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BIGGER THAN ALL *Human Mind Is Real Wonder ot the World. Inanimate Things That Used to Be Classed as Marvels Are Trivial In Comparison, According to Boston Writer. An up-to-date newspaper must have an encyclopedic editor "Uncle Dudley" writes in the Boston Globe.' HIs job IS to do what he can to quench the publIc thirst for odd scraps of miscel laneius Ijfrrmation'. Ae lives close *h the rservoTIr a librai .containing the records of the race. Oie day lie flei a depogjtin about John 8iot's translaioln of. th'igj*o . can Indians; the.ge ir es defics t))at on September 7, i a, alw w Orleanls, Jim Corbett took the wind Uo hn t. I:'ulh''fs safis (fi hfroun V'" e 1 fitf* t ock ques;1oninpr ticular Vnlch bobn What are 11h'e iCT N world? For purpese o? ree.e'riie, the u1@if o4 Ry.onders always has been, .2.v and ever tall be, apparently .M . tly 1 The almanacs never slw ten or a dozen. The probleii of selection 1.1 snggering in tlwyse days when the wonders of the world actu ally total much nearer 7,000 than they do/seven. Nevertheless, it is interesting to con pure the compiledl lists of the seven wonders of the ancient, the medieval and the modern worlds. They are an index to the history of the human in, tellect. Any compilation suilces. These wIll (10. Seven wonders of the atinclent world -Pyramids of Egypt, Pharos of Egypt, Henging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Diana at Ephesus, Statue of Jupiter b Plildias, mausoleum of Artemnisia at' Halicarnassus, Colossus of Ithodes. .Seven wonders of the middle age CQllseum of Itome, catacombs of Alex. addria, great wall of China, Stone h6nge, leaning tower of Pisa, porce lain tower of Nanking, China; mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople. .Seven wonders of the modern world -Woolworth building, Uiffel tower, etc.? No. Inanimate marvels are of the past. Here comes the lightning change. The third act is a hunmmer. The compiler of the wonders does not even attempt to cover *he whole modern period. Ile tanlates from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries only. And lie calls his last list the seven new wonders of the world. Here they are: Wireless.. telephone, airplane, ra dium, antiseptic and antitoxin, spec trum analysis, X-rays. What next? The great wonder of all the ages is the human mind. Tts evolution is the history of the world. Degree of Tire Doctor. One of the tire manufacturing con cerns of Akron, 0., has established a school of tire repairs and the institu f'on Is so popular that it has been found necessary to increase its capa city, whleh is about to be doubled. This institution has averaged .15 grad uates a month since Inst August. Ev ery gradiate of the school receives a diploma, certifying that he has fin ished the reguilar 'ouirse of instrue tion, counsisting of lectures. text-book study andpract ical re~paiir work. The studtent is first made thoroughly ac (luaintedl with the dletaiis of tire eon strueurn bfrheis nctually trained ini repair work. ] Iepai r st ocks. fabl rics of all de'veript ions, air h ngs, vulenniz ing machines and( me~lthods, comnt tources of' tire tro uble, etc., are oaong the subjtects taken up. The chief instructor and his assi1st ants in the schiool are t horoughly experienced tire mien fromi both factory and retail business standpoints. Air Photography. No camern hats probabiy been (devel oped so raidl~iy as the (curiouis appa ratus us~ed in photogrnphing from aloft, The ordInary enmerais are of li~tthe use for work at high altitudes. The height plays curious tricks itponi the camnern. A picture taken fromn a height of a few hunidredl feet may he hazy, while if thm photographer rises several thiousandl feet thq earth may appear perfectly distinct. The latest forms of nero camiera are often six feet In length and must be equippedl with many (delicate adjustments unknown to ordinary ap paratus. It is held by means of han dIes at the sides and rested (for it is very heavy) on the edge of the alle pland.