The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 29, 1920, Image 6
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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Sea serpents befug out of date, and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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Football Language In Britain.
However the ordinnry Journalist may j
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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.
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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
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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.
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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:
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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
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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
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That is, if the very name of B
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Thousands of men who have I
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Long before the Overland Tn
of Brunswick was established,
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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.
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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.
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utomobiles came into use.
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