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OLD NEGRO LIVED NINE YEARS IN CAVERN IN LARGE JUNK PILE New Orleans, April 29.?Declar ing that sbfe bad lived for the past nine years in a cavern in a large pile of junk, "Aunt Ktherine" Washing ton, a n egress of uncertain age, set up a disclaimer today when ordered by the city health authorities to seek a more habitable residence. According to health authorities, t&e aged negress has been living in a: email cavity created in the junk pile t>y the removal of various pieces of the junk, covered only with small bits of tin and wood and lined with rags and bits of carpet. When not in use the place was barricaded with the top of an old tin wash boiler. Her cooking was all done over an open fire on the ground. Of stygian blackness, with long, yet kinky hair streaming about her wrinkled face, "Aunt Katherine" presented a remarkable sight to the' eyes of health officers as she came scrambling out of her cave with the j agility of a monkey. She wore a ; skirt of gunny sacking and a man's coat, adorned witfi bits of twisted J brass braid, ribbons and the five-M spot of clubs pinned on with a safeT j < ty pin $s $ "protection against 1 hoodoo." j1 Ok. ainn oV a i c nftt ffToln aK/IIlt 1 f I7V9. 0 ?J<3 DWV " >'??? ww-j \ her age, but "remembers being born' < in Boston, brought south by the 'nig- i ger traders' and belonging to the 1 "Sandy Hamilton? of Lyon county, 1 Mississippi, and no better white < folks ever put shoes on themselves." 1 She admits one relative, a son, whom she said, was "somewhere in ? the world," describing him as a i j "growed up yOUttg man, born in 1 '67." In her youth "Aunt Katherine' i says shf was "up to all manner of ] devilment," playing the fiddle and < dancing. "But God's done called me i from the ball room floor," she ex- i plained, adding: "I wouldn't dance no more 'cept it was in some place like Chicago, where I was unbe knowst." i ANDERSON GETS HAIL < Anderson, April 30.?There was a i heavy hail storm near here last ' night. The path was from Sandy 1 Springs to Cheddar, being the heavi- 1 est in the Cheddar section. The hail here stripped trees of foliage, broke J window panes and beat down corn. 1 It is .said that piles of hail could be ' seen this morning and the stones were very large. At Sandy Springs j Jhe hail fell only for a minute or * 4tua +itae lorffo of. +V?o fimo I ( On the J. C. Pruitt place, five miles - 1 from the city, there was also much i i 0.rtic.g2 done to gardens. As cotton is not up sufficiently to be hurt very much, the crop will not likely be cut short by this hailstorm. Some of the insurance men who issued poli- ' cie for hail damage have received notice this morning from the nor- J thern and eastern sections of the * damage. The hail was accompanied < by a driving rain and much light- ' ning. : B== That Provei saves more than nine, when i batteries. Don't wait 'til your battery get full of pep a1l the time. We comrs to rep-ire, we're wizard Our charges r.rc mnd?rate sr'l \ presort storage battery, we've a ytar cr.d ri half rniarantee. CITY GARAG Look (or this sign eVHREA STORAGEBATT /futhomrd SUM Ct STATION 1 "I IJ- 1 .111 MONUMENT ERECTED TO FIRST AMERICAN WHO WAS KILLED IN ITALY Body of Richard Cuttc Fairfield I# Transferred to a Place Near Venice. Venice, April 30.?The body of Ijtichard Cutts jFairfield, one of the first two Americans killed in Italy^ during the war, was today transfer red to the monument in the Mestre cemetery near Venice, purposely erected to receive it. Fairfield left Harvard University at the age of 18 to get into the war but as the United States had not entered the conflict at the time, he enlisted in the Bri tish Red Cross and came to Italy with one of the first contingents. He was killed in 1916 by an Austrian bomb, while transporting wounded at Mestre. Italian soldiers and sailors and a detachment of American bluejackets rendered military honors as the cof fin, covered with American and Italian flags, was carried to its last resting place by a detachment of Italian soldiers and sailors. The mother of Fairfield, Mrs. JameB C. Barr, of New York, witnessed the :eremonies. Brig. General Evan M. Fohnson, military attache to the A flcritM eirfttwy A Rome. '?pre iented the AttserK&ri army and Cen /Incliplmofcti. fftrmorlv Italian Military attache in Washington, epresented the Italian war minis try. The mayor of Venice and high iivil and military authorities also vere present. General Gugliemotti and General Fohnson delivered addresses in ivhich they emphasized the ties b'e ;ween the American and Italian ar nies and peoples. A letter from Robert Underwood Johnson, Ameri can ambassador to Italy, in which he regretted his inability to be present, ivas read. THREE DAYS' GRACE Maggie's sweetheart, a proverb ally tight-fisted Scot, had taken her jut for the afternoon, and that was about all. They rode.some distance 5n the trolley, turned around and rode home again. Never was men lion made of food or entertainment. Back within her own gateway, Maggie, who had keenly felt the neglect, sarcastically proffered Sandy a dime. Tor the carfare you spent on me,' ihe said meaningly, % "Hoots, toots, woman," returned Sandy, pocketing the coin. 