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THE Average Of Life Increasing.

We Americans used to be styled a
short-lived race, and there WAS probably
reason for it, remarks q New York
paper. But we do hardly deserve the
name any longer, as any one may dis.
cover by recalling the number OF old
people he is acquainted with. and by
looking from day to day OF the death
notices in the newspapers. Our average
of life has surely increased during the
present generation, owing no doubt to
increased knowledge of and regard for
hygiene; to less anxiety of mind and
strain of nerve; to easier material con-
ditions; and better adjustment Of indi-
viduals to their surroundings. It is not
very long eince that q man or woman OF
sixty, ven of fifty, was considered old.
In the country and in small towns, peo-
pied who had turned two-score and ten
were inclined to think they had done
their work, and were prepared to with
draw from active pursuits Of every kind.
This is all changed. Persons Of fifty
and upward in good health are consider.
ed still in their prime. Hundreds Of
men of seventy or thereabout fill import
ant and responsible posts in all depart
ments of industry, and have no thought
of retiring, nor hive they any reason to
think of it. They do not look, in fact
they gre not, so old as their progenitors
were with ten or twenty years less on
their heads. They have learned how to
take care of themselves, to husband
their strength, to conserve their facul
ties. They are more in accord with deni.
zens of Europe, where men are ranked
as youths until they have passed forty.
The health of our people-noticeably
of our women-has improved greatly, as
our faces, figures, vitality, endurance,
power Of performance, abundantly tes'
tify. Take New York for example,
which, as the metropolis Of the repub.
lie, should be representative. You can.
not walk in Broadway or the 'thronged
avenues anywhere without being i'm:
pressed by the number Of white-ha:red
men and women who move with the
spring and s%uppleness Of comparative
juveniity, who are olear-eyed, smooth
proved, erect, full of hope, enterprise,
plans for the future. Who are among
our most prosperous merchants, bank
ers, politicians, authors, managers? a
limitless number of fresh and rosy vet
Grams who never suspect that they are
old, and who, therefore, are not old,
Read the obituaries of citizens, and nott
how many have lasted to rs, 80, 50, ever
80 and odd. There is no question OF it
The nation is r~ejuvenating. Years have
ceased to count against US as they have
done. While we live far more than ",
have lived hitherto, We live mucl
longer, and our average age augment
with each passing decade.
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Fish BY the Square Mile.

Some faint idea of the vast and ine1-
haustible number of fish on our shores
(says recent issue of the Hartford Enaes)
may, perhaps, be obtained by a consid-
Grafton OF the fact that yesterday, no
fewer than 5000 barrels Of porgies were
caught ofNewport. II the sea, through
the Vineyard and Long Island Sounds,
Is anywhere near as rich in porgies,
mossbunkers, and other varieties OF the
most abundant kinds of fish, what an
unimsginably teeming world OF life there
must be beneath the waves! And it is,
even more than the striving, pushing
world OF human life, q scene OF rapacity
and destruction-the stronger preying
upon the weaker and "the survival OF
the httest." Enormous as this single
days catch of porgies seems, it is sur
passed by some of the big hauls Of bony-
fish or mossbunk ers-the "white6sh"
of the evil.smelling fish oil mills on the
shore. These creatures actually swarm
in millions and are caught and hauled
in by the cargo. Schools of voracious
bluefsh pursue and drive them Tipping
and flashing to the surface, where they
are promptly pounced upon by the sail.
ing fish hawks and sea gulls that wait
for them out Of water. In the sea and
on the land the world seems to be q
scene of shark and tiger, in one OF
another form of destructive rapacity.
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A GOOD PLAN.

