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SIGNIFICANCE IN DEATH RATE
Stat'stlcft Show That an Undue Proportion
of American* 8uccumb to
Diseaae at Middle Age.
At middle life and later the
American of today shown a diminished
vitality as compared with the
American of thirty years ago. Registration
statistics and life insurance
statistics show that the death
rate in this country is increasing
at the later age periods, and that
the death rate from diseases of the
heart, blood vessels and kidneys,
which affect chiefly those at middle
life and later, has increased during
the last thirty years. This is not
merely an apparent increase, due to
improvement in diagnosis, dut an
actual increase, as these diseases
have been followed back as one
group, and thus errors in diagnosis
or changes in reporting are necessarily
kept within the group.
In England and Wales there has
been no such increase either in the
death rate from these degenerative
diseases or in the death rate at the
later age periods.
The expectation of life in this
oountry has not increased at the '
older ages, although a decided increase
is apparent at the youngest
apes, due to the conquest of the
communicable diseases.
Strong and self-reliant as we are
as a nation, let us rejoice that what
we arc does not constitute the pinnacle
of strength, and that if we
take heed future development may
give us reason for even greater confidence
in our power to endure and
to prevail.
ETIQUETTE OF HAT WEARING !
Somewhat of a Puzzle as to Whether '
wii> miuuiu os iiovirea or
Uncovered.
The news from Petrograd is of
tin dismissal of the appeal of the
inun who was sentenced to h year's
lortress imprisonment for wearing
his hat during the playing of the
national anthem. This hat triek
is intricate etiquette! One recalls,
for instance, those Sussex dames
who raised their bonnets to Richard
Jeff cries as he wandered
through their village. And Joffories,
too, noted an even greater example
of politeness as practiced i
with the hat by a man of the soil
who found himself in the hunting
field with the prince of Wales. lie !
raised his hat with both hands and
blushed at the graceful recognition
of the homage. The plight of
Hooker, too, is noted by his biog- j
raphcr. For the "Judicious" one, j
wrote lzuak Walton, was of "so 1
mild and humble a nature that his |
poor clerk and he did never talk
but with )>oth their hats on, or both
nil*, at the same time."?Londoa
Chronicle.
ASTUTE POLITICIAN.
"Congressman Blowster seems to j
have a severe cold in his head."
"Yes, he has been suffering for a
week or more, but he has u clever
way of explaining his affliction to
his constituents."
"How is that ?"
"Ho gi vcs them to understand i
that he caught cold by continuously
keeping his ear to the ground."
MUST GET A REST SOMEHOW.
Doctor?You must go away for a
long rest.
Overworked Merchant?But, doctor,
I'm too busy to go away.
Doctor?Well, then, you must
Stop advertising.?Boston Kvpnini*
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Transcript.
THOUGHTFUL MILKMAN.
"See here, milkman, I don't
think the milk you are giving me
is pure."
"Madam, to the pure all things
are pure."?Life.
A TRIFLER.
I
Maud?Is Jack a talkative man?
Marie?Not on the subject a girl
naturally expects to hear from one
who's been keeping company with
her for two years.
j
MAKES HER RE8TLE8*.
"The confidence Mrs. (ladders rej>oso*
in her husband is wonderful."
"My wife says she has confidence
iu -me, but 1 fear it is not the re%
((useful kind."
"No?"
"It's the kind that keeps her
awake at night until she finds ??tj
DAY OF "DOLL" WOMAN GONE
Men Now Are Showing Prwference for
Mental Qualifications in
Their Wives.
There used to he a time when
^ men preferred the "doll" type of
woman as a wife, to any other variety.
Fortunately that period has
I passed, or, rather, there /ire so few
men with these preferences today
' that they need not be considered
here. Of course there will always
he husbands who prefer to bare all,
the brains in the matrimonial partnership,
who look upon their wives
o< playthings to be excluded from
.all their real interests and the real
issues of life; as clotheshorses to Be
dressed up and shown off as an
advertisement of the owner's prosperity.
