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WELL SATISFIED WITH "FIND Columbus Rejoiced Over Belief That Natives He Found in America Wouid Make Good Christians. Columbus landed on a small island, "one of tlie Lucayes, called in the In dian language Guanahani," the intrepid navigator afterward wrote. Later the island was called San Salvador, and now Is known as Watling's island. There was discovered in Spain in lS2? the manuscript supposed to be Las Casas' abridgement of Columbus' journal of his first voyage to America, and from this we have some interest ing details of the actual circumstances surrounding the discovery of the new world. The people of the island straight way collected together when Colum bus landed, according to this journal. Here follow his precise words : "As I saw that they were very friendly to us and perceived that they could be much more easily converted to our holy faith by gentle means than by force, I presented them with some red caps and strings of beads to wear upon the neck and many other trilles of small value, wherewith they were much delighted and became wonder fully attached to us." Columbus comments that the people appeared to him to be very poor be cause tliey went about naked. He noted that ali the natives he saw were young, none being above thirty years, and that all of them had fine physique and short, straight hair. Pie believed they were from the continent and was of the opinion that they would make good Christians, as they appeared to nave no religion at ali. COR-i COBS FOUND OF VALUE Hitherto Waste Material May Be Util ized to Good Advantage When the War ls Over. iPrepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Corn cobs-a great ??ste product in the world's greatest corn-producing nation-have been made to yield ad hesive gum and other useful sub stances in quantities sufficient to form the nucleus of a profitable and impor tant industry. In addition to adhesive gum, experi ments have produced cellulose, and glucose, both of which have many com mercial uses. The glucose so produced, crystallizes well, and lt is believed can be used in the same ways as crystal line glucose from staion. Manufac ture of alcohol by the fermentation of corn cob glucose appears practicable if sulphuric acid is obtainable cheaply. To utilize corn cobs commercially a large and costly plant would be neces sary and the bureau of chemistry of the federal department of agriculture does not advise any enterprise of the .ort in wartime. New German Drying Process. The so-called Krnyseska method, a aew means of drying eggs, fruit juice and blood, has been demonstrated be fore the food authorities in Berlin and found worth exploiting to a large ex tent. The drying is done in a large iron cylinder five meters in diameter, in which a pair of big metal wings are quickly rotating, driven by a steam turbine. The fluid is lashed to foam and dried by the aid of a hot current of air that is continually passed through the cylinder. Tile dried prod uct is in the form of *i powder, which will keep for a loir, time and can be most economically transported. The dried products go through rn? chemical process and are directly soluble in wa ter. Drying plants of this type for treating about 140.000 eggs a day will be erected shortly in Berlin and Bucharest. War's Far-Flung Ruins. , Russian churches in Alaska have hard times making both ends meet since war's turmoil in Russia stopped the payment of money by the mother <-hur< oward the upkeep of these far away -arishes. All the churches in that se<. .on are now being supported solely by their small congregations. Many of the churches contain valuable paintings and jeweled robes. In order to eke ont his salary, one member of the Russian clergy. Father A. P. Kashevaroff, arch priest in charge of the Russifia church at Juneau, took the post of inspector of customs nt Hidden Inlet, near there, for the summer. No Mephistophelean Monopoly. The devil has no monopoly on the pitchfork. Rev. William Barnes Lower, pastor cf the Holy Trinity Presbyterian church of Logan, Philadelphia, recent ly spent his vacation working on a farm near Schwenksville. Pa., and sent a message to his congregation, tirang the able-bodied male members to help farmers harvest their crops. "If we car thrash grain in th* field," was his message, nccording to the Philadelphia Bulletin, "we cnn thrash the devil in the front-line trenches he is building 'round our churches." - United States Employ ment Service Bulletin. Speaking of Rumors. According to an Amsterdam dis patch it is persistently being ru mored that the kaiser is losing his mind. Amsterdam might further startle the world by announcing a per sistent rumor that there Is a war on in Europe. Or another rumor thar Uhristmns day will come on December 2? this year. Or a persistent rumor that water is ?wet : THE UNUSUAL ONE By MADGE WESTON. I? . (Copyright, 1D1S. Western Newspaper Union.) The Rev. Paul Worthington, when he received the call to his latest charge, wished desperately that he might love, even as other men, and marry. For the Reverend Paul was of so fine san appearance, combined with pleasing personal qualities, that it was not to be wondered at when maidens of every age and station besought him with veiled or openly bestowed atten tions. Paul, who was not conceited, went over the situation studiously, conclud ing it was the supposedly superior po sition of pastor's wife which