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Scianiific InUmt in Excavation* at Kith la ? letter to the l*oodt>n tttKM of January 22, Professor Langdnu. writ ing from Mr^oi.oUiu!*, gives ><n ac count of the results to dot* of this w>a?oi) \ ercavsrtons st K I Among an amount of pearl and ItNieHbtf m laid work discover hI 1q a mound ? uu ?trui ie<i entirety <-i ? onvei It ricks, characteristic of the oldest Humerlan aruittecture, uhn a rectan IttUr tablet of >>iste whitti ?)h?wm a king of K1i?h smiting his Humerlan ?oeinlea Tlrelr (lively sluics heads, cheeks h till upper lips, but long hear (is, indicate a date earlier than l-r-Iia gash, c. HI'Hf H. C. Taken with oilier pearl !>??>. da found here, this dlltKKM of the theory that the Send tea ocCU plod K'ikIi Id the prehistoric period. Ttoe dlacovery north of Inghara of two" targe Kmtierlau building* In a mate of ?*Hiiplete preservation hat made poa nlble Hie ??? epa ration of the only ki???u plan of a large Humerlan pal m-e. Below the plano-convex hrlck pavement. w hlcli <abuot >>? later than 8100. H. C.. Man an accumulated de posit of 1 r, feet, representing at least 1MM? to Itssi .tears' previous occupa tion, arid therefore going back to ?bout f-tnai It. C. A complete sequence of pottery from the earliest Kuinerisn period down to Nebuchadnezzar ha* been established, sud a nerles of Hue cop|?er Implements has he?*i foqnd. The general result of the excavations brings Into prominence the enormous ?stent of the rutus. which, If grouped contiguously, would cover 1110 acres, the very great antiquity of the site, and the priority of the Humerlans. Rich in Albumin, Lupin Saad 1 9 Mad* Valuable Not only in the Medlterrsnesn re jd?n, but also along the western coast of America, there grow freely tall, handsome spikes of Ijlue- white or yel low flow-era that form entrancing hltt of color in the landscape during the oeason for blossoming, and are no{ In frequent It used as a garden flower. It Is the lupin, which belongs to the ffcmlly of leguminous vegetable*, tt which mankind owes much, and which Include* bean* and peas an well as pea nuts, saya the Literary' Digest. Aa In other members of the family the fruit or the lupin consists' of seed bearing pod*, but no attempt hafc beer made to use them either for forage bt for human food until recently, says th? Detroit News. * It Is now announced thst by a ftermxn process, the 1'ohl method of extrsctlon, said to be quit* Inexpensive, the needs <?? u be insde tt vleld an uncommonly high percentage of albumen, which, addqd Jo yye ?0t other flour, makes an ??ltreinel.t nutil tloua food. This new bread if likewise adudra bly fitted to form part of a diet of cer tain (presumably diabetic) patlenti because of i he tunsll amount of stsrcl It contains. 44 Jazz" in Dictionary The word "Jazz" has already found Its way to the scholarly dictionary, where It la defined as "a form of ayncopated music played in discordant tones on various Instruments, mm the banjo, saxophone, trombone, flageolet, drum and piano." Bnt this definition to Incomplete. In ihe J ? Hit hand there are kettledrum*, cowbells, kitchen i>a?s, tin whistles, Itahy's rattles, etc. 'l*he "music" is full of shrieks, ?creams, moans and explosions. The leader usually adopts u suitable idiotic attitude. With cap set on one side of his bend he prances around, rolls lils e> es ami twist* his face into'1?ll kinds of simian contortion* The In spiration fur all lhik wus found ttUiuUg excited savages. Like Time and Tide An **ldei \ woman, ? he Iihm llT?d iikiM of hoi life hi Franklin. I > u t who now live* willi h hiu ?i l ('liioagw, has obtaining much on.l?.M m**nt from hi* radio Rot, Kflrlv f ve rv morning >>he luntc lu nod listen* to program* of rntjflc, weather foiecHMs, and oilier mk h mut ter thrust ? ? \ ?- r the l?rnH<i< niilfrs. Hp eentlv ?- 1 1 ?- inne<l :nto h station that mat, l.roatJ. iivl inp ;e*Jp?