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MYSTERY Of “MAN IN IRON MASK” SOLVED Name on Dungeon Walls Establishes Identity. CnniH>s, French Ktviern.—The tiny Island off the coast here on which the man in the iron mask was kept pris oner, the He Nainte Marguerite, has been classed by government archeo logical authorities as a historic site. Simultaneously comes announcement that the .‘500 years’ mystery of the masked man has been solved. In the Sixteenth century, (he island was strongly fortified. I’nder the great Cardinal Richelieu it had beer, built Into a formidable little fortress, but the century following it was used mainly for certain political prisoners. Toward the end of the Seventeenth century the man in the iron mask was brought there. He arrived lute one night In a tiny row boat, and was lodged In one of the dungeons. His Identity no one knew, but It \yus whispered that he was the twin broth er of King Louis XIV. Mask Was of Velvet. All during the time he remained on the island lie wore this heavy mask, variously stall'd to have been made of iron and steele but which is now es tablished to have been of velvet. As mysteriously as be arrived, he was taken away, to be lodged In the bas tille In Haris, where be died In 1703. Search among the mins of the fort on the Island of St. Marguerite is now stated to have revealed siratcTlings on one of the dungeon walls In the form of the name “Mattioli.” This tits In with earlier clews and seems to provide the solution to the enigma, sought during centuries. A mask wa,s placed over bis fea tures In order to keep bis Identity se cret from the public. Thus disguised he was taken to the chateau of Tig- ncrol. Thence lie was transferred March 10, 1(504, to the dungeon of St. Marguerite. He remained there two years, being removed in September, 1696, to the bastille. According to Voltaire, the mystery man was undoubtedly the brother of !,ouis XIV, but It is now conclusive that be was the secretary of state of Charles IV of Lorraine. Mattioli. Hav ing betrayed the confidence of Louis XIV, Mattioli was arrested by surprise on Louis’ order. This was May 1070. Vitited by Thousand*. Thousands of tourists nnnuplly cross the short stretch of water from Cannes to visit the island prison of the man In the iron. mask, and it is be cause of fear of desecration of the place that the island has been ofll- cially classed among France's historic spots. The island at another epoch held another famous prisoner, the Marshal Itazaine, who ft as alleged to have be trayed his country in the Kraneo- Prusslan war In delivering up Metz to the Germans. He was condemned to death in 1873; the sentence was com muted and he was sent as prisoner to the Island. He escaped to Sisiin, where he died, Mystic Orders Banned by Rulers in China Shanghai.—"Superstitious and un lawful organizations" of Chinese farm ers and peasants have come under ban of the national government. j Such organizations include tlio^tor the purpose of making periodical sac rifices to the spirits himI the Red and White Spear societies. While the religious and superstitious groups are not for the most part harm ful the Red Spear organizations In, particular have developed into dose knit peasant militia at some points and tiie government finds them bard to control. The government announcement says that ^ecret organizations have been taken advantage of “by persons with ulterior motives who utilize them to further their own sinister ends.” Y Find Gold Nugget in California Hen’* Craw Los Angeles.—Somewhere nearby a rancher is raising chickens on feed worth its weight in gold—whether be knows it or not. For I'onie Kuykendall of this city while dressing a chicken found a nug get of gold in its craw. The fowl came from a meat store on San Francisco road. The nug get was nearly as large as a pea, ac cording to Kuykendall. SCANDAL OF GRETNA GREEN STIRS CLERGY Cat Came 600 Mile* Pittsburgh, Calif.—Tony Melrose banished his cat. Peggy, to Eugene. Ore., when she developed a fondness for canaries, hut the other day Peggy came wandering home, having made tiie GOO-mlle Journey from Eugene here by foot. The feat Is considered a re markable one as a mountain range lies between Pittsburgh and the Ore gon city. a************************* * * * * * * 4c Cactus of Arizona * Bears Good Fruits * 'GojOlidge, Ariz.