The best and most popular plan for operating ,1N. e s sSics
is that Of combining capital o. various sums n .nlSd
81 Brokers. So Exchange Place, New York. the profits Of
n sSs .1D ohs a5r'o Of tRnty days from date Of esrtihe.tes.
By oontro ng q large c.p,tal; the OPERATIONS eonse.
99niso,w 0s sna M msre esrtsin. For example, within a
month you made g. 900 upon an investment ct siGo. upGa
sSo:tnsnt q siSS would p. ssS g.; 1sn Ds0 nsy m sss5GS p 10 as,
mixing 5 per cent. and 50 on, aceord,Hs to ,hr market.
The FIRMS circular explains overriding: SEM LOT u:
satisfactory results arising from Investments made n
'hsss combinations by friends, led d Us I, 70 SSsos order 70 shares,
4 Co 70 EIcharg e Plsce. New Yo.k, with a request 70
invest in on OF their combinations. BY return mail
retsired this c~erufcate and had almost forgotten tho
transact n, for q few days, when unexpeeted.y . no.iee
R nth ,hf ps sSmSlea hssla IN nn,'a Z " stern At 81 and
selling ssI2sI =. ~ I; :1 ss'' p4os. q en- pt ssch 81 rC os ssi Pc. f is lie e conn.
b nation. Following thi. from time to t me until the
sspisss' ON v at shs cis a%' si"eEs' and ID at sS H. mai rssal;;
we reee. we'd tie sum total o: slsl2 Is, after d.ducsina .
g s0m nss p. OFT 1 so US SHs Of ft sci q !. '0' ooa ssHsG' lie mali
am unit invested i. proved a very sat! fac,oy .ssnsasJ
! !a2R. ns as III, Es result Saas ind nd ,u sIS ont T. BE- 50 p%"htsbls.
This new plan for p ,rl'inE stoGss Dias 'G,r o ne7
come , he, n 1s,si H.p nqI az r; 81 AMY nyt h our sms s sosra St s snd We
eheerfully ass, TT that hers is no resson " the firm Of
Lawrence Il 90. should not be rccolnm, noed oy Us "a inH
every reseect woi thy Of the utmost confidence.
They also so icit corresp ,rdsrce ! ON all parties hay
ing any kind Of bonds or stock for sale. Send for their
explanatory circular.
From Tho "Houss and Garden, !" Nay, 1878.
Our friends who desire to make money IN stocks vii
find this arm reliable and ready to afford infDrInati' q
necessary to n perfect uuderstA nding # the plan Of
their operation 10 stocks.
Ths combined plan of Lawrence 4 Co. Is first Glars
and the house is reliable and prompt.
WALTE j. MARTIN, 1A East 18th ST., N. Y.
A correspondent SAYS in writing 10 them: Your remit
lance for my profits 1893 rs, is received.
Numerous testimonials are contained in tseir circri
lar, Send for 1t.
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About Diamonds.

The diamond, 81 we all know, Is COM
posed of pure carbon crystallized, and
is the hardest substance known. Like
most other Jewels it is found generally
in granitic gneiss, and in torrents OF
rivers or in alluyial deposits that are
worked for gold. Distributed more or
less wei the whole world, it ID in tropi-
cal countries, however, that this most
priced of the FLOWERS of the mineral
kingdom " Gas gems have been called) is
principally found. Indeed, it would
seem that where the sun shines with
most splendor, where the animal and
vegetable creation put on their most
gorgeous colors, there also, in the depths
of the earth, this gem assumes it's largest
proportions, and sparkles with it's great
est brilliancy.
The diamond was long known in Asia,
in Hindostan, Borneo, Sumatra, and in
the Ural Mountains before it was dis
covered elsewhere ; the district from
Cape Comorin to the Bay Of Bengal, in
GLIDING the famous mines of Golconda,
furnishing the world until 1928, when
the mines of Brazil were discovered.
Recently the latter region has ceased to
be profitable, and many of the mines
are abandoned, and few retain their full
number of laborers. In the United
States diamonds have been discovered
in North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia,
California, but in small quantities and
of little value. In Australia they have
been met with in the valley of the
Turon, in the bed of the Macquarie
river, at Victoria, etc.
On the eastern coast of South Africa
two rivers, the Vaal and the Orange,
take their rise within a few miles of
each other in the Drackensberg noun
tains, and, at first flowing in opposite
directions, at length gradually sweep
around to the west, and unite at some
two hundred and fifty miles from their
sources. The inclosed space is the re-
public of the Orange Free State. In
1868 a trader and bunter on his way
from the interior, stopping for the night
at the hut of q Dutch farmer living at
the junction of the rivers, observed the
children playing on the earthen floor
with some pretty pebbles that they had
found long before in the river. The
beauty of one of these stones having Of
tracted his attention, he picked it up,
and observed to the father that cit
might be a diamond" With a smile of
~incredulity the latter presented the peb-
BILE to his guest, remarking that there
were plenty more around there" The
stone proved, indeed, to be a diamond
of twenty-five and ahalf ~carats, and was
sold for $1,000, which amount was di-
vided fairly by the trader with his host.
The farmer now remembered that he
had seen an immense stone in the hands
of q native he therefore sought him
out, purchased the stone giving him in
exchange 500 sheep, horses, and nearly
all that he possessed-and sold it the
same day to an experienced buyer for
s56, 600. This diamond was the famous
"Star of South Africa"
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A of January 8. 1921. men

