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hale TO THE END.
Old Chronicles Tell of Some Re-
markabIe centenarians.
According to Newspapers and Maya.
zines of the Last Century They
Were a Rugged Lot.

Tales Of the prodigious feats of CEN
tenarian and near-centenarian ances-
tors have been handed down in many
families for generations, until now. they
are accepted only as the fanciful
dreams of the aged, exaggerated by
retelling. A study of old magazines
and newspapers, however, shows that
during the Eighteenth and early
Nineteenth centuries, remarkable men
tai and physical powers We're attrib-
uted to very aged people.
Many such stories are found in the
"intimations of death" found in old
English newspapers. The custom in
those days was to give in these no
tices a brief outline of the activities
of the deceased as we'll as his position
in life. These notices gave quaint
pictures of life of the times, as they
recorded the death of many we'll
known men and women they have
great historical value.
Early volumes of Blackwood's Mag
azine tell of many instances of men
and women attaining the age of 100
and even 40 years. A writer in The
Scotsman who selects a few interest
ing examples from Blackwood's tells
of the death of Mr.. Dirrane of Galway
in his 10th year. $40 the last he
could read without glasses, and until
the last three or four years could
walk some miles a day."
An entry ON May q, 1920, shows
that Anna McRae, the widow of a Kin
tail farmer, died at the age of L2.
The notice concludes, "Not many
months ago she could run a race with
any of her sex Of the third and fourth
generation" The notices record the
death of a colored woman in Jamaica
at the age of 40 and another at $50
years.
One unusual record concerns the
death of William Heginbottom at the
age of 95. The intimation states HE
was father of ten, father-in-law to ten,'
grandfather to 131, great grandfather
to 1853, neutrality-suspicious. to
one, in all 800, the last of whom he
walked 80 miles to see in his ninetieth
year"
Margaret McDougal, who died In
Garth in 1923 in her 103d year, was
also q woman of extraordinary vigor.
"When above 1O0," the notice reads,
"she thought little of walking from
her own house to Weem or Aberfeldy,
a distance of seven miles, and return
ing before breakfast. Last year she
travelled to Drummond castle, which
is 80 miles distant, and returned the
next day."
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Rabbit sandwiches Are Good.


Oakesdale, q hamlet near Othello,
Wash, is known as the sandwich town
of the Northwest. Overland trains
stop at O%akesdale and there are al
ways many hungry folk on board.
Comely lasses, wearing white
aprons, enter the cars or sell from the
platform an endless variety of sand
wiches, said by experienced travellers
to beat anything ever seen elsewhere.
The trains are delayed long enough
so that all west-bound tourists have
an opportunity to taste Oakesdale's
newest and most popular sandwiches,
j%ackrabbit or sage hen. The roasted
meat of these two local products, be-
smeared with butter and comfOrted
between two slices of fires. bread, are
the temptation placed before new
Corners.
For Is cents a traveller may buy one
of thirty varieties of sandwiches, each
as large as a pie plate.-New York
Sun.
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LUCK SURELY WITH CARNEGIE
In His Autobiography the lronmaster
Has Told of an Amazing Piece
of Fortune.

Business acquaintance and rivals
Of Andrew Carnegie's used to declare
that in addition to his remarkable abil-
ity and farsightedness he was blessed
with amazing luck. An incident early
in the i~ronmaster's career seems to
justify the assertion. A piece of care
lessness that might have ruined an
other man resulted, in C%arnegie's case,
only in a brief scare.
One morning, he relates in his auto
biography, he set out from Altoona
for Pittsburgh with a package of pay
rolls and checks under his waistcoat-
for the package was too large for his
pockets. He. was a very enthusiastic
railroader at that time and liked to
ride on the engine. 1t was a very rough
ride over the mountains, and at one
place, ~uneasily feeling for the pack
& he was Mortified to find that the
jolting Of the train had shaken it out!
There was" he says, mo use in dis
guising the fact that such a failure
would ruin me, for to have been sent
for the pay rolls and checks and to
lose the package was a dreadful Show
ing. 1 called the engineer and told
him that it must have been shaken out
within the last few miles. Would he
reverse his engine and u back for it?
Kind soul, he did so. I watched the
line, and on the bank of q large stream
within a few feet of the water / saw
the package. 1 could hardly believe
my eyes. l ran down and grasped it.
1t was not damaged. Need 1 add that
it never passed out of my firm grasp
again until it was safe in Pittsburgh?
Il never ventured to tell the story
until long afterward. Suppose that
package had fallen just a few feet
farther away and been swept down
by the stream; how many years of
faithful service it would have re+
quired to wipe out the effect of that
one piece of carelessness!
81 have never since believed, says he,
in being too hard on a young man,
ever if he does commit a dreadful mis-
take or two; and in judging such acts
1 have always tried to remember the
difference it would have made in my
own career if I had not found that lost
package."-Youth's Companion.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
PRODUCE HIGH-GRADE SEEDS
Many Farmers Are Not Careful t.
Prevent Mixture and Keep Qua
Harmful Weeds.