—The giant $ ♦ Sahuuro and organ pipe cacti * * and the .smaller organ pipe or * pitabaya cactus of Arizona pro- * duce a good crop of delicious t fruits used for centuries b\ the * Tn3Tcms " t l or ’ slr^iTg,"""conserves * * ^ and dried food. ^ * They bear fruit even after * J three years of extreme drought, f * * ************************** part of tiie whole proceedings is .that lie probably could have obtained tbe books at Hie public library, a a a Rnt the existence of a book store Is not all grief. One day a man en tered a shop and asked that a collec tion of books on a certain subject be assembled. He would come back in a couple of days. - The collection was made for him and lie did come back and looked over tiie books carefully. They did m>t expect him to take them all, but. when he Maid three books aside, they were disappointed, nS they thought that those were tiie only ones of tiie large lot lie Intended to buy.* Hut lie said lie didn't care for those and asked how much tiie remainder amounted to. When it was figured out, the bill came to $4,800, as there were some rare and expensive books among them. The«man drew bis check for.the amount and onTeroit rno nooks* delivered. That was a good sale. - There are* some rare books in tbe circulation 'department of the New York public library. One book, for example, which may he taken home,. Just like any other volume, Is listed In catalogues at $1>00. My informant didn't tell me Its name. Just as stewards on shipboard al ways try to seat Dean Cornwell, the mural painter, with church and col lege deans, so many persons Intro duced to Dr. S.. Griswold Morley, fa mous archeologist, for the first time, begin at once to tell him their symp toms, under the impression that he Is a doctor of medicine. More times than a few. he has been tempted to prescribe chloroform, without charge. Once, however, his scientific title stood him In good stead. He was taken to n hospital for an operation so Imme diate that there was no chance to ask him the usual questions of record. When the bill capie in, lie was pleased to see that they had made a deduction, giving him professional rates. New York hotels have carefully been revising their credit accounts. .The credit manager of one of them told me they suddenly discovered tlujj pos sessors of city accounts, opened dur ing those good old days in Wall Street, had moved, without leaving any ad dresses for v yie forwarding of bills. This discovery originally was made by the fact that checks for small amounts suddenly began bomteing back at the hotels that cashed them. N • * • Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly calls one of his lectures “Spell of the Dictionary.” i-hope this lecture Is ijot aimed at me and John Held, Jr. When Johnny Held can’t spell a word, he just starts * couple of-Letters eed then , draws a wavy lipe. His -secretary J then has three guesses as to what he meant. As for me, Herbert Bayard Swope once snhl that l kept my spell Jug in my wife's name. Abuse of Scottish Marriage Law Grows (ilasgow, Scotland.—The generation- old controversy that has centered about marriages at' Gretna Gfeen Is again engaging the attention of the Scottish ministers and authorities. It seems that there Is. little Jhey can do about a situation that ,b* now widely referred to as “the scandal of Gretna Green.” • Figures show that there are fnorfc marriages performed ^.Gretna Greeir-"family of six children n tn * Ik A I> *1*0 tl ' 11 • £> t OO mm LfGHTS ► of NEW YORK One great trouble New York de^ partment' stores have Is with returned goods. Either things look more at tractive to persons at t,he time they buy them or, when they get home, they 'igure they really couIdtiT afford to buy what they did. Then the pur- clmses are sent back. They tell me that one big department- store has many thousands of thingai sent back each week. It is, of course, harder to return things at stores, whiclLfun no charge accounts, but custonws get around this by having goods sent col lect. Then, if they decide they don’t want them, they merely decline to pay for them, and back they go. * • • It seems there 1s a class of cus tomer who orders things