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MUCH IS TOLD BY PROVERS*) Household Sayings Throw Light on Characteristics of Social Groups Whence They Emanate. < It ls a commonplace to say that a nation's moral code is revealed in its proberbs; but it is less widely recog nized that proverbial sayings throw light also upon the long-standing economic structure of a social group. A proverb is not an individual obser vation; it condenses the experience of a class, a sex, a caste. A large number record the accumulated ex perience of the small peasant propri etor, his. ceaseless labor and petty saving and screwing. "While the sheep blates he loses a mouthful." The economics of married life are often tersely laid bare. "A wooden mother is better than a golden fath?r" (Shropshir .) must be taken from the outlook ot a wife who would be summed up in a national census as "home worker." "A rolling stone gathers no moss," says the wisdom of the staid British countryman, diligently making the best of his land by .long and careful husbandry. "By going and coming the bird builds its nest" is the oppo site point of view held by a Negro trader traveling /backward and for ward through the African forest Bawbees are round and rin away. A grip o' the grund ls gude to nae. expresses the land-hunger of a Scots man of the old school, mistrusting "investments" which he cannot see and handle. .Here is a trio from Norway: "A large stock needs much pasture." "A cow will not hear that the hayv Is dwindling away." "You cannot climb a mountain by a level road." Do they not sum up certain aspects of the little farm perched up amid scanty mountain pastures? Factory life, a modern growth everywhere, has not yet left Its mark upon the proverbial lore pf any coun try because it has not yet been fully assimilated as a mode of self-expres sion. The proverb is everywhere a spontaneous growth, for "shoes alone know if 'tocking hab hole," as they say in Jamaica. Degrees and Rank. The two degrees, D. D., and LL D., are quite different The first Is doc tor of divinity, that is, a person learned in those subjects that form the education of a divine or theolo gian. The second, LL.D., is doctor of laws, the two L's being the plural form where initials are used. This degree ls, or should be conferred upon those deeply learned In the subjects that make up higher education and culture-in languages, literature, sci ence and philosophy. The former de gree ls only conferred upon nlinisteTs of religion, the latter upon both min isters and laymen. The ranks in the - British peerage, ascending, are : Baron, viscount, earl, marquis, duke. Ex officio. a Latin term, from office, that ls by virtue of his offlqe, means that by reason of a person holding a cer tain office he also holds certain other offices or performs certain other func tions. For example, the rector of a parish Is ex-officlo, that is because he ls rector, chairman of a meeting of the vestry, or congregation.-Montreal Herald. _ \ People of the World. The total population of the earth is 1.699,000,000, according to the latest edition of the Gotha Hofkalender. The 1919 estimate was 1,046,000,000. The eastern hemisphere, including Europe. Africa. Asia and Australia, has 1,494, 000.000 people, while the Western hem isphere-the Americas-has a popu lation of 205,000,000. The average density of population of the earth Is1 28.5 per square mlle, while Australia Is most sparsely set tled-2.45 people per square mile. In North America the average population per square mile is 15. The greatest uncertainty exists as to the population of Persia, Abyssinia and the Congo, estimates differing from 4,000.000 to 9.000,000, 8,000,000 to 12, '000,000 and from 15,000,000 to 20,000, 000 respectively, so that the total dif ference between the lowest and high est estimates' is 14.000,000. That dif ference isi Insignificant compared with a total population of nearly 1,700,000, 000. Love. A Philadelphia editor was talking about Anatole France, the famous French novelist whose serious illness Is reported. "Anatole France," he said, "ls a cynic, a graceful and profound cyn ic. I once heard him make a cynical speech about love. "Love," he said, "encountered Wisdom on the high road. ".The girl Is beautiful today,' said Wisdom, 'hut she will be the Image of her mother when she gets to be her mother's age. You, though, of course, are blind.' "Love laughed carelessly. * , "'Oh, no,' he said, 'I simply shan't be there to see.'" Very Bad Indeed. .Ton are not eating very much, Mr. Shyful," said the girl coyly to the bashful suitor, who had been invited to the family Christmas dinner. "Yes." he replied, and at last for the first time during the evening, he got his chance, so seizing all his cour age, he gasped: "To sit next to you, SHss Betty, Is to lose one's appetite." Airplanes to Survey Africa. It i'9 proposed to adapt the airplane to further discoveries in darkest Africa. _ Invader's. Heel Trod Heavily on Town of Aintab. Americans Are Busily at Work Help ins to Rebuild Once Prosperous Little City in Eastern Syria. Clustering red-tiled roofs, white stuc coed walls, the fresh green of grace ful poplars, and minarets rising here and