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GIFT or MEMORY Hie. Kepi Man) Politician* I n Office For l.ong 'IVrins A man doc* not have to be old enough to have one foot In the grave and the other on a banana peelln.f u> realize that a* the years pans it harder t<? reiuomber recent no eu.F?WW?w or the face* of newly met people, while the occurrences of yottnge: days and the faces known t ! : i < m- out. more and i.aoe . dea ??? iy n the nu?mory. ' In it a failing of t.h?? nu nory, or a Rowing i tuHf f* r en e? IV used to ou^rrn:* me till one -! ' t a'k ing t<? D.P. jji y~. I >i II. of tlis* t : 7pt i -t Courier. A young man cairn u|r and greeted Dr. Dill most efliiftivt'ly and asked after Mrs; Dill.; A- Mr. Dili did not introduY. him ?<> me, 1 knew he had forgotten the young man's name. %e was bluffing gamely, tyut finally the - y? ung man 9 "You don't. rememU-i me, Dr. DU1, You have fOi gotten my name." ' "Yes" naid Dr. Dill. "I have -and 1 have quit lying about such things." Lots of others have not, especially if they arc in politics. I have been walking on a street in j Columbia with Frank I. ever, when he was congressman and had a reputa tion for knowing almost everybody in his district, the seventh congres sional, when f.ever would nudge me in the .side and say: "Quick! Who'l that coming. I know him but cart'c remember his name." Then, after I had told him, with all the heartiness imaginable he'd greet the man by name as if he wore a lorvg lost brother. And the man would go home that < night and say: i "That Frank Lever in a wonder. I nvet him only once, years ago, and lie called me by name right off-hand, just as easy, when I met him in Columbia today.'' There a;e tricks in all trades- ? and politics is sometimes a trade. D. K. Finley, who long represeritc I the fifth distrhl congress, really knew practically every man, woman and child in his district by name? the voters by first name. ITe had ft massive head and I think most of it was occupied by memory. He could quote aft fcnnts- ofnrbrtT'S and figu res. I guess he would quote them correct ly. 1 ii vcr toek the trouble to look them up. And I never, heard any body contradict bin'.. Hut, there was no mistake about his knowing the faccs and name* "f- the men in his ? listiii t who bad the power to keep him in Washing'":; nor his know ing the name's arid faces of all the members* of their families. A number 0 ? ' 4 , of men who tried, to replace him in Washington found >ut that fact to their cost. I have uendeied at times if th?it power br a K"- <!| ?<* i'- van be cu! tivated. I arn s a pic ions of memory props. \ youn> l.idy u.yd to board in my home who was notorious for ^ottinK names wton^> A Mr. Warner came around . several limes to my house tn supper. Knch time the yountr lad> had forgotten his name. One night when be was lea\*ing, h" said: "Mi ss ( 'a rric, my name is War ner. W- A ? It- W-F.-K Warner. Now, I" bet you a | ?; ?. i v of giovi.s ' > a cigar when I come next Friday you will have forgotti n it." She took t no be'. \rte< he left, I said: ( an e, > nu ueio f? olish tn bei. \ ou ii re M.ie to tv, >e." "No," -aid -he, ( won'' lose. fo?* I'll tiling of Wa?fer'? Sale h.i<ine> < ure (a eom? v m proprietary remody of those days} ;mij that \s.'l give mo !i is i a nu " So, on the f .'ovimg F: Jay *ne:i he came in, sh< s!e|ijni! ir? Miiilinglv, shook hi- Iu.im! and .-aid. "You to.se your bet. Vm tnnk I ha . < forgotten your n;r..i M : . ? . ! havt nr. i, Mr. I food." Ho> d S.i, - iij ;i:: a v.. about as well knuwi. a | > i ??pri< : a rj . -edicinc as WariM r - Saf" Kui"e\ ?ure. Her ysten.. m mi ?i > "Vi.et ?. would haw 'H-t'n a ? i fi * . bad il wo-krd. I w i " . sm ii/.n^ c ompartment : a i..'. :i h om i f t e t, ? -on many '?a:-: a? ; J ?. ? , i * :< - . I ? 1 .^btful com ??any a- n po - - : I e i in' ;n in ' io ( ... I v. a-> <?:? trig bet wee .1 lesx < ?? \ joker of the Metho I !>t - '. . : ? . *i. | r ( ' lirowi:, v?h> ' eld a miv . ? !. ,?m .-lT Baptist 1 ti i n i .i t r - The i., ? ; t. ?-?i : door of ? ? ? ?' ?' ' ? '*? " ? ? > ; a'f >? m. :r.c pass 1 i: ?? ?r<! :! ? - .rr.o the ?at r > ?n ?>, up. . t uv (?? ' ' '.i : a man m: .. ? ? ' .. ' I *^.i. puries i - ' ( < ! i ?" i m - ' ' ' * . ? '. ? ? ? i.'