Few men nowadays want,
and fewer women nowadays consent,
to be this sort of a wife. Mutual
attraction plays as big a part
as physical attraction in the selection
of a mate. How else can he
develop his future if at the head of
.1 A;- U i .t
uie uumesuc neim mere stands a
woman who cannot meet hint on
equal mental grounds, who cannot
understand and appreciate the
ideas he expounds? The average
wife of today must have mentality
if she is to hold her husband, and
the average man, realizing this,
perhaps better than the woman,
looks for a fair amount of mentality
in the girl he selects to be his
wife.
BAD, BAD BOY
Mr. Hug?Now see what that
fresh kid brother of yotirs did!
While I was taking that kiss he tied
our feelers together.
NEW FIELD FOR MEN.
The perfect thirty-sixes are not nil
women. We also have men models.
This fact was brought out when
a New York woman suing for a separation
said her husband was a fashion
plate. "He changed his clothes
at least fifty times a day," ^as her
parting remark. And the husband
admitted the impeachment. He said
he was a man clothes model. It has
long since been found that real
clothes shown on real js'ople are the
H'st advertisements for said clothes
i hat can l>e found. Designers of
women's costumes knew it all the
time, but it is comparatively a new
Held for men. There are only six
of these Adonises in the business,
and they command good pay. They
are a very valuable ami important
adjunct to the men's clothes shop,
and particularly to the manufacturers
of men's clothes.
Fxr.tiRARi r ppono
"How many people came over
originally in the Mayflower?"
"I believe the latest estimate is
something like J>,<8perrons."
"Nonsense. The vessel eouhl only
carry a few hundred."
"The estimate was based, A believe,
on the apparent number of
their descendants in this country."
THE PLACE.
"That faddist is certainly putting
lots of honey in his public ap
peals/'
"Naturally. He gets it from the
bee in hi# bonnet."
GREW POINTED.
"Ami why ?1i?l he indulge in such
pointed remarks concerning you?"
"1 think it wa# because I called
him a pinhoad."
AFETY FIR8T.
"Do you believe in being perfectly
frank with your friend#?"
"Only with those that are
smaller than 1 am."
NATURALLY.
"Do you know where little boys
go who don't go to Sunday school t"
"Yes, ma'am; dey go fishinV-?
JiiclijfU UarjojU. ^
INCREASES OUTPUT OF SILK
Valuable Discovery of Japanese Scientist
Given ,to His Country by
Patriotic Citizen.
A new method by which silkworms
may be cultured ten times a
year instead of twice, as at present,
is reported to have been perfected
in Aichi Ken, Japan. The rc;thod
is very simple. Egg cards are immersed
in hydrochloric acid for fire
to ten hours just before they are
hatched. Tn a fortnight or twelve
"days after the immersion the eggs
are perfectly hatched, and worms
that are stronger and more healthy
than those hatched in anv other
way may he seen coming out of the
shells. The silk produced by the
worms thus hatched is better and
longer than that produced in any
otner way. As the inventor of the
process tells in a local paper, the
silk produced bv the worms bred
in the newlv invented way measures
1,200 feet, whereas the thread
produced by the worms hatched in
the ordinary way measures only 100
feet at the longest.The
inventor further states that
anyone may make use of the new
process, which, although worthy of
being fully protected, will not be
patented, as the inventor's sole desire
is to strengthen the country's
position as a silk-producing country,"
The inventor i9 Director Kawahito
of the Aichi Ken sericulture
experimental station.
WORTH STOOPING TO PICK UP
Aged Miner Picks Up Nugget on Mojave
Desert While Out for a
Pleasure Stroll.
Thirty-five hundred dollars'
J worth of gold in one chunk?a nugget
weighing 10% pounds?has
been found near the head of Ifed
ll-- 1
ni? iv liiiiHin, ?mi 1110 aiojave tit's- i
rrt, by Dave Bowman, an old-time
placer miner, according to Tjance
I 'nderwood, who arrived in Bakeraliebl,
Cal., from Mojave.
Mr. Bowman was not prospecting I
when lie found the nugget, accord- |
ing to Mr. Underwood, hut was
merely going into the canyon when
ho saw tile great lump of gold.
This nugget is very nearly the
largest ever found in this vicinity.
Mr. Bowman had no scales with
which to weigh the gold, hut rigged
up a ha In nee with a ten-pound
hammer on one end, and the nugget
at the other end proved threefourths
of a jmund heavier.
RAILROAD EXONERATED.