the girls coveted, he himself being merely a means to that end. The Reverend Paul loved his woik and des.'red above all things to go about it fearlessly. As a single man, Paul's visits and interest were wont to be personally construed. But as the perverse god of love seemed determined to pass him by he decided to adopt a manner of forbidding aloofness where young wom en were concerned and seek assistance entirely among their elders. Thus it happened that the young set of Farmington church at first dubbed the new minister a "conceited prig." His eloquent sermons Paul felt in stinctively were not being received with general favor-even the good fellowship sought with the men of his congregation was a failure. "What was wrong?" be asked him self. "In what way was his endeavor lacking?" He was bound to look for help at last from the bright-eyed girls in the choir, and immediately that help was forthcoming, but the singing brought forth no enthusiasm. It was necessary to seek out church decorators among the yoting women ; they were also quickly found, but Paul realized that he was again passing through the ex perience of past charges. Then one day. ns his eyes flushing with the truth of his statements glanced over the upraised faces of his congregation, Paul paused suddenly before the "steady light of a young woman's concentrated gaze. Almost, it seemed, that she was reading his soul. Unwilling, yet drawn by some compelling power, he turned again and still again to that absorbed, strangely winsome face. He had found his in spiration. Paul Worthington preached that day as he never had preached be fore. And when after service he hastened down the aisle for his cus tomary hand-shaking, it was in a fever of impatience lest someone should ob struct bis progress until the young stranger had gone. "A splendid sermon!" praised the girls of the choir. "The pulpit flowers?" questioned a fair member of the decorating com mittee; "were they arranged as you wished?" The Reverend Paul nodded absent ly; he had located the girl of the ob? servant eyes as she was about lo step out to the street. "Good morning," he greeted. "I wish to thank you for your earnest attention. A good listener is? a pastor's help." The girl's unique attraction seemed enhanced with nearness. Unsmiling she allowed him to clasp her hand. "Your sermon was good, but far too long," she said quietly. The Reverend Paul fairy gasped as tile little figure of Iiis mentor passed on her way. He was still perturbed as he ascended the pulpit steps at eve ning and looked d?fiance toward the pew where the gfr' demurely waited. Then his defiance was lost in satisfac tion. She should see that her criticism had not inllueuced in tin? least his evening sermon ; not once would he look in her direction. But lie did. And when, during the evening Paul saw the girl glance at her wrist watch, unexpectedly even to himself, he end et his discourse. At the door it was the girl who ex tended her hand. "That was much better," she said, and cast back a dimpling smile. He could not avoid seeing the girl at the midweek lecture-she wore such a dashing hat. and her face glowed beneath its brim. "Next Sunday," she suggested, her eyes were twinkling, "in addition to the shorter, more graphic sermon, I would institute tlie singing of newer and more tuneful hymns in place of the cfld solemn ones.' Farmington people need cheering up." That evening the pastor passed through many moods, from indignation to speculation. "After all, there might be truth in the suggestions so crudely given. His labor lacked result ; this was true. He would humble himself to try the girl's advice. There was about her some confident power. He missed her attentive presence from his newly arrauged services for some time after his decision. He had the people all singing now ; they came in interested numbers to hear his short, forceful sermons. But success could not compensate for his inexplicable disappointment in the girl's absence. Love had found the Reverend Paul at last. He admitted it freely, love, In the presence of the only one who had dared to criticize himself. And when her face looked up again from the old pew in the corner the heart of the Reverend Paul sang. Later when he held her hands in his it was as though always they hrd known each other and understood. "You were brave enough to help me," saM the new, humble Paul. "I wanted you to stay, you .see," the unusual girl confessed. Cigarettes in China. The following article appeared ?a recent issue of the Canton Chit j Times, and what it contains shou make us very enthusiastic to begin counter influence in China at once educate the people against the ev [The paper was sent to the Editor ( the Palmetto White Ribbon by Re E. T. Snuggs, a Baptist Missionai of Pakhoi, China, not very ii from Canton. j The world is awaking to the sei ous nature of the alcoholic and ti bacco habit, and as in America, s even these heathen nations must t iwarned and educated. Let us spec j up the reform by "agitating, educ; ting and organizing." j It is estimatetd that twenty thot sand million (20,000.000.000) riga: ettes are now consumed in Chin every year! And the habit is on th increase. Never before has such flood of cigarettes come so quickl to a great nation. First millions cam from America and other lands. No1 China makes her own millions o cigarettes every day. China's goo money is being turned into smoke and many of her people are