there in slender beauty-this is the picture greeting the visitor ap proaching through the mountains rim ming it about, the once important town of Aintab, which nestles at the foot of Mdunt Taurus on the eastern coast of Syria, says the Christian Science Monitor. Aintab was not only beautiful, but prosperous in those days before the Turk invaded the land, swept it bare of its industry, scattered its people to the four corners of the earth, and de ported them Inland to the desert or outward to the fringe of seacoast. Today, however, as one approaches more closely to the town, one sees that there are gaps in the rows of white stuccoed houses, that many of those picturesque red-tiled roofs are falling in? that many of the houses are empty and decaying, and that the town which looked so beautiful from afar is really a shell, an echo of that once busy, flourishing Aintab which with its 43, 000 inhabitants, formed an Important link In the caravan route from Con stantinople, and was known far anc wide for its trade in tooled leather and its great cattle market. When tlie first party of Americans from the Near East relief reached Atn tab after the Turkish military had swept on its devastating course, the wanderers, hearing that help was to be had, began to come straggling back. They. must be fed and housed, their homes remade, schools rebuilt for their children, and places must be provided for the little ones left homeless. Promptly the work was. begun and took on at once a twofold significance; not only did It furnish employment for the workmen, but aiso shelter for their families. The women found em ployment In weaving, and turned the wool, which is plentiful In Syria, Into fabrics much needed by those who had lost all their possessions, includ ing clothing. Some of them wove rugs, and a ready market was found for them, often among the American relief workers. Slowly but surely Aintab Is coming into her own once more. New Armen ian houses are beginning to rise from the ashes of the old; refugees are pouring back from desert and moun tains and the shore of the sea. And once more the cries of merchants re sound as they call their wares, their rags and scraps of household com modities, In the bazaar in the center of the town. Pointer for the Housewife. The woman who reduces herself to a frazzle and her family to -nervous wrecks does it by trying to do each separate piece of work to perfection. We all like a perfectly appointed household, but lt ls vastly more Impor tant that a home should be comfort able, where the family likes to gather, than that no grain of dust should ever be seen. Housework, done right, is more healthful than almost any other work. Making beds is an excellent ex ercise for a sluggish "liver, but don't forget that a tired housewife may be rested and refreshed by a brisk walk In the fresh air. Fatigue is often caused from bad air, and with the lung? filled with pure air the body is able to throw off the poisons. Pick out the important tilings to be done daily and do them, reserving time and strength for these tilings. The important tiling Is meals. They mean more to the family thad any thing else, as they are the fuel which keeps you going.-Exchange. Oil Prospects in Australia. Analyses of petroleum gas at Roma, Queensland, have been made which show it to be considerably richer than the gas from most petroleum weite. Using American standards of pressure and temperature in absorption tests, it is estimated that the Roma gas will yield 2 pints of petrol per 1,000 cubic feet. The mines department has decided to continue boriug below the gas strata, in the belief that oil .will be found. Difficulty In obtaining casing is delaying further boring at Marburg, Queensland. The bore is now over 400 feet down, penetrating sandstones and shales which contain productive coal measures, while tests of a sample of the sludge from the bottom of the bore reveal a small per centage of oil. School, for Customers. Once a week an Ohio department store conducts what lt calls a "buy ing school." The public Is Invited to attend this school, which is conducted by experienced salesmen who talk on a variety of subjects interesting to shoppers-such, for instance, as meth ods of testing different kinds of ma terials for quality, strength, and so on. Every once in a while the management arranges to have representatives from different concerns eome to tho school and lecture.