while never having the faintest Idea' of keeping them. Merchants think they often do tliis to make an impression on the people they are with. -These shoppers will ask the price of an expensive article and then languidly order It sent to them collect. When the pur chase Is delivered, they refuse to re ceive it. • * • At stores where charge accounts are run, there are cases on record where dresses have het*n sent back, which showed unmistakable signs of having been worn. Nor Is this always done by poor customers. Some woman, wlioee account has been valuable to the store, orders a dress and wears it, only to have somebody tell her It Is not becoming. If this type of cus tomer returns an article, the store haiL_la stop and figure whether the account is valuable enough to l^f the customer get away with it. • * » » Henry C. Smith, of Duttons, told me of a case where a customer re turned five hooks on bridge, for credit, after having kept them five weeks. An even stranger ease was that of a man who came in and Inquired for some unusual scientific books. The store didn't keep them in stock, hut, at the man’s request, ordered them. A couple of weeks later, he came in and the books were there. He said that he would like to examine them, so the deck seated him at a table and left liim. The man sat there for several hours, looking through the books and making notes. Then he quietly walked out of the shop and has not been^seen since. The books are still on hand. The hotel tiie man had given ns an address reported that nobody of that name hail stopped there. The queer-J date at the ceremony so long as he [ 'Kimbolton, , Ohio.—Down on his knees, ^ha •Guernsey county worm-man has crawled, the-,mud trulls of the h|ll wiltlmriefe” ucoutld here for- 3« years. ’ Humping alortg on knuckles and knees, through ^iar and mire, snow and summer dust, Hotner Shipman has made his lowly, heroic way. >/^TUrpugh it all he has earned his breast and -lajaP-fed and reared his at the present time than in the old da^s of high romance. 'Scottish' Law of Gretna Green. According to Scottish law any cou ple may be married at Gretna with or without the cousent.pf their parents and whether or not they are minors. One of the parties is required to jiave lived in Scotland for at least three weeks before the wedding, but Inas much as a statement of residence signed by a witness is the only proof required,'it Is not dtfftcuH t<L circum vent that requirement. Then, unless the marriage Is registered, Ut Is^no marriage at all. It may be rei>tnltated at any time and in point of fact, after' the expiration of the three months registration period, might Just as well not have taken place so fur as the authorities are concerned. Few bother about * registrations. Time was when a mutriage at Gretn^ was looked upon by the parties to It as a tie as binding as an English cer emony. But tpday^ the knots tied there are slip knots. Out of 260 mar riages performed in the early part of this year only 44 were registered. * Y ~ Denounced by Clergy. Out of 273 marriages performed In 11)28 only 18 were registered. The Scotch clergy have stigmatized the practice as u “commercialized traffic designated to make life easy for the bigamist and the man who wishes to decoy a girl into a spurious marriage.” But Gretna’s customs and sanctions remain unch^nged^ Gfetna Green has been a flourishing center for hasty nuptials since 1734, when an act was passed by parlia ment preventing clandestine marriages in England. Being Just over the bor* der from England, In Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Gretna’s bureaus for mar rying eloping English girls and boys began to do a heavier business imme diately. The poor anil the rich, high and low, bent their steps toward the little village across the Sark. Accord ing to Scotch law. any one might olfl- HE IS EVER DOWN, BUT NEVER IS OUT “Worai'Man” Bucks Fate 32 . Years on Hands and Knees. It was Just 32 years ago. Just a few days before Christmas, that the husky bridegroom was caught beneath a flkll t>f rock In one of the gloomy little mines burrowing for coal in his back- woods. • - / ‘ . ‘ " 4 They carried Homer to his bride; his back broken and legs crushed. The doctors told him he could not live the few days