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pew see second century Not Many Claiming to Bo Over On# Hundred Yearo of Ago Can Prove It Sea serpents befug out of date, and "wild men" somewhat exhausted of Interest, there comes the recent story of a Kentucky man who celebrated the 131st anniversary of his birth by taking hfs first motor car ride. When a report of this sort Is investigated It usually Is found to lack proof. Some years ago. at a meeting of the Actuarial Society of America, Its president, John K. Gore, said: "The -- ?? M |rt /iAm. weu-Known cases oi uwhiuubu w.*. monly believed to have lived a century and a quarter and even much longer have not In any Instance been verified." There is usually temptation to exaggerate the age of extremely old persons ; often they do It themselves. Not vary long ago a man In England, Interested in the study of human longevity, offered $5,000 to any man or woman llrlng at the time who could prove that he or she was 100 years old or f more. There were hundreds of claimants, but In no case was irrefragable proof submitted. In point of longevity, women are far ahead of men, generally speaking. TOey are more resistant to diseases and they live longer. And yet women are called the "weaker sex." So they are, muscularly, but it Is manifest that they are the stronger sex constitutionally. They possess what biologists term greater **vlablllty"?a superior ability to survive. MORGAN NOT ALWAYS HARD Qreat Financier Proved He Had Kindly Heart as Well as a Keen RiiBinMa Mind. There is no better test of a man*? bigness than his way of handling subordinates who make mistakes. J. Plerpont Morgan, the elder, had a derk who, living beyond his means, ought to make np the balance through speculation; and, having failed, helped himself to the firm's money. Hie culprit was called into Mr. Morgan's private office. He expected arrest. Instead he was told to go home and tell his wife all about It. "And tomorrow morning," said Mr. Morgan, "see me again." The clerk obeyed, and Mr. Morgan, to the young fellow's amazement, handed him in bills the full amount of his peculation ? $5,400 ? with: "Put that back where you took the other from. It Is a loan from me. and I expect you to return it as soon as you can. None of the othe^ clerks know anything about It. Let me see If you ean't be a man." After many months the youngster i restored to Mr. Morgan the last dollar j of the debt. After counting the pile of bills on his de?k, to which he had added those Just given him. Mr. Morgan observed: "Well, my boy. It was a bit harder saving It than losing It Til warrant. Now take It home and give it to yoor wife. It's a safe bet that she saved most of It."?Boston Post. One Car to 24 Persons. There Is a motor vehicle In the United States for every 24 persons; In Canada the proportion Is probably one to each 50; In England, one to 200; In Denmark, one to 300, and In France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Germany abont one to every 400, says the Compressed Air Magazine, New York. In 1917 It was estimated that Italy had one car to each 1.000 of population; Portugal to each 1,690, Spain to each 1,900, AustriaHungary. to each 2,660, and Russia to each 6,000. In Australia there waa one for each 140 of population, and la South America, as a whole, one for each 1.430. Many a minor city in the United States has more cars than the whole Cliirn or J Jinan. Famous Art Collection. The unique collection of Chinese works of art made by the late LI Han; Chang, one-time viceroy of China, which for years collectors tried vainly to acquire, has finally been bought by a Swedish syndicate. The purchase price Is understood to have been more than a million krone (nominally about $280,OiO). but the Intrinsic value of the collection Is Incalculable. LI Hung Chans died In 1901. He had a collection of works of art larger than anything of Its kind in the empire. It Included numerous old paintings, bronzes of great worth and ancient ceramics. The bronze* date from a time before Christ, and the paintings were done from the tenth to the twelfth centuries. Radium Economy. The use of radium on a large scale ? - s therapeutically Involves danger 01 loss, and this factor has been a big me In Inducing hospitals and clinics with a gram or more of the element in use to utilize radium emanation instead of applicators containing the radlnm Itself. There has been installed In a Pittsburgh laboratory an elegant and usefnl apparatus for the collection, purification and tubing of radium emanation obtained from a rait of the element. It differs from earlier apparatus In that Uquld air Is replaced by chemical means of