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RTMay Truthfully Be Said That No Two Animals or^ Birds Walk . Exactly Alike., 55 e horse strikes his ga!t with a cta&fu]* steady and strong step; the ms? Is uncertain in its moving, lolling an* lagging- in its gait. "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea." The ass trudges, and keeps a dull eye on the <?ar_th as it Journeys along. The sheep trots, and bleats as it passes, wail*> the goat springs aloft almost heedless of its footing. The gait of birds on the level varies a great deal. Tiber e is a sort of majescie carriage in .the rook, stepping over a crumbling furrow. The red-footed pigeon trips it daintily; the heron stands, as if to thai, andL moves with stateimess with in rts narrow bounds. The dog casts a careless foot scattering dust or nmd without thought; while the cat ad-j t?bc<??: a dainty p?w, as if distrustful I of the ground. The hen scratches, and pauses to look rotfnd, as if bewildered; while the peacock lifts its foot with seeming pride, and as if the earth were honored by its moving upon it at all The pig takes ground anyhow, . and without heeding, turning about, ^careless whether right or wrong. The little mouse, scurries across the com ,moh path with something of the pas sivity of a blown leaf; while the rat assumes the ground to be its own pos session, and prowls about with. con.fi-. dsej?ce afid unconcern. Of all animals j the h&~e bounds .upon the earth as j ^npon ife heritage, and breasts it the 'whole day long. As. Wordsworth not e?i ?& hare "runs races in its mirth." j LAMB THAT GREW. ON TREE] According to th? Talmud, Remarkable | Plant Furn&hed Food for Our j Very Remote Ancestors. How .often is* the wish/ expressed j that money grew on trees?- Why not I k.^pish for lamb to grow that way, for j ^according, to the Latin translation' of ! ..Cthe Talmud of Jerusalem, that ancient | book of law and customs, wonderfully tender and eatable lamhs did grow on ? trees. This work, remarks a writer in the New York Evening Sun,: tells of. a *r^ant called the jeduah, which was formed like a lamb. From a bunch of ^rather coarse, thick leaves there is -sned steam on which the zoophyte .grew-, so the story <zoes. In every re spect it was formed like an animal suspended on a stalk within the radius: of which: Jt grazed. It devoured all i the herbage which It was able to reach r within the - drcle of its Aether, and then unless, some overventnrous ani mal came, near enough for it to snatch the l*imh would die of starvation. Our remote ancestors^hunted the lamh at great risk, f or historians tell as that the Iamb had not earned its ?putatf?n:for gentleness rhen.\ tft was extremely ferocious, especially \if it ' ~-ha^-extonsted its provender. The only way. to overcome It was to cut the stem by well-aimed darts or arrows sent from a safe distance. Once the stem was severed the animal fell to the earth soon to die, and- the suc cessful- hunter could safely come forth to carry, bis game back to his cave home. Slaves hi- 1756. Slavery existed in nearly all of the English colonies from an early period ?shortTy before or soon, after the utionary war, and the African trade was openly tolerated by the British government. In 1756 there were 292,000 "slaves in the colonies, scattered from New England to Geor gia. Slavery was not prohibited! in Massachusetts nnt? 1780, nor in Ver mont until IT77.\ Tbk United States census of 1810 showed 310 slaves in Connecticut, 10,S51 in New Jersey, 15.017 in New York, 795 in Pennsyl vania and' 10S in Khode Island. Slavery was gradually abolished in the northern states, but In 1820 there were still 97 slaves in Connecticut, 7,557 In New Jersey, 10,808 in New York, 211 in Pennsylvania and 48 in Rhode Island. The census of 1850 showed the disappearance of slavery in all j the northern states except in New Jer- ; sey, which still had 236.?