A newspaper of January 8, 1921, men-
tions an extraordinary and absurd per-
Torrance by the Postmaster of Lismore,
Ireland, then in his ninety-seventh year.
He travelled for a wager from that town
to Fermoy in a Dungarvan oyster tub
drawn by a pig. a badger, two cats, a
goose, and a hedgehog, with a large
red right-cap on his head. a pig.driver's
whip in one hand, and in the other a
common cows horn, which he blew to
his team and give notice OF
new mode of posting.
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George Mitchell went on a frolic in
Antioch, CAL, on the evening before the
day appointed for his wedding, and in
the morning his convivial companion
was found murdered. Suspicion rested
on Mitchell, and he was placed on trial.
The girl to whom he was to have been
married sat at his side in the court room,
and her sympathy and grief were 30 at
tractively exhibited that the Judge, in
his charge, warned the jurors not to per-
NIT themselves to he Influenced by her.
They acquitted Mitchell, however, and
it is impossible to determine by the
meagre reports whether the verdict was
caused by the evidence or by the girl.
The pair were married Immediately in
the court room.
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The Doves Mosque.

In the city of S%tamboul, the Doves
Mosque, or the Mosque of Bajazet H.,
has a special charm. The court, entered
by gates deliberately decorated in ara
besque, is exceedingly beautiful. In
the center is a marble fountain under a
canopy and sheltered by q cluster of fine
trees. As you enter the court you hear
the roar of wings, and for a moment the
air is darkened with the sudden flight Of
myriads of doves. These birds, the
offspring of a pair purchased from a
poor woman by Sultan Bajazet and pre-
sented to the mosque, are as sacred as
was the ibis of old. A grave and rev.
erend fellow with a huge turban sits I'M
der the %cloister and sells grain to the
faithful and the tickle. The former feed
the doves for charity, the latter for fun
While the fountain is knee.deep with
swarming birds and the trees clogged
with them and all the caves of the clois-
ter lined, and even the high galleries of
the slender minarets not unvisited by
these feathered dervishes, you throw o
handful of wheat into the court, and like
d buuuutT-ClOuu LILO WuOlo uL1Uo oNOOPo
upon You with the rush and roar of a
storm. They crowd Il another and
heap themselves together and stand on
their heads in their eagerness to get a
morsel of grain. In a moment some
one enters the court, and the birds take
flight, stirring the wind in the cloister
and filing the air with soft, floating
down. A turbaned graybeard near by
sells rosaries and perfumes, and there
is also the fellow ct the gate who cries
''sherbet," and clashes his brazen cups
till they ring like cymbals, and there
are loungers from dawn to dark who
drop in to see the doves of Baiazet
plunge into the court like an avalanche
Of dusky, impurpled snow, and wheel
out of it again a winged cloud of smoke.
At the mosque on Fridays there is . dis
tribution Of bread to dogs, and the
hungry fellows come from all parts of
the city to get their portion.
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Women Who Pilfer.

