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The Press., 1919-01-30
MANY ROADS TO LONGEVITY
People Who Have Reached Advanced Age by No Means Unanimous ss
 to the Best Path.

Records show that more women live tn be centenarianS than men. When the census of rhe United States was taken in 190d il Was found that 6.29> persons between the age> of ninety five and ninety-nine were living, and af this number 3,.I36 were women.
 Miss Eliza Work, who reached rhe age of one hundred and five. gave a> the reason for l r long life that she never drank te:t or coffee: Mrs Mar garet Ncvr. who lived rn hc one hum dred and ten, gave ;t> her reason rh:ti she never lack, q resources and was always busy. and Mrs. Sylvia lmnham aged one hundred and one. lived In ''n- Joy the enthusiasm of % presidential campaigns Born in July. lStn. al lie age nj five she. rudr in q stage coach. at forty in a canal boat, ar ninctN-nine In an electric car. and at "n" hundred in an automobilp.
 Abraham lived to he one hundred and Sevcutytivr years old and Sarah lived to he one hundred and twenty seven years old. und lSaac. their son. lived tO he one hundred and eight. but whether a year w;t> rcckoned then a$ We do now is not known.
 William Giad>rnn" lived to he eighty nine. antl at the time of his death luis intelleci was one of the finest that the world haS ever known. and hr was called "5he Grand old Man" This iS just one of the many cases pr"vin. q man is just as useful, if not more 50. when he is nld rEan when he i' young
The Press., 1919-01-30
The Confused Hun.

Dr. Thomas c. Ely of Philadelphia tells story of his son. Lieut. William c. Ely. heard at Fort McPherson, At lanta. which illustrates the heroisrn ot the negro troops.
 A German officer, taken captive complained that nothing could stop the Americans. They were not afraid ot the shells. they defied the flame pre- jectors they advanced through fuSii. iades of the machine guns of go sa 300 bullets a minute
 How about the gas?" some enc said to the German.
 "GasY' replied the captive Hun. ''iy was no use to turn nn the Ss:&, It merely blackeinAd their fafx.s and tFlx. zled their hair. and they s7.Eie en p:St the Ss.lnp. :"
The Press., 1919-01-30
Defence of Rhythm in Poetry.

When a poet discards rhythm he Is discarding perhaps the most powerful single artifice of poetry which is at his disposal--the particular artifice, more over, which, more than any other, en- abIes the poet to obtain psychic con trol over his reader. to exert sort of hypnosis over him. Rhytlm is p"rSua sive. It is the very stuff of life. II is not surprising, therefore, tln1 things can be said in rhythm whi.'h "'h'rwise cannot be said at all; paraP1las" n fine passage of poetry int" pros" and In the dshevelment the gh 'st will have escaped. A good many champions oi free verse would perhaps di~pal" this. They would fall back on the theory that, at any rate, certain n""lS more colloguial and less intens" than lil"Se of the highest type of poe'lN, and less colloduial and more intens" than those of the highest type of prose. could find their aptest expression in this form, which lies halfway hetween.-- Conrad Atkin ln the Dial.
The Press., 1919-01-30
THIRTY.ONE YEARS AGO.
 February 2, 1883.
Items Of local interest taken from the columns of The Press, thirty-one years ago.

Items Of local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty-one years ago.
 Those who got through last week without running up a plumbers bill were lucky. Jack Frost has had a firm grip for quite 8 long period mercury from 10 to 22 below O-but his force just now appears to be spent.
 Miss Mabel Ellis has been obliged to give up her position as teacher in the torough schools on account of sick ness. She is now quite sick with lung fever, but her condition is improving. Miss Sadie Comins is filling her place Tn the school.
 Nelson Towne has made sale of the domestic bakery of Mrs. Spaulding to Wm. Farnsworth of Wilmington, who some time ago bought of Mrs. s. the boarding house and restaurant con- nected.
 Born-Union, Jan. 18th, daughter to Lotta Warren.
 Mashapaug, Jan. 18th, daughter to J. E. Franklin.
 Died-Willington, Dec. 18th, 1887, Mrs. Minerva L. Joslyn, 61.
The Press., 1919-01-30
Japanese Activity in Siberia.