-Boys' Life. He Needs a Ducking. A New York shoe dealer with a perverted sense of humor stands to lose a lot of friends bectfuse of the "clover" advertising idea lhd has placed in effect. In his show-window he has placed a number of shoes, every one different from the other. Signs an nlouncing such prices as $4, $5 andl $4) are attached to each shoe. The joker lies in the fact that when the would-he customer goes in and as to see a certain shoe he is informed that the price is "that much for one shh),'-10xchange. Nature Kind to Snake. A queer AfrIcan species of snake, which lives on eggs, has a tooth-like spike projecting downwvard from its backbone, just behind the head, which is tipped with enamel. When it swal lows an egg the latter passes down t'he gullet uhtIl it encounters the spike, -which breaks the shell. Thus no part of te edid contents is~host, as would be the cape if the snake were obliged to bit' th~e bga wIfh its motith.ftrika. MARKS END OF TWO TOWNS Abandonment of lit-Starred Western Enterprises Has Now Been Defi nitely Established. The final chapter of the tragedy of t)vo abandoned cities in the Antelope valley was written by the board of supervisors when the names of the towns of Little Rock and Tierra Bonita were erased from the records, rays a recent issue of the Los Angeles Express. By formal resolution the streets and avenues of the dead cities were aban doned and thq sites returned to the status of agric'nltural land. W. 0. Petchner, representing agri culturists of the Antelope valley, who now seeks to plant pear orchards on the sites of the riEd "poon) cities" of Ny l-ars ago, Wlthe o fr of their Ill-starred txIstbe. V - . "'" . aittle Rock and Tierra Bonita were laid out about 30 years ago bg a Qhicago syndicat folowrT~ hle sl ho 1 er th ~ ~src 1WEh o I Tefegraph, to manuifnd . pa-) per print paper pulp out of the fiber of the yucca pt Palns that covered the dosert at that thue" Said Petchner. "The schene sounded great and looked fine oiLI paper, but it lasted only about one. year. The towns, which fiad Ieen formally laid out, still per sisted on the records, and the streets, avenues and squares could not be abandoned until a law had been passed making It possible to (10 so. "The English colonists long since have scattered to the four corners of the earth and but few remember the boom that was created over the yucca pulp mill and the shipping of fiber. Now the forbidding desert of those years has been changed into the abun dant pear orchards of today. The re mains of the houses are being cleared away, and where the coyote and jack-rabbit roamed among thd stark remnants of the collapsed boom the pear trees are blossoming forth a promise of a bumper crop." About Bread. Bread Is the staff of life, but few of us know why certain kinds of bread make a more sturdy staff than other kinds. An expert has stated that If wholo wheat bread had been eaten and white bread forbidden, the pre ient national decay of teeth would never have happened. Flour made from the whole grain has Lvice the protein and only a third of the water in ordinary "white" flour. Bretd is such an excel tent food because but 4% per cent of its solids escape absorption by the body. If milk were drunk with bread practically every crumb would be ab sorbed in nutriment. Ordinary white bread contains 40 per cent of water. The "Cat" in bread is just 1 per cent of its total ingredients. The rest is made up of protein (the basis of life), starch, sugar, dextrin, cellulose (Indi gestible), and mineral matter. New, moist bread is extremely hard to di gest because It produces no apprecia ble flow of saliva in the mouth (luring matalention. A slice of ordinary day old bread is not digested until it has been in the stomach two and a half hotrs. Wheat can he eaten in its en tire state. if soaked for a long time in water, then hoiled in milk, and sugar nalded. This is the ancient "frumenty." Rteal brown bread is made from stone groundl flour, muanuf'aclured from the whle grain. Cargo of Bobbed-Hair Girls. Itobbed~-hialr girls on the lier Ven tur-a on the trip up frotn Sydney gnve I he app~learnc( oif a stenmiier "mnned" by Amnaz''ns, or a troop of women whio hadie .lust lbeen deobl~ii'ild from the "dea th ha ttal ion,'' hut t hey were nearly ail r'eal girls and without a speiek of "vetes~ for women" eiement in them, so mnost of the muen pas s('nge'rs said when the V'entu tr reaChed riinol ulu,. necordingl to the Pael 1e ('ommer('lal Advertiser. Most of' the hohhed-hair girls were youn~g andl most of themi slemiler. Some hadl their hair cut Duitch fashion, some had it shinghl far up toward the crown, being left to frizzle ouit girl faishiion, but all had enough hair left so that there were captivating ringlets to allure the opplosite sex-as usual. Europe's Plague Spot. Around the 14-mile-long girrlie of massive wails which Constantine raised around his capital, the breakers of war seldom ceased to hurl themsemves. Twenty-six times the city was besieged-by P'ersinns andl Avars, lby Russians, Latins and Turks. Six times the Saracens flung their hosts agninst it ; and eight times it fell into the enemy's hands, and was