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JAPAXKSK HICK C AMliLKK. Ip Like a docket Down Like a Stick, l ate of a Klyer. . There is a romantic tale going the rounds of Kakigara-clio and Kabutocho these days of a man who came to Tokyo with practically nothing, played the rice market, won millions and then lost it all. The rocket-like career of this one-time child of fortune has . covered less than three months. It was in March that he first invaded the arena where the bulls and bears play with other people's money: it was last week that he was definitely cleared out. His name is Kakuhara, and up to March, when he came to Tokyo with something like 1,000 yen in his pocket, he was leading the prosaic life of a small shopkeeper at Shiuoka. Times were good, the farmers in his district were making money and spending it. ..... , A ?.. A MIS little Sliop prosptueu anu i\ai\uhara salted away something over 1,000 yen. He had heard stories of the vast fortunes being made over night, in Tokyo. He decided to test his luck. It was in the latter half of March that he made his appearance in the rice section of the Tokyo Rice and Produce Exchange. He started as a bull; he bought rice. The succeeding fluctuations of the rice market were upward. He waited till the peak was reached and then sold. He now had enough capital to begin operations on a larger scale. He bought again and with judgment that was uncanny, or with the luck that a beginner is supposed to have in all games of chance, he was right again. The beginning of the April trading on the exchange found Kakuhara a millionaire, and ambitious to get into the multi-milionaire cla-ss. Bulled the Bice Market. About tHis time he formed a combination with one of the most noted or notorious gamblers in Japan, one Hanzaimoa Oka. popularly known as Okahan, a man who has lived for years by manipulating the various markets. This Okahan was one of the speculators who called down the popular wrath at the time of the 1 91 S rice riots by their alleged profiteering. His big home at Tsu was made the object of an attack by an indignant mob. With this man Kahuhara form ed an alliance and together they sei about to effect a corner of the rice market. Bears |Run for Cover. They were partially successful, for when the time came for the settlement at the end of April, the bears were caught short and ran for cover. They had to pay penalties to the Kakahara-Okahan combination. Kakohara's pile passed the two million ' mar^. His ambition grew. But his judgment?or luck?deserted him. He still believed in the game of the bulls, in buying rice, al- { though there were many signs that pointed to a drop. Farmers in the country, hard pressed for money, be- J g*an to ship rice to Tokyo, on consign- 1 ment, willing to take what they could get for it. Operators who had been holding rice in the big go-down in Fukagawa, alarmed by this turn, became sellers. 1 Bears "Clean" Kakuliara. 1 With the stage thus set, the bears, ] tired of being victims of this interloper in their game of chance, set about ( to get him. They formed a selling < combination, under the leadership of J I a man named Xagaslwma, who. just 1 back from Xew York, was oelieved to have learned something from the 1 bulls and bears of Wall street. Every- ^ thing favored them and when the * slump in the rice came on the Exchange on May 22. they caught Kakuhara and "earned" him. He was caught holding So0,000 koku of rice on margin. He was able to meet the ~ first demand for a payment of additional margin of 22 yen per 100 koku, but the second demand found him "broke." His bargains are to be sold at auction. Back in the little shop in Shizuoka, Kakuhar can now astonish the vil< lagers wi. . a tale that can rival the best romances of Wall street, Lorn- ' bard street or the Chicago 'Change. He was a millionaire for about two months, anyway. Such is Fame. The secretary of a periodical published not far from New York city and noted for the literary flavor of its editorial pages once received a letter 1 from a subscriber asking for the ad- 1 dress of George Meredith, the novelist. The secretary had a careful examination made of the long payroll of the company, but the search was in vain. A reply was, therefore, sent to the subscriber couched in this language: "We are sorry that we are unable 1 - ?:~ ^ o rl rionr era IO gIVc; \u? iuc auuicca \jl Meredith, of our St. Louis office. Perhaps you can ascertain it from him." Jim McDonald, a negro of Lexington. X. C., has been sentenced to die on October 8, for attempted criminal assault upon the wife oPa white farmer. GUKKKS AS SHAVKKS. ' I m1 of the Kii/or lioomed KBst IJy i Alexander. I i Barbers are a time-honored insti-j union. Back in the fourth century B. J C. the ancient Greek used to wend his j way to the corner barber shop, lean j back in the high chair with a towel wound lovingly about his neck, and tell the white-coated gentlemanonly they didn't wear coats in those days?to do his worst. And lie usually did. The barber shops offered all the comforts and conveniences of our most up-to-date establishments de | luxe. The barber after the approved modern fashion, shaved the patrons, trimmed their hair, suggested a newpomade or hair tonic?if perchance, the hair was "getting a bit thin on top, sir/' Or if the ancient Greek looked doubtfully in the mirror frowning over gray hairs that were beginning to show, the sagacious barber produced a bottle of hair dye and murmured, that after all, a man was as old as he looked?or words to that effect. And even as you and I, the man who strolled casually into a barber shop to get a shave rarely escaped without a face massage, and perhaps a manicure. For the care of the nails was included in the "service" the really good barber shop offered its customers. In fact, some of itlie larger shops went still further and kept a chiropodist. Even the historic Greeks of the fourth century B. C. suffered from corns. Xo one knows the exact date at which the original barber started in business. But about 330 B. C. 