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"THE DIRTY OLD MAN E WHO ALWAYS WINS" IS SENSATION IN PARI I jr Paris, July 24.?The sensation ( ti j the hour in smart Paris today is th story of Father Cherry, "He Pere la i Cerise.'* This is the nickname of a: b old newspaper vendor whose startling fj adventures have quite put into th jr shade such back numbefs as the fa!! ti of the president from his train. !t) He is an old newspaper vendor who j( leaped into fame by being ignomini- w ously arrested while seated on i j w bench in the Tulleries park and en gaged in the usual but no dot. g pleasant experience of counting wha V( appeared to be innumerable bank S( t notes into a greasy bag. li Father Cherry was shabby, in ! credibly dirty, haggard, and lookei ! . altogether the wrong person to be e I gaged in such an occupation. At the nnlice station he explained that the f( money was legitimately his, that it (*' amounts to something like $25,000; ' and?still more marvelous?that h 01 had won it by means of systematic J1 betting on races in the proceeding 11 three weeks. Sl On inquiry this turned out to be ;? true, and with profuse apoligies he " was released. But bis troubles wert ? by no means ended. The press go hold of the story and at the races " next day when Father Cherry turnea up he was surrounded by a great 0 crowd of eager backets determine to know his secret and which horse:. . he fancied for the afternoon. Leaving his hat in the clutches of the laughing superstitious crowd, h fled to the fashionable enclosure, only to find the same annoying interest a.-> to his sporting intentions among the top-hatted and the silk-gowned. Fuel was added to the fire by the next morning's announcement that he I again backed three very comfortable winners and won another $4,000. Since t,hat time he has disappeared, though enterprising young journalists profess to have discovered him again at the Lonchamps races yet terday with his beard shaved an his hair trimmed in disgpise. He h*. turned into something lige legend Paris has christened him "Le Pere 1Cerise," which in itself contains th whole chapter of racing superstition. Bad luck in French argot is called guigne. signifying the small cherry known as the black-heart. But it is a word never used for fear of misfortune by initiates who use as an equivalent the less magic word of cerise?-a short and sweet euphemism. So Father Cherry V s come into that short-lived, exuoerant thing. Paris popularity and is more talked about than Krassin or Lloyd George ?the dirty old man who always wins and his infallible system. o BIGGEST WAK PROFITEER. Shrewd German Piled Up Half a Billion. , Herr Hugo Stinnes, the German coal king and billionaire, owner of seventy newspapers and dictator ?f a gigantic shain of industries, is the, man of the hour in Europe and is well worth watching in America, according to an article in The Sun and New York Herald. His power eclipses that of generals or statesmen. He is the kaiser's successor as the autocrat of Central Europe and surpasses the former emperor in th^ magnitude ot his schemes. For Wilhelm's dram of conquering the planet, with cannon was child's play compared with Herr Stinnes's project of subjugating it by his financial genius. Herr Stinnes is an unprepossessing figure to tyhe eyes, according to an American observer just back from Germany. He has a close cropped head and piercing dark eyes, dresses in slovenly fashion and a. ways looks down at heel. Moreover, some of his exploits during the wh. add emphasis to his sinster personality. It was to Stinnes thaf the infamous deportation of Belgians in . was credited. And while these thousands of expatriates were herded in concentration laiups m uic iuuuoihu centres of Germany, helping to create wealth for Herr Stiunes, he was making more millions by the exploitation of property in the occupieu part of Belgium. The Greatest War Profiteer. The most prodigious of war profiteers, admired and envied by tne kaiser, Stinnes can boast that his country's failure was his success. The latest estimate of his fortune is 2,000,000,000 marks, which is nominalequivalent to $500,000,000. But Stinnes has only just begun to make money. He is not turned 50 yet. And he aspires to be the coal and industrial king, not only of Germany but of ! France as well. And why stop at | France? Stinnes and his associates bought a great English colliery of 22,- I 000 acres just before the war and I were reaching out to pick up collier- I ies here, in Virginia. They had already I acquired coal fields in Turkey and I other out of the way corners. And | since the war their activities have I multiplied enormously. S Lloyd George may consider himself I the leading figure at the Spa confer- I ence, but Stinnes looms up as the I dark horse. The German delegates, of I whom he was one, were Stinners's I delegates and the German bluff of be- I ing unable to deliver $2,000,000'tons I .of coal * month was Stinnes's bluff, And the proposed compromise by which the Allies would get the coal and Germany a loan of $100,000,000 is Stinnes's idea Germany needed a hero badly. It hks swallOWed Stinnes. The shabby little bearded person of Hebraic extraction, for whose bank account Belgium was bled white, is the idol, the savior,1 the divinity of post-war Germany. He had himself elected to the Reichstag last month, although he despises pol- ; ... . 