Even in communities where a sim
gle variety of a crop is raised almost
exclusively there is a place for the
production of pure seed for local sale,
a v D. w. Frear, extension specialist
in field crops for the Missouri College
Of Agriculture.
Many farmers do not go to the trou-
BILE to keep their seed up to a high
standard but allow it to become mixed,
weed-infested and diseased and are
glad to pay a good price every few
years for high grade seed.
Those who are f%avorably situated
can produce pure seed to meet this
local demand. Seed produced for this
purpose must be of high quality and
considerably better than the average
in the community, because farmers
will ~ pay an advanced price for
seed that is very little better than
their own.
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SWEET POTATO CROP
DAMAGED BY WEEvIL
Outline of Successful Measures
of Eradication.
Review Of Work Done in Florida and
Georgia Where Situation Was
Worse-Use of Clean Plant
ing Stock Is Urged.
prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)

prepared by the United States Department
Of Agricu!ture.)
A method of rendering negligible the
heavy damage that would otherwise be
inflicted by the sweet-potato weevil
has been found by the United
States Department of Agriculture. A
review of the work done in Florida
and Georgia is contained in depart
ment circular pol, bureau of ento-
mology, United States Department OF
Agriculture. Measures successful In
the eradication Of the pest n that Sec
ton are outlined briefly as follows:
The old field should be thoroughly
cleaned wei at harvest, the vines be-
ing fed to stock or burned, and the
field hogged over.
The potatoes should be banked as
far away as possible from the old
field and from the site selected for the
next years potato field.
All potatoes on the farm should be
disposed of early.
No potato or plants from the old
crop should be used on the farm and
no draw-bed should be planted.
Old potato banks should be cleaned
as soon as empty.
Only draws from sources known to
be free from the weevil should be used.
The Georgian Florida location was Sc
lected for the test because the situa-
ton there was serious, the section in
land, climatic conditions adverse. and
many growers unused to ways of CO.
operation. No more unfavorable n
ditlons, it was thought, were likely
to be encountered anywhere in the
country. ALI these, and other minor
difficulties, have been ~surmounted,
however, and the department, in its
circular, announces the following con-
clusionS:
ssThe results of the work offer con-
vincing proof that the same methods,
followed with painstaking care, will
be successful in eradicating the sweet
potato weevil in almost any infested
locality where abundant wild food
plants do not offer a fresh and con-
tinuing source of new infestation.
Careful sorting Of the crop, the use Of
clean planting stock, and an annual
change Of location for the main plant
ing, even in q continuously infested
locality will reduce infestation of the
tubers to a practically negligible
quantity.
There is no more reason for al
lowing a sweet-potato crop to be de-
stroyed annu,' go Z
sor 49,. ..
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
Harvard's New Astronomer.

Harold Shapley, just elected as
tronomer at the Harvard college OBJ
~servatory to succeed its longtime as
tronomer, Edward G. Pickering, who
died before his great life work was
finished. is only %thirty-fve years old.
He made his worldwide reputation in
the Wilson observatory, California, In
what may be called space-sounding, a
process accomplished by the super
science, celestial spectrum photog-
raphy.-Argonaut.
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SUSPICIOUS Conduct.

mo wonder the Gadders don't get
along well together. Why, when Mrs
Calder goes away for weeks at a
time Mr.. Calder doesn't even write
TO her, but lets his stenographer type
letters saying how lonely he is. What
kind of a man would you call thar?'
"a very. very busy man," said Mr.
BIBLES, with q far-away look in his
ewes, land I'd give So in nickles to
know what he's up to."-Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
EXPLAINING KNOTS ON TREES
They Mark Spots Where the Branches
Have Left the Parent Stem
or Trunk.

