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WOMAN 112 YEARS OLD BU ONLY SON WAS BOBN WHEI b IE WAS S3 TEABS OF AGE. Knoxviile, Tenn., April 19.?Ii the death of Mrs. Mary Alewine a( the home of her son, two miles wesi of Drndrige, Tennessee has lost hei oldest citizen. She was born in Lex ngton county, S. C., March 10, 179'/ and'was therefore a little overlL years old at the time of her death Pi\> f of the old lady's age was pos it.ve. Ms. Alt wine came of a long-livec people, ller mother lived to be 94 and grandmother was 90 wheir she died Mrs. Alewine's husband died le ,s than two years ago at the age of 94. He was a Confederate soldier ; n 1 serve I in the Ninth South Car* <liii voun Leers. Previous to her dj...h Mrs. Alewine had been blind for eight years, but otherwise she retained all of her faculties. She well remembered incidents of the War of 1812. and would tell as a great joke how her husband's friends used to twit him for marrying a woman old enough to be his mother, she being 17 years the elder. Hardly more than a month ago application was made to the State pension board for a pension for Mrs. Alewine, and at that time the proof of her advanced age was ascettaiecd Her only son was born when she was 53 years old. Lived 1 52 Years Wm. Parr?England's oldest manmarried the third time at 120, worked in the fie'ds till 132 and lived 20 years longer. People should be youthful at 80. Jame; Wright, of Spurlock, Ky., shows how to remain young. "I feel just like a 16-year old boy," he writes, "after taking six bottles of Electric Bitters. For tk'r y years Kidney trouble made 1 - burden, but the first bottle of t.. wonderful medicine convinced in : I had found the greatest cure on e r:h." They're a godsend, to weak sickly rundown or old people. Try them. 50c at all druggists. v.'.i t he had learned. The lessor was Lhe story of Joseph, and the s a ill learner was evidently very full cf his subject. "Oh," he said, "it was about a b ry, and his brothers took him and .... i.:~> ? u?io ?^.,-,.1. : pu. iii&ii iii a uvji^ 111 nit muuiiu, auc the 1 they killed another boy, anc t the first boy's coat and dippec t n the blood of this boy and?' ' Oh, no, Donald, not another boy!' h's sister interrupted, horrified. Bu Donald stood his ground. "It was too." he insisted. Then he added, "The teacher said 'kid,' bu I lon't use words like that."?Wo m a's Home Companion for Ma> If your stomach, Heart or Kidney; a.cwcik, try at least, a few dose; only >\ Dr. Shoop's Restorative. Ii five or ten days only, the result wil ; rise you. A few cents will cover he cost. Ami here is whv helf c nsrs so quickly. Dr. Shooj dcesn't drug the Stomach, nor stim n'.ate the Heart or Kidneys. Di Sho >p's Restorative goes directh t :e weak and failing nerves. Eacl ( {an has its own controlling nerve Whe i these nerves fail, the depend in* r.T.ins must of necessity falte; Tl.'s plain, yet vital truth, clearl; tells why Dr. Shoop's Restorative i -;> un iversally successful. Its sue is leading druggists everywher t > give it universal preference. J 'est will surely tell. Sold by Gur tt's Drug Store. r \ scribe for The Advocate nov 1.00 per year. A b >ok on Rheumatism, and i ial treatment of Dr. Shoop's Rhec mo : Remedy -liquid or tablets- i 1 eiiq? sent free to sufferers by D Sh-op, of Racine, Wis You the arc well, jp-t this book for some dis couragcd, disheartened sufferer! D a simple act of humanity! Point oi this way to quick and certain relie Surprise some sufferer, by first ^e lin^ from me the booklet and tf test. He will appreciate your aii Gunter's Drug Store. DP.ki.v. - :jscovtRi *i' <uicly Slop lhal Cough. FINGER PRINT 9IGNATURE3. A Manila Bank Requires Depositor* to Affix Their Thumb Print. Finger-print identification baa been extended to commercial uses by tbo . Postal Savings Banka of the PhlllpI pines at Manila Thla bank haB recently iHsued a sorleB of stamp deposit cards on which are spaces for stamp." of different value to be affixed. When i the depositor has stamps to the face l value of one peso on the card it la y exchanged at the hank for a deposit book showing the amount to his cred " it. Opposite the lines for the ownr er's signature and address is a square . ruled off for the reception of his r thumb print; so that, even if illiter| ate, depositors may readily be identifil ed.?London Tit-Bits. , Pointer Leads to Lost Dog's Grave. Three years ago, while limiting in Hacks county, John L). Wilkinson of I West Manayunk lost ids favorite dog Ketch, and the mystery of the canine's disappearance was not solved until