-System. An Ordeal. "You seem nervous." "Yes, got to see a girl." .'Aha! And have an Important question to put to her. I dare^ say." "Tta^ It Want to see if shell come and cook for mother and my self." THE U. S. ROYAL CORD A famous tire-and a famous tread. Acknowledged among motorists and dealers alike as the world's foremost example of Cord tire building. Al ways delivering the same repeated economy, tire after tire, and season after season. The stripe around the sidewall is registered as e trade-mark in the U. S. Patent Office. ?ow you can measure tire value in 1921 W "Any U. S. Tiro ?a a universal full- monoy'i worth. " OFTEN it's surprising the number of. different tire views that come out in ? chance talk at the curb or in theleisure.of afriend'sgarage. Almost every day you come across the man human enough to believe he can outguess the cut-price tag on "job lots," "discontinued lines" and "surplus stocks." His opposite is the hard pan car owner who sticks year in and year out to a standard brand as the only rational economy. Many will remember the scarcity of U. S. Tires last year. A hardship at the time, but a bene fit now. There are no U. S. Tires to be worked off-no accumulations-no forcefaseVlmg of any U. S. brand -r no shipping of tires from one part of the country to another to "find a marketw * * * There are 92 U.S. Factory Branches. Each one gets its share of U. S. Tires. There is -a broad, constant, even dis tribution of U. S. Tires always going on from these Branches to the dealer. Buy a U. S. Tire anywhere -in a community of500people or even less-and you get a fresh, live tire of current production-with all the orig inal service and mileage the factory put into it. The owner of a medium or light-weight car stands on equal ground with every other car owner. Any United States Tire is a uni- "Tho d uro rem versal full money's worth-backed up ?????&22 with a leadership policy of equal quality, buying convenience and price for everybody. United States Tires United States ? Rubber Company YONCE & MOONEY Edgefield, S. C. V. E. EDWARDS & BRO. Johnston, S. C. Mr. Williams of Public Wel fare Board Visits Institution For Blind. The Columbia Association for the Blind, which maintains a home and workshop for the blind at the cor ner of- Calhoun and Bull streets, was visited recently by G. Croft Wil liams, secretary of the state board of public welfare. Mr. Williams points out som? dire needs of this institu tion, chief among them being the fact that the building occupied by the association is not suited to the needs of the blind folk. "The Association for the Blind seeks to teach the adult blind how to make1 fibre furniture, baskets and ornaments with the purpose of giv ing these handicapped folk a trade and also of furnishing them remun erative employment. The organiza tion is under the control of eight d? rectors, of whom Christopher Atkin son is chairman. The staff is com posed of one superintendent, one ma tron, one secretary, one helper and one financial agent, all of whom are blind, with the exception of the fi nancial agent and helper," says the report.1 "This institution was opened Sep tember 27, 1920, and now has 12 in mates, nine of whom live at the home. All uf them are totally blind. The building occupied is an old resi dence, not at all suited to the needs of this work. In the basement there are four rooms in which the industry is carried on. The basement is damp and has poor ventilation. Beside; there is not sufficient sunlight, and blind people need sunlight as well as any others. The first floor contains the office, dining room, the kitchen, the bath room, the superintendent's bed room and a parlor. These roon all appear to be fairly well kept, coi sidering the fact that only blind pe sons have to care for them. The se retary of the state board of publ welfare found that dining table s< for supper and it was clean and ad< quately furnished with tobie wari "The second floor contains thre bed rooms, two of which are for W( men inmates and the third for a ma and his wife, who are blind and wh are employed in the institutior These rooms are adequately furnish ed with beds and are well ventilate and receive the sunlight. "The back yard was unkept and ex tremely unsightly. Then toe, wate had settled under the back porch which smelled mouldy. This back yard is unsanitary and will be a men ace to health' unless it is cleaned up The toilet and bathing facilities ol the house are inadequate, there bein| only one bath room and toilet. The stains are irregular and dangerous "The institution receives blind per sons who are unskilled in weaving and teaches them how to make fur niture. It is remarkable how rapidly they attain proficiency in this trade. After six months an ordinary work er should make about $12 a week, an especially deft person can make about $17. As the board at the homo is inexpensive, a blind person can make a living at this institution. "The inmates seem very happy, both in their employment and in keeping one another's company. The institution is worthy of public sup port and to receive the assistance of all who desire to make happy, helpful citizens of persons whom nature has bereft of sight."-The State. NOTWHAT OU MAKE UT WHAT OU SAVE THAT COUNTS Conyricht 1S09, by C. E. Zimmerman Co. -No. 66 EVERY DOLLAR that you spend foolishly, every proportion* ate amount of money that you earn that it would be possible to save and do not, is only money that you have to work for again. On the other hand every dollar you put in the bank is money that is going to constantly work fer you. Which is the best; money always working for you, or you always working for your money. Come in and start that hank account. Don't put it off another day. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, President; A. S. Tompkins, Vice-President; E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, M. C. Parker, A. S. Tompkins, J. G. Holland, E. J. Mims, J. H. Allen*