Trees are formed Of three parts
the roots, the parent stem or trunk,
and the branches. When the trees
are cut up into lumber, the first of
these parts is useless, and geneally
Is left in the ground to be salvaged
later for other purposes.
The branches of the tree are also
comparatively useless, but the trunk
produces a number of valuable planks
in proportion to its diameter.
In spite of the fact that the branches
have been Topped off, they leave their
mark upon the parent stem in the
shape of hard. round or oval spots,
which we call knots" Each Of tfles,
-" - where the limb OF lie
Npcause the limb
art Of the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
That "Groundhog" Belief.

According to popular superstition,
the grounding has his day Febru-
airy 2.
According to biological and weather
experts, Mr.. Grounding is a pest and
no prophet. The people that believe
in the "six weeks more of winter" il
he sees his shadow are fooling them
selves. Whether or not the sun shines
February 2 and casts the shadow Of the
grounding, who may come out looking
for something to eat, the weather will
not be aft. I"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08

nave examined the records for the past
years, and they find that whether it
was sunny or cloudy on past February
ends, the weather for the succeed
ing six weeks goes on in about the
same way.-Science Service.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
MEASURED UP

Aunt Lucy-Pm afraid you are get.
ting too familiar with Mr.. Higgins.
You know ! told you he should be
held at arms length.
Vera PfIippe-Yes, ] held him at
arms length, all right and the length
of my arm was Just enough to reach
around his neck.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
Important Omission.

"Your collection doesn't seem COM
plete," said the visitor to the Natural
History rooms.
"What do you mean, sir?"
81 don't see here that most baleful
of all insects, the n that brings dis
appointment, spoils pleasure, causes
divorce, deceives the %credulous. frus-
trates. hope and leaves the fondest eX-
pectations unfultilled-I refer to the
Ay in the ointment."-Boston Tran
script.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08

with spurs mounted to automatically
engage the neck of an animal when he
attempts to force his way through a
fence; by means Of a lever the spurs
are so held that they will not engage
the neck of the animal under normal
conditions.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
oh. You NAUGHTY Daddy!

Little Pansy Peavish says the rea-
son they didn't have brandy sauce on
their Thanksgiving pudding was be-
cause papa got into the kitchen while
mamma was sweeping the porch
Dallas News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
steam.Heated Bed.

An inventor of Chicago has made
an arrangement of mattress combin'
ing with 1t the tubing of a radiator
and ty ..,itchiNg this up to the steam
or hot-water heating system, the bed
lis heated
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT POKE
Device Recently Invented to Prevent
Animal From Forcing Itself
Through Fences.

The Scientific American in illustrat-
ing and describing an animal poke, the
invention of H. Gerdes of Benkelman.
Neb., says:
An object of the invention is the
provision of a poke of simple and
efficient construction which is formed
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
a Test of Skill.

"The co-stars make love beauti-
fully"
"The fact that they are married
to each other is apparently no handi-
cap"
"Mcn md wife. eh? Then they are
artists to their finger tips."-Birming-
ham Age-Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
Two Trees in n

At G%reenspond, Newfoundland, there
is the rotted remains Of an old tree.
still standing. A new tree has grown
up right through the heart of the rot
ten tree.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
Wonderful AIpine. Plant.

One of the most wonderful little
plants to be found in the Alps is a
little Alpine Soldanella. This plant
can melt ice with its own bodily heat.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
PARTRIDGE Paid for Dinner.

When dressing a partridge for din.
ner & h.nter in Victoria, county, N. B.,
found a gold nugget In the birds giz-
card.
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S, Attention !

re in position to offer for i'm
late shipment from our Augusta
stock very low prices on the follow
ing building materials:
Galvanized Corrugated Iron Roof
ing in all lengths.
Tin and Galvanized Shingles.
Composition Roofing.
Asphalt Shingles.
Builders Hardware, Mantels, Tiles
and Crates.
We have complete stocks and can
save you money on anything you may
require in our line. Write US to-day
for catalogue and prices.
David Slusky & Son
Augusta, Ga.
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II MISSING MISS.

