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AS TO METHUSELAH'S AGE. Critic Cuts His 969 Years Down to 78 3-4. .Methuselah loses his famous rec ord, for his 969 reputed years are w ittled down to 78 3-4.".Thus says the Jewish World in a discussion of Jewish eharacteristics. There has always existed a certain amount of doubt even among believ -ers in the literal truth of the Bible eoncerning the great age to which the Jewish patriarchs are recorded as hahoving lived. Some of the theories evolved to reduce the Biblical ree -ords of this kind to something near the allotted spa-n of man are dealt with in the article. It is surmised, the Jewish World -eays, that in the earliest times the month, the period of a moon cycle, was called a year. Thus Adam's 930 years of life, calculating a year at 29 1-2 days, the length of a lunar month, works out to 75 1-4 years. Af ter the month year there came a five month year, the limit of five being -derived from the fingers on one hand, it being remembered that primitive people always used the fingers for counting purposes. Then came the twelve month year. Excuse for this rearrangement is -found in the Psalmist's limit of life of three score and ten years, and it is maintained that between the times -of Noah and David no such extraor dinary change could have taken place as to reduce the life of man by elev en-twelfths. On the five moaths year basis, Abraham's 175 years work out at 2 7and Isaae's 180 at 74. Wedr Cormm< Valual *Now is Newberry isk there With a population of ov Artesian Water, a Gradi *students, four banks wii spindles, consuming 20 Southern Power Compa all property and the de buy property in Newber property, formerly knov ing Main Street. The p where you can buy a lot T E RMS: O per C made to negroes, and a selling, leasing or rentir DON'T Wednesdag Perhaps, too, there intervened a six 6 month year, discovered by Jacob while watching Laban's flocks. Thus Jacob's 147 years work out at about 73. The twelve month year began with the Egyptians, who saw that a complete period was made up of the two "years,'' in one of which the days we?e longer than the nights and the other the nights longer than the days. .The Christian and Jewish years, concludes the Jewish World, will not forever be separated, "for,' it says, "in due course Rosh Hashona, will fall at Christmas time and then catch up the Christian year. This, however, will not happenTor 30,000 years, and no doubt that is the reason why no body worries about it." As it Was in Billville. "The old woman's sold the pi ano." "My, my! "And I've mortgaged two mules." "Worse an' worse!" "An' the Jersey cow has changed hands." "Awful-awful!" "I know it, but the man didn't have but one automobile left, an' the old woman set her iheart on it, an' I'm goin' to be her chaffer, an' let her see some style afore we go hence an' air seen: no more forever! Vice Versa. "What have you been doing in the country i' "Oh, just lying around and fish ing.' "You mean fishing and lying around.' '-Boston Transcript. SEL ON ie sda: ~nQing at 11: )Ie Res the Timi eping pace wit is not a vacant er 7,000; Electric Lights d School System, one of h nearly one million d( ,000 bales of cotton, witl ny will soon be in NewbE velop.ment of many ma ry. Newberry stands t< mn as the Jones' property rchaser of lots will hav on reasonable terms for third cash, balance in ent. from day of sale pt. clause will be inserted i g the property to negroe 'FORGE MornHing, Il MONI Plenty TO LE The Commerc Of NewAberrl JNO. M. KINARD, J. Y. McFA President. Cashier. THE PREP ,No~ OO0 O'cl1ock. 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