Canadian papers are commenting on the activity of the Japanese through out the maritime province of Siberia. Agents of Japanese syndicates are re. ported to be negotiating for the pur- chase of q large number of mines, flour mills, brickworks, sawmills and other indus trial undertakings, while comm ercially they are making every effort to extend their influence. The Japanese firms, which for the most part have only recently been estab. lished at VladivoStok, are enlarging their operations and endeavoring to obtain as large share as possible of the trade of the territory. The scouts of these firms are reported to be SCOUT, ing the country for scrap iron, hides wool. bristles. beans and other Si berian and Manchurian products re Quired in Japan.
The Press., 1919-01-30
A GREAT LOAN
 LOOKS SMALLER
The Five Billions at $50 Apiece Should Be Compared With
 What the Kaiser Wanted.

Preparations are already making for the Fifth Liberty Loan, which the peo- pie of the United States will be asked to make toward the world war. It will come in the spring. probably some time early in April.
 The total amount will probably be somewhere near the size of the Fourth Loan. A five billion dollar total looks large. but it does not look as large as it did in 1917 to people 1OO,OoO,Ooo strong who have learned to save and lend to the government.
 When this Loan looks insignificant and puny. even if it is put on top Of all the loans which preceded it. is when it is compared side by side with the billions Germany would have de- manded of America if the Kaiser had won the war.
 This is the way to compare the two possible endings of the war. Put one beside the other. the two chances of paying for the cost of the world war which the people of this country had before them one year ago.
 The United States has come into victory and peace. One of the great est forces it employed to win victory was the great fund which the people put into its hands to fight for civiliza- ton.
 But the Government has not yet financed the needs of the last chapter of effort Three months hence 1t will ask for a loan with which to accom- plish this work. It will call in the Fifth Loan for money to pay the ex- penses of peace and reconstruction.
 The men and women of the country who must furnish the funds for the Fifth Loan are doubly blessed. They have at the same time the liberty won by the war and the bonds Of the Government taken in other loans. They know now that they can never be made to contribute to any Kaiser. And there are 100, ,O00, ,O0O of them in all.
 What the VICTORIOUS FIFTH Loan proposes is that this 100, ,000, 900 people shall lend the Government about $50 apiece.
 This does not seem . large amount from each person. It is not large sum to lend at substantial interest on unequailed security, for the final settlement in the war.
 Each one knows that 1t is Loan, that it is not payment to the Kaiser but a Loan for Liberty.
The Press., 1919-01-30
NEW BONDS FOR
 PLOUGHSHARES
The Fifth Liberty Loan Will Finance Construction and Not Destruction-It Creates
 Assets.

Four times the people of the United srnment of billions that have gone for destruction.
 The Fifth Liberty Loan will furnish billions for construction for the sol diers. tor The nation. and for other na- tions.
 The other Liberty Loans were of tremendous power in preserving this country and it's people. They helped to save others and to preserve liberty upon the earth from it's deadliest. most cruel and wicked menace in his tory. But all the time the work in volVed destruction far and wide
 With the victorious peace come ob- legations and responsibilities as great as they are imperative, of building up again
 Fortunately this great nation is most wonderfully equipped to go for ward with this work.
 Restoring the men of the armies to their homes and turning the guns and munitions of war into ploughshares, implements of peace in thousand forms, is task that Is inspiring. It carries all the splendid promise ot a great and expanding future.
 Turning the great fleet of ships built by the nation to carry men and sup plies to the battlefield into the chan. nels of great international trade, is work that widens superbly the hori- zons of the nation.
 Reconstructing and re-adjusting the enterprises of fighting to the pursuits of peace has in every step an uplift and an upbuildiug.
 But every one of these tasks before us is as expensive as 1t Is urgently de manded.
 The Government must finance ever> one, and to finance them. the Eff. Liberty Loan will be asked of the De pie In the Spring.
 It Is the endeavor in which the Liberty army of two years service will enroll once more with gladness and confidence.
 Their savings as loaned to the Gov srnment have won them real rewards not alone in patriotism but "a substan. tial interest.
 To lend again now will round out and make perfect the existing peace with a reward no less high and fink.
The Press., 1919-01-30
Biaraey Stone Tradition.