recently, when gunning fo.' rabbits in the same vicinity a pointer acted so strangely around a rabbit hole that the huntsman made an Investigation. The skeleton of the lost dog was in the hole and n mouldy collar with Fetch on it proved the unhappy fate of the dog, who died game and lost ltis life in following ids mas' tor's orders. A large rock blocked the dog's egress and was probably loosed from its position by the animal's anxiety and efforts to find tbo rabbit. Philadelphia. Inquirer. An Elective Monarch. A million of men have died to presence the constitution as it is but Providence has passed no law ex:i;|,iitig Americans from the pressure of events or the operation of necessities. They will have to accept them, willing or unwillingly, and will gradually find that the only effect of the changes is 10 make their choice of a president and, therefore, of his cabinet tor cabinet ministers in America are legally only clerks?more and more a matter of vital importance. The president of the I'nited Slates will in ,Ki long period of time be tho gr< j'.test elective monarch historf has e\ r known. London Spectator. His Penny. A little boy proposed to put a penny in the 1m?x for missions, llis sister told him it would be useless to make so small a gift, saying it would never be noticed among the large contributions of others. lie gave the penny, however, and when the collectors reporte I a collection of tit! as. Id-, lie whispered to bis sistei: "Tliero! that's my penny; you said it was so little it would never ho noticed, and the gentleman has told 1 the whole congregation about It!" r The Simplon Tunnel. About 430,<miO passengers passed thrmit'li thr? S>i union tunnel lit its I f1r?t van r mm. ?' .. ..... .. v. *1 1/Hot" noned. t ; John Wesley's Christening Robe. 1 The robe v. ! : ! '. a We. ley wore when lie was ? .. . n d ovi! two hundred years a;. w tin property of 1 Miss Emma I .. lilcy ol Workshop, 1 Hnglnnd, it h .in . .m? to h : from I her grandfather, at whose house Wesley lived for a time when but an iu' fant. ' Secret of Failure , The secret of most men's failure is mental dissij at ion. wandering oiiert gles. squandering ( nergles upon a distracting variety <a objects, instead of condensing them into one.?London : Chat. Woman Landscape Architect. Mrs. Anetta IS. MrCrea, the llrst woman landscape architect in tliis country, is the oRlcial landscape archi. tect for the St. l'aul road, and onsuiting landscape architect for other 5 Western roads 1 37 Foot Anaconda. The largest serpent ever measured was an anaconda, which Dr. (Jardner 5 found dead in Mexico. It was :!7 feet p long, and it took two horses to drag it. Dog a Bug Catcher. y Secretary Shields of the Water ^ Board in New Orleans lias a spaniel that delights to catch bugs ami take 'hem to the yard for the chickens to - eat. 1 When the telephone wires are overy land the speed of transmission is at S _the rate of 1 <500 miles n v. < . [""the wires are through cables under the sea the speed is only h,o?0 miles e a second. \ ? Man* Climbing Power Limited. The highest point to which man can ascend without his health hoIng seriously affected is 1ft,500 feet. v "Say. doe," s.iid the good fellow, "the shape of a man's stomach is round, isn't it":' "Nearly so," replied the doctor. a "Why?" "Ain't it funny that, nothin' fits It so well as a square meat; Selected. r> The man who sits down and waits ^ for something to turn up will get his reward sooner or later if he keeps >- watch on his own toes. O duo. Rem.Timmfuman. J. Wm. Thurmond. Ttaiond & Tinman J. ATTORNEY'S" A T-LAW, Will practice in all the Stat? and I 8. Courts. ? Uftzena BankMldg., Batesburg, S. < : THE YANKEE PASS. It was at a period soon after tl close of the revolutionary war thi Aaron Whitney, a Yankee peddle pussed through tho Mohawk vallt on his way to Albany. The day wi Sunday, and there was u law auiot the Dutchmen of those parts that t one should travel on that day. Mor over, there was as much amipatt between Dutchmen and Yankees t there is between cats and mice. Ho the Dutch ever left Holland to mal lipmes In a new country beyond tl sea no historian has ever explaine f nr VV'hntt *? tlo<i anywhere he never moved. N< so the Yankee. He would take up piece of land, improve it, sell it ui go somewhere else. "Meln Gott," exclaimed one of tl deacons of the Dutch church, "si that Yankee traveling on the Lord day! Was ever such blasphemy? Ij us take him before Justice Van di Douk, who will doubtless mete 01 his punishment." So they took Aaron before the ju tice. He was sitting under