!\ ?ncf v. ... . j i; \% ? ?a i t h a ' ' ? ? ? ? ? -.i,l "..'es- ? , ? y i tin . f t K ' . . f : o i .ulrr t '? 'i. "t>u? n v ? ? " l'\. I ... - . ,.i. ?!,? . . ? % ? i> fit r : to I.n a . at W h.?V t k a iy ro'.r.. v. then onv ? . , %,? thoni. 'X^. n Tdlma?' wa- an^th -.' : < :ti wlut ? r.r:.f t./ n.i'morj f r vime* terwL_I^ . . 1 b<:er? y\jih him FALSE Al>8 BARRKD I'oatoffice Official L'Uerit Warning! Xv'.un ,i Objertionuble Matter Philadelphia, Oct. W. A warning against unscrupulous advertising and j aolicitatioiu of business by mail was given in au address here today by Robert S. Hunger, third assistant postmaster-general, before the nation* al direct' .selling conference. The conference, hel?l under the auv pice* of the incorporate*!. ???> <iiation of direct M'llii.;; eomj^ui le.%, was to' 1 that public complaint 10 the po-4 office department .of the failure of bu'.uc.o concerns to live up to th ir advei tUi'ments occasional!) develops evident c i.ndicatiuK what m:.<jh*. bit trrmi'il "fijululent use of the mails."! Knla- <>i unlawful promises in ad vei?' ng must stop, Mr. Jteager .said, to; the firm or individual involved "must get out of the mail order busi ness." . Solicitations by mail and the verbal I ' tate.ments of salesmen, he continued, may be equally objectionable as the published advertisements along the same lines. The postoffice department also had found in some instances, Mr. Itegar declared, an objectionable feature in shipments of merchandise in advance of the receipt of orders. He added, however,, that this phase had largely been regulated by the prohibition of semking any* matter by mail collet1', on delivery unless the shipments were based 6n bona fide orders or in con foimity with ngreemonts between the fccHdevs and addressees. ' An Unusual Incident The Journal office had a rather ex citing visit yesterday from a gentle- J man of Hartsville, S. ('., Mr. R. -C. j Rouse. Mr. Rouse is suffering with] a mental trouble and left, home yes-; tetday driving his big Hudson car be eau.se his friends were preparing to take him to the hospital for treat ment. It is learned that he has been an influential cotton buyer of- thi?t town and has a family, ono married daughter living in Spartanburg. When h:s condition w a ?? ob-ei ved here the poluc found out, where he was from and communicated with Hartsville. They had supposed he had gone to Spartanbuig. He was held until about nine o'clock last night' when fr:oml> from I lai t-ville arrived an l took him home. Mr. Rouse parked hi-j car on. the Laney-tiordon lot i:i fiont of The Journal office in th>' morning and was several times ob served hanging about the front door of the office as if waiting for some one. No one asked his business. Sev eral times during the day he dashed, in and out of the office as if looking for some one. Finally about l o'clock while the office was vacant, he rush ed into the rear and tore a hundred | or so book* from a case on, the wall,] >aying that he had heard the voice of a man he knew, that the man was somewhere in the building and had told him to come through the book ca*e. Mr. Rouse had every appear ance of a gentleman and a well to do man, and *romed sane orf every sub- ; ject except tin- one obsession that a man he wanted to see was concealed somewhcie in the building. ? Monroe Jou rr.a'. ( hj.rle.v Larry, for the past three month* an employee of the Centra! , f.'linu station of Hartsville and a n vdi . t of Chesterfield county, died '?? 'In* Florence infirmary Monday rig hi at o'clock from effects of .i;.; ...? - sustained when he was struck b> .. i . automobile driven by Walter Klu U of Hartsville, on the Parling :r i) H.'i?t -svillt* highway at 11 o'clock' Fi ,<!.i ? i tr h t AiiiciKiiii postnva.-ters had the' frai.k riy |u ;vi!egt> in the early days. I mai:.! time.* and in many part.- ofj ?South Carolina and never knew him, a* a moment's loss to call the name I of at.vbody who came up and greeted' h.:t, a- having nut him before. That fa?.uit.\ .1 < .11 no small decree re sp< >??.-. b!e t ? ? i the hoid he had <>n the v-.tti-t if South Carolina who. after I puf.n^ < " h:m the harness of publu .M-rv.iT, l-.i-rt him r. that harm-.