puri"ytns the emanations, which are felt to be more reliable.?Scientific American. Omar Waa Right Wast* not your hour?especially when any employer will glee yoa a dollar for It EASY TO RAISE BANDIT ARMY Manuel Loyado Made Hunger Hla Chief Recruiting Sergeant and Thereby Roe# to Power. Manuel Lozado, the Mexican bandit f wheae remain* now lie In the cemetery near Teplc. In the newly made state of Nayarlt, fare the key to the whole Mexican problem by hi* strategy In or- , gunlzlng armies, declares Charles Johnston, In The Atlantic. Lozado was notable because he waged war against three president*, Benito Juarez. Lerdo de Tejada and Porflrlo Diaz, and because he raised and equipped armies of peon* strong enough to attack great cltle* like Teplc i and Guadalajara, In a struggle lasting from 1870 to 18T7. It was Lozado's diatom, when a new campaign against the central authorities was In contemplation, to send his bodyguard down from their lairs In the high Sierras to the fertile plains, with orders to cut down all banana plants, I thus destroying the chief food supply I of the native villages. The peons starved for a while, and watched their women and children ' starve, then they came up the moun- ; tains In a body and begged Lozado to j enroll them In his army of bandits to : lead them forth to plunder, which for them meant simply food. This gives a clew to the situation, j declares Mr. Johnston, because it j shows that banditry and plunder are ; the last resource* of hungry peons. ; pressed beyond the verge when their j meager sustenance Is cut off. MARKS RICHELIEU'S TRIUMPH Why Eleventh Day of November Is Known In French History as the "Day of Dupes." Few people know that the whimsical r\?? rWwAe'i K.O Knnn UUr, ? nr i/?,i *?t uu^ i ao l/vvu flven to the 11th of November, 1630. and that it was so named on the occasion of the triumph of Cardinal Richelieu over his enemies, who imagined they had cast him to the ground, never to ri?e again. Marie de Medici had prevailed upon her weakling son, Louis XIII, to dismiss him from office as prime minister, and this scheming woman had no difficulty In persuading the fickle and weak-minded king to carry out her wishes, and, furthermore, to raise to that dignity Richelieu's mortal enemy, i the Marshal De Merillac. Richelieu was prevailed upon by his friends to make one last effort to prevent the ruin which seemed ready to fall on him. With this view he proceeded to Versailles, then only a small 1 hunting lodge recently purchased by ! Louis, where he had an Interview with j hlsMSOvereign. K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K^-B-K-K-K-K S Thrifty Womt t9 to Bu S Because 4? Because ' ? | ^ 1 Wirthmoi I Welwortl A Represent 1 | Waist Vah % | It is a Source of di | sell Blouses of this high < ? modest price. ? | Right as to Style, II 33 Ridlii ac tn Fit thpv wnnl ^ lU^UI UW IV M m%y vv X | Suppose you come ? Blouses tomorrow. | I Kingstrei ; jjjj Main Street, y " The rejfuTT"was that the king again surrendered himself Into the cardinal's hands, and Richelieu succeeded In binding the chains on i/ouls more I flrtnly than ever, establishing himself j with a sway which was absolute. He did not fail to take vengeance on his ( enemies, and among others the Marshal De Merrlllae was brought to the scaffold. i Football Language In Britain. However the ordinnry Journalist may j ??i4i hla rwn the rtMCrlntlve ' iin > u iv vuiu u*? |'v >, m>v ... ? reporter of football can still give rein to his fancy and his rhetoric with little fear of the sob-editorial blue pencil. To him a match Is usually a "toar- ! ney," and the ball lends Itself to such I varied description as "the leather," "the oval," "the globe." or even the "bounding sphere." If the players hail from Sheffield they are "knlfegrinders;" from Northampton, "cobblers;" from Luton, "strawhatters;" from Reading, "blsculrers;" from Devonshire, "older drinkers." and from West Ham. "hammers." The swift runner la "twlnklefooted," or has "brilliant hoofs." If a player Is skillful In head play, he "uses the cranium with brilliant affect," or does "food brain-box work." If the ball hits a man on the noee, he "receives a smacker from the spheroid on hla probosde." Brother Dutton'a Nobis Work. The American secretary for the Mission to Lepers estimates that there are not fewer than 2,000,000 lepers In the world, 6,000 of whom have been converted to Christianity. Apropos of this, the Hawaiian legislature has offered to pension Brother Joseph Dutton, who succeeded Father Damlen at the leper settlement on Molokal. Brother Dutton has not been off the leper Island for 33 years, and has spent I $10,000 of hi? own money to