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“ iREMfeMER THE OLD STORY OF THE FROGS? . t * H»| II I. ‘’i i—— J Artibur Brisbane HORSES WILL GO. BABE RUTH AND MILTON. FAT GIRLS NOT WANTED. A KILLER AT ELEVEN. William Durland, presideiit of a Rreat riding school, retiring, says ? the automobile will never replace the saddle horse. Nevertheless, the saddle horse will vanish, and * be only a memory to children of today’s children. When the musket came in, men thought it couldn’t take the place of bow and arrow. Alid, of course, it couldn’t replace the hawk that rode out on its owner’s wrist and flew up to bring down the game bird. The horse will linger on farms for a while and then disappear, as farming becomes really scientific. The work that requires three hun dred days of. the fanner's time now, will be done in about forty days or less. And the “horse” will be a machine, run by .gas, elec tricity or wireless power. « f * ________ Many good investments in this w'orld for those that hang on. When Edward Fitzgerald pub lished his translation of the Rubai yat, that first edition sold for one penny in England. Last week J. F. Drake paid |3,200 for a copy. When John Runyon’s “Pilgrim’s Progress’’ was first published, wise book people said, "Only servants will buy a book of that kind.” One of the copies, originally sold for two pence,' is worth thousands of dollars now. -By A. B. CHAPIN Of 118.000,000 Americans, only 3,000,000 own stocks <or bonds. This small number of stockholders, estimated by the American Bank ers’ Association, is encouraging to brokers and those that have good stocks and bonds for sale. Wages are high, money is piling up in the savings banks, millions that own no stocks COULD own them, If proper inducements as to return tuul safety were c.^cred. If yqu,like miracler, consider this. Peter Krau.*, sailor, on a^ freight ship in mid-ocean, drove particles of iron into his right eye while using a drill, and suffered agonies. Far away, Dr. Francis, ship's surgeon, picked up by radio, details of the sailor’s trouble. He sent wireless directions, ordering them to stop using cocaine, telling them how to make a magnet. The magnet extracted the iron particles insanity, pain stopped, the mar. went back to work.' 1BICC VJPOH A TIME TWO FROM F«U. WTO A- - “Deep CAM OF MU.K QSCAPE FROM TMtlR PREDICAMENT SEEMED HOPELESS ****** ^ ONE FROO.WHO WAS MINT HEARTED, . V .ft /%. MADE A FEW FEEBLE EFFORTS — — ' % \ *^5^, QME UP — AWt> SUNK ^^ IjJUT THE OTHER KEPT ON SWIMMING- AROUND AMP AROUND, AwD RADDLED AWAY IN THE FACE OF AlL ^ DlSCOURAGEMENTS,UWTU-FINALLY,HE CHURNED HIMSELF A LITTLE PAT OF BUTTER. — UPON WHICH H6 WAS SOON Setting- pretty— WHAT KIND OF ARE ^OU ? Local and Personal News of Blackville Mr. Burgert, bachelor member of a very “old family" in Ohio, leaves money to build a home for girls “between the ages of sixteen and twenty-eight, of small stature, bright, ambitious and good to look at.” Fat girls are not to be ad mitted. That will was made by a foolish bachelor. Young girls ought to be reasonably fat, with tissue and en ergy stored up for their duty as mothers. Girls of the skeleton type have barely energy enough for themselves, to say nothing of , a. family. What counts is not how ‘you start, but how you finish. Years ago, a bpy named Bamburger took a job at £4 a week to run errands; glad to get the job, glad to run. It was a start. Now, to his $22,000,- COO, drygoods plant in Newark he builds on a $10,000,000 addition. And men from bigger cities go to Newark to study his ways of run- . in'? a business. The thoughtless may point out that Babe Ruth gets, in one year,* for hitting that ball about a thou sand times as much as Milton got for writing “Paredise Lost” That is no argument.•‘For one American tkrr'Wants to rrad “Parad f se Lost” feast a million want to see Babe ,th ph'.y baseball. An eleven-year-old bay, Michael Ponkraskow, ran eway from honiv. rfter a beating, killed a shop keeper in an attempted holdup, rnd is wondering what will be dono with him. It is said that he cannot be treated as a youthful de linquent, because he refuses to say that ht is sorry he committed the murder. A childish reason, forMadt of repentance is only one more proof of yofithful delinquency. In any case, the boy will not bo executed, even If, put on trial for murder. Capital punishment sur vives, but killing children is no longer part of “civilization.” Wm. McNAE ram. HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COKFANUE. Blackville, Fel>. 