'Alexander the Great started the fashion ~ ? it n 3 4. ui me ciean siiciven race arm irgiu away the barbers began paying off their mortgages and putting money in the bank. Do You Know About Your Bible? There are 3,586,489 letters? There are 773,692 words? There are 31,173 verses? There are 1,189 chapters? There are 66 books? That the word Lord is used 1,855 times and that the word Reverend occurs once, in the ninth chapter of the Eleventh Psalm. The middle verse of the Bible is the 8th verse of ythe 118th Psalm, while the 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains every letter of the alphabet but "J." The nineteenth chapter of Second Kings, and the 37th chapter of Isaiah are alike. / The longest verse in the Bible is the 9th verse of the 8th chapter of Esther, while the shortest verse is the 35th verse of the 11th chapter of St. John. The 8th, 21st and 31st verses of the 107th Psalm are all the same, while each verse of the 13th Psalm ends alike. There are no words, no names in the Bible that are more than six syllables long.?Dearborn Independent. , i Solve the Storing Problem. There is no more important matter relating to food supplies in the South than the problem of storing and saving sweet potatoes. In recent years methods have been developed by which "sweet potatoes can be kept through the storage season with a loss of less than three per cent. due to decay," according to the ['nited States department of agricul:ure. When the necessary facilities for keeping sweet potatoes without serious loss from rotting are provided throughout the south, the sweet potato will become one of our best staple crops, for the use of sweet potatoes is rapidly increasing outside the south. In fact, if sweet potatoes ?an be safely and economically stored their use will be greatly increased in the south, for under present conditions they are generally more or less high priced and scarce for six months af the year. While a satisfactory curing and storage house is not very expensive, still the small farmer may find the cost too great. Therefore, cooperative curing storage houses should be built in every neighborhood. There is no better opportunity for cooperation than in providing neighborhood sweet potato storage facilites. The essentials for keeping sweet potatoes are, well matured potatoes, one distinct or well defined variety, careful harvesting and handling, and curing and storing in a properly constructed and ventilated house where a fairly uniform temperature of around sixty degrees can be maintained during the storage season. Mixed varieties require different handling, immature potatoes or those injured by frost, and rough handling which bruises the potatoes must all be avoided if the potatoes are to be cured and stored satisfactorily. Plans for houses that have been ) proved satisfactory may be obtained from the extension forces of each state or from the United States Department of agriculture.?Progressive Farmer. I A GOOD BUY^^ A .six-room house, and lot 90 x 325 feet. Just J one-half block from Main street. Two rooms can j lie rented, which will pay good interest on the in- j I \ rMiurm. = | REID, THE JEWELER, Will tell you all about it ] ^ '!r.,i;M:::'';t!>i;!!i!it!n;ii!:!!ti:,:!?!!iii:iii:iiK'iiiiii;?:nii!i;:iii!iii!ni!ii:!?ii!i-iiiiiin!iiiii.!iii;!ii:i;:iii!ii!:'iiii:iiiiH!ti:iai!ii:!;;ii!!i!n;!!ii!!;?niniiiii'?iiiiniiiiiiinnimii!iiii!!m!miiW'HHiimi!miit# I For the next two weeks I all ladies' I Oxfords & Pumps I 11 i tr 1 M | win oe orrerea g AT COST | C. R. BRABHAM, JR. | t t | ^>TRY THE<=? | 1 NEW WHISTLE i I I I j That Good Orange Drink J f ! I BAMBERG BOTTLING CO. f BAMBERG, S. C. X - - - - a aaaaaaaaa. [* ERNEST A. MARVIN'S X IDUROC BRED SOW I | AND GILT SALE | \ THURSDAY, AUG. 26,1920 f I . ' Green Pond, South Carolina t ^ We will offer a great selection of spring and fall yearlings, a ^ L few spring pigs and some young boar prospects. 1 A A Tried Sows, Gilts and Young Boars iA ^ ! iU Head Well Grown and Popular Bred X J Including 4 great producing tried sows, 16 spring and fall year- J ^ ling gilts, 6 spring gilt pigs, 4 spring and fall boar prospects. "V ^ The breeding of this offering is the very richest and most pop- ^ ular blood lines, such as Orion Cherry King, Jr., Colonel, Tax- & A payer, Sensation Select and Imperator. A SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS?Two choice, well grown spring i yearling gilts by Orion Cherry King, Jr., mated to a good breed- Jj^ ^ ing Colonel bred boar. ^ y The balance of the bred females have been mated to Marvin's v V* Cherry Orion, one of the best sons of Orion Cherry King, Jr., and ^ Grove's Sensation Select by Old Sensation Select. & Picnic lunch will be served on farm at noon and sale will start A ^ promptly at 1 o'clock. 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