-Indianapolis j Newk. "The Father of Jests." **fhe Father of Jests" is Joseph Miller, an English comedian, who was born in 1684 and died at London in 1738. The collection of jests known as "Joe Miller's Jests" appeared orig inally in 1739 as "Joe Miller's Jest Book, Or the Wit's Vade Mecum,etc." It was made by John Mottley and re ceived its name unwarrantably from Joseph Miller. It was popularly said that Joe Miller never made up a joke In his life and could neither read nor write. Most stale jests are now known as & "Joe Miller" from the fact that it Is supposed to have at some v-tLine emanated from this source. Immense Rubles. An immense ruby, weighing 400 carats, is reported to have been found in Burmah, but it was broken into three pieces, and the report is that One of them was sold uncut in Calcut ta lor $233,333. A fine ruby, known a* "Groga .Bok," or the Dragon Lord, weighed 45 carats In the rough, 22 carats jafter the cutting process, and was said to be the finest o% its size ever seen. In 1887 a stone of 49 carats was found and in 1890 one of ?04 carats, according to Bauer, who treats the discovery of the 400-carat stone previously mentioned as simply an 'unverified report?Philadelphia Ledger. # MANY ROADS TO KNOWLSOSE For Instance, Impudent fake Resulted in OpeaJng Up the Field of Electro-Therapy. Along the road that leads to knowl edge are scattered man? fake-shops, which as a role do a flourishing and profitable business. For. the,. chief weakness of the human mind, is credu lity. But by curious paradox, the foolish ness factories every now and then produce something that proves of sub stantial' usefulness to science. For example, in New England many years ago a man named Perkins in vented, what he? called a ^magnetic tractor," for drawing diseases; out of folk. It was shaped like a. pair of compasses, with one leg" of silver and the other of copper. When the two poinis we:e passed over the afflicted part of the body the Instrument was supposed by some electrical means;to alleviate or care the trouble. The . ?^tractors" .undoubtedly did benefit mapy people; also Perkins, who sold them for $5 apiece. They made such a sensation that scientists took the matter up, investigating it thoroaghly and proving that imagina tion did the work. Blindfolded i per sons were relieved of pain by the con tact of a couple of pointed sticks of wood, whieh they mistook for the in strument in question. The whole, business was plain fool ishness. Nevertheless, the mterejrt: it awakeifed led to the. first opening up of the field of electro-therapy, discov eries of which have proved of such immense importance to nae^dical sci ence. WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME Peter Heulein, Who Made the J^raf Watch, Accused of Witchcraft and. Thrown Into Prison. There is in existence today a letter dated April 22; 1527, from Martin* Lu ther to Father Frederick PUftorius, the last abbot of St Aegidnis in Nu remberg, in which he thanks the ab bot for the gift of a watch/and adds-: "I feel compelled to become a pupil of pur inathematicians in order to un derstand this .unique timekeeper." Never before had he seen such, an ob ject As he wa? familiar with clocks, what 'tie meant, evidently, was that the-time indicators on the clock were differeiit from those on the watch which had been given to him. It is quite probable he-had in his posses sion the first watch made by Peter HenJehv or at least one of his finst opes. This Peter Henlein was a black smith s.nd locksmith and devoted, his time to mathematics and watchmak ing, for which he was thrown into ] prison charged with witchcraft which was then one of the ea^y ways of dis posing of a rival or of a person who ^did things out of the ordinary. But Peter persevered, and the name of Hetf ein and Nur em burg is preserved I by a monument in his native town. | New Beils Made Like Old. We have often heard of- the beauti ful silver tone of very old church bells in Europe and some have even been bought at a great price and brought to jbneriea. It was supposed that after a bell had rung regularly for one or two centuries some mysterious, quali ty was developed, and. the beautiful tone could be acquired In no other way. An ingenious American studied the problem, however, and decided that the silver tone was simply due. to the fact that the clapper of the bell had worn itself and the bell by continued striking, until the two fit closely together and that the shape of the metal and nothing else determined the tone. He began to make bells by casting them so that, the clapper and the bell fit each other properly, and the mellow silver tone was obtained at once. Today we are manufacturing such bells and selling them abroad.? Boys' xLife. Worry Really Wicked. ! Worry is really an evidence of lack of self-confidence