84, It AIM Renewing Hie Youth and Vigor In Other Ways. ?i The adage that there Is nothing new under the ami had been disproved by N. D, Starr, who has cut a third sot of tedth at the age of eighty-four, when tiNuttlly the only new molars, bicuspids, etc.; that can be achieved are those purchased from a dentist, says the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Mr. Stun# who U In the etnpl<).v of the Memphis Artesian Water coitifiany. recently found himself In need of a set of these artificial substitutes for the teeth provided by nature. lint when he visited his dentist the price Was too high and he decidod to go toothless. However, through OIJi? pi til*'- imiir couui>iiii?> hftjp'p&nlng* which some times upsets ail rules, Mr. Starr dis covered that he was cutting 12 new teeth. They are almost through now, although they are not very useful yet. owing to the fact tlmt his gums are sorely a fashion familiar to nil moth ers of teething Infauts or to boys and girls whose second teeth are replacing their baby teeth, and even the older boys' and girls who proudly announce: "I'm cutting n wisdom tooth." Dentists doubtless will contend that such a thing eannot happen. Hut Mr. Starr knows that ho now has teeth where no teeth were before. More over, he says his eyesight Is better than It was several years ago. and that so far from his vigor being Im paired by advancing years he feels stronger and more youthful than he did when he was seventy. TELL OF BABYLONIAN LIFE Interesting Revelation* In Clay Tablets That Were "Written" On Some Forty Centuries Ago. The University of South Dakota at Vermillion has come Into possession of 81 genuine Babylonian tablets, dis covered by Arabs In the ruins of bur led cities and collected at Bagdad. They have been deciphered by Dr. Edgar J. Banks of Alpine, N. ,1.. an authority on these clay and brick rec ords of 4, (XX> years ago, and their authenticity proved. Fully half of the tablets In this collection are perfect nnd ail of them are legible. They are only a few Inches in sl/.e and were written on when they were soft clay, later being dried, or baked. Most of them are of about the date 2350 B. C.. a few going as far back as 28<X) B. C., and others dating from the time of the fall of Babylon before tho Per sians. In 538 B. C. The most valuable tablet of the collection is a letter. Holes were made through it so that It might be attached to a cord ami carried In this way. Next in point of value and Interest are a number of neo-Bnhylonlnn tablets of' sumlrfed clay containing business contracts of all sorts and giving pictures of the life of the people after the Persian conquest. Of special interest is a small tablet of exercises in writing, done by some boy In "the temple sci.jol over 40 centuries ago. Iceberg Acrobat. The sighting of ;i fleet of 11 icebergs, one with somersaulting tendencies, was reported by Capt. W. II. Flem mlng recently on the arrival here of 11ie~s tea msblp M una Ires from Kotter datn. The bergs were seen about 750 miles east of Halifax. One of them, said Capt. Flemmlng, suddenly rolled over with u splash. As It tumbled, a large piece from the top was broken off, causing the berg to take a second tum ble. As it was righting, another sec tion broke off, and for the third time > the berg Aimed over. It was about a mile astern of the vessel. ? New York World. V ? ? ? ? ? A Good Catch. It Is Impossible to repress a feeling of satisfaction over the feat of the Atlantic City game warden, who ap prehended the owner of a seaplane guilty of shooting wild geese In the air. The law against this sort of "sport" Is strict, nnd the penalty pro vided for offenders Is ample. And, as bird shooting from the air Is on a plane with the use of dynamite and seines In closed waters, the more rig idly the statute is enforced the better. Any leniency would be disastrous to the bird life of the country and calam itous to the United States. ? Detroit Free Press. Itutli Roland in her latest Serial suc cess "Ruth of tfhe Rockies" at the Majestic, tomorrow. NOTICE OF ELECTION State of South Carolina. County of Kershaw. Noti<?e Is 'hereby given that, the (Jen eral Election frtf Presldental and Vice President a 1 Electors. United States Senator aud Representatives in Con gress will be h^ki at the voting pre cincts fixed by law in the County of Kershaw on Tuesday, November 2, lfKiO said day being Tuesday following the first Monday, as prescribed by t lie State Constitution. The qualification f<?r suffrage are as follows: Residence in Statf? for two years . j in the County on?