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BRIEFLY TOLD 'ro the Dearbon Independent Zis clinics for, iarriageable girls to solve America's divorce problem, advocated by a. noted Parisian Gage who is visiting Chicago. "A woman's ;whole heart shoul 'dbe put int every'kiss she gives her husband,' sly declared. "A kissed woman will keep' any normal man anchored at home. Too many wives think they ca'i hold thei rhusbands through their t'opachs Seientlfic love is moie practidab than domestie sc enesi" MontreafI bachblor tax, yie1dlig $100,000 a year, was voted down. The vote stood 23 to 8 in support of an appeal to the provincial legislature to repeal the law. The "Christ of the Andes" is a statute of the Savior, cast in the bronze from the cannon of opposing Argentines and . Chik ans, standing nearly 13,000 feet above the level of the sea at Cambre Pass, on the moun tain frontier between Argentine Re public and Chili. It was placed'there in March, 1904, as a symbol of the perpetual peace which was then sworn to by the opposing nation's. An inscription on its base reads, "Sooner shall these mountains crumble to dust than shall the people of Argentina and Chili break the peace which they have pledged themselves at the feet of Christ the Redeemer." In the interior of Argeritine, cattle are so plentiful that beef on the hoof often sells for less than, two ,cents a pound and cattle are sometimes given to the butcher on condition that he shall return the hide to the owner. An office manager of a large cor peration uses a method all his own for discovering to what mental type applicants for positions as clerk and stenographer belong. He strews the anteroom with the latest copies of magazines ranging from Zippy Tales and Cinema Scandals to the more staid and worth-while publications. Ofttimes while waiting, the applicant picjcs up the periodical interesting him or her most., The Vatican has issued a warning to prelates not to take part in poli tics. A gasoline substitute, made from prickly pear juice and mixed with other chemicals, has shown remark able results. It is known as "spring bok," motor spirit, and is made in South Africa. A muskrat was the cause of Steven ville, Ontario, going without electri city for three days. Workmen sear ching for the trouble dug down to the underground cable and found that a muskrat had chewed the cable to get the beeswax inside the insulation and had been shocked to death. The parlograph, just invented by a German may be described as a dicta phone and telephone combined. Sitt ing at your desk you can, by using this instrument, do business wvith any person located elsewhere. The parlo graph, after being connected with your telephone, gives a permanent re cord of what is said and done, ,by both parties to the transaction. A blue-winged teal, banded in Lake Scrugog, Canada, 16 miles from Lake Ontario, was. found in Trinidad, 3,000 miles away, two months and seven Thin? Run-down? Sure Way to Get Right Weight Increase Your Red-Blood-Cells. That'. the Sure Way? 3. S. S. Build. Blood. Coll1 This Means Strength? Do you know why insuranco comnpa nites refuse to insure a great many men because they are under woight? Simply because to be under weight of tea proves low fighting-power In the body. It often means you are minus nerve-power, minus red-cells in your blood, minus health, minus energy, minus vitality. It Is se ripas to be minus, but the mnoment- you 1det'9$se the number of your red-blood cells, you begin to becom~e plus. That'd -l .bns. 8., since 182O, has meant. to toansof nderweight men and women, a plus In their strength. Hollow, cheeks flU out. You stop being a calamity-lodker, Yos iztspire confidence. Your body flig .te the poinat of power, your flksh becomes fir-ser, the sale lines that- come from; thin ness disappear, You look youoger, f.fe bpipier, andt you feel It, too, al osr, yp, body. Mfore red-blood-cells!. S . Wi, biathem..' Ladies and, genti mzen, * 04,-bony face doesn't make ypu look ,medott1 ig~dentl 8gun Ii ot at att droga stree w ssee.Th larget isbot9is the spt economlcat. days later. A man\ifaeturing compby shippin its product long distances from i factory by truck utilizes this nieans of transportation every tour. of Elie day and night 'by providing t -e ing cmpartment above the seat of the driver. One man sleeps ahd ?lib other drives.. The bed is similar to a Pullman berth with windows on three sides to provide ventilation. n .this *way practically all bills for lodgihg are eliminated and considerable time is saved on the way. Big Ben; the clock in the Partdamoit toWeryin London, Is wound by an elec tric motor. The bell of the clock was cast in 1858.. Five thousand 'dollars was' paid for a single branch of red apples in Fer rell, New Jersey, by a nursery firm. A record and agreement of purchase have been filed with the county clerk. The owner received $1,000 outright for the purchase of the apple branch, and will receive $4,000 additional in instalments at the rate of two cents each for every tree budded from this branch, which is to remain on the. tree in the orchard, according to re ports. Aman in Gratz, Austria, who had hanged himself from a tree, was cut down by a farmer. During the oper ation one of his legs was broken, caused by his landing in a ditch. He sued the farmer for hospital expen ses. The lower court granted his -de mand. . The superior court, however, considered that the farmer had done a good turn to the man who wanted to die, and his duty as a Christian citizen. The