A railroad company is held not
negligent in the Arkansas ease of St.
Ij., 1. M. & S. R. Co. va. Waggoner,
5 * h. II. A. (X. S.) 181, in leaving
an empty alcohol barrel on the platform
at destination, although it has
a caution notice upon it, if the notice
was put on the package when lull, i
and its rules did not require such notices
on empty packages, so as to j
render it liable for injury to a child
who removes the stopper and places
a lighted match at the vent, causing
an explosion of gas formed from the
small amount of liquid left in it.
PRACTICALLY NOI8BLESS, ANYHOW.
"For once the drummer in this
moving picture orchostra is nonplussed."
"How do you account for that?"
"Why, the picture on the screen
shows a political steam roller in action
and he has nothing with which
to imitate it."
EGG8ACTLY.
Friend?I've noticed Cutts, the
tailor, going tip to your studio every
day for a week. Is he sitting for
you ?
Artist?No; he's laying for me.
BOYHOOD.
Mamma?Ami you actually ate a
little toad? What in the world
made you do ho ?
Little I jester Livermorc?Willie
Kickover bet 1 dassent.?Judge.
SOLAR PLEXU8 BLOW.
lie said to her thusly: "If you
don't marry me I'm afraid I'll go
to the dogs."
And thusly she spake back:
"Well, 1 feel sorry for the dogs."
DEFINITIONS.
"Dad, darling." remarked little
Kolla, "what doe* conservative
really mean?"
"Beloved son," replied Holla, Sr.,
"it means hidebound."
War Proof In\
(The Financial W<
With restless nights attending t
lative securities, the holder of G
Mortgages sleeps soundly in tl
seo<0pity is aud always will remain
terest generally paid promptly at
what the Fates of War may hold
ligerents.
Particularly does the farm loan
rior worth during times of grea
The best security on cat
the earth itself.
The real estate mortgage rej
high grade, approved, seasoned s
earth and its fullness; the kind t
and throw the investor into a fit e
comes out.
It is based on values of land wl
hancing, adding additional securit
At present the leading life insm
own nearly $500,000,(XX) of farm
losses have been practically nil, v
of other investments have been v<
late years.
-0The
Union Central has continue
average rate of interest on its inv
for 47 years been managed in the
surance at the lowest net cost. I
at ^our age, call on or write to ?
BA1LES <
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by protecting against weather an
Paint your house, porch and 1
Quality House Paints. They v>
wood and the weather and prot
property better than any other p
ACME QUAL
?our trade mark?on any paint
it's the best that can possibly be
We have paints and finishes fc
barns, roofs, floors, carriages. I]
b? painted, enameled, stained, vs
any way, we have an Acme Q
purpose. .
We will be glad to show you <
or not.
VERY LOW RATES
Panama Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO, C
Opened February 20th, Closes
Panama-Califor
SAN DIEGO, CAL
Opened January 1st, 1915, Clos<
VIA
Southern f
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Premier Carrier of
Tickets on sale daily and limitet
Good Roing via one route and ret
Stop-overs allowed.
Ftmb R?bH Trip F?m
Columbia, S. C ..$82.45...
Charleston, S. C 85.15
Orangeburg, S. C. 82.15
Sumter, S. C 84.15 .
Camden, S. C. 84.14 ..
Aiken. S. C. ... 79.15...
Chester, S. C .. 82.90. .
Rock Hill, S. C 82.90...
Spartanburg, S. C 81,50...
> Greenville, S. C 80.00 ...
Greenwood, S. C. 79.20
Newbmy, S, C 81.10
Proportionately low rates from other
trip rates to Seattle, Wash.; Portland, (
many other western points.
Full information regarding the variou
schednles, etc., gladly furnished. Also
remiest. Let us help you plan your trij
Why pay tourist agencies, when our s
S. H. Mrl.EAN, Division Pass.
S. H. Hardwick, P.T.M., H. F. Cary. G.
Washington, D.C. Washington,i
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restments.
>rld.) 1
;he investor in specuood
Real Estate are
le conviction that his *ar
i sound, and his inter- 0Uq
maturity no matter jas|
in store for the be- $76
tat
i emphasize its supe- ?
t financial upheaval.
