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MYSTERHF LIFE Who Knows Where !t Comes From or What It Js? Marked Difference Between Mankind and the Wild Things,^in Their View of Death?Lower Animals Little Impressed. Some folks talk about "the mystery of life," am! it is as good a way as any to speak of it. For, truth is. nobody seems to know anything about life. Yet everything pays more attention to living than to anything else. I Tactically every motive in the world, : among the wild things, is to live. Not even man, with nil his knowledge, knows where life comes from, or what it is. (ieorge F. Burba writes in the Columbus Dispatch. It is just the opposite of death, he ! will tell you; one either lives or die?. j If he is living, the body is in :? certain i condition. The blood flows through ! the veins. The heart beats. The body j is warm. One is conscious of that ! which goes on about him. The very ] opposite is true when a rliin^ is dcu'l. ! whether the thing is a man or a dog | or a bird or a fish. But the why of it all?nobody understands that. ' The wild things strive with all their j might to escape death, hut they pay j little attention to the dead things about : them. It doesn't seein to make any Impression upon an animal to run up- j on another animal that is dead, out in I the woods. They fear death, hut they j <lo not respect the dead, nor show any j emotion in the presence of death, j They do not know what it is?that is. i t*hey do not know that the dead crea- j ture they encounter in the woods is ! dead and done for. If it is something j they want to devour, they devour it; l if it ic n<?t th*?v n:iss on without Day- j 4 -- ? - - I ing much attention to it. Death is more of a mystery to man. That is, It impresses him to a great- j er extent. He thinks more of it. H<? ! tries no harder to live thnn do the wild | things, but there is something in con- j nection with the presence of a dead j creature that impresses a human be- j ing. This is especially true if one en- ! counters death out in the fields or j woods. Tramping through a forest, and I coming suddenly upon a dead animal, j one pauses in contemplation of the j , mystery before .him. Yesterday a j splendid stag, let us say, roaming the woods in triumph; strong and swift I and beautiful; conscious of his strength and fleetness; living?breathing,'seeing, feeling. Today?there he lies. His. coat roughened by the winds or rain, his eyes sightless, his limbs without motion?unconscious he lies there like a log rotting in the elements. Can i this be the stag of yesterday? Is the thing called life all he needs today to arouse him from the slumber?to \ smooth his splendid coat, to bring the j gleam of light into the eye, to give \ speed to the limbs? Then, whence the ! thing called life? Or, from wnence did 1 it come in the beginning? Thus do we meditate and marvel ! at the mystery of life'aiid death when i we are in the presence of death?espe- : cially if we encounter it in the great j shadows of the forest?out where tnere is nothing to interrupt us, out where j reigns that which gives life and which ' recalls it! Few Reminders of Raids. Studious lovers of London will not i fail to notice how swiftly, true to her | marvelous gift of eternnl youth, she is ' obliterating every trace *. the air raid period as if it had neve* "en. Some 1 c of the scars made by -vrmy bombs still remain, as in the wholesale mar- ! ket in Covent Garden, but they might ? ~ ^ -? *? Al* WA pass as uiinouceu as me cuctw w ic- i cent fires which are aiwuys to be : found in the great city. Notices of the | air raid shelters are, however, already hard to find; an odd one may be dis- I covered on a lamp post in Tottenham Pnurt rond. or at Gresham college, | which had not found leisure to tear down the shabby poster about its use as an air raid shelter; while in Southampton row the New Zealand record office has not yet demolished its sandbag revetment. Speaking generally, however, all signs of the reign of terror by night have "vanished like the baseless fabric of a dream, leaving not a wrack behind."