and of faith In the power that runs the universe. It is a lack of faith in the power that pro vided yolf do your part, will always bring things out better than you possi bly could by yourself alone. Why should you worry, why should you fear. xny should you be anxious, when God's vision and omnipotence are al ways ready to guide and serve you? There never has been an instant in your life, my friend, which you could have safeguarded or provided for with a thousandth part of the wisdom with which God has guarded and provided for it It is really a reflection upon him to be anxious about the future, to dread poverty and sickness, to warry about your business, to fear failure in 'your undertaking.?Orison Swett Harden in Chicago News. Fierce Apparitions. In the West Indies a sight of the "rolling calf presages death or ter rible misfortunes. The negroes are 'dreadfully afraid of possible encoun ter with it at night. It is white, of enormous size and with eyes that blaze like hot coals. William Thorp, a learned student of such manifestations, writes of a phantom shark that haunts the waters about Nassau, in the Bahamas, where it Is known as the "harbor master." It shines with a weird phosphorescent glow even in the daytime, and though hooked on many occasions and pulled in, it Inv?i,'Iably vanishes from view at the last moment?simply melting into nothingness. si--?-.*?.'; Public Weifte j(The Purpose of the Movement io Organize South Caroliaa Development Board \ What is this South Carolina Devel opment Board that is getting a ineas ure of publicity this1 week? The answer is that it is an associa tion of South Carolina citizens who jare working without profit to them selves to help make. South Carolina! greater along several different lines, j Some of the men who are members' of this board are: Governor Cooper. Ex-Governor Manning, George B. Cromer of Xewberry, Senator Neils Christenson of Beau fort. Bright Williamson of Darlington, Horace Tilghman of Marion, J. Roes Hanahan of Charleston, L. 3>. Jennings of Sumterv . J. Skottowe Wannamaker of the Coil'-n Association. ? - ? . \ There ?re a great m?ny others; these few are mentioned' to show the type of men who are with thiS: movemeht for the general betterment of the population of the State. The South Carolina- Development Board has many ends in view; one is the betterment of marketing condi [ tions. . No one questions what it I would-.mean'for this country if corn for potatoes, or spinach, or 'any Other [product could, be marketed in this* icounty just as easily as cotton could. For instance, a few 'days- ago ja. Sivni ter county man was at a railroad feta tion in one of the low country coun-' I tics and saw farmers driving to the j station with loads of potatoes t and [receiving $9 a barrel for them, cash. I He thought that pretty good until he j learned' that these potatoes had hot i been graded by the sei el rs; that.pota toes were "bringing 3 prices, according [ to grade, $5> per. barrel. ?;2^.50 per bar r rel and ? 12 per barrel. Eyery' farmer j in that .community w?s ^losing f^rom ;41.5.6 to $3 per barret because .his marketing process was i&ulty. The Development boafo will estab lish markets. The hoard cannot work without means nor without men. It'wants business men and it wants farmers especially for memberss for the next three years. A member ship costs $10 a year. Elections in Mexico New President Will Be Chosen September 5th ? ^ > Mexico City, June 23.?Official call for the national elections- fixes the date for congressional elections "for August first, th/i pew president will be chosen on September 5th. Mexico City, June 23.?Francisco Villa and Felix Diaz are virtually the orky notable exceptions to the. list of former rebel leaders who have espous ed the' latest liberal revolutionary fcause. . . - ? ? Guillermo Meixueiro, the Oaxoca leader, was m possession of the capital for a time '? after President Carranza and his" followers evacuated the; capital, in accord, with the new, move ment. Manuel Pelaez, the oil dis trict chief, entered Tampico, was feasted and toasted and interviewed to the effect that he was not a/perpe tual revolutionist and saw in the liberal revolutionary, movement ; a. united country. He said the CediHo brothers and other former rebels in the Tampico district were with him. Higinio Ag?ilar, Pedro Gabay