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Show SEVENTY YEAHB. II. Has I l.eil Without Worblnr. It.-r.u.. It.-r.u.. II. Ilu.tn- Ilrll.t. In II. Springfield (Mo) special Chicago Ilecord Down In Stone county, Missouri, Mis-souri, thirty mites south of this city, walled In by the Ozark mountains, Hcs Sklnch Painter, who took a solemn vow nearly sixty )eara ago that he would never work llo declared the belief that the world owea a living to every one brought Into It and that work la a useless sin This remarkable character charac-ter Is aeventy years old In bla own case he has made poslttve demonstration demonstra-tion ot hla anti-work theory, for he has ueier tolled Yet be lives In absolute contentment and has the natural happiness hap-piness of the early day Indians aa portrayed In story books He saya he has never suffered from hunger, has never felt tho need of money, and haa never weakened In hla determination to alwtaln from labor He haa literally liter-ally fished hunted and fiddled his way through tho world That Is what he said he would do when he was ten years old Sklnch Painter waa born In the Ozark mountains lie haa never been married He baa brothers In adjoining countira who aro prosperous pros-perous farmers Sklnch hasn't Been hi kinsmen for a acore of years, although al-though they live less thsn fifty mites away |