Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GOT WRONG MAN THAT TIME College Seniors Made Deolded Mistake When They Tried to "Smoke Out" Young Kentuckian. Toni Honan, former attorney ken eral of Indiana, was talking of his col lege days at Indiana university. He recalled, with a laugh, how the seniors used to "smoke out" the freshmen In the good old days. "The big idea was," said Mr. Ho nan, "for five or six, qr perhaps a dozen seniors, to congregate in the room of a freshman and smoke pipes until the smoke made him sick. Usually the fellow selected for the 'smoking out' process was one of these Imollycoddle youngsters who had not long been divorced from his mother's apron strings. "One time we selected a long, lcen Kentucky boy. One by one we dropped in, lighted our pl)es and began the game. Kentucky fired up his pipe, too, and the evening wore on. The Smoke grew heavier with each pass Ing half-hour. Not a window was up, not a 'door open. Along about eleven o'clock two' or three seniors disap peared. They had been shipwrecked. FinaIly the tobacco began running out, much to the pleasure of several of us. ]But Kentuck smoked on. "At last one of us remarked to Ken tuck that we'd have to go, as our to bacco had rin out. "'No, don't go,' Kentuck insisted. 'Tve got a lot more tobacco. Lawdy, I couldn't think o' comin' 'way up bawth heah without some good to bacco.' "Kentuck opened his trunk. One .end of It was jammed with old Ken tucky long green tobacco. We tore out. We had picked on the wrong bird." ndianapolis News. SERKESS FOUND HIS MOTHER Pathetic Cases Such as This One Re. ported Have Long Been Com-. mon in Armenia. Bright and early one morning a band of Arnabs drove up to the Near Enst Itelief orphanage at Kars, Ar ilenla, bringing with themi a forlorn little chap about five years old. "WeOT want you to take this boy," Said the lendler of the band to an ofli clal of tihe orphanage. "Ile has no father, nor mother." "What Is his name?" the leader of the band wa-its asked. "Ile is clled Serkess," shouted back (he leader of the Arabs as they galloped away. In this way little Serkess became a member of our family. He was an intelligent little chap but seemed un able to remember anything about his home or his parents. A few days later one of the native women helpers at the orphanage was going through the playground when she suddienly stopped, turned pale and stared unbelievingly at one of the lit tle chaps who was playing there. "Serkess!" she cried, and running to the youngster gathered him Into her arms. Serkess was her son who had been taken from her two years before by the Turks. Country of Little Change. IRecently when Professor Williams visited the ' vice regent of South Mo rocco. the latter quoted from a char ter given by the Sultan of Morocco In 1020. The visitor expressed sur prise that this ancient parchment still remained in the vault, and the vice regent exclaimed: "Why not? We have never moved i" This incident Is said not to be at all remarkable. Wherever one goes in the Turkish empire, he is likeiy to be confronted with the evidlence of age by the tradi tions handed down from generation to generation. It is no more strange for a Turk to speak of happenings In his family of centuries ago than it is for an old man in this country to recall with pride the exploits of his father or grandfather. - Things That Count. It is not so much whra we say hot what we do that wins men to better things; not what we preach but how we act that saves aanls and puts the red lifeblood Into an anaemiic world. After all, the world is qui. it touched not by the great buildi: ,t by the great heart; not by the cold word on printed page but by the warm word as it comes from living lips; not so much by the house of mercy as by the merciful hand laid on the fevered brow; not so much by the house that shelters the wanderer as the beautiful face which enshrines motherhood at whose knees lonely children gather. Grit. All Right. The fourth grade teacher wias teaching the children the meaning of several new words, among them being the word "naturalist." She had spoken of John Burroughs and aeverai of our best known nature lovers and then decided to test the children to see whether they thoroughly under. stood the word. She turned to little Newell. Use the ward 'naturalist' i a sentence." she told him. For a minute the iittle fellow wau perplered and then came A bright thought which brought relief to hi face. Hie