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>
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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
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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.
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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.
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2 to 8 p. in.
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