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GREENLEE, HAMBY, AND BROWN
chance to see the world was too great,
he volunteered in the National
Guard and saw service as a cook in the
fj'ont lines. He returned to us in May,
^^19, and is now shift foreman on the
^outh Side on |th|s Gravjeyardj. Shift,
rank has taken up the study of music
and industriously blows on the
alto horn in the Badin Band.
Can Live Two Hundred Years
‘We Do Not Die, But Kill Ourselves,”
Says San Francisco Physician
years of man shall be three score
and ten, or if by reason of great
® ^ength, four score, says the Bible.
Man should live to be between 150
and 200 years old,” says Dr. Marion
rasher, San Francisco physician, who
as just compiled a wealth of data show-
ing that “man doesn’t die, but kills him
self.”
^ ®^ort life and a merry one,’ is
e ranting boast of a fool,” says Dr.
rasher, who is a very young old man
iniself. “Why this marvelous mechan-
|sni, combining Godlike intelligence and a
eauty that sculptors have failed to imi-
ate, should be ruthlessly destroyed is
*^ne of the wonders of creation.
Wild animals, except for accident or
^ ^ chase, live out their allotted time;
one man in a million does.
At all times there are three million
people seriously ill in the United States,
here is no doubt that at least two mil-
ion could be saved from sickness by sim
ple common sense.
Wars, worry, alcohol, tobacco, meat,
gluttony, overwork, and cold climate are
called by Dr. Thrasher the greatest life
destroyers.
Meat is a poisoner. Meat eating In
dians live to be sixty, and nut and maise
eating ones to 125 and even 185 years
of age.
Worry is a big factor. Almshouses
are repositories of very old people, be
cause here the worry of making a liv
ing is removed. Very few centenarians
- 3 rich men.
“The only proper drinks for man are
water and milk,” says Dr. Thrasher,
“while sour milk and buttsrmilk have
v/c-ll earned their reputations as destroy
ers of old age bacilli.
“Warmth is life,” he says. “There
are only twenty-five centenarians in Nor
way, and 410 in sunny Spain. There is
not a single one in Switzerland, and Cal
ifornia boasts of more than any coun
try in the world of its size.”
In advertising California as the home
of the longest lived creatures. Dr.
Thrasher has reams of figures. He shows
that Indians live to be sixty in other
states, and 140 years here. Even the
flora live longest, California having trees
eight thousand years old. San Francis
co alone has thirty-five centenarians, he
says, and the State of California over
four hundred people one hundred years
or older.—Asheville Times.
Mrs. L. A. Holley and granddaughter,
Rubie Yates, of Greenville, Fla., are
visiting Mrs. Holley’s daughter, Mrs. B.
L Smith, 103 Walnut Street. This is
Mrs. Holley’s first visit to North Caro
lina in thirty years. She expects to
visit her sister, Mrs. Hattie Brown, of
Wadesboro, N. C., also her daughter Mrs.
E. J. Allred, at Hamlet, N. C., before
returning to Greenville. Little, IVTiss
Yates is attending school in Badin.
Harry Swindell is mourning for the
old crowd of former years. He says that
a few seasons ago many an enjoyable
’possum hunt was held, with everyone
in the Club participating except the
sick and the aged. Can you imagine the
present crowd donning old clothes and
pushing their uncertain way through the
woods? Neither can we.
High Cost of Living
“In these days it’s almost impossible
to get what you want?”
“I know it. There was a time when
my husband would give me anything I
asked for if I only cried a^ Httle. Now
I have to go into hysterics.”
Mr. W. Young has gone to his
home at Cary, to spend several days
with his relatives.
Mr. Clarence will leave soon on his
vacation. He will be gone one week.
Paqi Sbtbn
The Badin Tribune Says:
Badin’s Canning Record
We feel that Badin has just cause
to feel proud of her canning record dur
ing the past season. The canning sta
tion records that the season was one of
the best in the history of the town. More
than forty-seven hundred quarts of
fruits, vegetables, jellies, and jams were
canned during the past season. This
is great. Have you thought what this
means in dollars and cents to Badin, to
say nothing of the advantage of having
these quantities of home-canned articles
for home use? When figured up, it
amounts to a handsome sum. And
then this is pure food in the strict sense
of the word, clean and wholesome.
When we buy canned goods on the open
market, we have no assurance that they
are fresh and pure from filth and germs,
or injurious chemicals. As a matter of
fact, some canned goods, jellies, etc., are
unfit for use. This^ is' not the case with
this nice lot of canned stuff. A little
here and a little there, saved in this
this way, all taken together, is what it
takes to make a great, rich, and pros
perous country. The canning industry
is one of the greatest methods of con
servation. We can and preserve that
which otherwise would be wasted en
tirely.
Did yoi) ever talk* Landscape,
Gardener Clark about trees? Why, that
fellow knows more about trees than the
average doctor does about measles. He
will tell you what kind of bug roosts on
one kind of a tree and wouldn't go near
another one, and so on. But the most
refreshing thing is to hear him tell
about what fine shade trees our Norway
Maples are going to make in the next
ten years, “provided the folks keep the
grass chopped away and the trees
watered.” Did you gather in that “pro
vided?”
This is the month in which the folks
start coming into the rent office and
giving Mr. White the very old Harry
for letting their light bill be higher
than it was last month. Remember, the
days are getting shorter, and therefore
you will burn more juice. Calm thyself,
Old Timer, and try swapping that hun
dred watt globe for about a forty watt
one, and watch the little wheels slow
down. No, you can’t sandpaper that
T. P. Company out. I’ve already tried
that.