eft is g hard thing to say" said the
superintendent of one of the largest
stores in America to a New York re-
porter, "but stealing seems to come
natural to a great many women. We
have some lady customers whom we
have known for years, with whom we
would not hesitate to leave a tray of un-
counted diamonds. But We have some
others who would whisk off a calico
dress, ii they found q good chance, al
though they would never wear it. We
sometimes think that some people like
to steal where they are closely watched,
just to convince themselves of their
shrewdness, and gloat owe it in private.
There are some people who do not hesis
tate to boast to their female a%cquaintan-
ces that yesterday morning they cap
tured' such and such a thing-people
who are not professional thieves. They
are not, of course, people who move in
respectable society. But we cannot shut
our doors against all who do not movein
respectable society. Everybody who
has money to pay may demand the right
to buy. Our honest customers really
are in very little danger of being falsely
arrested. There may be women SO all
sent.minded as to walk out with articles
they have not bought-indeed, I think
there are, but they are not n in 10O,-
900, and those who know themselves to
be subject to this disease, (for I think it
is a mild form of disease, should guard
themselves carefully. There may be
such a thing as kleptomania, but it is
difficult to detect it. I hardly t ink
there is such a disease, but. undoubted-
ly, there is a mania among some people
to steal. A man might go along the
street and see some little smokers arti-
Gle and covet it, although a second be-
fore nothing was further from his
thoughts. But he would not be likely
to take it, even if the opportunity
offered, unless he was a thief. A woman
sees something she would like to wear
in her hat or around her neck, and her
first idea is to possess herself of it. Most
women will pass it by, saying to them
selves that they cannot afford it.. But
others, and they are unfortunate, will
have it in their pocket before, as I be-
lieve, they half know what they are do
ing. T have no doubt whatever that
thousands of articles have been stolen
from this and other stores, without de-
lection, by women who were really hon
est, but who took what did not belong
to them without a moments hesitation
and bitterly regretted it afterward, all
the more bitterly that they did not dare
return the articles for fear Of exposure.
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nothers! Mothers!! .Mothers!:! Don'l
fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup
for all diseases incident to the period OF teeth
ing in children. It relieves the child from pain,
cnres wind colo, regulates the bowels, ana, oy
the mother. Tits an old and well-tried remedy.
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Brown Breakfast Gu

Brown Breakfast Cakes.
One cupful each Of graham and white -four,
one teaspoon Dooley's Yeast Powder, one pint
sweet milk, one egg, q little salt; separate
white and yolk Of the egg. and beat thoroughly.
Rake in heated irons, and In q quick oven.
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It is believed by some that iron was
first discovered in America by some
boys who wanted to raise twenty-five
cents to go to the circus.
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It would seem that the commonest kind OF
common sense ought to prevent a man from
buying trash, simply because he can get a Dig
mack for Is cents. Sheridan's Cavalry Condl-
ton Powders are strictly pure, and are worth q
barrel of such stuff.
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Over a million acres of land in India
are devoted to the growth of the poppy:
The demand for opium is increasing all
over the world.
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Frank Leslie, Esq, Of the illustrated
Weekly" says: "For some time past l have
been using Burnett s Cocoaine, and think II
far preferable to anything I have ever used Tor
the hair"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-07-03

Lemons sixteen inches in diameter
grow abundantly in the mild neigh
borhood of Galveston, Texas.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

There are over 1900 persons arrested
in New York each week on criminal
charges.
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The egg trade of New York amounts
to $40, 600, 900 a year, and in the
United States to $18, 000, 600. Besides
this, probably an equal amount is con-
sumed without going through the
market.
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Wants Machinery?