* year, in the poll ing precinct in which^the elector of fers t?? vote, four months, and the j payment six months before any elec tion of any poll tax then due and pay able: Provided, That ministers in charge of organized church and teach ers of public schools shall be entitled to vote after six month*' residence In the State, otherwise qualified. Registration. ? (Payment of all tuxes, including poll t?x, ss?*?.<se<| and ooll*et ible during the previous year. ' The , . .. . ? . J . &C*n? From "MuM and Jeff at the Kjmts. C'uimleii 1Hmt? Houm\ Thttrsilay, Ortohrr I'Sth. production of ti certificate or the re colpt of the officer authorized to col lect sih'U taxes shall lH> ! COUOlu^Vie proof of the payment t her oof. Before the Mur fixed for opening tin* ik)Usj ?Managers and Clerks must take and subscribe to the Cohktl tutlonal oath. Tl ? ?? chairman of the Hoard of Managers can ucliulnisttM- tin oath to the other Managers and to the Clerk; a Notary Public must adminis ter the oath to Chairman. The Man agers elect their Chairman and Clerk. ? Polls at each' voting place must bo opened at 7 o'clock a. m. and closed at l o'clock p. m. except in the City of ChaWcstoh. where they shall be Opeiied at 7 a. in,' and closed nt> (J p. m. The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy ; and If none of the Managers iitteud, the citizens can appoint from among them tlho qualified voters, the Managers, who, after lielllg sworn can conduct the election At the close of the election the Managers and Clerk must proceed publicly ,t,o open the ballot box and count the haljots therein, and continue without adjournment until the same is eompiefoTl', and make a statement of the result for each office, and sign the same. Within three (lays thoro ii f tor (li? Chairman of the Board, or 80 mo one designated by tli? Bourd. must deliver to tho Commissioners of Klcctlou the poll list, the box contain ing tho ballots and written statements of the result of the <>|(vt ion. Miauagers of Kteotlon. ? The follow ing Managers of Election lmvo been ap pointed to hold the flection at the var ious products in tho xald County : Camden Opera House? II. Truosdalc, .1. M. Moseley, T. J. Arrants. . Vino Crook Mill ? W. M. West, Wil lie Robertson, W. T. player. Hermitage Mill? ? W. A. Anderson, B. 'IV 'Hasty, W. T. Mattox. Stockton-? D. I.. Sowoll. Jesse l'oaree, J. 8. West. Mt. Zion Church ? J. K. Dunn, Wm. Braunoii.jK. C. Brown. Stokes' School House -Clifton Hum phries, J. H. llatcliffe, Thomas Barnes. Cleveland School House ? H. At-? rants, A. B. Shlvor, S. B. Stokes. Beaver Dam School House ? J. S.' Hyatt. J. H. Tldwell, Alex Shaw. Itatellffe's Mill? J. H. Ratcliffe. Timman Thompson. 3. H. Williams. Cassatt-? Steve West, T. W. Davis, T.. II. Poach. Wostville? U. L. Bell, W. L. Cask Ins, W. J. Brasingtvii. Three <"*? 7.l. H. Hart'i?'l(J. ,f. Uohert MukIii, .i. M; Ornxfoi), Xliaylor's Mill Hnny Suiyi'l. Jos, ! UoriiMby. Mendel Djrakefovd. Cuntey- A. .F. Watts, C. J. McKenajte, K. I'J. Holland. StohBboros? J. W. Stover. (J. C. Truesdel,. M, S. Barfi?ld. Buffalo Sclumfc Mouse ? W. I\ Sowell, It. N. Roberts. C. A. Johnson. Liberty Hill?!.. l\ Thompson, N. H. Ulchards, H. B. Jonvs. Klrkley'* -Store- W, F. Went, ?T. A. Bowurs, IUle bm Kershaw ? H, Hays, J. A. ('row. L F. Bar field. Ha ley's Mill? Oscar Stojiner, W. F. Baker. W. J. Newman. Bethune-~l>. J. Clyhurn. B. W. Bran non. <;.? II. Kln>r. Lutfoff' ? .T. K. Lee. Leslie ltabon, A. S. Hey ward. Itlaney^Hoykin Hose, Talinadge Bo\v<mi, \Y\ H. Wood. Hucbon** Cross Uoads? J Iv. Smith, James itaehon, Lewis Mickle. Managers Federal Elect ion: ? Call a I The Messenger office Saturday, Octobcr SOMi. 1020, for tickets, etc. W. F. Nettles, ?U. T. Mickle. issloners of Federal Flection Kerehaw County. Watch Your Savings Grow when you install a HOT BLAST HEATER! I 7 """HE famous Hot Blast Draft in this remarkable stove burns all the com bustible gases from the fuel ? under-draft stoves waste this valuable portion of the fuel* 1 That is why Cole's Original Hot Blast Heaters are guaranteed to consume one-third less fuel than any under-draft stove of the same size. / 1 Stop and think what this saving will mean to you with coal at its present price. REMEMBER; Cole's Original Hot Blast will ? i Save one-third your fuel? * Burn any fuel ? Hold fire thirty-six hours! Step in today and let us show you this great fuel saver. Sold by Camden Furniture Company, Camden, S. C.