-- t?'l: t I . . I ( i H.i' I -tarted v t?> -a\ wa? that I '!. - i-' i.t f.i.-t <>; (), tobi-' .in. I *.h.?t : . r.< I . i > < t ()>'! .iIa-: , a nd h e : . I i i ? m. n hi ,..j I n -i H forgotten what \i.it. ' t . ; \ > f Ortoln- ? i- > i ji . \ i . - . ? '.!.?( < it f ' u r ? ? ma \ b I .? ,i k<--! ?>?!? in the i-.'o m-ru ; .1- i . .If,, k Fi-,.! r.a ! ? i ? ? . ? . ? ? "i. i hi ? ? ? * ? ? ?> , k . ,i , - .v ? I u' i> a- r <? ' ? . fi ; ? li.irn r./ w ? ? v if*- a' . ?\um;>". I* .va? tr.i- ear r frost I !.a<i i \ or ?-.cn in . h . - \o\i, that fro-t had h i. ? I -.t> < " fifty \i-m: ac. I'd h ;i . ? . r> njomlxred th? 'f.Vi W h. ?> r. ? ir. y* ',k? t h a " * A i; - d memory - a wniderfu g.f' I arr> Miaded it i ?? a g.ft, though ran t7? rnprovM by exerciM- (if-,. R. K<H**tcrj Sr., in Spartanburg- Sun. 4 A SaW of D?a<l Hop** There ix pathos an well ax humor in the announcement that the Unite J States Patent Office shortly will se>V at auction 165,000 models of useless inventions, All these whimsical fail ures were born before 1880, when the l*atent Office stopped requiring ?? model of each invention registered and the government can no longer give them storage room. Dealers in curios and junkmen will claim them now, for in most instances, alas! Their (fond creators have passed be yond the call of any mortal auction oer. What a tale of futility it is, this collection; what a litany c? f struggles come to naught, of denials and sac* rifices without grace of achievement. Consider the absurd roll-call -a self* tipping hat, a plan to lay a railroad across the ice on Lake Superior, a hookworm trap, spectacles to give chickens the power of si^ht after dark, a device for holding a cow's tail, a hundred weird schemes of perpetual motion. The debris of dreams. Yet there is concrete evidence of labor typically American. The United States is the greatest inventive na tion in the world, having produced one-half of all the patents ever grant* e<k It is but an irony of fate that for every Edison, Whitney or Bo!l there must be a thousand less gifted workers whose schemes end in that cemetery of dead and buried hopes at the Patent Office. And yet a survey of the useless models reveals here and there the germ of a sound idea which has been developed by some more practical inventor years after ward.- ? St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Snooper's Law The Insurance Age-Journal, of Marblehead, Mass., is opposed to the publication of incomj? taxes. "It ia securing information, which whiie legal according to out courts,- 'savors of the surreptitious." The Boston Herald considers such publication an "exploitation of the intimate details of our fellow citizen's business, merely for tho gratification of idle or malignant curiosity. Such publication breeds suspicion and dis trust, jealousy and animosity. It ex poses business men to sinister or dem agogic attacks. It yields huge amounts of misinformation, for in numerous cases the bare figures re vealed are not artywhere near an exact revelation of the taxpayer's in come. The average American does not like to have folks .snooping around to find out what they can about his private affairs. His resentment is ! just." XotKing will do more to drive large i irscom.es and capital out of productive i industry into hiding, or tax-exempt ; bonds, so long as they are permitted by law, than the publication of in [ come, tax returns. Millions .of Amer icans feel that the amount they make, so long as it is acquired honestly, is no one's business but their own and they will not .submit to having their affairs talked over by the town gos sips. Losses of K nt h New York, Oct. 26. ? Babe Ruth in quoted in an interview with Joe Wink worth, published in the current issua of Collier's Weekly, as saying he had ! lost $250,000. "I have been a babe and a fool, I I'm through," the home run king is j quoted as saying. I He tabulates his losses a* follows: I Gambling, $125,000; business fail lures, $100,000, and fees to lawyers i and detectives, $25,000. However, he has a paid up endow ! ment policy, which will provide him with $500^ month, starting when he is 45 years old, he said. Victim of Motor Accident Columbia, Oct. 22. ? William K." Campbell, aged 32, employee of the Whitton Auto Wrecking company in the 2100 block of Main street, who was injured early yesterday morning when he was struck by an automobile while at work preparing to tow in a car, died at the Columbia hospital at 10:15 o'clock yesterday mnrnii.p. France has given permission for 36,000 Jewish families to ^ett.?