*th is considered of ]
tati
bej
Dresents the strictly tra
ecurity based on the une
hat won't turn pale Pet
very time a war extra in {
rI
lich are steadily en- are
y from year to year. unc
'flnpp wmnanioa alrtno 1 aW
?.W..V j
mortgages ana their con
,'hereas the shrinkage disj
?ry heavy during the C
inv
sur
we
che
hoi
iusly since the date of its or;
estments than any other life
interest of its ffolicy-holders,
ror proof ofjthese assertions a
o_ i imv
lx. i iiv, Lysine
ORT MILL, - - - S. C.
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Paint
saves ten times its cost
d decay.
awn fence with Acme
rill stand between the
ect and beautify 3 jur
ainL
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: or finish means that
made for the purpose.
>r all surfaces?houses,
n fact, if it s a surface to
irnished or finished in
uality Kind to fit the
X)lors whether you buy
i ACCOUNT
Exposition,
ALIFORNIA.
December 4th, 1915*
nia Expos'n
IFORNIA.
es December 31st 1915.
Railway,
the South.
i 90 days for returning,
liming via another.
0m way via Partial, OrtfM
_ $104.24
106.85
... 104.79
105.55
105.05
102.45
102.32
102.32
- 101.00
101.00
101.00
102.81
?oints. Also very low round re.;
Vancouver, B. C , and
s routes, points of interest,
descriptive literature upon
>.
lervices are free? Address
Aj?t., Columbia, S. C.
P.A., W. E. McGee.A.G.P.A
D.C. Columbia, S. C.
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The Investments of
he Union Central
Life Insurance Company
in first mortgage loans on .
m lands distributed throughthe
United States.
'hese loans as shown in the
t annual report amount to-*?
,484.480 secured by real es- I
e worth $278,000,000.
Safety First.
'he published statements of
various State Departments
Insurance which are authorise
and impartial demonstrate
rond question that Union Cenl
policyholders are receiving
sxcelled insurance at a lower
cost than the policyholders
iny other company.
O ?
uosi second. t
"he policies of the Company
liberal and simple; you can
lerstand them as well as your
ryer. The amount of the ^
icy is paid to YOU if you beie
totally and permanently
abled by accident or disease.
Consider well these facts and
estimate before taking inance
in any other company;
are at your service and will
lerfully refer you to our policyders
for their verdict.
ganization realized a higher
insurance company. It has
and offers today the best innd
for memorandum of cost
t Agents,
Ekl " ' ~
MAKE YOUR OWN
pAJNT '
wW YOO will SAVE i
56 ds. PEE GAL. ,
THIS IS HOW
ImL\x * /Buy4gals.L.(&M.Semi- ^
f Mixed Real Paint $8.40
J ?j\ V And 3 gals. Linaeed Oil
I ^ I I to mix with it at
va 1 I estimated coat of 2.40
|| 1 I Makes 7 gals. Paint for $10.80 4
l/Wl I It's only $1.54 per gal.
The L.4M. SEMI-MIXED
REAL PAINT IS PURE WHITE LEAD.
ZINC ai< UNSEED OIL-the beH loowa s
paint material* lor lO* years. -?
Use a gallon out of any you
buy and if not the best paint
made, then return the paint
and get all your money back.
J. J. Bails*. Fort Mill **
Luther Hdw. Co, Columbia
W. W^Coogler 4k Son. Chester
J. W. Copeland Co, Clinton
J. D Wood. Crier
Clean Em
Why not have that last Summer's
suit cleaned and pressed?
We call for and deliver goods in
town on short notice. Parcel post
packages will receive special attentiou.
Panic Prices as Follows:
Men's Sails, cleaned and pressed 40c to $1.25
Boys' " " " 25c 44 $1.00
Ladies' - 50c *p
Palace Barber Shop
TALK IS CHEAP and
is alright in its place, but it
won't run the furnace nor bake
bread. If you have hot air in
your house or oven, it must We
produced by burning fuel.
We handle the very best Hard
and Soft Coal and our prices are
way down. Phone orders to 7$.
Quick delivery.
Fort Mill Lumber Company,
A. A. BRADFORD, *
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Estimates cheerfully furnished on al
classes of brick and wood work. .
Telephone No. 30
ELECTRIC The Ueet Tonlc?
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