laid1 waste with fire and swvord and pillage. Three times the Turks laid seige to it ;andI the third tine, in 1453, Mo hnmmed II made it his own after a fierce and- stubborn resistance. From that day to our own Constantit,oplo has remained in Turkish hiands--the plague-spot of Eutrope. Gone Are Caravans of Gypsies. The gypsy caravans drawn by horses, Which were once a feature of their picturesqlue encampments, are gone, for the automobile has displaced the animals. These people travel around in high-powvered cars in which have been incorporated1 some of th9 resplendent features of the old-time caravan. Towers of Babel. Twenty-three languages are spoken in Jerusalem, according to the latest reports. But Jerusalem has nothing on the t'umber of foreign tongues whkih sio henys on the average New ,Yog st'reet care-Boston Evening Tanann~Itt TOM MIX IN NEW PLAY SUIRPASSES TO1 11MIX Tom Aix, it is said, has accon plisied in "The Cyclone," which Wil liam Fox will present on Friday at the Princess Theatre, what no other im hero has succeededl in doing-lhe has surpassed Tox Mix. This is a stliel(idous feat, as the tIlousands of fals -whom he has Lhrillcd by his peerless daring In mlih superb Fox productions as "The leed lManiac" and "The Feud" will attest. RePortsj from places where his pictuire has been shown dleciare uhat Mix grips the imagination of his iudiences :Ud wihips their blood to nountaill torrent velocity by hls dis 'lay of courag(' and agility. The sto y of "'I'he Cyclone," which a I ale of the Canadian Northwest \lounted Police, deals with a series of itirritig episodes leading up to a itunt climax that shows the Cow puncher star at his best. This ultra -tunt was uidertaicn by the actor ani hiis direelor after considerable delib iration. Mix rejected every modiflea I oll suggeste(I witi a view to his per sonal safety, and insisted upon en acting Ith r--owning episode in all its magnificent daring. Coleen Moore ;:-ays opposite Mix as Iin coveed air, atid is a beautiful, very feminine prize for his very mas culine prowess. The rest of the east is exception ally strong, as t necessarily must he to support loads of such high calibre. The QuinIne That Doos Hot Aftect tho Kec Dlecat.qe of Ito tonic and laxative effet 1. * . ' TIVE ISROMO QUININE is better thimn on.a.r.t Quinine and does not caise nervousnes, r ringilnd in head. Remenber the Iii nme n-' 'ook for the signature of E. 'V. GROVP. Me 1785 1920 THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTPON Co-educat 14a11111. Enitrance examinations, and exam inations for the free Wiltion county scholarshilPs at all couity seats Fri (lay, July 9, at 9 a. M. Four-year couises lead to the ]I. A. and B. S. degrees. Special t wo-ye4r pre-mledical and pre-technical Colrs es are given. Special buildings and athletic grolInds, well eqiuipped laboratories, unexcelled library facikities. Two. dormitories for iliell. Expenses moder ate. For terms and catalogue, address LARRISON RANDOlH, 49-3t President, BIC Is still goil Remarkable vantage of < success, still that we are fallifpurchas A Great Opg All I t(Ii'~ .\In's, Hoy styles 2.is' lssthan wi' lu,holsa for' our fall1 pIurhses A11 .\fen's III'w ilSo 59c, 99c. $1.90 aini $3.99. 'l to $7.00i. New lot put1 on t Ladies I (loodls. Tis meanIIs at real s; $ 1.5(0 Voiles, in all color1s, 11 $ 1.25 V~oileIs, iln all o0lor's, n1 $1 .( Voiles, in all color11s, II $1 .a( I)r'ess linens, astel1 .$1 .00 Or'gan11(1ie in ll olor101s DAV Laurens Bes For Immediate Delivery F ORDS We have for immediate delivery three new Ford Sedans, one Ford 1 ton truck with pneumatic Tires and one Fordson Tractor. Now is the time to buy as cars and Tractors will be scarce this fall Also few Second Hand Cars Waidrop 'S Garage Phone 334 Laurens, S. C. J U skE ag on at Davis Roper Co's Department store. savings are possible for those who take ad >ur July prices. The sale has been a big we have left lots of goods in summer wear willing to sacrifice to make room for our es. sortunity to Save EtaSeil loney) l~i hlxi. iil1'otil' ')t 7 's. and (hihin-nl's I 0w ('ut Shoes I lie lioiise, Ill or(1(r to ina~k(e o<Jln ......... .... .... .... ....$9.99 ;'t ofLo t oes ini all si *vles Y u W l b upied a h i 'heseC arei vay.e Values ifMen'$'nd.Boys )epartment Sme ut rife ourC ( ntireIC~ soek of' 8ununiI er ow .... .... .... .... ..$1.19 OW............ ..............98c *Jt o$8AO Jll ) e.......5 4 o$29 ow................ .... .... ....79cItyo aiit ae101C a1(kv (0,.oneliisw " color's..... .... .... ... .$1.19 ......"r........-..----79 c-- .... ....I....W....l....29c YouSWillebe auris St theBi