- in that country. One Jcw.-h famil\ per village is the rule t<> !>r followed. M \ ? i < *** r tp' rr?. ? ^ d it in i- ?<.' * P I t ! r ' ? r ?ilcj.-n < i'? .* v * ?I'irrp W r ' t ? ! a ' r. n.trrtcv /. C. ROUNTREH. I /. . D. rer.ArKAKA. texas. Just Received CAR LOAD Fulgrum Seed Oats Red Rust Proof Seed Oats Winter Rye Abruzzi Rye Plant Oats and Rye Early this Fall SPRINGS & SHANNON, Inc. CAMDEN, S. C. ORMOND TO SUE COLE Preacher Seeking Damages Against Slayer of His. Son Nashville, Oct. 26. ? .Rev. A. L. Or mond, Methodist minister of this place, will bring suit for damages rtgainst W. -B. Cole, of Rockingham, for the killing of hi? son, W. W, Or mond, according to The Nashville Graphic, local newspaper. ? The suit will bp brought in Wake county and will be brought by the local minister in his capacity as ad ministrator of his son whom Cole shot to death early in August, beinj, later acquitted by a Union county jury. Just when the summons will be issued against Cole has not been de termined, but it is quite probable that this will be done immediately upon Cole's return from a distant state where, it is stated, Cole has gone to recuperate. There has been no intimatiin of the amount of damages that will b?? asked by Rev. Mr. Ormond, and this question will proba>bly be determined when there is a conference of the at torneys who are to represent him in the contest against Cole. During the ? past week Mr. Ormond has been busily engaged perfecting his array of legal counsel, who are to press the suit against the slayer of young Or i mond. . "... j The Graphic learns, it states, from a most reliable source that Douglass and Douglass of Raleigh; Larry J. Moore, of New Dern; W. R. J6nes, of Rockingham, and Harold D. Cooley, 1 of Nashville, have been retained as counsel for Mr. Ormond, and possibly j others may be added to the array. Negro Shoots Four Monroe, Ga., Oct. 25. ? Four per ' sons were shot, two of them seriously, when Jim Ellis, a negro desperado, ran amuck here Saturday night. De tails of the shootings became known today. Cal Doster, David Sorrels and James Sims were motoring from Monroe to Campton when they were hailed by Ellis, who asked for a ride. The men passed without heeding the negro's request, A short while later they were com pelled to stop on account of a punc ture and while they weTe repairing the tire, the negro overtook them. According to their stories, Ellis whipped out a pistol and began firing. One bullet ontered Sorrell's abdomen and another siruck Doster in the thigh. The negro fled and the wound ed men were brought here and placed in the hospital. Two officers were wounded in a vain attempt to .cap ture him. Long Horseback Trip. Buenos Aires, Oct. 21. ? A former English schoolmaster is making the long ride by horseback from Buerio* Aires to New York in order to demon strate the endurance and hardihood of the Argentine type of horses. T. A. Eschoffely left here April 21 and four months later had reached Bolivia. Writing to friends here, he said the animals- were in better condi tion than at leaving Buenos Aires. More than 100,000 Ford T ouring Cars W ill be Produced for Delivery to Retail Purchasers During October If you haven't already done so, go to the nearest Authorized Ford Dealer and see the car that is meeting with this unusual sales response. See how recent improvements have added new beauty and finer riding comforts. Note the close-fitting curtains that open with the four doors ? thus making the car comfortable and conveni Touring *290 "Runabout *260 Coupe ' - 520 Tudor Sedan 580 Fordor Sedan 660 C1oa?d cart in color. Dr mnunrable rims and atari er extra oa opf n cart. AH pHcft f.m.b. Dttrtu ent for all kinds of weather. As you check over the many improvements, bear in mind that there has been no in* crease in prices.