*. Onv of the r?*i ipe?- ?- 1 h 1 1 f ? 1 cvi l H ? if It rili>:ht l;#> good. "JtiM witlt k I i i , i. J t ?- will you, til! ] get p? IX ,1 hll'l p a p** r ? " silo M*k??<l. W'hfii >he i?n.e !<? h moment ! ?i I ?? r th* Kfation "h* ng < f7 ? Ind anapoila N>? ^ i To Halt Shifting Sanda ? ?'i i Is !i?? i liK ?*-*?<; I ? ? pi e \ I'Tll xa nd | *r on >?*?' r>v ?'rifin? (?> the wind m ? r ? ? s j M.e ! rii ?* ? -f th?- ? ?? ej^.n Wn nip nj;'< n ; liii'.JiVhiJ ?!??! igati. n ? r? ii : n ? ? no 1 1 *j j i >. ?? \ ?- 1 ? pre\ fni i n g ir?f f? l'.?ne? nrar tfe tr?i ks ;ti t f.e < nl ? 1 1 h : rt r . v ?- r \ h . ! ? > are v j . . ; : \ ??<J w ' ' h < ruflo \+ I rot e i.m ! ? N t>?*en heat ?d ?<? :\9 io *e< u ?- the required fluid 'ty A t!. n material tl.?n fni rtiv ? n l.e v ,i r. d at.d ?<> pre \eni? t * ?- ?" f ' n a ?? r'}-. ? ? ?n< : pp)M'R^<-i. 'firfk '? r h w.t i ri(J 'n stiino '< ; ? t *? 'or h >? n * r. \ hi two < ? r three More Autot in Europe l he n*e i f !T)"t<.r * . >, ?-v , |n ? :i? rHp'di\ i. ? ?> * r- ? ?mnrr1<>? : - \i< the f 'nt'p*} I : p d#?v#?;op li^t pre jfrrnvpd uiokt rn|.PPv in! '\c I n^- 1 .*l.-*T'#a kin g mrjnUie*. iJrfat j 1 '-it '.a-- 1 8. CftntrWi ft42 371 rt <1 .'*.*?> i alia 130. Prance ?fan<l? r.? tlie Brltifli oniplrp, with 4C0, 2?-^- -Absolutely A x^nn*!* tenfonry to five adrlr# U Ir? Jnvrnv nrtt?r to hi* trtrfllty to mtad I .* mfn liuiur:e*?.? IkMrtM Trftam-rteC -V - ? - t'{ ? -- * - *v v?? ? ?r'wwizjri- - , (Krorn Th<* WlttYvl (iauxfKt?) ] The Wateree Mills Band is now two years old, having first organized at about this time in 1923. At that time Rupert Small, night overseer of spinning, JKred Baxley, Lewis Anderson, Mr. llallett, H. F. Cobb, John Sanders,- Ervin Hunter, Ralph Barnes, Nettles Lindsay, Chas. Davis, B. T. Davis, Ed. Barnes, Clyde Baker, G. C. Davis and a few others met at the Club House to talk over pittas for organizing a band. The meet ing was very enthusiastic and plans were immediately start ed. Mr. Small . was elected president and Ralph Barnes, secretary-treasurer. A number of meetings were held following the organiza tion but nothing could be done until instruments were secured. Through Mr. Howland of the Purchasing Department at Walpole, Mass., instruments were finally secured and things go^ under way toward actual results. Mr. Ted Jacobson of Cam den was secured as instructor and stayed with the band about four months. With his resignation things looked dark but Mr. Cobb jumped into the breech and kept the organiza tion together and acted as in structor until the following July when Mr. Helton was secured. 1 ^ Since Mr. Helton's arrival, the band hdfc gone forward in leaps and bounds until now they are considered a first class band due to Mr. Helton's conscientious work and untir ing efforts. With 6ne or two exceptions the band is made up entirely of men who had absolutely no previous knowledge of music until this band was organized. 1 Today the band plays all grades of music and are very liberal with their services at ball games, evening concerts and also at church. They also put on the famous "circus" that so many people enjoyed last November. - Through the kindness of Mr. Kendall and Mr. Llewellyn, uniforms have been secured and now the band makes a splendid appearance in their natty uniforms. The Wateree Mills band is a strictly Wateree Mills . or ganization of which we all may be proud. SCRAPS AND FACTS Interrsting Note** (fathered From M?ny Sourcen. (ilista Ernestine, Cornell's- great Holstein cow which died last year, left n world's record in lifetime pro duction by giving in her sixteen years j of service 202,005 pounds of milk. j Like the teeth of a horse or the rings on a tree can be used to tell , the a?e, so the percentage of lead | that minerals contain can serve as .a j key to tfc* age of the minerals. Dr. 11. II. Donaldson recently es tablished the fact that tall persons) have heavier brains than do short . ones, the difference often amounting' to as much as 18 per cent. Thu. word "thoroughbred," often j confused with pure bred, is a term properly applied only to a breed of light horses that wei\e introduced | into America in 1730. At the present time gifts to American universities are eighteen times as large as those for Hritish, ! and even in 101.'