an apt tree near his house, with a glass schnapps beside him and a long el pipe in his mouth. This is not me tioned as an unusual position for t great man, for all the long day at in no other. "What you travel Sunday for asked Van der Donk, taking his pi out of his mouth and looking stern at the peddler. "I'm goin* to Albany and fro there down east. I have sold 11 wares and want to get home." "H'm," said the Dutchman, "y< stay here till tomorrow. I dor want you to bring the wrath of t Lord down on us." The peddler threw off his pac making a virtue of necessity, least that was the appearance of Really he was quite willing to r main over awhile that he might 1cm upon the fair face of the Justlct daughter. Ivatrina, who had look upon him out of her blue eyes. Ai the girl was equally desirous of s? ing more of the engaging peddh Why it is no man has ever told i but peddlers are proverbially fas< nating to women. Perhaps it is t same audacity that enables them sell their wares. At any rate, i peddler, leaving his pack for securil went off to the other end of the a pie orchard and waited for the g to come to him. never for a niome doubting that she would do so. And she did. She had been lo desirous of pouring out her dissat faction at the life she led to sot person in whom she had confident I and she felt sure that she eotild co flde in the Yankee. She told hi that her father compelled her to all the work, while he smoked a .1 drank schnapps; that she had ..... ...... K mud. easier and plei nter than working for some o else. Now, the justice, thinking the pt filer in a hurry to go on, when t s :advs of night came down inlimat that f.;r a consideration he wot pass him. The Yankee declared tl -.ui'inx ended at sunset. The DuU man scouted such theology, nia: taining that it lasted till sunrise t in xt day. The Yankee finally cc sonted to pay. The justice, w eitlu-r could not write or was too l or too lazy to write or could n write in Knglish as well as in Dut< to tl the Yankee to write a i>a Aaron took up the cpiill and wrote an illegible hand on a hit of pap I ce Dutchman ran liis sleepy ej ever it, pointed "Goot!" signed and handed it back to him Aai folded it, put it in his pocket, to up Jus pack and departed. The ji tice got up from his chair and by t aid of two canes got himself into i house, where supper was served h by his daughter. Then aftei a ce pie of hours' smoke he went to b The next morning when he \v* up and called Katrina, as usual, tli was no response. The old man ro ed his neighltors, who hunted lii and low for the damsel, hut she v not to be found. That she had ge with the peddler never occurred the justice or any of the stu| Dutchmen. If they connec.ed her d appearance with him it was that might have murdered her. Two days passed, and Katrir.a c .not appear. Then one morning the I came a letter to old Van der Dot j Since he was not used t<> r< ceivi ' letters he felt sure ?li*?t it contain ! inforinaiion of his lost daughter. 1 j helped himself with liis canes to t ! apple tree and got one of his i.eiy i bars to bring him his pope and 1 j schnapps. After he had taken a. p at the one and lighted the other J broke the 1-tter's seal. H com on ! a sta: ... closing h s i int w the h. k in Albany where his dar.j j leu's leg.u y was kept. There was et ineiosnre Tin1 Dutchman looked it frontward, sidewise and upsi down. i !e could make nothing of Then h" called the nearest no'.a i who tea I it and told him that it v ! an order for the hank to pay to Aai t Whiting his daughter's legacy, w accumulated Inlerist. In ten in utes more a light broke into the i man's bruin. i "Yah," he said refleetively: " t' Yankee pass." l.am.a t'ohman. DR. J. A. WATSON Dentist r j Batesburg, S. C. ; ; Offiee in Telephone Building. I At Ridge Spring Kvery fhursc THE BATE8BPR0 ADV( *' AS TO LITTER WRITINO. Ifj Poet Card Extent of Our Attention t . Relatives. It Is a well-known fact that no^ body writes letters nowadays. It Is r, true we spend a vast deal of time at }y our writing table, that we consume untold quantities of Ink and nibs, while our stationery bill is by no means the most modern item of our to ever-increasing expenditures, e- But we neither write nor receive iy letters. The utmost we do is to "dash m off notes" in answer to Invitations, to w "scribble a few lines" of congratulate tlon or sympathy, as the case may be, ie with a friend; to express briefly but d forcibly our dissatisfaction with our a_ dressmaker, or our surprise of our 1)t milliner's account, a " ~ inver ask ror i neir Fee. A Japanese