and {others between Mexiico City and Vera j Cruz, helped impede the advance of [ the Carranza trains but while they are supposed to be under the leader ship of Felix Diaz, his name has hot been mentioned in connection with the operations. - ' The successors of. Emiliano Zapata in Morelos, Genevevo de la ? and Valentin Reyes came into the capital with General Obregon. It is stated that, on the isthmus south of Vera Cruz, trains are operating without guards for the first time in years. Major E. W. Burr, attached to the American embassy^ had the pleasure of meeting in the capital after the revolutionists entered the city. .Gene ral Rafael Pimienta, the former Zapa ta leader who captured him, together with several other Americans, on the train leaving Cuernavaca, Morelos. for Mexico Cityf/on March 28. By feigning lameness. Major Burr mana ged to drop behind his guards, and then made a successful dash for liberty. Both he and the other members of his party, praised Pimienia s eourn-sy when they reached the capital. Pimienta, slight and Dovish for all his six years of guerilla life, now commands J.500 former Zapata ad herents at Xochimilco, a suburb. He is conceded to bo the brains of the army from Morelos and the 1*;ij1 confidence not c?.ly of Genevevo do * x ?? tin* vh,"i*nfcm Reyes, bu: ??t Gt-m OUr'vt c:i \ Wage Decision Wanted President Wilson Sends tirgent Message {o Railroad Lahor Board Washington. June 23.?President j Wilson sent a message today to the I Railroad Labor Board at Chicago i urging that it make an immediate ? award in the wage controversy. Th < i text of the note was no* made public. Note to Germany Council of Ambassadors Sends Decision on Disarmament Paris, June 23.?The Note to Ger many regarding disarmament, pre pared by the Council of Ambassadors was handed to the' German Peace Delegation today. ?56 & (inference ?S lie Development Board in Cofambia This Week WHl Study Best pW of Marketing Columbia, June 23?Losing no time in its determination to get to work, development of the plan for the es tablishment of a series of home -cash markets will be taken up this week by the South Carolina Development Board, simultaneously with is expan sion campaign, according to an nouncement made this afternoon. Advantage will be taken of th,e quar terly meeting of the officers and man agers of the various development boards of the Southeastern states inY Columbia on June 24, 25 and' 25 to1 begin a study of the best plan of mar keting to meet South Carohna condi tions with a~ view to the perfection of the plan and the setting of it in ope ration at once. It is the belief of the officers of the organization that sev eral of the'home cash markets will be in working order by the time the fall crops begin to come in. : The conference of the development ? board men will opeh on Thursday and continue through Saturday. afternoon Those who will attend are: W. A. McGirth, general manager of the North Carolina Landowners Associa tion, ^Vilmrngton, F. H. Abbott, Secretary of the Georgia Associa tion. Wayeross; A. A. Cowlt, secretary of the Florida Development. Board. Jacksonville; H. H.^ Richardson, man ager of ,the Mississippi Development Board, Hattiesburg; A. G. T. Moore, director of the development work 'in Alabama, Mississippi,.. Arkansas and Louisiana, headquarters in New Or leans; Clement S. Ucker, executive vice president ofthe Southern i Settlement and Development'Organization, Balti more'; H. C. Hallanv director of na tional publicity, Washington*, " and Niels Christensen, president, and George R. Wheeler, manager of the South Carolina DeyeJopnseht Board. There will also be present the memi bers of the. executive committee of. the Southern Settlement and1 De7 velopment Organization, who are: S^4 Dayjes WarfJeicL chairman.; F. L. Firikestaedt of Bolto?, N. C... Alex K. ) Sessions of ' C?gdell, Gal, Jules Bur Igumres of West Palm Be?ch/ Fla., j and Mr. Ucker, Mr. Christehsen and I Mr. Moore. i Discussion of various matters af fecting the States- represented will occupy the sessions on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday there will be an exhibition of motion pictures;showing what: Has been done in the. develop ment of agricultural,. industrial" and natural resources of Georgia. These pictures were, made under the direc tion of F. H. Abbott/secretary of the Georgia