relieve j the poor creatures among whom he ] lives. But he refused the pension, wishing no reward and expecting to work on to the end In the cause to Which he long ago devoted his Ufe. The world has heroes of whom It rarely hears; and It cannot be otherwise than that such self-sacrlflce must win a higher reward than governments or the plaudits of peoples can confer. Jewelry Awaiting Purchaser* note of Interest from London concerns a pearl necklace, valued at $L900,000, which Is In London awaiting sale. It is probable that the necklace will be offered by public auction. The pearls are remarkable not only for their size, but for their delicate tinting. There Is at the present time much vary valuable Jewelry In process of realization on hehntf of Kusslan and other owners, who have no option but to convorr it mm rttna. ;n the Nation over lying of Cotton W: i they are econ s they are pra i r vv aisis < i Blouses < the very maximum i jes?The all season: eep satisfaction to this store :haracter and complete dei light as to Quality, Right as d well warrant a considerabl in and get acquainted wit! e Dry Go FINE "GRIDIRON" AT COBLENZ American Soldier* Stationed There Have Facllltiee for Almost Every Kind of 8port. Elaborate preparation* were made at Coblenz, Germany, for the football seaton. Grounds and stadiums which were only partly finished a year ngo hare been made permanent playing fields, and many of them compare favorably with the heat college gridirons In the United States. The most elaborately finished ground Is In Coblenz, known as "Carnival Island." It was on Mils ground that the AhumnlitnoMnQ tTOm flft. <LUilU ill in vuauipiwuoiii^o n v* w ? ? dded last season. hut the ground at that time was not In as good condition as It la today. Neither were there proper fucllltlea, such as dresetng rooms. At this Island there are now two regnlar baseball fields, two football fields, golf course of nine holes, a polo ground. a quarter-mile cinder track, with 21*0 yard straightaway, and oatdoor basketball courts. On another part Is a ring for horse shows and nine tennis courts. Suitable bleachers to accommodate 5,000 spectators have been built and there also are a large number of properly equipped dressing rooms with showers, rubbing tables and store rooms. Not only at Coblenz are there grounds available for the soldiers, but at Andernacfa, Morrtabaur, and Nenwled the old grounds left by the A. E. F. have been taken over by the Y. M. C. A. and enlarged and remade In every particular. noADiDi v TumiftUT A I nT rnVDRDL I IIIVUMUl n But Really, Under the Circumstances, There Was Nothing the Actor. Manager Could Say. The late Oscar Hammerstein, who had a genius for advertising his theatrical enterprises, used to tell a story about an English actor-manager's attempt to follow his example. "My conferee." Mr. Hammerstein would say, "was having a new theater bnllt in London. Casting about for pome good way to advertise It, he decided that an admirable scheme would be to have the workmen while excavating for the foundation come across Roman antiquities. So he stole down to the operation at dead of night and deposited a number of costly, gen nine Roman antiquities just below the surface of the spot being excavated. "The next morning he arrived In haste to hear the news of the great find and report It to the journals. Seeing that the men had already dag well below his hidden treasure, he said: ^TJood moraine, foreman. Any-' S are reverting $ aists 'i. iomical ? ictical i ? n i nmoN pi at $1.50 1 at $2.50 1 ii Cottton F? s Waists. S . L _ .LI. A? _A!I1 B to oe awe 10 suu tfc sirability at this very $ ? ? to Workmanship, and j? y higher price. $ ? i these pretty Cotton ? i ods Co., I Kingstree, S. C. gj '-(-W+!+!+5+!+}+!+!+t+!+M thlnjT"lnVere3Tng this morning?" " 'No. sir, not a thing, air.' the foreman answered. "The actor-manager looked at the bulging pockets of the workmen and j said nothing. What could he aayl" Scaw Fell Pike. Scnw Fell Pike, Cumberland'e \ mountain summit, is to be the prop- J erty of Englishmen In perpetuity. The highest hill of England is the Tory ' noble gift made by Lord Leconflefd 1 to the men of Cumbria who fought In ! the war. and as a token of gratitude ' to those who gave their lives for die 1 cause of the world's liberty. Truly 1 a gift in the spirit of Raskin and one ' which causes the Manchester Guard- ! lan to utter deepest appreciation?e 1 gift, It says, through which "even we common people may get a momentary entry into the ecstasies of the poets and aee the earth and everything In It mystically appareled with 'the glory and the freshness of a dream.'" Scaw Fell Pike has the venerable distinction of being among the most andent mountains of Europe, ontdlstandng the Alps In point of years. Shifting Misery. C. Wlnslow, a Terra Haute buslneee man. recently went back to hie home town for a visit. While there he met an elderly village character In the street. The man was bent and complaining. "Why, how are yon?" began Mr. Wlnslow. genially. "Not very well, fact rm pretty poorly," whined the man. 