} they were fourteen1 times as large. j At the last census in India, taken! four years ago, only one in 31 of the) inhabila his of Chota N'flgkur "Tind ever \ traveled by train. A new method of bread- making that will preserve freshly baked 1 bread for a period of two years ha? l>een invented after ten years - experiments' by Mr. Jean Matti, a Swiss baker. The la^t survivor <>f the original "covered wagon' train" that left ShelbyvilJe, Missouri, in IX 17. re cently passed away in Spokane, Wash ington. The con>umption of porridge in Scotlajtd has decreased by more than fifty per cent over that of twenty five year- ago. It is said that S.i Douglas Haig temained healths fi<?m the beginning of the World War t ? > the end because he -p?-n? from three to five hours r\c!> af??inoi<n in the saddle. }? i u, people ;n India know how i ' hes are. having little interest 1 .r, thc.r own age or that of others. New F.ngiand has no whalers to iia>'. the last of the old-time ships of ( X i u Bedford having been lost' at sea ' in August of last year. Before 1 1*7 the ('ape of (iood \ Hope was called the "CajK* of All' Storm*," there being ? ?t^rm thore ! alm??>t every day, n<> sailing ship 1 ever having been able to pass it he- | f<?re the time of Diaz. There is an average of from one *... two earthquakes .:n Japan every c i a \ . Th:e?- fourths' of the 20.000,000 au | toinobiles made in this country in the last 20 years are still in use in the country. 1,000,000 having been exported. Mahogany brought from the Philip 1 pines alone into this country mea*ur | ed more than 2,000,000 feet one month recently. Aluminum shoes with w< are being made in Germany. | Lake of Epsom Salts The world's greatest deposit of Ep som salts is being mined froman ancient lake, "bod in the mountains of the extreme north central part of the state of Washington. Under a 12 foot covering of mud, itself testing 55 per cent Epsom salts, is a layer of from 18 to 28 feet of the product which assays 95 per cent pure. Development was recently started. Tunnels have been run through the solid crystal formation, dynamite be ing used to loosen it, after which it is shipped 10 miles away for refining. LittJe Girl Killed Lancaster, July 12. ? Little Belle Baker, live-year-old girl of the JLan caster mill village, suffered a frac tured skull when knocked down by a car driven by, it is alleged, James Gardner on Brooklyn avenue late Sat urday evening. The child ran out from behiud a loaded wagon and was struck by the fender, the accident being unavoidable, it is said. She was lushed to Memorial . hospital, where an X-ray disclosed a fracture of the skull. She never regained con sciousness and died early Sunday morning, Tis said 25,000,000 people in the i United States have defective eye sight. . During the yi-ar 1923-24 ninety four school district* either voted or increased the levies in their districts while only three districts decreased their levies. One of the sunken gardens at San I Antonio, Tex., was formerly an aban doned quarry, while a bathing pool formerly was a dumping ground. So sensitive that it is said to re -pond to the heat of a candle placed several miles distant, an instrument ha< been devised. Nearly $7,500,000 was paid in death duties on the'estate of Sir Kmil Rop ner, a British ship owner, who left an estate of $18,000,000. Because confetti battles and min strel troupes were barred from the J streets of Hastings, a charity carnival | was called off last