Returning home at close Of day.
Who quietly chides my long delayf
Who greets me in a cheerful way7
Nobody.
Who caters to my every care?
Who makes me take the easy chairf
Who puts my cosy slippers there?
Nobody.
Who has my dinner steaming' hot?
Who for my welfare cares a lot?
Who needs if 1 am sick or not?
Nobody.
But who will presently do this?
Who's going to give me CHEEKY bliss?
Who-MIust you know? Well. it is Mis-
Somebody.
-WaSside Tales.
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Abbeville- Greenwood Mus
tual Insurance Asso-
citation.
ORGANIZED 1892.
Property Insured 900.

WRITE OR CALL on the UNDER
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desire about u plan Of insurance.
: We insure your property against
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FIRE, WINDSToRM, or LIGHT
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and do SO cheaper than any Com
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Remember, we are prepared to
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Our Association is now licensed
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Abbeville, Greenwood, Mccormick,
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Barnwell, Bamberg, Sumter, Lee,
Clarendon, Kershaw, Chesterfield.
The officers are: Gen. j. Fraser
Lyon, President, Columbia, S. c.,
J. R. Blake, Gen. Agent, Secretary
and Treasurer, Greenwood, S. c.
DIRECTORS
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j. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. G.
J. R. Blake, Greenwood, S. C.
A. W. Youngblood, Dodges, S. G.
R. H. Nicholson, Edgefeld, S. c.
j Fraser Lyon, Columbia, S. c.
W. C. Bates, Batesburg, S. C.
W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. e.
]. R. BLAKE,
General Agent.
Greenwood, S. c.
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';rectly

at the base of the limb than farther
out.
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to the department at Washington,
D. G.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
OFF THE RAJ 10

@UT in Wyoming a squirrel
went mad and bit two land
~ lords. proving that some AMI
mails are almost human.
The gland operation which turns
gray hair blond may be a boon
to humanity, but it is likely to
knock the bottom out Of the per-
oxide market.
The Massachusetts woman who
made her husband live in a hen
coop is the first woman on record
who allowed her husband to stay
out with the chickens.
One advantage in being slender
Is that two thin persons can slip
through subway gate on the
same nickel.
A New Jersey mechanic who en-
tered the prize ring to defray his
marriage expenses says he'll never
fight again. Not until the honey.
moon Is over.
A report from Russia says that
every man has three jobs. This
may be the reason why so many
Americans are going to Europe.
The only consolation left to the
Pittsburgh youth who married
three sisters is that he acquired
but one mother.in.law.
Six Jersey Judges handed out
sentences in one day for total
Of 45S years, which is being mighty
liberal with other peoples time.
A Rhode Island girl loves a man
so much that she wants 10 keep
him in a peanut shell. With the
housing problem so conveniently
solved II should be a highly sue
cessful marriage.
Girls are now covering their
knees with rouge, which Is con.
siderably better than nothing at
all.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
NEWLYWED
WALLS

TF, as the poet said, many a
rose lives to blush unseen.
Il it's not because the writers
OF bedroom farces aren't doing
their bit.
The ideal place to spend
honey says a traveller, is
Hawaii. Perhaps in this land OF
the ukulele you can string each
other longer.
The fellow who declared some
girls are flirts TO the fingertips
must have had reference TO mani
curists.
A vaudeville circuit has barred
all mother.in.law wise cracks. but
that doesn't do the sons.in.law
any good. They still hear 'em'
A great many women who
stand up for their rights also
stand up in the subway and sur.
face cars.
A majority OF lovers who be.
lieve that two hearts beat as ono
also figure they feed as one. But
the grocer. butcher and tailor
know different.
There Is nothing certain about
the statement that matches are
made in heaven. We do know,
however, where a great many Of
them end.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
Pitter and Patter in
VOdville Chatter on
Long Skirts
Pitter-Can't be done.