becoir ing beggars from this "whit plague." Many cigarette factories have bee built all over the land. Foreign an Chinese companies are doing thei utmost to increase this trade whic makes China poor, i Cigarette smoking is the mop harmful kind of tobacco smoking and yet agents of tobacco coir.panie can often be seen in the streets o the cities and villages, giving awa; cigarettes to men and boys so as t create the habit and get them to buy CMldren Smoking. Perhap . here is the greatest dan ger to China. Little boys and girl are often seen in public places smok ing the cigarette. And the poison little by little, is weakening thei: bodies, their hearts, and their nerves making them more easy victims ti disease. Dr. O. M. Stone, of Boston said "The idea that tobacco prevents dis ease is an error. A tobacco user'; chances of recovery from malignan disease is lessened fifty per cent." A recent writer has well said: "Ir China, where the ravages of con sumption are so great as to consti tute one of the greatest national dam gers, the rapid increase of cigarette smoking is to be looked upon with tht greatest apprehensions." The Quarterly Journal of Inebriet.\ says: A large proportion of the con sumption cases which comes undei the observatio this city hail: cigarette factor j Dr. W. H. Ri. . says: "Like otli has a pronoun nervous system, where the gre; child in China uno Degins thc cigar ette habit is greatly lessening Ina chances for health and success in life. It is well called "the deadly cigar cite." Edmund Andrews, M. D.. L. L. D., Professor of Surgery. North-Western University Medical School, Chicago, 111., says: "The earlier thc smoker be gins the worse for him, because lie has a longer time in the future in which to injure himself." The Harm It Does. ; "A good (leal has been said about cigarette smoking, but not one half of the truth has ever been told. Cig arette smoking first blunts the v.hole moral nature. It has an appalling ef fect upon the physical system as well. It first stimulates, then stupefies the nerves. It sends boyj into consump tion. It gives them enlargement of the heart, and it seals them to the in sane asylum. I am often called in to prescribe for boys far palpitation of the heart. In nine cases out of ten, this is caused by the cigarette habit. I have seen bright boys turned into dunces, and straightforward, honest boys made into miserable cowards by cigarette smoking. 1 am speaking the truth, as nearly every physician and teacher knows." Dr. A. Clinton, of San Francisco, physician to several boys' schools. "I have seen several cases, in fact a fair number, in the young who suf fered seriously from the effect of the cigarette habit. The earliest effect is I upon the heart, through its nervous mechanism: then upon the general nervous system, including the brain, (the latter showing itself in insom nia, loss of memory, and later in want of proper mental control.) Fi nally nutrition of the entire system : suffers." Ch. Gatchell, M. D., Chica !go, 111. I "Cigarette smoking irritates and 'poisons the mucous membrane, pre vents action, affecting digestion, the brain, heart, lungs and liver, shatter ing the nervous system and ruins Iboc Iv and mind. The smoke laden with ! particles of poison is drawn deeply into the lungs and forced out through the nose, in order that it may be brought in contact with as much mu cous membrance as possible. No minor can use cigarettes and be in good health. A rigid mental and phy s COMM. DESEE F. S. fl Norfolk, Va., Bi Charlotte, I Atlan oculist says: x um constantly con sulted of blindness occasioned sole ly by great smoking." Dr. F. Dowling of Cincinnati, af ter a study of three thousand persons employed in local tobacco factories, found that 05 per cent suffered from iisual troubles of nicotine origin. Fight Against Tobacco. It is time for all who wish well for China to join in this fight against the cigarette habit, especially among the children. When one reads what the doctors say about the injury done by cigarettes, it is hard to understand how some can stand up for the habit. A strong fight is needed against this evil that takes hold of men. 'It feels good' no doubt as do other bad things, but it does a lot of harm in the world. And because the Church is divided it makes the fight against the vice all the harder. To the Dyspeptic. Would you not like to feel that your stomach troubles are over, that you can eat any kind of food that you crave? Consider then the fact that Chamberlain's Tablets have cu red others-why not you. There are many who have been restored to health by taking these tablets and can now eat any kind of food that they crave. Salesmen Wanted Lubricating oil, grease, specialties, paint. Part or whole time. Commis sion basis. Men with car or rig pre ferred. RIVERSIDE REFINING CO., CLEVELAND, OHIO. FOR SALE: Four hogs ready for slaughter, each weighing about 275 pounds. Apply to J. C. Allen. Meeting Street, S. C. 1-8-2t For Sale: A six-room house, large lot, servant's house, good well, large garden, etc. Apply to 0. Sheppard. 12-18-tf. Jersey Cow For Sale. Three-quarter Jersey cow for sale. Will be fresh to pail in 8 or 10 days. S. B. Mays. ANDS DEFERENCE !,VES PREFERENCE [OYSTER GUANO CO. iltimore, Md., Toledo, 0., Tarboro, N. C. i. C., Columbia, S. C., Spartanburg, S. C. ta, Ga., Macon, Ga., Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. 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