'There svas nae hurry Saturdoy wad hae been time enough." WILL OPERATE THEARE A n/Jo-rcrm Anrvil 28. A. Ttf. Pink 3ton bought the rights to run the Anderson theatre from the Sou thern Enterprise company today. Mr. Pinkston* ^as been the manager this theatre* for several years, but gave it up after an automobile accident impaired his health. rbial Stitch it comes to testing storage 1 s weak. Insist on its being :'re the doctors and when it s. .vhen it's time to replace yohr tVe reliable Evcready?with ? Abbeville, S. C. J r iaTPRPlnv i 1 fcfc GENUINE BULi' niflDUAM wum ir-ii i tobacco makes 50 good cigarettes for 10c ALL GRAVES WILL BE MARKED ALIKE American Orerioi Cemeteries Will 3c M*dc Beauty Spot* Paris, April 30.?No distinctions rank will be made in marking the graves of American soldier who died in France, says Charles S. Pierce, chairman of the American commis sion, which has arrived here to pre pare plans for beautifying the four permanent military., cemeteries where the bodies of all the American fighters are to be gathered. "We shall try to make these ceme tries memorials of which all Ameri cans will be proud," said Colonel Pierce. "Early in the discussions we decided that regardless of rank and position each grave should be treat ed in the same manner and given equal attention. The only variation permitted will be on the uniform headstones. On the top of these rela tive may inscribe any religious em blem they wish so long as it does not interfere with the uniformity of the stone. "No special monuments will be permitted. All the Americans died in the performance of their duty and no matter how heroic ^ individuals may have been ,the feeling of the nation seems to be that all should be accorded the same honor. "It is impossible to say now just what form the beautification will +0L-0 Tmi+ mnriov will not he soared in making the cemeteries the most im posing in the world. Congress has appropriated $1,000,000 as a pre liminary sum for this work with a promise of more. It is probable that ,$3,000,000 will be expended. "The task of removing the dead will be completed by the end of October. The bodies of those soldiers who are to rest permanently in France will then be concentrated in the four cemeteries. This work to gether with the development work we intend to do, probably will take one year more." The commission which is an advis ory body to the Secretary of War and Quarter-master General of the United States army, is now making surveys of the American cemeteries. Later the commission will formulate plans for a permanent cemetery for American soldiers in London. MEXICAN LAND . BACK TO OWNERS Mexico City, April 30.?Lands in the state of Chihouhau, Sonora, Neuvo Leon, Coahuila and Tamau lipas, valued at more than 20,000, 000 pesos, which were confiscated during various revolutionary periods in Mexico were ordered returned to their owners yesterday by a Presi dential order, sent to the governor}? of the states. The order requested careful study of every claim, and di rected that a return of Jhe lands in question be made as speedily as pos sible. Among the owners of territory in the states mentioned are many Americans, who deserted their prop erties during troublous times. Among the several conditions im posed for the return of the lands was one that irrigation and land de velopment projects under way when the properties were deserted be re sumed and that Mexican labor be 1 j n? , f?