The Blarney stone inscription is get ting dim. It reads: "Cor,nach Mac. Carthy: fortis me fieri facit, AID. 1449." The tradition about the stone Is, of course. that when the SpaniardS were urging the Irish chieftainS to harass the English, one Cormarh Me. DermOd Carthy, who held the castle. had concluded an armiStlce with the lord president on condition of surren- dering it to an English garrison. Car thy put off his lordship day after day with fair promises and false pretcxtS. until the latter became the laughing stock of his acHuaintances. and the formers hOneyed and delusive speeches were stamped with the title of Blarney.
The Press., 1919-01-30
Mine Enemy Goeth A-Fishing
 ~" By s. B. HACKLEY

sfSSSSSSSS>e<$<S$<S$$> lCopyright. 1918. by Mcclure Newspaper
 Syndicate)
 "I did so hope, Reba," observed Mrs. Kane Allenby, standing on the portlco of the low-built plantation house. whose walls were fairly crying out for paint, "that your papa could help you out with your rousseau in August. but Kane says the cotton won't be any better than last year, and the interest is due in September. He thinks we will have to sell q COW. But. dearie she laid an affecuOnate hand on the graceful shoulder of the tall blond girl, who was just taking leave-""nr' you are married to the Hedworth heir you can have plenty of pretty clothes Oh, Reba. Kane and I are so glad you won't ever have to endure the priNa- tiOns we have had these ten years so glad!"
 Reba's eyes grew misty. Ten years before, when her father had married Rodney Clouds widow, they were prosperous. The next year the drehd- full boil weevil had struck til" cotton fields. For six months Reba had hoped to help the hard-pressed parents. bur last week
 Thomas Hedworth Sd was the only kinsman of his grandmother. and nlu Arethusa Hedworth owned all Th1m- as HedwOrth had made in cattle graz ing. Old Thomas hadn't got all of it honestly (heaven only knows now many another and less powerful cat tleman he had frightened off the ranges), but there was a big pile Of money, and 1t would all be Tomm! s.
 His grandmother had told him she was going to settle S1OO.OOO on him the day of his wedding if he married to suit her. And Tommy would hand if all over to Reba-that she knew.
The Press., 1919-01-30
Russln Destitute of Scythes

Before the war Russia'S need of scythes was estimated at 6.WU,OOD an. nually, of which about half were re. Quired In Siberia. To fll these re. quirements about 4,5tN.000 scythes were imported annually and the re. mainder manufactured In Russia. Ac- cording to latest information there are hardly any scythes to be found. Rus sian industry being at 8 standstil. and the importation closed.
The Press., 1919-01-30
Monument to Stand on Prairie

Solitary on Texas prairie there will be seen next spring heroic bronze statue of man and horse. It Is a memorial to young Charles Moves, of ranch near Melvin. who was killed in a range accident three years ago, and Is the work of Pompeo Cop pini. The Texas lad was six feet four inches in height and the sculptor has modelled him as he was in life. while the horse stands 16 hands high. The at work on Chicago's monument to her heroes.
The Press., 1919-01-30
swam to the Struggling Cousin.