26. — Blackville friends of Miss Vera Lowe will be Re lighted to leapt that she ig making a splendid record at Winthrop college. She has made an average of 95 and above. Miss Lowe is a general favor ite here. She hag been living with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lowe, since the death of her mother, when she was a little child, and her record as a distinguished stu dent at Winthrop, is joyful news to her friends. Miss Sarah Maloney visited Rock Hill and Charlotte with friends Sun day. The many fnends of Mrs. Mary Briggs Hammett, of Columbia, but originally and recently from Black- ville, will learn with pleasure that she is convalescing very nicely at her home, after a recent very serious operation in a Columbia hospital. Dr. Charles Buist and his friend, Mr. Spearmen, from Pelzer, visited Dr. Buist’s mother, Mrs. Hattie Buiat, last week. Sheriff Boncii Dyches, of Barnwell, was a business visitor here Wednes day. Billy Buist, of Pelzer, is spending soipe time with his grandmother, Mrs. Hattie Buist. Miss Ifattie Thomas, a member of the State department of education, was in Blackville Thursday, visiting the schools. Friends o7 Phillip Bales wiH be interested to learn that he is slowly improving after a serious illness, but is atili in a very poor state of health. Friends of Mr. Sam Hair, who is formerly from heie, will be interested to learn that he and* Miss Annie Lou Hoover, of Kline, were married in Bamwelj, Thursday afternoon, at’the Beptist parsonage, Rev. W- M. Jones, officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Hair have the best wishes of hosts of Blackville friends for a long and happy life to gether. They will make their home in Lees. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Hutto and family visited Mrs. Stivendex’s Anther, W. N. Stivender at Davis Bridge, Yecently. Mrs. Harry Molony and daughter, Miss Sarah, motored to Waynesboro, Ga., Tuesday. Mrs. Herman Brown has gone to Philadelphia to visit her mother, Mrs. BeerwakT. Mrs. Beerwald enjoyed the rare privilege of celebrating her 85th birthday recently. Dr. William McJony and Prof. John C. Turner were visitors in Aiken Sun day. ' Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Baughman were caUed to Snelling Monday and Tues day on account of the death of Mrs. Banghman’s unde, Mr. Jas. J. Hill. Mss. Marion Bates, cf near Dunbar ton, wag the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Bates Tuesday. .While here ihe attended the Blackville-Dun bar ton girls’-basketball game. Little Mis# Jean Rountree visited Spartanburg last week. Miaaas Nettie She bon and Marion Baiaden were business . visitors in j Barnwell Monday. 1 Blackville waa victorious in a game of baakfetbafl (gills' team) wfcfc Duo- barton Tuesday afternoon. The soore was 23 to 14. Miss Elizabeth Grny, of Waynes boro, Ga., is the guest of Miss Sarah Molony. *• Chris Langley, of *>’'.nbia, wm a business visitor here Tuesday. • Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hartzog, of Ofer were business visitors here recently The illness of William Morrisotf, is a source of regret to his friends. Supt. of Education Horace J. Grouch, of Elko, wee here visiting at the high school Thursday. Nick Martin has returned from a recent visit to relatives in Augusta. Marion Black paid a hurried trip to Ulmers Sunday, while there he was a visitor in4he home of John Brant. Miss Ella HIH spent the week-end with her parents in Orangeburg- Prof, and Mrs. H. H. King and chil dren, of Dunbarton, were here Tues day afternoon. Rev. Paul Roland, of near Orange burg. visited among friends in the Healing Springs section recently. Mrs. James J. Ra/s friends will be glad to feam that ahe is back Ml her poet of duty, in the Healing Springs achnol, after an illness. Allison Sanden visited home folks at Ulmers Sunday. Blackville faculty (men) played Al lendale in Allendale (basketball). Blackville won 32 to 12- Crystal Said to Hold World's Oldest Drink In the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia there la what . Is thought to be the oldest ^irlnk in the world, unless there are aome older ones embedded in the earth, which Is where this one came from. It Is a specimen of calcite crystal in which there Is a cavity several Inches long and In this there is about a half a gill of liquid, presumably water. The In stitution Is the oldest In the country and the specimen has been there al most from the beginning, but until re- cen^y 4^ never been on public '^wT During its stay at the aeaiemy tnere has been no noticeable diminu tion of the material inclosed in the specimen. There are other such speci mens, but this is the largest known and has qualities whjch make It quite valuable in the eyes of the scientists who are watching It .to see If tlie con tents become changed in any way. This was uncovered in Rossie, N. Y„ In 1838. In one variety of blue quartz from Bucks county,^ Pennsylvania, in addi tion to the bubble there are minute “crystals which are constantly In mo tion, which has possibly been continu ous for millions of years. But Why Quibble Over Small Matter of Home? A Sun Francisco woman tells of an entertainment she wished to give to some friends, at which she desired the services of a mandolin quartet, of which one of her servants had spoken on many occasions. Slie, therefore, commissioned the maid to ask * the quartet to come to the house and play for her guests. That evening three colored "men bearing saxophone* appeared on her porch, and one of them announced himself solemnly as “da leader of da mandoliD quartet” “Bu^where* is the fourth musician?” asked, tbe lady. “Wr all is here,’* said the leader with pride. “We’a da mandolla quar tet" *• t . «Sft*L«*lfa aqxoffcoM* jad have Tn your hands?” feebly Inquired tbe lady. ‘Tas’m," said lhe man patiently. “Yas’m. Dey's three of na, ’an' we plays da saxophone, but we all's de mando lin quartet” Shrewd Swindling Scheme At an American port 00 one occa sion a package of French gloves ar rived. The consignee waa perfectly willing to pay the neceaaary duty until he discovered that all the gloves were left handed. 'Then he refused to accept them. So the customs authorities took them over and In due course they were sold for s mere song. At an other port a jMckage of righthanded gloves arrived, and tbe same procedure was followed. This was merely part of a clever scheme to cheat the customs. The two packages of gloves were acquired from the customs by the consignee at much lesa than tbe duty payable, and noth ing could be said, for all the formali ties bad been compiled with. Blood Inheritance . The public health service says that, according to the Mendalian law of in heritance, negro blood or any other apeciflc trait of Inheritance la sup posed to show up In the offspring ac cording to a definite and rather com plex plan. It occasionally happens that an offspring has a flareback to previous generations. This Is called atavism, a recurrence or n tendency to recur to any ancestral trait, defor mity, or dlaeaae after Its disappear ance for two or more generations. The caune of this reverslpn Is not known. Negro blood can never be completely bred out, but it can be come so attenuated aa to be aible to detect Dr, Butler m. DEBATE Mr Sen, Borah April 8 Calm and Collected During an examination in English the candidates were asked to write a short paragrapli containing the words, “Calm, collected, crossing and conster. nation.” One bright lad submitted the fol lowing : “Tbe absent-minded professor had almost congratulated himself on cross ing the busy thoroughfare In safety when, to his consternation, he saw a stream of traffic bearing down upon him.- With great presence of mind he stood quite calm. The traffic parsed on and he was collected."— London Answers. MONEY TO LOAN Loans made same day application received. No Red Tape HARLEY & BLATT. A ttomey s-at-La w BarnwelL S. C. eeeeeeeseeeeeoeeeeeseseese T. B. Ellia J. B. Ellis ELLIS ENGINEERING CO. > Land Sift eying a Specialty. The nation at large. Republican leaders in particular, will watch with interest the reaction of sentiment following the debate between Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and Senator William A. 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