'Ton see I hare the most terrible misery here," and he indicated his stomach. "But I thought It was In your neck when I was home last," Mr. Wlnslow commented. "Yes, It was there then," the man ' agreed, "bat you see since then I swallowed that misery and lfa been In my stomach ever since." Boom In Lobsters. Very extensive lobster catches are reported off the eastern coast of Oanada. Recently the boats were taking j these faster than the factories could j pack them. The catch was divided , over the various canning factories. One 1 *? i? ? ? MAII trnsnm gns# DOftt, IKIOUglUK IU ? BW4UVWU uwtt | took as many as 4,400 fish. A resident , of Escumlnac reports that he pat 9,000 live lobsters, which he was an- , able to peck at the time, Into a boat ( which he had transformed Into a cage* | and sunk It In order to keep the flsh alive until such time as he could use ( them. 1 Try OneB Then I | The best way to know for y ' Brunswick Tire is to buy one ai That is, if the very name of B to you, as it is to most men, that Thousands of men who have I for years, realize that a Brunsw for a mediocre product could nev Long before the Overland Tn of Brunswick was established, of rubber for fifty years before a No concern with such a histc UttA l?Ar rnnnfot uuiig uui uic L^au *'w> be quickly destroyed. This is a practical guarantee more than the usual, yet at no a Get your first one now. Yot fegve ALL B runs wicks. THE BRUNSWICK-BALI Atlanta Headquarte There's a Brunsw Cord? KINGSTREE HARD Kingstree, - - BROKE ALL MULISH RECORDS If Animal Committed 8tiicide He Is the First of Hie Tribe Thus t< 8huff!j Off. We are not prepared to ircepi Dot mental reservation the etorj fro? Brooklyn, that a mule, perhaps an exservice male, committed suicide bf plunging through the plnte-glass front of an undertaker's office, after imbibing freely of 2.75 per cent beer. We know the male; have known him from ' ?n early age. and we know the ded- . mal stuff that passes for beer. That la to say, we hare heard about It. No 'elf-respecting mule?particularly If he rame from Missouri?would drink 2.75 In the first place, and in the second place. If he did drink It It would not go to his head. It might go to his legs. Pis hindlegs. which are naturally of a nervous temperament, and likely to reach out at any time. We can imagine no hotter way to put a "kick" Ic the hrew than by first putting the brew In a mule. The average mule is looking for an excuse for kicking, anyway. Feed him up on the beer of commerce and leave the rest to his natural predisposition. He will register disgust in the obvious way. And then again males never commit suldde. We have hf&rd of men committing suicide by twisting tho mulsfc tail, but the hybrid himself is modi In love with life. There's even a rumor In the South and Southwest that males a$ver die; that, barring accidental dlsjolutlon, they live forever. Be that as it may, we do not recall that we ef%r aw a mule suffering from ago, or 1 that was feeble In bis right hind Aon. \ ?New York Morning Telegraph. i Didn't Work Out Right A languid swell was visiting a charming young society lady, and as they sat on either side of the Art his heart was full of the burning d^fct to say something not only complimentary, but brilliantly flattering: So, after revolving the matter In his mind, he said: "Ah, MIsb Llllle, why art \<i those fire-tongs so like mef He meant her to guees, or ask hint to tell her, "because they were prostrate it her feet," or something of that kind. Miss Llllle, looking solemnly demare,- I aid she didn't know, nnleee It was bora use they had two thin legs and a brass heed. Ha was groping blindly for the front ioor before she had recovered firm the shock of her own voMav. . I Irunswick )ecide 4 1 a ourself the superiority of the V id compare it runswick isn't sufficient proof t here is an extraordinary tire. . mown the name of Brunswick 1 ick Tire has to be the best?i er bear this historic name. lil became famous, the House It was one of the chief users utomobiles came into use. >ry could afford to offer aayions are built slowly, but can i that Brunswick Tires offer dded cost ill not be satisfied uodl yon U^ULLLTiULK LU. rs: 38 Luckie St. i Tire for Every Car - Solid Track WARE COMPANY South Carolina. A