We have for sale over I ZOO new and secondhand
machines at prices far below their true value, compns-
ing sAW.NIILL and GENERAL W0ODs
WORKING MACHINERY of eyery descrtpaon.
Portable and Stationary STEAM ENGINES
and BOILERS from I.2 to 900 b. p.,WATERs
WHEELS. GRIST MILL MACHINERY.
MACHINISTS' and BLA CKSMITH S'
TOOLS Of ev. ~ variety, PUMPS, FIRE APPA.
RATUS, COTTON and WOODEN MACHIN.
cry, BETTING. CIRCULAR SAWS,
sHAFTING, PULLEYS, ete., ETC., all fully
described In our printed Last No. II, with priesss nnsx-
ed, which We will mail to the address Of any party
desiring macbiner, upon receipt Of stamp.
State plainly Just what machine or machines you are
IN want Of. and don't tuy until you have carefully rad
our list OF the greatest bargains ever offered IN the way
OF new and secondhand machines. Low speS,sLt rs,ent
United Stalos or Canada. Address
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By paying a double fee, entrance is
obtained to the Paris Exposition as early
as 6 A. NJ. The building is not open to
the general public till 9.
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The raising, culture, spinning and
weaving of silk and its preparation and
introduction into market as a source OF
profit to the colored people of the South
are among the ambitious objects for
which Lowery's Industrial Academy in
Huntsville, Ala, has been founded.
Twenty-Five acres of land, with build
ings costing originally over $lO0. 600,
have been leased, and the owner, ex.
Governor Reuben Chapman, has offered
to give the entire property to the fcun-
ders if they will secure an endowment
fund by which the academy can be firm
ly and permanently established.
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The late Prof Henry, of the Smithso-
MAN Institute, was in early life a watch
maker, and ever afterward he was able
to make the most delicate instruments
with which to experiment. This was an
advantage to him, for he was not COM
PEELED to rely upon others for his ma
chimes.
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The annual crop of cat stories has
been enlarged by the following full
grown specimen: A sagacious st. Louis
cat observed that two of her kittens
we're invariably saved and the rest
of the litter thrown into the Mississippi.
Again becoming a happy mother, she
hid two of her babies in an clubhouse
and carried the rest in a different dlrec-
ton. Investigation showed that she de-
liberately took them to the river and
threw them in, evidently preferring to
select herself the two kittens she wished
to rear.
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A correspondent in Concordia, Cloud
county, Kansas, gives the particulars of
a visit to a snake den, and the killing OF
one thousand nine hundred snakes in
one day. So great a curiosity is the
place considered that an excursion party
from Atchison, sixty miles distant,
came there to visit it. Thousand of 8
snakes were killed there last year and
the one before, but they are apparently
as thick as ever.
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The House Presidential Election InvestiEn-
ton.

AllCI aOlulub poFCAd o. pOooRSho " "aASa 49,
important testimony was taken the committee
called Orlando q. Brewster, one Of the MEM
bers of the Electoral Collegei in Louisiana, who
testified in regard to his connection with sign
ing the certificates Of the election. Two or
three weeks after the election he heard that q
defect existed in the certificate Of the State
through the private secretary Of William F.
Kellogg, at whose suggestion he signed others.
He knew nothing about the signature Of his
fellow electors. The committee received and
had read a communication from Secretary
Evarts, stating that he had received q resolu-
ton Of the committee calling upon him "to
furnish this committee all the original COM
munications, whether written, printed or tele-
graphic, now in, or which may have been in
the Office Of the secretary of State, and which
may be under his control, received by him
or other persons of the State department,
purporting to come from either or all Of the
members of q commission Of which Hon.
Wayne MoVeigh and the hon. James B.
Harlan were members, which commission
was sent by the President to New Orleans, La,
communications, whether written, printed or
telegraphic, delivered to or sent to said COM
mission or to all or either Of the members OF
said commission, from the State department or
the President, which passed through your
department." The secretary then continues
"Upno laying this request before the Presi-
dent I am instructed by him to say that while
he considers it not at all incompatible with
the public interests that all the documents
sought for by this resolution should be made
public, vet he is unable to perceive that
the subject embraced in said resolution is with
n the authority for inquiry impaired to your
committee by the House OF Representatives.
This view Of the matter directed me to COM
municate to the House Of Representatives the
information sought in the resolution Of your
committee for such disposition by that honor
able body as shall seem to it meet Ad-
journed.
Mr.. 81. Conquest Clark, formerly private seer
rotary of Governor Kellogg. was examined rel
alive to the Louisiana certificates. and testified
that General Anderson, of the returning board
had stated that there was an error in the Ger.
~tifcates, in consequence Of which Governor
Kellogg had requested witness to examine
them. He was present when Governor kel:
logg signed the second set Of certificates, and
had himself sealed them up and forwarded them
to Washington by Mr.. Charles Hill. He also
sealed the first set and handed them to the
district Judge. It was two or three days after
he received the first set back from Anderson
that he forwarded the second set. Governor
Kellogg was first signer to the second set OF
certificates Witness was not present when the
other signatures were added, and could not say
in what order they were written. After ex-
aiming Mr.. Clark at length concerning the
part he took in getting the certificates started
for Washington the committee adjourned.