doctor never thinks of Je asking a poor patient for a fee. There 'b a proverb among the medical fraj.8 ternity of Japan: "When the twin t oin-mies. poverty and disease, invade t a hon o then he who takes aught from , that noine even though it be given ' him. is a bber." B_ "Often," ays Dr. Datsumoto, "a tie doctor will not only give his time I and his mcdlcino freely to the sufTerav *r, but he will also give him money ) to tide him over his dire necessities. Dvery physician has his own dispen. sary and there are very few chemists' " shops in the empire. When a rich ,,, man calls in a physician he does not expect to be presented with a bill for I)e his medical services. In fact, no such * thing us a doctor's bill is known in Japan, although nearly all the other 111 modern appliances are in vogue there. The doctor never asks for his fee. The strict honesty of the people makes >u this unnecessary. When he has finished with a patient, a present is made to him of whatever sum the patient or his friends may deem to be ;k* Just compensation. The doctor is supposed to smile, take the fee, bow, and thank his patron.'' e Resourceful For Cripples. is The greatest achievement of the ec' administration of Sir William 'l reloar Qd who lately retired from the Ixird 'e" Mayoralty of lx>ndon, was the raising ?r- by him of $300,000, with which to establish a home and a school for young -I" cripples. To secure money for the he fund, he sometimes employed very unto conventional methods. He once athe tended a prize fight, wearing his robes tJ . of office, and solicited donations trom P- the crowd. ill M Alfred Vanderbilt's Fine Stable. ;v uia&iniictrut siuuit*. containin? 30 of tne finest box stalls that can Is- be built for his show horses, is in ?e course of erection at Alfred O. Van"c, derb'lt's farm in Portsmouth, R. I. n- The building is copied after the staIm bles of King Edward, with a courtdo yard in the center. nd a .? uii luvaiibti- traveler, is- and holds the world's record for inline cage traveled in automobiles. <1- Oldest Woman in England. he Mrs. Honor Coleman, who occupies ed a little cottage at Cleeve, in the counild ty of Somerset, is geiierany consider,at ed the oldest woman in England- Slit h- 's lb7 years of age. Her mother was in- 11 centenarian, her grandmother diet] he at ibl and her daughter is 8U. n h0 Commercial Value of Peanuts. t.(t The farmers of Iltirma nave reoogt nlzed the commercial value of tht .jj peanut, and liave tills year increasei ' the area planted to 78,743 troni 37,1 li In a<">'os b?st year and it is reported thai a much larger area will be planted ti < s this tuber next sesaou. it. ( u Marquess a Floriculturist. (>1 The Manpn -s of Tilcj. js ;in onthus iastic floriculturist, and at Culzeai Castle. Ayrcsiiire, has managed t< ' grow flowers which can he seen no ' where else in Scotland. 1111 | Fluent Writers. II. n. Wells. ine English ..tterateur ,'ie in ltis youth often wrote 8,(Km words L'ro a day. while Conan Doyle, it is said Ui;~ once wrote a story of 12.nod words a a writing .as ,IU' Exceptions in Height. l? The King <>f Norway and the Princi J'(' nt* Montenegro are (he er.ly t wo2; nl -r. of Europe who are taller than then be wives. I'd 1 lout. Dashleijh?I can't think wh> " *e 1 ail the girls make such a hero o b. | Capt. Jigger. Why, he's never sine) og , powder ed ! Maj. Juggins?Oh. I don't know He | He's been out In the conservator] he , with Miss Puffer for an hour this ev. h- | ening. Us I nil ' "You traded your automobile for : lie i Jersey cow, did you? Doesn't the eov ?-d cost you a good deal for teed? ith "Yes. but she doesn't cost nie any ,h- thing for repairs." no ;it So much is being said and nun? ilt- about "October wine" tne br threi it. the day when the "caggabe cocktail r\. will prevail. 011 "Hasn't he an odd way of putt!up ltli things?" i?. "Yes. especially golf balls."- Clew ulj land Plain l>*aler. I, s Uerause a woman wears a chic gown is no sign that she is chicken hearto.1 L M. MITCHELL PHYSICIAN ANI* Sl'ROKoM. Hatesburg, S. C. Ofhce Hours: 8 to V a. m. 2 to 8 p. in. lay ' 7 :30 to W p. m, HSATB _j f\ 0 N 1 Wear ? PeSt? | Clapp's i Cost m< ? Course || The leather ii 8 'that design and i ? finest shoe make g that, is not all you O and fine workman wear, comfort an $6.50 for patents, o kid, and gun mete ? man that buys a ( jj the very best. ^ It takes only one pair 1 0 that pair for you. Write foi 8 LEVER, T1 8 IN c ^ / O / ? / <> / r / v> . , .?' ? 4/* ?? f r <* ?. .itt\ if. #!*. * ->* '"*? *? ?*? ??. 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