?London Globe. Paper Underclothing. An excellent and durable quality of underclothing has been made of a finegrained paper by Japanese manufacturers. After the paper has been cut to a pattern the different parts are sewn together and hemmed, and the places where the buttonholes are to be formed are strengthened with calico or linen. The paper is very strong and . at the same time very flexible. After a garment has been worn a few hours it will interfere with the perspiration of the body no more than do garments made of cotton fabric. The paper is not sized, nor is it impermeable. After becoming wet the paper is difficult to tear. When an endeavor is made to tear it by hand it presents almost as much resistance as the thin skin used for making gloves. ??????? Use for War Materials. The- .British ministry* of reconstruct ! tion, according to. th.e Daily Mail, is j embarking upon" a scheme of rural de-1 velopment by the construction of a j large number of light railways to con-j nect the country districts with the j main railways. The cost will be shared by county authorities and the government. The lines will be leased to operating companies under adequate iruarante^s. Enormous quantities of material used by the British army in France will be utilized. i :. - 'every man to his trade! I In Siberian Prison Camps Each Un- j fortunate Exile Followed Sis Vocation. ' Far more popular than the church J j were the library and the school, a ! regular organized high school-college, i where law, mathematics, chemistry, f*-?i? Inniriinirt'S and many other suh- ' ; jects were taught. Again, this part : of our work rose out of a very humble j beginning. The lirst school was held, i j almost secretly, in au old washroom, ; i and ambitious Itussian guards con- ! ! liscatyt logarithm tables and French ! dictionaries because they looked so suspicious. And the teacher of ge- ' ometry, who made those peculiar ! drawings, was arrested and taken for ; a spy, who taught how to escape with ; a plan of the camp. The library was born when the lirst Y. M. C. A. sec- ; retary arrived and gave six or eight < I books which he found in his trunk to members of the head committee i I to read, Johan W. l'rinz writes in Asia magazine. The sport commit* j tee was in charge of the socker lie!c! and tennis courts and in some camps there was even a gymnasium. A small bank was established for the convenience of those who wanted to. borrow a few rubles on their official 1 announcements from banks in IV' Irograd that money had 1 mi received from relatives in the f ' countries (by way of Sweden . i v as 011 the way. Work shops \ < mized so that tht? tradesmen, t^ penter, the shoemaker, the barber, might turn to his trade and work for the benefit of his comrades. But the pride of the1 Y. M. C. A. was the American ; kitchen. This welfare kitchen was nec essary because the Russians never gave the men enough to eat. Here they had a chance, once in a while, to get a hearty meal for a few kopeks; here a certain number of sick avw! /tAnl/1 not iiVZiinr /lov \V if limit" ClUU ['Ul'l VV/MUi VUl V ? V i J VIMJ ?. ?vvv.v cost. How many favorable comments have I heard upon those kitchens, which really became a blessing for the prisoners! MAN OF IMAGINATIVE MIND; i Among Many Useful Inventions of : Seth Boyden Was That of PopIIIik I Aath^r. T "" i The first "patent" leather was the ' invention of Seth Boyden, who was ; born in Foxboro, Mass., one hundred and thirty'years agt>. He was brought i up on a farm and educated in a dis- i trict school and in the vrllage black- j smith shop, where he spent all his ; leisure time "tinkering" and experi- ! menting. His first invention was a | machine for making nails and files, i Later he invented a machine for split- j onil ir? 1S1^ |)Q 111JK iciuitn, an" in iui? >>v J in the leather business in Newark, N. 1 J. In 381G he invented an appliance j for cutting brads and in the following J year he perfected his "patent" leath- j ! er. The leather prepared by this i I process gradually, became popular, and j until 1831 Boyden was principally en- ; gaged in its manufacture. He then . turned his attention to steam engines, j and made several improvements in lo- j foil. ! comotives. JtlC IUUK j>uil hi uic v?" } fornia gold rush of '49, but soon re- ! turned to New Jersey, where he en- j gaged in farming and produced a vari- I ety of strawberries vastly superior to j any then known in both size and qual- j ity. He died in 3S70, and his memory j is perpetuated by a statue at Newark, j I 1 | Birds That Are Useful. It Is in their relation to insects and j other enemies of crops that birds are | most directly associated