Association, and he will be in charge of the exhibition. H. H. Rich ardson, of Hattiesburg, Miss., will also show a number of stereoptic?n slides depicting the development of the resources of the ,SOuth Atlantic and Gulf Coast States. ? In the afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the sun parlor of the Colonia hotel there' will be a session on^murketa .Sena tor Christensen will preside. One qf the speakers at this, meeting will he Walter G. Braden of .Pontiac. Mich., founder of the string. of so-called community markets now in opera tion in Minnesota and Michigan. Mr. Braden in accepting the invitation to the South Carolina Development Board to come to South Carolina to talk about markets, made- it clear- that J he could not bring here a.complete operating plan for the home Cash ' markets which it is- proposed to es tablish, but that he would he glad to teil how he has helped the farmers of the north, to find a ready cash market for everything they produce and at better prices than that for merly received.. Mr. Braden is an exponent of the theory that the only question to be answered' in attacking the problem of increased ferm production is that of finding a ready market at fair prices for the thing* the farmer is ex pected to produce. "Just show the faiiuer where he can selLhis stuff, at a profitable price, and he will do the rest," says Braden with emphasis. This is what Braden has done and is. .doing jn. the .North._His. story of how he does it should be intensely inter esting to South Carolina! producers. Improvement in? Strike Situation Pennsylvania and Reading Rail roads-Say Conditions Are Better ? * Philadelphia Penn, June 23.? j Improvement in the yard men's strike situation is. reported by the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroads. New Cabinet E?r Germany -: - - k. r v Men Found to Accept Position] in New Ministry ? t .' '?:-rr.??? ' London, June 23.?Th4 formation j of a New German Cabinet is repor ted in a Berlin dispatch today, j Messages were received saying that men had been found for several posts in the Ministry., . Notice to Boy Scouts. The organization of the! new troop of Boy Scouts is getting along nicely. The boys who are going into this jnew troop are showing a great deal j of interest, and - say that the old troop will have to hustle when the new troop is completely organized. A meeting of the new troop is called for Friday afternoon at five o'clock at the office of Shepard K. Nash, the new troop Scout Master. Any boy between the ages of 12 and 18 is asked to be present at this meeting, if they desire to try for the new \\ troop. m - EL C. .Stokes, fojrjner.. governor of I N'ew Jersey^ Who Is now president of | :he Mechanics /'^aii?fcar'"** Bank", df*i Ecentcny N,. a me^ser of .the Fear]-! ?ral Reserve-System^ta the ' following;letter , to the United & Globe ! Rabber company of Trental^ N." J.v:aS$) te his views on the autornnoile^indus- 1 try. ? - ? ? . 1 ; "As. a banker, interested -,-iri. ? prosperity of the. country: and the nec- | sssary maintenance, and development J [>f an industry that furnishes employ- i; tneiit and wages and' thus promotes j! the general welfare of. the masses, I fl beg leave tp call your attention to ! the reported action of some of the_1 Federal Reserve Banks ? in classing ' lutomob?es as non-essentials in the extension of credit. .... ^ "It might-be well to call the atteh- ' tion of the. banking fraternity, to the ? Importance of "the automobile, not only ! as a factor in the necessary transport? tatipn. facilities of the country but as a^ contributor to one of the largest of -our industries and a promoter of the happiness arid morals of our people*. ' "'It is a mooted .question- whether the automobile industry stands second or third in the country.' If all the j parts in connection therewith are ih-j eluded, it ranks second. What indivtd-f ual banker, has a right to say there-r fore. That an industry which by the! common judgment of the people off this country, has attained. such pro- ? portions in our industrial liife, is aj non-essential ? .Bur ke - said, you can- j not indict a. whole people. No bank ing fraternity or government has a j right to sa'y an industry of such size! as the automobile, industry, based, up-, on the need3- and* requirements of the public, is. unnecessary and tWrefote unworthy of credit. , "The automobile is of immense value to the nation as a promoter of the spirit: of contentment and as ah ettectiye suppressor of the spirit of. unrest.f No owner ojC an automobile even though it be a pleasure, car, who is able tc enjoy its use^-for his^'fapiUy or his friends, is likely to become; a Bolshevist or a Communiat. He favors the continuation of things as they are because he has a means of h?ppinesg in his own possession'and therefore is against any upheaval of the present social order.