summer. The average salary paid white ! teachers of South Carolina during 1923-24 was $885.1(3, compared with ! $834.7 1 for the year 1922-23. Alaska has a yearly mineral out- ' put of almost $20,000,000. KernhSw County Get* Share According to a report issued by Chief Game Warden Richardson a total of $61,872.27 was earned last year for the state ?anie department from the sale of hunting licenses and fur tags. Of this amount Kershaw county will receive $1,027.35- frtom the sale of hunting licenses nnd $33.02 from the sale of fur tag.v The money will be used for school purposes and the figures are over and above the upkeep of the department and pay ment* made for law enforcement. James Sheorn U the local officer far this department. WOMAN SOLDIER DEAD Mr*. Lucy Kenny Followed Arntiett of !.*?? and Jackson | Xuholft, Ga*~-*-"8he foughi like .t man soldier ? and a gentlehian di.ed." That is the epitaph which may be placed upon the tombstone of Mrs. Lucy Mathilda Kenny, the only Con federate woman who fought through the civil war and who died rtowntly at tier liUif home here at the age of 112 years. 3oan of Arc was no more a real soldier than Mrs. Lucy Kenny, When her husband enlisted in the Confed* orate army in 1861, she put on men'* clothes and went with him. As ''Pri vate Bill Thompson" of Ooippany D, 18th North Carolina infantry * she fought side by side with her mam until he was killed in the seven days battle around Richmond. Then she took ~ftls body home, burled it. g^ye up her uniform and became once mbVe just Lucy Kenny. Mrs. Kenny's story deserves a place Wjth the annals of Madame Butch hareva's . Russian batallion of death, the ..exploits of Mollie. Pitcher, and tho deathless tale of .the Maid of Orleans. Lucy Mathilda was "uwrn in 1812 near Bladensboro, 'North Carolina. When she was 17 years old-ahe weigh ed 105 pounds, could ride like a cow boy, hunt all day without wearines? and was one4 of the rifle shots in her county. She had been married only a short time when the Civil war broke out. Her husband enlisted and she went along. Lucy . Mathilda cut her hair close to he{* head, took up some of the slack in one of her hus band's suits, got down her squirrel rifle, and under the name of "Private Bill Thompson," boarded a train with him for Virginia. /V If the officers of the company, Cap tain Robert Tate and Lieut. Willey Sykcs, knew that "Private Bill" was a woman, they kept it to themselves. The thing that Tttattei-ed to them was that she was the best sharpshooter in the company, that she had a clear, sweet voice, and that on long marches her singing-did much to keep up the spirits of the men. From the first battle of Manassas, where she was wounded", until the seven days battle where her husband met his death, the woman endured every hardship borne by the men. She marched shoulder to shoulder* with them, slept on the wet ground, and took her place on the battleline. During the bitter winter campaign* in Northern Virginia "Private BUl"i was one of those* whose half bare feet left blood tracks on the snow. After the death of her husband. Private Bill sought her company com- j mander and begged a permanent fur lough to take the body home. The journey home was through a toun tryside torn by two urmies and filled with deserter*, wounded men *mt| camp followers, but the woman oyer rame all difficulties and buried her ! husband near the home he had 'loved so well. ! Her fighting days oyer, Lucy Kenny put on a homespun crinoline, allowed her cropped hair to grow, and ^jyent back to weaving at the loom and to working in the fields. ''After the war closed, she moved to Savannah and. there married a second time. Later she moved to Nichols, Georgia, where she died'. - Infant JMen In Wreck , Cheraw, July 13. ? At about 11 ;30 o'clock Saturday night as Charles B. Carroll, Sr., of Greensboro, N. C.,j and family were motoring to FIor-1 