1?oc miirh as he does lTlClctUS UlUlVOl U>J AMMVM ? . the Hindenburgs and Ludendorfs of I other days. But a seat in the Reich stag may be useful for the further ance of his business schemes and the I guarding of his interests, which in- I elude coal mines, steel mills, electri- I cal and gas plants, river fleets deep I sea fleets, paper mills, newsprint ftic- I tories, coal by-products, celluloid, au- I tomobiles, hotel and other industries. I / [err Stinne? is quoted as saying. Holds Coal as Trump Card. ( "Coal is the true king. From coal ( ou go on to iron and steel, and then > j ships and forests, wood pulp, paper t -everywhere!*' t "Stinnes was born to the coal mine * usiness. He inherited 9,000,000 I ancs from his father. His dominat1 < ig temperament could not brook con- ^ ol in youth and he broke away from le paternal interests to lauch out 1 >? himself. His activities in the coal I larket threw him into association t ''' * ?****! nioir. C no me grtrai sicci tiiiu iuu uiue,ate August Thyssen. Admirers of i tinnes predicted that one day he ould make as much money as Thys- ? jn. Today the JThyssen fortune looks 1 ke 30 cents beside Stinnes's. ? Stinnes was 34 when he bought up c le coal and iron interests in the . eutsch-Luxembourg regions. In this blowing seven years their value rose om 20,000.000 to <?ne -hundred^ mil- J on marks, and in a year more it had limbed to one hundred and thirty larks. He built a fleet of ships vto ransport his coal ^nd iron-ore and [>on he was on his way to the control ] f the biggest groups of the German i itrchant marine, including the Ham- ] urg-American line. Eleven competlg street railways in the city of Maneim were brought into his fold, not o mention 25 miles of car lines in i ther cities. c Expected Fatherland's Defeat. I This mower is as easy on your horses a! of hay in every mile the horses travel. Co RraHHv-Wheeler VI U V# J I t v* w* I Bell Phone I From 1 Dillon, S. C.J FT Y JL JL Such -were his operations in Belgium Hitrinir the nccuttation that if Sermany had won the war his profits vould have been beyond belief. Even vith a Geyman defeat the^ were coloslal. In fact, Stinnes is said to have ?xpected a German defeat from the >eginning, wherefore he played both >nds against the middle and made hay vhile the sun shone. Stinnes has immense influence with abor. Strikes may paralyze other people's mines, but not this. Once, after he revolution of 1918, a deputation >f miners informed him that the nines were now for the miners. "All right, take the mines," shouted stinnes. "I throw them at your heads 3ut in three months you'll come begging me to return. And I'll come ? >n my own terms." His miners decided, to let tn/e mue tearded man run his own mines. And Jermans of all classes agree that Gerliany will be safe from Bolshevism so ong as Stinnes remains in the saddle. o Lesesne Richbourg has gone .to Hendersonville, N. C., to spend a lionth in a boys' camp in Laurel Park. Hart Turner of Sellers has been adranced to Gunner's Mate, second :lass. He is attached to the Submarine [J.- S. S. R.-12. 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We beliewould be your way if you should build a wa| Full Circle Iron Malleable Front Houn Plate ~"^fijpTS oil tera Cant lens to turning n turning and backing up, with the ordilary circle iron, which is only a half circle, >o*lsters run off the end of the track and ' iang. It is difficult to make short turns and >ack up. The Thornlull full circle iron ives a continuous track on wliich the belters can turn. The gears of Thornhill wagons stay in line for ife. Instead of the usual front hound plate, I . hound plate of malleable iron is used. It is i metal jacket braced at eight points that I Lccps gears from ever getting out of line. Al Kentuc THE CO! )YD DALE, ; jg; J?J jia.ru v^iciii It. - 4 i l\ its We Rest C of wagons. You put For spokes and axies ton in materials and con- used For hubs and fell remaining them?and This wood grows upon th rant to show you how the climate severe. It ha ain statement of facts the strength of oak and hi< re the Thornhill way Outdoors under shelter i jon. sap dries in it, giving it a Trussed Bolsters and B Reacn Plate of ^I Mollooble Iron ^ Note the Adjustable Brake Lewer f/r t On the front bolsters of ThomhiH wagons are heavy iron plates running along top and f bottom?connected by rivets that run clear through the bolster. Strength and lightness r are combined. Rear gears are strongly * ironed. There arc braces on both top and > bottom that extend the full length of the I hounds. J Solid trust bars extend the full length cf the axles giving them double strength. :ky Horse & Mule Co., MPAfr s. c. VR ulated 28c O ? j \ I . * lur Case gh second growth highland hickory ie !oes the sturdy white oak is preferred. BT e mountain side. The ground is hard? W a to fight for life. It has nearly twice ckory that grows under softer conditions. t remains lot three to five years. 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