said: "That was the natur alist picture wve have of my grand father." *Evenly Matched. "Are they well matched?". "Well, she'S hIs second wife. bul he's h:' second busband, so neithem has any talking advantage ,over the ather." GREAT FUTURE FOR WIRELESS Boys Who Plan to Make it Their tife Work Should Know and Appre clate its Value. Before going Into practice Instrue. tion It Is important that the boys who are to become the wirless men of the ruture should appreciate at value of such work..Wireless transmission of messages and of the human voice Is becoming daily more common. In a few years the entire sydtem of com inunication throughout the world may lie transformed by wireless electriel ly, and It Is Important that boys ,should be able to take their part In it. The amateur wireless station Is a great educator and gives the boys who equip and operate it an excellent ed icatlon In the wonderful new science. When the call cane for wireless men for the great war the amateur op erators were able to take a prominent part. Thousands of boys who had taught themselves how to build sta tions and run them were able to take imliportant positions In wireless sta tions at sea and on shore. No other country had so vast an army of self taught wireless operators to call on. Many of the boys who had taught themselves all they kiiew of the sel once rose to occupy Important posi tions. It Is not generally known that It was an atuateur wireless man who was chosen to fly across the Atlantic on the NO-4 on her famous flight. Hoys' Lire. HAS BOTH MEMORY AND SCAR Two Excellent Reasons Why One Man Will Remember That He Was Kicked by a Mule. A kick from mule Is guaranteed to miake just afout as much impres slon on the memory as It does on the anatomy. Yet Clyde D. Jarvis has made sure that he will not forget the kIck he received from a Missouri beast of burden for the rest of his natural life. Jarvis applied at Houston, Texas, for enlistment In the marine corps and was accepted. lie exhibited 11 scar about six inches long on tihe left side of his abdomen, and explained It was the result of an operation lie had undergone so1ne 31x ionths before, for a supposed ruptured spleen, fol lowIng the kilk frotu the mule. The operating surgeonl had made the wrong diainosis, however, and found that Jarvis' spleen was 0. K. Tattooed above the scar In large let ters were the words, "Opened by mis take." An Old Street Directory. An odd reminder of the past turns up In the list of duplicates that the Massachusetts Historical society has decilded to sell from Its collection of historic miscellany In the form of the first street directory of Boston, and for that matter the first street direc tory ever printed In what Is now the United States. In 1708, when the broadside was printed, 110 names were enough for all the streets, alleys, lanes and squares of the town; and many of them read the same nowa (lys. For some years prior to 1708 the process of preparing the list had been engaging the authoritIes, and when the selectmen published it they were doubtless well satisfied with Paddy lane, Frog lane, Cow lane, Pudding lone and other quaint titles whIch a modern municipal government might regard as undIgnfined and trivial. --ChristIan Science Monitor. What He Thought. Oompany had just gone and Mars. A. had changed from her company talk to that of the every day variety, Speaking plainly she was nagging her husband. He endured It for a little wvhIle and then be said, "Maria, do you knew why I call you my queen bee to the boys at the office?" "No," snapped Maria, not the least bit mollified by the title of queen. "Well," patiently explained lMr. A. carefully discerning the shortest way to the doer as he spoke, "while we have company you make me honey all the time and then just as soon as they are gone you begin to industrIously Iuse your stinging abIlitIes." And then, well, then, the door closed after Mr. A. Good-by, Gunga Oin, The pIcturesque water vender with his pIgskin pack on his back, as well as the more charming picture of the native virgin carrying a water jar on her head, will soon he hut a memory in Jerusalem. It Is hoped that the terrible water-borne dIseases. so com mon when PalestIne was tunder Turk I lh rule, will likewise dIappear lato Ithe forgotten past. The recliming of thousandls of acres of swamnplandls, to improve a'irl cultural, lndtustrlal and sanitary con ditIons of Palestine, is another of the reconstructIon problems to be started by the Zionist engineers. through the '$10,000,000 restoration fund. Self-Sacriflce, "Buy a washing machine and make your wife happy." "What I" exclaimed the southertn man. "And break the heart of a col ored dame with a huishand and eight or nine children to stupport? Never, str I My wife and I must continue to stiffer for the greatest gaod of the grLaeatest number."