to Christmas. Christmas 'Came and went, and bleak months stretched ahead. Then the young wife told him of the new life that quickened within drer. — Homer set his Jaw. Quietly he made himself leather pads for his knees. He put heavy leather over the toes t>f his dragging boots. He whittled out wood en buffers to keep his knuckles off the earth. - * - ijtf Then one day h% set out for the mine again. Thereafter awhile he found that he had an edge on the others. His shoulders and arms and hands grew mighty, bearing the burden of his crip-, pled legs. He got so he could lie on his back and hack away all day with a hand pick under the shallowest veins of coal. Ills first child was born. Through tbe years others followed. The strange fignre became familiar to the scattered' families along the trail between his cabin ari(] tiie mine. But the last few years his age—he is fifty-five now—has begun to tell. No longer can he struggle with the long trail to his cabin, lie now has a little shack close to the mine, which he ami his son-in-law have rented. His wife brings meals to him. He spends the night in the shack alone. Anil every morning at dawn he low ers himself into the mine, not .to come up again until darkness has arrived. 50 Unsolved Murders Recorded m London * ■ • - ’■ • x v ’ ' London.—Police books here reveal more than_ 50 unsolved murders within ten years. x. . Despite Scotland Yard's traditional Infallibility, it Is estimated .that there are between 70‘pnd 80 murderers af large lns_London, for tb® records show only those whlcfi~Tiave Wen officially established as murdgnr-'and do not take Into'account the-«ases of- missing people, many of whom are believed be murder victims. Modern cririle‘methods are making the task of the police more difficult. The favorite haunts of the more des pernte criminals, the famous east end of London, can no Jonger he trusted to return their share of suspects. * The motor-car .has moved/tTiminal headquarters to fire south side Af the Thames, where a quiet-loving bandit can mingle freely with the suburban ites. • <i Advertise in The People-Sentinel. 6 6 6 LIQUID or TABLETS Cure Colds, Headaches, Fever 666 SALVE < CURES BABY’S COLD INSURANCE- FIRE WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH.. SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE ■ THEFT oun and Co. ? . A. PRICE. Manager. swqre that he had witnessed the mu tual pledges Of fidelity between the prospective bride and groom, ' Romance still clings to Gretna and because of it many couples are attract ed there annually. Butjthe commer cialized aspects of its aHLylties are serving to bring the vllage ifrtq^lmd repute, and the unhappiness IhiR comes to hundreds of young Kngllsli girls yearly because of the looseness of this state sponsored system Is stir ring up a controvery beside which th®. j^ip companionate marriage controversy seems parvenu and putty. - Cuban Army Officer Perfects New Air Bomb Havana.—A new type oLbomb for airplanes, invented by Lieut. T’lprindo Fernandez Preito, explosive expert of the Cuban army, uses -a novel ex- <■ pi mil vc of potash and sugar. The bomb Is the result of more 'than two years of experimenting. It weighs IS pounds, of which 3 are the explosive charge. Recent tests made by one of the army planes at an altitude of 1,500 feet re sulted in ripping the center of .the ground target 4 feet in diameter and 1 foot deep.* • . * Cranes in Denmark Carry Own Songbirds Copenhagen.—Cranes in Denmark are so musical that they carry theiT songbirds with them when they fly. The Berliugske Tidene reports that one of its sharp-eyed ornithologists turned his field glasses skyward the other day and saw a flock of eight road cranes carrying several wagtaiH on their backs as they flew. The wagtails soared off from time to time,- just to keep their wings Umbered up. but always returned to their “private passenger planes” be fore they could get out of range. Has Quake m Day Innsbruck, Austria.—For some timt a mysterious earthquake near Reutte has been shaking the ground three or four times a day. * * '~' Famous Lion Dead London.—“Toto,” famous lion at the zoo. who could be petted by visitors, Is, dead. Loom 300 Years Old-' Is Still in Service * Pomeroy, Ohio.—*A loom, relic of poinebr days, said to be al most three hundred years old, is still being used by Mrs. Henry Seidenable. sixty, of Pomeroy. She has used it nearly all her' life for weavipg' fine linens and prefers it to the patented., looms of modq^ 7 »ake, The loon^-wns originally from Rut-' lamj township, near here. Reclamation Payments Dodged by Settlers Washington.—The federal govern ment is handicapped In its develop ment -of reclamation projects by poli ticians, who aid settlers In avoiding their annual payments, according to Reclamation Commissioner Elwood Mead., Mead explained to the hfflise appro priations committee, that while the government advances money to build reclamation projects under < contracts with settlers to repay, that “many us ers ‘do not regard these contracts as obligations. 1, expect and demand the aid of theRf senators and congressmen to ape payment. The re sult is-that rechwnation is a w arring combination politics and business.” Mead reported that. Otherwise, C on-. ditions on reclamation projects were excellent.- Qrop values on reclqYuation projects increased, $17,608,810 in over 1928. tire total in 1929 being $161,- 179,880. The' irrigated area in 1929 was 2,718.130 acres, an increase of 41,- 030 over 1928. • _ OIL 4 '' T ■x X T T ± X X T ■W I t FOR OVER 30 YEARS WE HAVE BEEN USING AND SELLING WITH THE UTMOST SATISFACTION * I 2 FERTILIZERS- MANUFACTURED BY MOLONY & ^ X CARTER CO. WE ARE PLEASED TO TELL YOU % Y THAT WE CAN STILL FURNISH YOU WITH THESE ♦To A. ♦♦♦ FERTILIZERS. ♦> THEY WILL SELL YOU THE MA- „ f V TERIALS AND YOU CAN THEN MIX THEM AS YOU Y iv;® • - • * Y GET YOURSELVES AND YOUR FRIENDS IN X T ♦> WISH, OR THEY WILL MIX THEM FOR YOU. f • - ^ *• f % TOUCH \VITH US AND SAVE MONEY. . X f ^ | The Farrell-O’Gorman Co. % ^ ' T ‘ - N* ’ ♦ * ❖ BLACKVILLE, S. C. Minneapolis Man Thanks Judge for Five Years * Minneapolis.—Julius Johnson had his wist). - For the next five yearB^Iie will be safe from the toils'«f woi When Johnson appeared, l» court, .facing the charge 6f abandon ment, he voiced the hope that Judge W. C. Leary -would net place him on probation, but send him to jail. “I’m through with women and want to go somewhere -where there areh’t any,” he said. Judge Leary sentenced Johnson Jo serve up to five years in Stillwater prison. “Thanks, Judge," Johnson said smil ing. : Youths F^Mn Many Lands Studenlfcsat Y. Me C- A. ' Springfield,. Mass.—Thengfleld Seize Your Opportnnities South Investment Department A good opportunity is at hand! Our growing home industry offers you its $6 Cumulative Preferred Stock paying regular dividends. Large or small investors wishing a steady Y a # . \ income of 6 per cent, may invest for cash or use our montsly savings^plan. AMraffl gTlljTdyg-ftrWnte ntmaemim lina Power Co. Charleston, S. C. Internati appropr Y. M. C. Ay v -i,e was named, it eu U•*- 'r T 1 A • d frcp'tV? 0 t ! P*V’MV f ' Br L 7 ' ?1 ' A- LlthVqi Mexico*-’ '* Peru, P garia, „ land, Ge Norway have 1 ^ 'Vania Dog Population Down Red Wing, Minn.—Red Wing’s an nual dog census showed an alarming drop in the cifps canine population. Last year .330 dogs were counted. This year only 300 were found and licenses had been paid on only 232. Largast Woman'* College New York.—According to statistics, —Hunter college is the largest woman’s college In the world and the sixth largest college to thte United States. CgK Bear* Fine Crop* Bakersfield, Gal If.—J. B. Heston boasts of the only tree local ngricul- ' turists ever, heard of that^bore five i crops .In one season. Let Your Cotton Seed ii • • \ ■ • < ► ig-i ii-.r. ■i~— r 1 -i r..-i i . ~ > ; < > TAKE OUT ALL THE BLACK SEED—BLOW OUT | [ THE TRASH AND FAULTY.SEED, * Why plant these immature seed and fill your fields with barren stalks? ;Good authorities estimate you can add one to two bales per plow by cleaning your seed. • , Wediave a new and expensive machine and can clean about 40 bushels per hour, at A cost of 10 cents per bushel ’to you. ,Can you afford to lose a bal£ of cotton to save $1.50? No work on the farm pays like cleaning the seed. Get it done, whether you giveit to us or to some one else. WE ALSO OFFER 500, BUSHELS RECLEANED PIXIE TRIUMPH COTTON SEED AT90 CENTS PER-" BUSHEL, F. 0. B. BLACKVILLE. BLACKVILLE, S. C. ^ ■ - ' •_<„ ' - " i