* . "Next io the church, there is no factor in, American life that does so much for the morals of the- pubile as does the automobile. Formerly^ the pleasures" of life, divided the family. The father had one avenue of recrea tion, the mother another, ~the''child ren another. Today our roadsides apre crowde*d with family Ricnie parties, who ear.w their Hunches with them apd. who take their outing as a unit. Any device that brings the family to gether as a unit, in "their pursuit of pleasure, is a promoter of good mor als, and yields a beneficent influence that makes for the good of American civilization. If every family in the land pas sessed ah automobile, family ties would be closer and many of the problems of-social unrest would .be happily sojVVd. The banicer ^ho says that a device of this kind is a non- j essential possesses' a narrow, vision and faiis to see'the far-reaching influ ence it.has for good. The-automobile] is one of the; country's best minfeters-j and best preachers." V "' ' WINTHROP SUMMER SCHOOL tiargest Enrollment In Eleven Years Experience. ? . . . Rock Hilh June 22. Winthrop College has. closed the first week of the largest and most satisfactory Summer School in its experience of eleven years. Including the women from rural communities and the girls of the Home Demonstration Clubs,] who attended courses from June 4 to il, the enrollment of the summer, has passed the eleven hundred mark. President- Johnson has found it neees iSar^y to open the fourth Dormitory to take care of the'teachers who have come in. A great deal of interest is being shown in the Social Service Courses conducted by Miss Marjorie Potwine, Director of Community work , in thref schools'. ? -Oh Monday. mofhMg* graduate of Whitbrop.. e^lfeg^jSja^- z ?. pi&stog.-- s^^.iasii^ moths,and b$ter^je*. iUu?j^^'h^^ talk with' mounted^^spMimc^^Tro^^ this country :a^^?i^^'1^^'17->--, ; ' The short course, for,Chok^ t?ps?^ir ^ which takes place July C t?i^^??t sents one of.. thVraosV attract. p;rti? * grains ever offered to ?r?:-ei?jtr?f ^: of the ?' State. Reojiests - for ^ rofl^^ reservation ..have-; heen. coyiE^z ..m^iaty; several weeks, - and. ?* \fin& .V&^fc*^ ahce is:expected, f-' r" ?9h ' ?fe ScaTbojro?gh hereby>| nouncc-s- ftim^e^f r a candw3^ eJecti-^j^t^ q& of Cl for the. ehstt^^^esm,.su^l^-to: Democr^^c.'p^^w:7^; I a*inoo^e^^rs?^a*^^ rerS|eetion as;^rcs^re* > -ofe Comingrhelf^^: j^.yyttt&^h than tT^en-ty^y^fiLr^^f ?tiu: accounting^ didate for ?rer,- a)f &' 1^ pr# j?^V?vjaity ? ? 0 port and to - abide; the .ruie^.' gov~v Urning the j^^i&'itiSSf2' ftcient serv^vif-'je^ielftr:' Present. |ncu?be^| 3rd District ? ? .'.rv * :*\a5? -r.;,'-"1. -l-J - Having served the-^bunty ty Sherifit und^ ji^^e Sfr ford, and 4^Mn^tp hair? Inspected * with. at ?vievr^o t hereby -;?n?o^:ee^^^ daia for the? e^oJbf She; ter Couhty,;sp^erc^-'to'.,Ui^' [ Democratic Prfm?ry. I hereby, announce myself,, as a can didate for the office"' of SHirfjfe ;iSd6^ : ject to the ruW:bf thW '-Hfeliititfft^ party. ' JOfiX R? SB%TBB, I. hereby announce inyseff a rai.'di* date for the Qffifc> of Sheriff m the ?p^. proaohing yPrinVa^y .. fleets^ ti&, D.enipcratio party in /Surhter subject to ~the ? rules" governing su5ts? election's. v ; r <:V^ SOmter, May. 4thy 1*20. - T announce myself a cairdidate totr* the office of Sheriff of Sum ter Ccmut^i subject to the rules of the Democratic party. SAM Statemen Prefis and Public-are try ing to. soiy*; thi? problem,' bt?t'. ap^ parently without: success, ' thfe can't agree ?s to? the cause. ' ?ft seeriis to'.'ug, a case" of undefr p^u^tion. !#e' Jrfuat; produce more and ^oiusumai le^ so doing, wk will /br)ngj;.the pj?f*i$ee^fc to grief. This woplf-^al^^niean;-- U} surplus,' a iittie ^ett;e|gs~:wn^ will gladly, take caraof-ftjr y?u> ayfai allo^you gpdd interest^ oa, it: a ? v I The Firs t National Baak m