-lrminghan Age Herald. Monster Plane Shells. int the early pet'lod of the- wvor-i war the bombo used by airplanes weigmher' 20 jat:.ds5, but tard -t th" close ol the confliet the largest w-eighed a tomi and a haif---Broolyn Rnsgle. BURNING JAPANESE GOODS AT TIENTSIN Chinese of TIentslin partle pating In a great anti-Japanese demonstration and burning goods taken from Japanese shops and homes. 0OW EN BROS. MARBLE & GRANITE Co. DESIGNERS MANUFACTURERS - ERECTORS ; Dealers in everything for 'he ne-. tery. 'rhe largest and best equipped mon-. O umental mills in the Carolinas. GREENWOOD, - - - S. C. GROW BIGGER CROPS The demand the coming year for Cotton, Corn, Grain etc., will far exceed that of any recent years. The half-starved peoples of Europe are even now crying out for food and cloth ing. And the world as depending upon the Farmers of America to Supply it. You cannot raise a 100% crop unless you have a 100% soil. Fertility is largely a matter of balanced conditions of the soil. Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia, and Potash must be present in the proper proportions if bumper crops are to be raised. PLANlTERSFERTILZER DOUBLES YOUR YIEID because it contains available Phosphoric Acid, Ammomia and Potash In the right proportions. Every bag is stamped with our Giant Lizard Trade-Mark. Look for it-it's for your protection, and better place your order for Planter's right now and avoid delayed delivery. Ask our agent In your town for information, free advice, or prices, or write us direct. Plamers Fertilizer & Phosphate Co. MANUFACTURERS CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - - -~-~--X - < ~ ~T. N( Largest Life Insurance Business in the World METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (INCORPORATED BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK) HALEY FISKE, President FREDERICK H. ECKER, Vice-President Total Amount of Outstanding Insurance - - - - $5,343,652,434 Larger than that of any other Company in the World Ordinary (annual premium) Life Insurance paid for in 1919 $910,091,087 Industrial (weekly premium) Insurance paid for in 1919 - $508,590,405 More than has ever been placed in one year by any Company in the World Total Insurance placed and paid for in 1919 - - - $1,418,681,492 Ihe largest amount ever placed in one year by any Company in the World Gain in Insurance in Force in 1919 - - - - - $914,140,618 More than ever has been gained in one year by any Comppny in the World The Company gained more insurance in force in 1919 than any other Company wrote Number of Policies in Force December 31, 1919 - - 21,770,671 Larger than that of any other Company in America Gain in Number of Outstaading Policies - - - - 1,987,410 Larger than any Company in the World has ever gained in one year Assets - - - - - - - - - - $864,821,824.55 Larger than that of any other Company in the World Increase in Assets during 1919 . . . . . . $89,367,126.27 Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . $835,736,487.38 Surplus . . . . . . . . . . . $29,085,337.17 Number of Claims paid in 1919 . . . . . . 289,125 Averaging one policy paid for every 30 seconds of each business day of 8 hours Amount paid to Policy-holders in 1919 . . . . $73,581,759.91 Payment of claims averaged $505.93 a minute of each business day of 8 hours. Metropolitan Nurses made 1,300,883 visits free of charge to 256,000 sick Industrial Policy-holders. Metropolitan men distributed over Twelve Millions of pieces of literature on health Bringing the total distribution to over 200,000,000 Reduction in general mortality at ages 1 to 74 in 8 years, 17.9 per cent. 7yphoid reduction, 69 per cent.; Tuberculosis, over 33 per cent.; Heart disease, over 23 per cent.; Brgiht's disease, over 25 per cent.; In fectious diseases of children, over 46 per cent. In general reduction and in each case of disease, this is far greater than that shown by statistics of the Registration Area of the United States. Death Rate for 1919 on the Industrial business lowest in history of Company. R. M. McKEMIE, Deputy Supt., 11 12 Laurens St., Laurens, S. .