with the wel- I fare of man. It is not possible to give a hard-and-fast rule, applicable to the whole country, as to whether any certain bird is beneficial or injurious to farmers, but in the United States department of agriculture's farmers' bulletin 630, "Some Common Birds TTc??fn) tr? tiip Former." more than fifty I species of birds common to farming J sections are discussed. The birds treat- j ed in the bulletin are: Bluebird, robin, j titmouse, wren, brown thrasher, catbird, j swallow, towhee, sparrow, house finch, | grackle, brewer .blackbird, Baltimore ! oriole, Bullock's oriole, meadowlark, redwing, blackbird, bobolink, crow, bluejay, Pacific coast jay, phoebe, kingbird, nighthawk, woodpecker, cuckoo and bobwhite. Radial Tether tor Animais. | To -tether his cow so as to admit j ! of its having a large feeding range, and yet so as to be perfectly secure and require no attention, a Pennsylvania man adopts the following j method: He took a pole, 20 or 30 ft. in length, pivoted at one end and fitted with an iron ring large enough to slip along from end to end. The small end of the pole was supported by a light metal wheel from some old farm implement, or a wooden one; ! cut from a piece of plank. The ani-1 | mal was fastened with a halter chain, i | too short to get tangled up with I the animal's legs. ' The Blacker They Turn. A letter received in this city from Roy Schultz, a Danville colored man, now in military service in France, tells of a good joke the colored boys had at the expense of the Huns. A colored division had relieved a white division during the night, when the Germans i were sending over a regular shower of gas shells. The heavy fighting continued the next day, and a German \ prisoner taken by the colored boys was heard to remark: "We can't whip these Yanks, and there is no use trying. The more gas we send over on them the blacker they turn and tha horsier thov fiorh* "?TrulianaruilIs Xuwo 1 CAPTAIN WAS "GOOD FELLOW" I I Otherwise Privates M.-ght Have Found ( Their Playfulness to Be a Seri- t ous Matter. I While serving at Fort Sill. Okln.. I j was quartered with a Texas cowhoy. and lit' would often amuse himself 1 hours jit a time with his lasso. One 1 favorite stunt was to stand in the floor 1 of his tent after taps, when ail was \ (k rk airl quiet, an?J throw his rope ] around the foot of some unsuspecting > comrade returning from town, drawing j him into the ten:, where he would Hash j a light into his face, frightening the poor fellow unmercifully. One night at his jrame an unusually large fellow was caught and he whis- * pered to me to help drag liim in, which ' I cheerfully did. The big fellow came 1 into the tent on his back, swearing t with all his might. We threw the light ( into his face with a laugh and were greeted with the two shining bars of our j captain! I lost no time in getting out- i side of the tent, and suppose my brave " cow-puncher disappeared in some I* ? ?** \fg? r\\o1 iirp ."^UV/II V\ <1 > . 1 t?| uu JkO VWVUM ..4X-v?..~ I . ourselves behind bars at Fort Leavenworth, and upon being called lo the < captain's tent a week later all hope i l'adod. Right hero I wish to d"dare i (?ur captain a good fellow, as we were j dismissed with a reprimand and a request that the performance never be ; repeated.?Detroit Free Press. CZAR 10 LIVE IN LEGEND ' World May Look for All Sorts of Tales Concerning Autocrat of Ail the Russias. . The czar of Russia is lost in legend. 1 Unless he shall again appear definitely in the flesh, so that his identity may j he positively established before all the \iorld. the question of his fate will be } always disputed. Lie will take his place in the list with the lo5t dauphin nf T-Vjitipp who is sunnosed to have ] lived a quiet lii'e in America after be- \ ing spirited away, and with "John Ord," a brother of Franz Josef, who renounced his title and sailed away in a vessel reported lost with all hands, but who is supposed to be living in- * cognito on an obscure, palm-shaded island, far from the reach of the tur- s moil that marked the last days of the j Hapsburg court. 1 As a result of the conflicting stories now being circulated regarding the J czar, the public mind is already divid erl as to whether a bolshevik bullet J really ended his life or whether the i Count Tatichev, the emperor's person- 1 al military attache, with a supreme de- , votion to duty, died in his master's stead. Only the clearing up of the mystery can prevent the reports years li?nce that in the death of some ob- 1 scure old man of foreign appearance ] the end has finally come to him who 1 was once Autocrat of All the Itussias. 1 i! i Kooseveu ana oiu jiuu, At Professor Kano's jiu jitsu academy in Tokyo many years later I met Professor Yamashita, who had taught the Japanese art to President Roosevelt in Washington three .times a r??Artlr -Ps\y + vl WiO l'C? >VCCA IIU Ulirc J vuio. The president, he said, was his best pupil, but also his most dangerous. "Very heavy, very strong, very impetuous, he always attacked as if he was going to kill me. Oh, many bruises, much worry, great trouble, I assure , you. j "I could not tell him. It is not jiu jitsu to complain, but when he would get me almost killed my trouble was to save my life without hurting him. No matter how madly he attacked I i could nbt hurt. I could not kill the . /v^ a TTntfa/1 CfofThof pTOlUrill Ut LUC UUilCU xxiai was my 'point of honor."?J. I. C. ] Clark, in New York Evening Post. - -i . Airplane Freight Carrier. The airplane has proved its success as a carrier of mails; and in the Southwest, whore most of the army's flying j fields were laid out, airplanes are used daily for all-round utility business. A j MAMAtif -Pw/Arvt n 'Pat'A c f? f 1 a I'Ct'CIll I CjJUL l lii'in u itaao uciu itiio of a pilot flying 125 miles from a practice field to the wing headquarters and carrying as a prisoner a watchman I who had fallen asleep on duty. Upon j his return trip to the camp he carried $2,500 in pay vouchers, 100 pounds? of J bread, four airplane wheels, landing j gear and struts. In addition he tucked , in a large bundle of papers and maga- j zines and a pouch full of mail!?Earl j N. Findley in Red Cross Magazine. Bagpipes in Brussels. The Daily Telegraph in its account of the entry into Brussels of King Albert says: The Yanks came first in the military cortege which followed the royal party. Then came the French. An interval of 2CO yards, and a si-1 lence, and then a wound strange to the i Bruxellois, the skirl of bagpipes blown by thirty Highlanders leading the way for a company ot iheir kilted com- j rades. The Scotsmen, let it be re- . corded, had the success d'estime of the i parade. How the ladies waved their j Vinn<1l'ni.nhiQfB o? the HitrhlnndprS I liauui\ci wv V*?v v | swung past, and how everybody voiced j his and her admiration for these stal- j wart men. Parade of White Caps. Quite unique to Cardiff, Wales, Is 1 the daily breakfast parade of the "white caps." The United States sailors and marines stationed in Cardiff . are paraded every morning in batcnes at the Castle srreet corner of Westgate street, and tnence march to different restaurants and hotels Tor breakfast. The operation is repeated for the mid-day meal and for tea. But the earlier parade is the more noticeable, because the otherwise deserted streets are given an unwonted appear* a; ce of liveliness.?London Mall. '* Summk .. .. a . as A Tribute to Haskel Cobb. in Lines on the death of Mr. Haskell 'obb. who volunteered in service in -0; he month of September. 191S. he en- ji isted in service. He was a hero of )i?r country. He went to tight for lis country and in 1919. January 15. j he ship 011 which he sailed struck ; I * in ice berg and went down and Has-1 .?nl tiro o rl fli Aiiorh t lir* T < .??/! I v^ri ?*ao ui wnticu* iiiuu^ii uui u viiows best; it was his will for dear rlaskel to go to that eternal home j -vhile in service. He left his friends j lere on earth to mourn the lo.?s of lis death. To dwel on that golden; c ;hore; we'll miss his sweet face, will ! s niss his smiles, day and night. Oh. I c leath thou hast taken our earthly s v reasurcs. ' Oh. grave though hast | lidden his dear face, but 011 earth j S here are 110 more pleasures and never j * >11 earth he'll stay." 'Tis not wrong 10 wish to meet dear n I ftaskel for just only ID years, lie was C jiven in the bloom of life. He will ^ irvelcome us; we'll joyless greet him n ivhen we reach our eternal liome in w leaven above. Oh. why are we here b md our loved ones up there. AVe ? ) rt jd asunder, by God's own hand; it 0 is mystery to us here below, but up . here some day we will understand. ] A Friend, i J -Miss beppie Koon. j ^ iKXKRAL SESSJOXS fOFKT i ~ }IOXI>A<\ MAIUH 17r.!! Fo nil witnesses and defendants in criminal cases: ? You are hereby notified that if you :ave signed a witness bond or given I bond to appear at general session j (criminal) court at any court th?tj las been postponed, that you are expected to be present cn Monday, * March 17th, 1319. There are about 40 cases to be dis posed of and it i's my intention to try every case possible. The following cases will be called Dn Monday morning: Hattie Davis | r* tt' /i TT i ?arson; opence vverts una xaeniy | Scurry,?-murder: Marfan Boyd and j vVt 11 Will: a ni s?m u rd e r; Li I la J oh 11 - j >cn, A & B intent to kill; Sam Down-J ng. house breaking. All other cases I ivill be tri'ed as soori thereafter as \ practicable. If you are a witness or defendant in any ease, please appear Monday j morning and save your bond from j ;eing estreated or ruled for contempt of court I give this warning r.s come people are under the impression that :he sheriff or magistrates have tc uoti'fv witnesses for each court, hut :lie law is when a witness cr defend-1 ? \ Condei Tlin Nihnn mc nauuu Newbe From report \ Showing Condition RESOURCES Loans aad Ib\ awtats ... $ Liberty Buds aid Treasvy Certifi cates of M?btedi 0S . United States Bonds .... Cash and doe from Banks aid United States Treasury . - . $1 THE NATIONAl B. C. MATTHEWS, President. State, Count Member t signs a bond, that bond is for S ; appearance at the next term of jrt and every court thereafter untlio c:\se is disposed of. H. S. Blr^kwell, e Solicitor. P i] IHESE DURABLE SOLES : ac av. a la n n > ^ a ^ IT* WHMILLK . s "After giving Neolin Soles a thoriugh trial, I would not go back to the oles I used to wear even though the > -i ost were less. I receive twice the j v ervice from shoes with Ncoiin Soles/* j writes G. P. Jones, of Omaha. More than 10,000.000 pairs of Neolin !v ioles have been put on American shoes, 'eople were quick to realize tiie ad- : j antages of this scientifically-made sole j j -its long wear, its comfort, waterroofness?and its final economy. !s iood shoe stores everywhere sell I >ieulin-soied shoes in many styles for _t 1 :i .1 . len, women, ana cnnaren. ? And any repairman will re-sole your j orn shoes with Neolin Soles?made v The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Lkron. Ohio, who also make Wingfoot I leels?guaranteed to outwear all j t ther heels. ' rie-oliM Soles IraCc Alarfc Lies. U.S. tat. Off. Make This Bank Y( GET DOWN A PEACE E The war is over am to win it, but that i Now is the time to and develop out hoi with this bank will START A CHECl The Excha Of Newbe "The Bank of i ' I 1 O /i 4 104-4ised Stab OF nl Htfurtlr rtf idi uaim ui rry, South Cai :o the Comptroller of th at the Close of Busii \ 842,954.18 Capital Stock . Sarplss ad Uadhri Circulation iqc am nn Dividends Unpaid IPO,000.00 D^?ats Bills Payable (sec Bawls) 153,093.22 Rediscounts with r 1,292,732.40 . BANK OF NEK T. K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier. y and City Federal Reserve i ^ >IMPKINS' IDEAL PROLIFIC COTTON. One of the best and most productive arly cottons; grown ninety days from ilanting to boll. It has produced as nuch as three bales per acre averagng 40 per cent, lint and in tests made t the Arkansas Experiment Station it veraged first out of twenty-eight vaietiec tried. # ^ This cotton also took first premiums t the North Carolina State Fair for o trial >cai3. Tlie advantage of planting an eariy "injuring foiton like the Simpkins i* vel 1 understood by all cotton growers, >articularly where danger of boo] veevil exists. i By express, freight or parcel post 1 >er bushel f. o. b. Georgetown $2.50 5rompt shipment. Order now for pring planting. ENTERPRISE TRUCK FARM, V Georgetown, S. C. , 4 ' ' CITY LICENSE. ' ^ Get your License at once. Licensa r 191J? now due ai d must be paid at >nce. T.y order of city council. J. W. Chapman, 1-3 Jit. Clerk and Treas. )ur Business Home ^ TO !.AS1S? * d it is true we all helped s a thing of the past? f ^ get on a firm peace basis i me business. An account help you. I CING ACCOUNT nge Bank srry, S. C. the People " f smeni . Newberry r~ rolina e Currency ness Dec. 31, 1918 ========= / < LIABILITIES >. $ lOO,60fc?r^ ided Profits . . 19,145.44 100,000.00 4,056.00 , 762,055.36 1 I 11 . urea dj uoeny ^ 171,000.00 1 'ederal Reserve Bank 136,475.60 _ % $1,292,732.40 ^ ' ^ 'BERRY, S. C. W.W.CROMER Assistant Cashier. j J Depository I System I