higher court held that he could not be held responsible for the consequences of his act and denied the would e suicide his claim. Automobiles and launches of Brazil are successfully using alcohol as fuel. Snow has melted from the cross which gives the Mount of the Holy Cross its name. The Mount of the Holy Cross is in Colorado and the snow has melted on the' cross for the first time within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. However, the out lines of the cross are discernible 20 miles distant. The center of alien white popula tion in the United States move-l west erly for the first time in 30 years. The new center is in Allen county, Indiana, about 10 3-4 miles east of New Haven and 16 miles east of Fort Wayne. It is due to the increase in foreign-born white population in Cali fornia, Texas and Arizona, according to the Census Bureau. The British Government got out a new half-penny stamp for the West Indies, containing a picture of Chris topher Columbus looking through a spyglass as he discovered the islands in 1492. Columbus died more than a century before the first telescope was devised. Indian characters, centuries old, cover the walls of an Indlian cave hid dlen away from the white man's eyes and recently discovered on the estate of Valentine Hleneman at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The cave runs back 40 feet under the hillside and can only be reached by a sudden dIrop of 15 feet over the ledges. Holland and her coloninis have no tariff andl believe in free trade. The owner of a shoe store in Am sterdam has announcedl that during one week he will pay for men's and women's shoes 2.50 guilders and for boys' andl girls' shoes 1.50 guilders to each customer who buys a new pair of shoes from him. The old1 shoe, which must be repairable, will be given to the local poor' commission for distribution among the needy. SUJPPORTr DIRECT ELECTION OF THlE PRESIDENT Let us have a national direct pri mary. It is time the' American peo ple and net' a handful of American politicians picked and elected the Pre sident o fthe United States. Senator Norris 'has introduced a bill for the abolition of the electoral college, but if this great reform is to become ef fective, the Nebraska Senator must have the solid support of the people. This is one time when every man and every woman of voting age should write letters to their Senators and Congressm'en urging them to restore to' Americans their right of franchise by supporting the Norris bill. The electoral college stqnds as no thinfr but the symbol of definace of every principle of democracy;. Indeed, the whole world has wondered how such; an archaic institution has been *toleIgated in a country supposed to 'have government by majority. The proposal for direct election needs no further brief than Brecken rillge got only 12 electoral -votes against 72 for tlie Kentuckian. Since then the election of minority presidents hna become notoriou., a WIAtHER FORECAS fresh Northerly winds---C Are Makin Bett Slip into one of ti correct style and made to give lon pert tailors to. giv made-to-measure tures in the new are most reasona Overc The Famous $35.( "Buy it from INCORPO SUMTER, th fact that the nominees are chosen Nx oteUie igoIayo by he bosses and that the people; teagstmlotrfAeicnp hav little voice in the choice of their ~hahvn eevdivr3,0,0 , preident, has been a standing indict- bsesi ,2,acrll oteUi-o men of the virility of the people elSae C~rxeto giutr.o them selves, who have supinely per-Frnerks etwh2,0,00p mittedl the condlition to exist. frtesm er 'Te contention that the day has lpased when the electoral college teladgfirktNeYokid; (dir fly in defiance of the p~eople's .. vote is beside the issue. Even an hoes t vote is not representative, and the fact is that open disregard of the nm i.TO pub>lic will remains possible. u L O.LE 4,J. The world wVar has brought to the IT OT i Unifed States more than one awaken- W T ing, perhaps the most notable a U E~ realization that the American people n mri must take the government of their jQJ~ ovwn country into their own hands,I an d by that is meant that the sixty millions of Americans residlent in the smiall towns andl on the farms are the balance of power, and should not be Ao. squtelched at the behest of interests A in the cities, by interests that have political bosses hamstrung and ob~e dient to the crack of the whip. Country America can and must die-Tey tate the presidency of the Unilted Gfd States. As a start to our political ren aissance, tho sooner we t~hrow the WTCSE electoral college into the discard the better. O AE Aoj Farmers last year entered over M A.6j r4 7 194 ,000 cows ini cow-testing associa- IW~ tionis to determine their standing as *' RO6 butter-fat producers through demon- ' ' strastions by agricultural extension a workers, according to reports to the United States Department of Agri Overe larges00importersoffAmericanrp wheat,2,aving00eceivedsoverlar,000,000, beenelmade beforeccareineported toit-ho Ued StttesStatertmentrofeAgrofuAgrreul tureance ranksenextfwitho20,000,000 pn mei~t consrvotithebyhome demon Ofthraeainlonkesagweorktss. Yo 6vE. ro ______ Page Three T:-'Fair and colder with Otercoat Weather! FR g Many Warm Friends! ?r Get Yours NOW! iese big, warm coats. They combine comfort. They are well and carefully g time service, and fashioned by ex e the appearance and easy fit of a coat. You get all these wanted fea coats at no additional cost. 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