*npjuyeu? rrwiucnt vuicgun ia said to hope to provide in this way j work for thousands of Mexicans who j have returned from the United States, where they were unable to find employmen. MOVEMENT CARRIED TOO FiM* Medical Journal Point* Out (Irtive j Danger In the Inersaslna Cm?s for Poyehoanafyoia. Recently, relates the editor of Journal of tip* American Medical A.? HoeUtlon, the minister of a prominent church in Chicago was aakod by tkio head of the social work department to put his approval on the establishment of a lecture course on psychoanalysis. Being. In doubt, he conferred with lit eral medical men of his congregation. Finally a neurologist settled the n?av tor by aayinf: "By all means have It It should prove very popular. Half the congregation is already crazy and the other half fa en route to the nsy> inro." The jest was oot wnony a jesi. reo ple art paying too much attention now adays to their minds. An abnormal mtetost in the workingn of one's own mind produces either an introspecith'e , ])hllosopher or a "common nut." Wh?n che interact Is related mora or ileiis ilfitinctly to a concealed but neverthe less obvious fascination for cogitation on ihings sexual, it has elements of danger. Physicians are betfnnlns; to wonder where the normal Interest of the layman in these subjects ends and i the scope of the psychiatrist com mences. We ft* flooded with boolrs on As subject bv lay psychoanalyst*; the "movies plciul* Hi $a theaters tfr&maifee It; the churches nSff t\ires on it. In the not too dlstiint f s tufre this psychoanalytic erase, If l|t continue*, will make the medical !l?.vcbatrl*t n Very buly man. NOT AN ERA OF YOUNG MEN Itfoa That Prsaehf Age is IxtraiT dlnary In Thit Respect Is Wmwi as an Error. ? a. *i.u am we are given 10 luiuum# ui um <na of oars as the era of young men, but the average age of Washington's cab inet wtt* under 40 years, observes the Villager, Katonah, N. Y. Hamilton was thirty-two; Jefferson, forty-six; I'tandolph, thirty-six; General Knox, thirty-nine, and Samuel Osgood, forty one. What Is it persuades us to the notion that leaders of earlier times were always older than the men hold ing the corresponding offices today7 What explains the boast that our own generation is the first to discover and dispose of the horrible waste In volved in "middle age?" Is the lm pulje lust the coptemjpt gf today for yesteraav? Or are we misled By tne powdered wigs of tiie earlier time? "It was a young man's army," some whip persnapper second lieutenant returnfu from France told us in explanation of "how we won the war." A young man's army,' Whenever was (here another kind? The whippersnapperg confessed they had never thought of it in that way. They had come to conceive of the Civil war as having been fought by men like those few who still totter along in their blue uniforms on Memo rial day? Use More Coconut Fat For many years past the world's production of animal fats has been steadily diminishing. Lack of such fats spelled famine in Europe during the war, when great quantities of them were withdrawn from human use to make glycerin for high exploHives. Even now, and in this country, there is an insufficiency of animal fatis (as indicated by the price of butter) and to mane gooa uie wiwibjc v.v?vuui oil Is Imported In enormous quanti ties. During the last year 845,787,913 pounds of this oil were brought into the United States. The oil Is largely used in cooking fat, but also in the manufacture of nut. butter, candles, soap and cos j metScs. It is said to be an excellent I substitute for cod liver oil, being hlgh I iy digestible and with the advantage I of an agreeable flavor. At ordinary I temperature coconut oil Is a white. butterlike solid. ' The new "meats" are dried in the sun before shipment from the tropical countries, where coconuts are grown. In this shape the material Is called copra. The oil Is extracted by power ful hydraulic presses, the yield being 65 to 70 per cent'of the weight of the copra.?Kansas City Star. . Overheated Houses. Atmospheric .conditions in Jiouiea say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture, are fre quently not maintained as they should I be. Houses are often overheated. Iu | most cases practically no thought is i given to humidity, or air moistening. I'hysicians Insist that an overheated house is unhealfhful, and that colds, sore throats, coughs, and the tendency - to be nervous and feverish may b?? at tributed to continually breathing air having too little moisture In It i Miles of Fllrn. Usually 150,000 to 200,000 feet are ' ran through the camera to get a six j reel, or 0,000-foot picture. The direct or stations three, four or five cameras to take the same scene. He has one camera close beside the struggling vll ' lain and hero, another grinding from , an elevation, still another at this} ; angle, one more at that angle. When all of these negatives are developed,' part of each enter into the composl tlon of the completed reel. < I ne fan ot gituuin, "Why is the director wearing a base hall catcher's mask?" "We're starting a new comedy In' which i'ne pies and brickbats are tc be thrown by the lady stars.?Fllu Fun. GREENWOOD BUSINESS COLLEGE Greenwood, S. C.. 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