ence, he had tire trouble on the Rivet) Hill. While fixing his tire a car! came up and the ladies got frightened by it. Mr. Carroll attempted i^Q. ^un | his car to one side but nan.it oyer1 the embankment, turning the ..ear over and killing a three-months-old child, Charles B. Carroll, Jr. '^Xhe mother was also hurt but notorious ly. Mr. Carroll telephoned to his fittends in Florence who came 1 for them and carried them to Florence. ? ^ ^ i. :>,;?! Cave Man Visits Civilization .j Omaha, Neb., July 14. ? Hifcnry i\ Morris, wTio Jtas dwelt in a cave in the midst of a large forest south of Omaha for thirty years, '/.has paj^i his first visit to this city Whfeh But-1 falo Bill conducted his wild shows. An Omaha newspaper Broti?Kt the hermit to Omaha where he found cause fo? wonder, and also alarm in his first sight of automobile's, the elevator and motion pictur^s.^ M^orrte expressed disapproval of and when the evolution controversy; was explained to him place<J_tus.v?e lief in the old fashioned Bible which he had studied religiously itt hif cave* ? ?**' In Spokane, Wash., a woman oper ates a meat packing plant, which she helped her husband to start 10 years before his death two years ago. MAN MBETS TRACK: DBAThT" Four Companions Fall Mountain Side ill Automobile Lawrence R. Campbell, *on M( and Mrs. Wade Campbell, of ?Cr?,ek township, wafc instantly km^. ['in an automobile wreck Monday .morning "near Hot Springs. in western part of the state, The car in which he was riding with four other men, plunged- over an embank ment on the side of a mountain to 4 distance of T5 feet. The fun, other ' mep were batfly injured, these being C. E. Kistler, Philadelphia, Pa.; Jaj ) Yandore, Cheater, S. C.; Joe Cannon, BennettsviUe, S. C., and Robert Hare Chester, S. C,j and thejr were taken t9 a hospital at Newport, Tenn. The ?arty came to Albemarle Saturday ?night to spend fourth, of July holi day, Mr. Campbell going to his par ?nts for a visit. They were in the employ of the Phoeni* Utility Com pany \md were ^hastening back to their work, and Che accident occurred at 4 o'clock Monday morning. Mr. Campbell was instantly killed, the back 6f his head being crushed and a thigh broken. Kistler was the least injured and he managed to crawl up 'the *75 foot embankment where he lay in the road three hours until he was seen by* passing motorists. They .found all the others pinned beneath ,tfie wrecked car or lying unconscious .nearby. Help was summoned from Hot Springs and the victims were first taken to that point. Mr. Camp bell was 25 ye*r& of age, and an ex* .coilent young man, the company for pfhom he worked , regarding him as ?one of their most trusted employes. A Mr. McNeill accompanied the body to the home of Mr. and Mrs. <jam{)bell and remained until after .the funeral. ' He stated that a ser vice was held Monday night at New port, Tenn., just before the body of ?Mr. Campbell left for home. All busi ness in the town of 2,000 inhabitants, was suspended for the time being. -The company secured a handsome qasket and fellow employes donated beautiful flol&l tribute costing $100. Mr. McNeill 'said it was most unusual the demonstration of the town over th'e young man who had lived there a short time.? -Monroe Enquirer. American felt hats are the "most popular type of headgear for men of th# Philippines during the rainy sea son that is now on. \ ' ? THERE is something verv ^substantial about "Standard" products. A business-like simplicity that is a sure sign of honest merchandise. No frills* No fancy containers* No farfetched Inducements to buy. Why should there be? They are products of long stand* ing, of accepted merit. They are bought by people who know quality and appreciate it. They are made by men who have been in the game all their lives and whose fathers were in it before therti. * " STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey)