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REWS SPARRIED BY CHILDREN woungsters in Bosnia Are Used to Die. seminate information, Since Print. ed Sheet Is Ijnknown. Bosnian children of the Mohant medan faith have perhaps the most remarkable memories and aptitude for languages of any children in Eu rope. Despite the fact that the per centage of illiteracy among the Bos nian Mohammedans is very high, the memories of the children have become remarkably developed by the memorizing of thousands of prayers. Some of the children are also used by the villages as "walking newspa pers." The brightest boys go to a coffee house where a Mohammedan, speaking in a high clear voice, trans lates the latest news from the Ser bian newspapers. The boys listen attentively and then go out on their "paper routes." When they enter a village on their route the town crier beats a drmn and all the men of the district gath er about the boy. (The women usual ly are working in the fields while their lords drink coffee and ferment, ed plum juice at the town cafe). The little "walking newspaper" then per forms his feat of memory. Word for word he repeats what he heard translated to him. His pay consists of food, lodging and a few kronen. PROBABLY WOULDN'T Hicks-Do you think it's going to rain? Wicks--Guess not. I just saw the weather man going down the street with an uibrella.-Boston Transcript. GRAZING IN NATIONAL FORESTS. The demand for range on the na. tional forests was greater the lust year than ever before in the history of the forest service, which branch of the United States department of agriculture has contri of these Tr'as. Espeelally in the drougit stricken regions, stockmen using the tunreserved public domain or private pastures eagerly sought fo rest pier mits in ordler to save their stock. 'lhe v'alue of the system of range regulaioni in use has been so thor oughly demonstrated that represent ative stockmuen from all the Western states have declared emphldatieally in favor of placing t he remnain ing un reserved public lanuds undi'er fedk-ral control and having them managed under a plan siuihu- to that in ef feet On tihe national forests. OIL FOR PARIS. Trhe Frenchi government has ap proved the building of a double pipe line for' oil between Ifar andT~ lI Paris, 1.50 mniles. One of the lines of ten-inch dhiameter will be used for heavy fuel oils, and( thle other, a sumaller pipe line of fon r inaches, for petroleumt and motor spirit. It is estimated that 4.500 tonts of heavy and 1,000 tons of light oil and spirit can be poi n ped Lbhrough these IineIs daily, thus hlin lig to umiee the prob.. lemn of the coal suipply of Puaris. It is hoped to complete the lines in time for next winter. -HER JOB. "That young lady is very strik in'g." "A handsome girl." "But I neover see her doing any work around your law office." "SheI's valurable, hoviever. When the other side has a pretty witness we find her very useful as a counter attraction." - Louisville Courier Journal. A TRAGEDY. Hoe-Life with me has been a fail ure. Sho--You must have had and wasted some opportunity. tie-No; I have spent half my life raisin~g whiskers to conceal my youth, and( the other half dyeing them to coneal my a&n. WHY FRANKLIN WOBE NO WIG According to This Story, Quaker Sim. plicity Had Nothing to Do With the Matter. Benjamin Franklin was about to be presented to the French king on the occasion ' of his first visit to France in the capacity of representa tive from the &w America. The court custom of the time demanded that one going to an audience with the king must wear a wig of the proper fashion. A count, who had Franklin in tow, sent a wigniaker the day before to take Franklin's measure and fit him out for the au dience. The wigmaker arrived at Franklin's lodgings, measured the poll of the great American fore and aft and round and about, and took his departure. An hour before the audience the wigmaker returned with the wig. But when Franklin attempted to put it on it would not fit; lie couldn't begin to get it on his head. "Sir," said Franklin to the wigmaker, "your wig is unfortuiate - ly too small for my head." "Pardonnez moi, monsieur," re plied the wigmnker, "your head is vastly too large and quite beyond the fashioi of the court." YFran klin appeared, therefore, at court with his bald pate and shaggy gray hair. ITS EFFECT "I fere's a new play to be pro. duced to be called 'The Hammer.'" "That ought to make a stunning hit." DETERMINING STAR COLOR. A new means of determining stair colors, devised by Dr. E. S. King, is described in the Journal of the British Astronomical association. Over the telescopic objective is placed a piece of plate glass (comn mercial glass is good enough for the purpose), which is coated with a gelatini fil, one-half of which is staimd yellow an( the other hall b~lue. 'Ie images of the stars are then ph)lotograplied out of focus o n isochromnatic plates. Each image, thieref ore, appears as a disk, one por tion of which shows the effect of the blute Iliht., and the other the elfect of the yel low light. Th'le two halvecs of the ihnge are then comaliredl by iin(:ans of a phortogaraphiic wedge or by sonie similar meanms. ARTIFICIAL FUEL. Frin coal Islack and ducit, l'gnite, heat an a hinder of pitch. says an articale ini Popular Mechanics Maga'' z.inie, an exuellenit hous.e or inidus trial fuel will ha mauiifae1tured. T1hec ingreid int. are* prosedl itlo blocks of ainy size( , anid of a lyered or launi..I niiaiied stuciture tht hiibtenis thle rsemainuit to nottura~l caal. As the stuff 1 is niul( from~ malterials re'gard cal litherto as praeticailly vtaleh thle mtarket. priice will ba less than thiat of the o'hieap- si, coal. *WOMEN VOTERS. Massachuisit ts hais thle greatest prerleran~iOuCe' of w~~~oan "voters," w i 58;j maore womand thn mnen. Northi ('arolinia is next, with a womn aii umjnority of 1 5,388, and South (Carolinia. with 10O,8O'7, is third. In I~ hod1e Islandia women of vot ing age outuinbiler mn by 3.19)6, and in Mfarylaind by 1 ,292. BAR CA STIC. "So t~he baseball seasonis on01 again." "Yecs, and the husbands who~ couldn't possibly get home to dinner before seven o'clock, will be quitting their offices at tree every af ter noon." FLYING FATALITIES. Of the 74 flying fatalities in the! United States air servico duringf 1919, 83 per cent arc attributed tol the fault or carelessnmess of the pilot as-the primary c.ause, and1( 8 por cent to the failure of the plane. MAKES SALVAGE WORK EASIER Device Likely to Play important'Part in the Recovery of Ships Sunk by Germans. An interesting public deionstra tion of its burrowing machine given at New York by the Saliger Ship Salvage corporation promises much in the salvage of sunken ships. This novel device has the ability to navi gate through the ground, like a sub marine navigates through the wa ter, but, unlike the submarine, it has no pilot aboard. It is directed and controlled by an operator from a distance. Its purpose is to drag lifting cables through the ocean bot toni under sunken ships. In appearance it resembles a pair of torpedoes, placed tandem, with screw-blade propellers in front and aileron rudders at the opposite end. It wasstarted into a huge pile of gravel, head down, and reappeared again at a distance, having bur rowed its way in a half circular course through the gravel, dragging the cable behind it. The burrowing machine is the in vention of A. 11. Saliger, president of the Saliger Ship Salvage corpora tion, and it seems destined to play an important part in the recovery of many of the ships sunk by the Ger. man subimarines. SEEMS LIKE A LOT 41 "We have 3,000 contented work men on our pay roll," said the manufacturer. "Gosh il" said another. "I didn't know there were that many content ed workmen in the world." MAN, 94, RIDES TO HOUNDS. One of the oldest followers of the hounds is Capt. Thomas Dallas Yorke, .the dilelless of Portland's father, who was ninety-four last February. For his age he enjoys excellent health, and lie has hunted several times this season. He is haP)py in the saddle, and recently whien the hounds started to run, his hiorse leaped ai hedlge. with posts anid rails, landling safely. Captain Yorke's hat fell off, and lhe said aft terward to a friend: "I did niot in tend to (come over so large a jump, lbut t he horse goJt away a li ttle." Contfiinetaml Fdition of the London PIGEONS IN FORESTRY. During~ the recent severe forest fres in. t&ert ain sectiones of thle West, (aier'" 1a p ins were suctcessfully em ployed to conIv'ey misa !es fronm t he fire fig'ters '"at the front" to head <iuarters, rays t he Ann-rtieani For estry' \ f igaz inie of Wasihi igton. The test of the birds for this use was on a Iim1it ed sealec, bm iu has encouragedl lhe forest service (iflit iuals to believe that they ennI be (Irnplyd profita lbly oni a larger sea!r. Fiim of (;t' miles ini a single (lay have been-J madetl, whmile ai (ist an1ce of 1-10 to 200( miiles mantis a two or three-hour flight for the average bird. PHILIPPINE TOBACCO Tr'ADE. The last year was regerded as very profittible for the Phi!ipineii to), ha to initerests, ams there wn.< rn in (!rease of I ,000,0(0 p~e~'s in the valu te of cigr.rs manummfacture d, a grea t proportioni of wic h wenit to tihe Iited (S States, anId :'mt'iderable exports to China and1( I'u:rope ENDLESS ENTERPRisE. "I don't believe you Socialista know exactly what you arc talking abot." "Assuming that you are right, our only hope of finding out lies ini pro SHOULD BE WELL LIGHTED. . T1he lighting e~jui pmenIt jin the new mtu:Iicipal bulildling of New York eity retiuires more tha::i 1,000 'ehutriv lumps. Dodge Brothers BUSINESS CAR The Service it renders, its reliability and its very moderate operating cost make it a real economy in any business It more than "earns its keep" in de livery use in the extra daily work it does. Palmetto Auto & Accessory Co Phone 200- Laurens S. C. As Regularly as the Cock Crows Good health is a tonic that brightens your mornings. It throws a halo of happimess about your day. It brings you to your task with a sense of perfect fitness. And the secret of good health is regular elimination. If you have a tendency to costiveness, Nujol will help you back to habitual mfovemenflts. Nujol works on an entirely new principle. 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