Then she'd pay off that wretched little S2, ,OOO mortgage that was tormenting daddy and her stepmother, Miss Louie," and fix up the house and help them school the boys, her stepbrorhers. Tony and Eddie. fourteen and twelve. But now-since last week-she didn't expect to marry Tommy!
 "GOod-by. dear." her stepmOthcr held open the gate as she drove out going back to Cousin Lettie Mangus with whom Shr boarded in town "my love to Tommy"
 On her way to town Reba went over it all Mrs. Frederick Cloud. who's, husband had been cousin to Miss Louie's first husband. was an ard n admirer of Miss Louie. on whom Sh imposed herself as frequent visitor. OF dering what she liked for dime. while she went fishing with the little boys on the deep river that bordered the Allenby plantation.
 But Cousin Elarissa was very un- popular with Tony and Eddie; also she was an intimate friend of Tommy Hedworth's grandmother, in San An tonio. Not that that mattered until she quarreled with Reba over n long distance call. Reba was not to blame promptly took train to see her old friend. Mrs. HedwOrth.
 A few days later Tommy, just off the train came to Reba's boarding place.
 "That old cat-I beg your pardon Reba, I mean Mrs. ClOud-has been to grandmother he blurted out. And now-now grandma says if we-if we are married"
 "SheM cut you off without q shiIl- ing as they do in story books!" Reba smiled In his troubled eyes.
 He nodded. That's it! But that won't keep me from you. sweetheart"
 "What did your grandmother say I'd done?'
 "She said-please forgive me for re- heating 1t. Reba-you weren't suit able wife for her grandson. begged her to invite you to see her, so she could see you were thousand times too good for me; but she wouldn't lis ten. I came on to tell you, before the old cat could spread my intentions as she gauges them"
 Reba stood up. "Iou go back home Tommy HedwOrth. and tell your grand mother we are not going to marry"
 Not going to marry!' Tommy threw trembling arms about her: he was white to the lips. "Echn don't you love mel"
 Of course I do. foolish. But you do as l say. I'm not going to make you lose your rightful inheritance"
 "Oh. Reba. let's let it go! l meant when 1t was mine to do justice to some of those people," he flushed as if he were to blame for his grandfather's deeds. those people whom grandfa- ther defrauded. I meant you should help your father and Miss Louie as much as you wanted to. l meant to do so much. Reba, but-you-yOull take me without 1t, won'-yo l will get something to do and yOu-yOu have so great head. when we are married, you can manage-we can do on just little, can't we?"
 You do as I say. Tommy" she told him. even as her heart sank; I'll try to make things come right"
 Tommy hadn't ever known what It was to 1o without things. and she couldn't bear to have him uselessly come to endure privatiOns. He shouldn't either. even if she had to give him up. But her eyes were red that evening when on the street she met Tony and Eddie. going home.
 Hello. Sissy!" Tony greeted her. "Wisht you'd come out and go hshin'
The Press., 1919-01-30
Artificial Rubber,

Artificial rubber has been made in an experimental way for many years. hut it is now reported that it has be- come a practical success, and that the great dye and color works at Fiber field, Germany. are erecting large factory for the production of synthetic rubber on large scale. principally in tended to supply Germany with this product in future years. when great are anticipated in obtain ing natural rubber. like other raw materials. from the tropics.
The Press., 1919-01-30
Eous Have "Silence Zones,"

Fog bells and buoys are frequently ineffective, because of the zones of silence" prevalent in fog banks. Ere qucntly these zones not only retard a sound hut stop it entirely. In the same bank fog there will be long lane through which sound will carry clearly. The result is that one ship nay hear another That is far off and Lave no hint of Il third that is close at land.--PeoDle's Home Journal.
The Press., 1919-01-30

appeared and your Vegetable Compound | do all my own homework. I cannot recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound too highly to women passing through the Change of Life" Mrs. FRANK HENSON, 1916 s. Orchade St, Urbana, III.
 Women who suffer from nervousness, ''heat flashes" backache, headaches and "the blues'' should try this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound.
The Press., 1919-01-30
Soldiers Learning English

It has been discovered that there are thousands of men in our National army who cannot speak or read Eng. fish. For that reason the library war service of the American Library asso- ciation has established classes In Eng fish in nearly all of the big training camps. There Is heavy demand for books. and even First Readers" are on the list of books asked for and-of course-supplied.
The Press., 1919-01-30
Owned Fine Library.

Andrew D. White, the eminent Amer ican diplomat, who died recently. was the owner of one of the finest libraries in America. MT. White began early in life to accumulate books. chiefly on the subjects of the worlds history. At last he had 10000 volumes. respec table total. as MT. Birrell would admit. who once said that man should never talk of his library until he had lu.WN books. Mir. White left his library |" Cornell university.
The Press., 1919-01-30
State of Ohio. City of Toledo. Lucaa County ss.

Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he IS senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.,, doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
 Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 9th day of December A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON,
 (SeaD Notary Public.
 Halls Catarrh Medicine is taken in- formally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Snrfacea nf the System, Bend for testimonials free
 4. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo O
 Sold by all druggists, 7oc.
 Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Press., 1919-01-30
Poor Widow Gives Mite,

They were only four sacks, washed and pieced together by patient fingers and then fashioned into undergar. ments. Around the neck of each was a crOcheted edge made from the string with which the sacks had been Sewed. A poorly dressed woman brought them into the department of refuge clothing of the Red Cross as her widows mite"
 ''It isn't much," she said. as she un- did the bundle. but 1t is all had. and hope it will be of use to some Bel cian woman who may have less than l have"
The Press., 1919-01-30
We'll. Knowledge Is Power

Jimmie had heen to the dentist to get tooth pulled. A few days later il friend of the family, man whose head presented an extremely barefoot ed appearance, called at Jimmie's house. Jimmie squirmed around awhile and finally asked: Mister Brown, did 1t hurt much when ya gotcb sr hair pulled?"
The Press., 1919-01-30

Uhu dl dlldCh OA grippe which lasted all winter and left me in a weakened condition. l felt at times that I would never be we'll again.
 I read of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- t a ble Compound and what it did for women pa s s in g through the Change of Life, so 1 told my
 doctor 1 would try
 it. l soon began to
 gain in str engt h and the annoying symntom dis
The Press., 1919-01-30
LIBERTY soho-LtsERTY Los.

For your bond let me trade you this
 stock" Said q scalper to prudent Bill Brock Not today. sir" Bill said- Then the salesman he led. To the jail where he now is "fn
 hockS
The Press., 1919-01-30
C. B. GARY & SON.
w 0 M E. N
 Suffering from Nervousness and Sick Headache

--lassitude, low spirits and loss of appetite will find re- newed strength, brighter looks, better health and clearer complexionsbyusing Beecham's S Pills. They give you the very help you need, and are a natupl aid to the stomach, liver, bowels and blood. Gentle and positive in action, without any disa- greeable after-effects Use
The Press., 1919-01-30
WOMEN OF
 MIDDLE AGE
Need Help to Pass the Crisis Safe. ly-Proof that Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound
 Can be Relied Upon.

Urbana, ll.-"During Change of Life, in addition to its annoying symptoms,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-23
Cincinnati WH Get First Games in Series
marvel is Gleason.
 ABOUT MORAN

And now as for Moran.
 He took charge of the misfit Phiilies in 1915 and stunned the baseball world by sending them into a worlds series. At the outset of the year his team was even worse than 50 to 1 shot for vic tory. It was made up of men of mediocre ability-apparently. But the genius of Moran and his amazing leadership as- serted itself before the season was two months old, and the team, welded to- gether, played the most superb baseball that was displayed in the National league that year.
 Through i9l6 and 1917 and 1918 Moran re- mained as leader of the Phillies. They finished well up in 1916 but in the fol- lowing two years did not do very well, But that was no fault of Morans. The owners of tne club decided that they would rather have money than real ball. players. So they disposed of practically all the stars of the team and wrecked the club, as far as it's championship as- pirations were concerned.
 1 After the 1918 season had concluded
 Moran was fired by the Philhe man. agement He landed eventually with the i Reds. When he took charge of the team
 it was an outfit made up of misfits and castoffs-a wholly disorgauized aggrega- tion Like the Phiilies of 1915 it was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-23
LOUIS D|SbROW IS
 . ENTERED IN STATE FAIR AUTO RACES
Disbrow Is One of Worlds Best Dirt Track Dare Devils-Big Purses
 Are Offered

Secretary Dent of the Alabama State Fair association announced Monday night that he had just been informed by Louis Disbrow, one of the greatest dirt track automobile race drivers the world has ever seen, that he would enter the auto races to be staged at the State Fair this fall in competition for the large purse money offered.
 The announcement that Disbrow would race here against some of the best men in the game came rather as surprise, for Louis has not been south in num- Der of years now. confining his efforts to the big speedway events in the east.
 Although quiet, unassuming kind of fellow, Disbrow is known in auto rac- ing circles as one of the most fearless men who over drove a speed wagon any where He takes chances on the turns that no other driver will take and while he has miraculously escaped death nu- merous times, and bears many scars col lected from the racing game that will stay with him the rest of his life, he is still in the game and still madly swirls around the track flirting ewith death.
 "The entry of Disbrow," said Mir. Dent .just goes to show that the purses of fered by the Alabama State Fair this year in both the auto racing and turt events are so bulky t,i-- tae greatest drivers and the best turfmen can't turn down the temptations to come to Blr- mingham and make try for the prize money"