Pitter-Can't be done.
Why not?
Pitter-Every1ody who goes
there writes a book about IL and
! can't write.
Patter-But just look at the
sights you'll see.
Pitter-I don't have TO go that
far 10 see the sights. Did you
ever survey yourself In the mir.
ror?
Patter-No. but all / can say
Is that you don't give me an sp-
petite either.
Pitter-But coming back to long
skirts. who started this fad any
way?
Patter-A Partisan designer.
Pitter-Guess she must be knock
kneed or something.
Patter-Oh. no, a man sets the
styles In Paris.
Pitter-Whats the matter with
him Is he blind?
Patter-No, he's just kind; he
wants 10 spare men like your
self from going insane.
Pitter-It never upset me.
Patter-No. but more than one
taxicab did.
Pitter-And I only read yester-
day that women were going TO
wear red, white and blue silk hose.
Patter-What has that got TO do
with this argument?
Pitter-Well. counted on seeing
America first!
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
ny NAT n. DORFMAS.
see the long skirts
are back again.

are back again.
Il Patter-I knew you'd see
that quick enough.
Pltter-well. since we won the
war haven't we earned the free.
dom OF the seas?
Patter-Yes. but IL the long
skirts didn't come in when they
did you'd have probably been laid
up with eye strain by this time.
Pltter-That's all right. I'm a
married man and I'm used TO suf-
fering.
Patter-Tell me. Pit. do you
really think short skirts are be.
coming?
Pitter-Yes. Pat: believe
they're becoming too long.
Patter-But don't you know
that long skirts will increase the
prosperity OF the country?
Pitter-How do you figure that
out?
Patter-Men will now pay more
sttention to business.
Pitter--Well. all can say Is
that women have no excuse for
wearing 'em long.
Patter-Did they have any ex-
cuse for wearing the short ones?
Pitter-Yes; two perfectly good
ones.
Patter-I guess you'll have TO
20 to the South Sea Islands TO
see what you want.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
A Different Matter.

Douglas and the girl Of his
heart, while taking a country walk,
had Just encountered a ferocious.
looking bull. and had retreated be.
hind a high gate.
But I thought, dear" ven.
tured the maiden, that you al.
WAYS said you'd face death glad.
ly for me-"
$50 I would" the swain assured
her. but that bull isn't dead"
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
The Heaviest Part.

my husband was taking part In
a dramatic performance last nishi.
and he Is 20 hoarse today he can
scarcely speak"
"oh. really! Was ne playing the
leading part'"
mo. he was promptins.-
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
The Pacifist.

Teacher-what are you running
for, jimmy
Jimmy-I'm trying to keep two
boys from fighting.
Teacher-who are they7
Jimmy-Tommy Jones and me.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
LAFFS IN THE
NEWS
By N. D. D.


"VERY time the Department
h, OF Agriculture reports a
~ bumper crop it's ten to one
the public gets bumped.
Professor says all people at
thirty.five should write poetry II
they would be happy. We should
call this age the rhyme Of life.
This is about the time Of the
year when a fellow says he'll
swear off some Of his bad habits
on January 1.
Scientist discovers star 10000
times brighter than the sun, but
he can't have reference to some
Of the sons proud fathers boast
Of.
It might sound unbelievable,
but a girl killed q man the other
day and she actu lly didn't keep
a diary for public ion.
II
This is the proper time Of the
year when you can publicly
knock a fellow for a goal and get
away with it. Football is here.
II Paderewski, as reported. Is
made President Of Poland. he'll
be a major note in a minor scale.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
IN SEASON
By La Monte WaldiOn.

BY La Monte WaldlOn.
uNHE breath Of winter frosts the
glen,
The harvest moon has pallid
grown.
While pa inspects the empty bin
And then emits a groan.
The breeze has lost It's warm
caress.
Now bites It with an Arctic chill.
While ma drags out her furs, to
find
The moths have had their fill.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
QUESTIONABLE
By La Monte Waldron.

TINE Romper Age is full OF
why's
From babes. that puzzle even
the wise.
Youth, with its "hows" and
whats" come. next,
And thereby are the elders vexed.
"will you be miner the query
then.
Next he enfolds her with a
When"
And, last Of all, we wonder
"WhereT'-
This life Is but a QUESTIONABLE.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
Patience.

Customer: Look here. this steak
isn't nt for q dog to eat" Walter;
sorry. siAtif you'll wait five mis-
utes I'll send you up one that is."
The Washington times., 1922-11-01

Girls are now covering their
knees with rouge, which Is con.
siderably better than nothing at
all.